Gardner Structures

Gardner Structures, a minority-owned and Native American-owned sole proprietorship based in Hot Springs, South Dakota, provides emergency facility infrastructure repair and maintenance services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open on small-dollar purchase orders with no set-aside designations. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime on a highly concentrated customer base and holds no federal IDVs, GWACs, or BPAs.

Gardner Structures' federal footprint is narrow and localized. All seven awards in the source data (64% of the vendor's eleven total awards across the available history) flow from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 23, the regional healthcare delivery organization serving the Hot Springs VA Medical Center in South Dakota—the vendor's primary and sole active federal customer. The combined potential value of these seven awards is $221 thousand. Recent work includes a $76.8 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order awarded January 27, 2025, for emergency repair of a fire sprinkler line to Building 10; a $28.1 thousand purchase order from January 31, 2025, for emergency repair of a main water line break; a $37.8 thousand purchase order from February 14, 2025, for emergency repairs to the water main system in Building 43; and a $61 thousand purchase order from February 6, 2026, for emergency replacement of a personal identity verification building system at Building 5. All are firm fixed-price purchase orders with performance timelines of two to three weeks, indicating rapid-response emergency infrastructure work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on facility emergency repairs: water main breaks, fire suppression system repairs, heating and air-conditioning maintenance, and critical building system replacement at the Hot Springs VAMC. Work is categorized primarily under Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors NAICS (three awards) and Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction NAICS (two awards). Total combined potential value across all eleven awards in the source history is $292 thousand, with $289 thousand obligated (99% of potential). Award volume is sparse and episodic—one award in 2011, one in 2013, one in 2015, then three in 2025 and one in 2026, reflecting a pattern of on-call emergency response rather than recurring steady-state procurement.