Fluid Solutions LLC

Fluid Solutions LLC, a Birmingham, Alabama-based for-profit limited liability company, operates as a prime contractor (99% of 859 recent awards) delivering fluid handling systems maintenance, repair, and infrastructure support to the Department of State's overseas diplomatic facilities. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurement with no SBA set-aside certifications, though a small portion of recent delivery orders carry Total Small Business designations issued by the contracting officer.

Fluid Solutions' customer concentration is extreme: the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) accounts for 716 awards worth $102.1 million combined potential value, representing 96% of recent awards and 95% of total dollar value across the portfolio. The five other State Department bureaus (African Affairs, Western Hemisphere Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, South and Central Asian Affairs, and Near Eastern Affairs) collectively represent 4% of awards and 5% of dollars, with African Affairs placing 72 awards valued at $2.8 million. Across the top five customers by award count, coverage reaches 96% of the recent award footprint.

Concrete capability work centers on water treatment, wastewater management, fuel systems, fire suppression infrastructure, and HVAC maintenance at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide. Representative recent prime awards include a $2.448 billion delivery order for potable water treatment system upgrade at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela (September 1, 2026, OBO, full-and-open); a $2.435 billion delivery order for water treatment system upgrade at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia (September 29, 2025, OBO); a $1.748 billion delivery order for potable water treatment system upgrade at the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali (September 17, 2026, OBO); and a $1.155 billion delivery order for potable water treatment system upgrade at the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan with design modification to multimedia filter skid (June 27, 2025, OBO). Smaller routine orders address preventive maintenance, spare parts, emergency repair, and technician travel for annual inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire suppression systems across multiple overseas posts. Place of performance spans worldwide diplomatic facilities with subordinate task order work in countries including Rwanda, Burundi, Mali, Erbil (Iraq), Zambia, Algeria, India, Mexico, South Africa, China, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Jamaica, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and numerous others.

Fluid Solutions holds five named Indefinite Delivery Contracts: a $23.999 billion multiple-award vehicle for HVAC upgrade construction services worldwide (Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, awarded September 27, 2024, ultimate completion September 26, 2027); a $452.102 thousand single-award IDV for water treatment system maintenance at the U.S. Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco (Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, awarded September 30, 2025, through April 30, 2027); a $183.773 thousand multiple-award IDV for potable and HVAC water treatment system facilities maintenance (Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030); and several smaller single-award fuel management and water treatment support IDVs with State Department bureaus in Africa and Near Eastern regions, valued between $80 thousand and $194.303 thousand with performance periods extending through 2029–2031. The company also sits on three additional IDV vehicles (19AQMM23D0032, 19AQMM23D0041, 19GE5023D0048) from which 37 task orders have been placed totaling $20.2 million combined potential value. Overall vehicle position is centered on OBO and related State Department indefinite-delivery mechanisms that provide flexible task order issuance for diplomatic facility infrastructure support.

Activity has remained relatively flat across recent years—74 awards in 2023, 83 in 2024, 84 in 2025, declining to 52 in 2026, with only 1 award recorded in 2027 (the recent May 27, 2027 delivery order). Sixty-four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $14.7 million, representing modest recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 859 awards stands at $107.8 million with $66.9 million obligated (62% of potential), indicating substantial government commitment to the vendor's infrastructure portfolio.

Fluid Solutions operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor; 99% of awards are prime, with only 9 sub-awards identified across the portfolio. Named subcontract primes include PAE Government Services Inc. (IGF operations and maintenance support for the Embassy Compound in Baghdad), Serco Inc. (J Plant Renovation Services), and BL Harbert International LLC (design-build fuel oil system work for new consulate compound in Medan, Indonesia and hazardous/water storage tanks). Across Service Contract Inventory reporting, the vendor shows minimal SCI-reportable activity—zero invoiced revenue across FY2023–FY2025, with 9 SCI records total (8 prime, 1 sub) and a trajectory of 0.3 FTEs in FY2024 at peak. This indicates SCI-captured service contracts represent a negligible slice of Fluid Solutions' federal portfolio; the majority of work is priced and procured as goods, equipment, definitive contracts with fixed deliverables, or delivery orders under IDV vehicles rather than labor-reportable service contracts. The vendor builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on extensive subcontracting.

Fluid Solutions' capability portfolio is narrowly specialized and exclusively customer-focused on the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, which dominates both award volume and potential value. The vendor does not compete across other federal agencies, defense, or civilian IT/professional services markets. Recent award trajectory is stable but showing slight consolidation; the vendor holds established indefinite-delivery relationships with OBO and related State Department regional bureaus that provide recurring task order volume for routine maintenance, equipment replacement, and facility system upgrades at overseas posts globally. No significant competitive tension or pipeline signal appears in the source; activity is concentrated, customer concentration is extreme, and the vendor's federal footprint is almost entirely State Department facility infrastructure support.