HCI Systems, Inc.

HCI Systems, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Ontario, California, provides fire protection system installation, maintenance, emergency repair, and related infrastructure services to the Department of the Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of the Air Force as a prime contractor (66% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on federal construction and facility modernization projects.

HCI Systems competes predominantly on full-and-open solicitations without SBA set-asides on its prime work, though it holds a $240 million Total Small Business multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) for fire protection services across the Western States region through December 2027. The company's capability footprint centers on fire alarm system replacements, upgrades, and maintenance; fire suppression testing and inspection; security camera system installation and upgrades; and life safety infrastructure repair at federal medical facilities, naval installations, and air bases. Representative prime work includes an $11.0 million fire alarm and management system upgrade at Naval Medical Center San Diego (awarded November 2022, completion June 2026), a $2.1 million fire life safety system maintenance contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 running through June 2028, a $903 thousand emergency fire alarm system replacement at Long Beach VA Health Care System, and a $678 thousand security camera installation project at a VA facility.

Customer concentration is dominated by two agencies. NAVFAC accounts for 27 awards worth $500.9 million combined potential value—the vast majority of the vendor's pipeline—while Veterans Affairs VISN 22 generates 45 awards (90% of award count by volume) valued at $6.8 million combined potential value. This split reflects NAVFAC's role as the funnel for long-duration, high-value delivery orders under the company's core IDIQ vehicles, while VISN 22 issues smaller, more frequent purchase orders for emergency repairs and system maintenance. The Air National Guard (6 awards, $307 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command (1 award, $2.3 million), and the Marine Corps (2 awards, $1.4 million) round out the active customer base, accounting for the remaining awards.

HCI Systems places task orders under three primary NAVFAC vehicles: the NAVFAC Southwest Small Business MACC 2017–2022 (16 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract N6247318D5823 (16 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract N6247319D2447 (12 task orders, $25 million combined potential value). The vendor's December 2025 award of the Western States Fire Protection Systems 2025–2033 IDIQ (ceiling $240 million) represents a recompete win and positions HCI Systems to continue placing fire protection orders across NAVFAC's footprint through 2027.

Award activity has declined materially. The vendor closed 25 awards in 2022, fell to 11 in 2023, and has averaged 6 per year since—a trend driven by consolidation of multiple smaller prime awards into larger, delivery-order-based IDIQ vehicles. Five awards worth $2.9 million combined potential value face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure primarily on VISN 22 maintenance contracts. Place of performance spans California (Ontario headquarters, with significant work in Long Beach, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Fresno) and extends across NAVFAC's Western States region.

HCI Systems operates with its own internal labor, delivering fire protection and security installation and maintenance work directly without material subcontractor engagement on prime contracts. As a subcontractor, the vendor performs fire alarm and communications systems work under primes including I.e.-Pacific, Inc. (multiple facility conversion and upgrade projects at Naval Base San Diego), Lead Builders Inc. (fire alarm and mass notification system work on the Channel Islands Air Guard Station maintenance hangar), Macro-Z-Technology Company (fire alarm and paging extension work), RQ Construction, LLC (fire alarm system design-build), and Defense Base Services, LLC (facility maintenance services at Naval Base San Diego). SCI-reported federal service contract activity is minimal—$346 thousand in invoiced revenue across one contract in FY2023, with under 1.5 FTEs reported across the three fiscal years in the SCI dataset—reflecting the vendor's positioning on construction and infrastructure contracts (goods, products, delivery orders) that fall outside or below the SCI $150,000 reporting threshold, or operate under non-SCI contract types.