Jett's Specialty Contracting, LLC

Jett's Specialty Contracting, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) based in Paducah, Kentucky, delivers HVAC systems installation, replacement, and maintenance services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor exclusively — operating across 82 prime awards with no subcontractor footprint and competing under SDVOSB set-asides across its entire federal portfolio.

The company is structured as a for-profit limited liability company and holds both VOSB and SDVOSB certifications. Its capability portfolio centers on concrete mechanical and HVAC work: air handling unit replacement, chiller plant upgrades, steam distribution system modernization, heating and cooling infrastructure removal and installation, and preventative maintenance services. Representative work includes a $19.9 million firm fixed-price Definitive Contract awarded by Veterans Integrated Service Network 15 on March 13, 2026, for removal and replacement of end-of-life HVAC infrastructure at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri (NAICS 238220, Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors); a $4.8 million SDVOSB Definitive Contract from VISN 15 awarded July 27, 2026, for replacement of an air handling unit in Building 1 at Marion VA Medical Center in Marion, Illinois; and a $4.4 million SDVOSB Definitive Contract from VISN 16 awarded June 1, 2026, for thermostatic mixing valve installation (anti-scald protection) across two Arkansas VA facilities in Little Rock and North Little Rock.

Customer concentration is severe and monolithic: 88% of awards by count and 97% of combined potential value flow through the Department of Veterans Affairs, split across five distinct Veterans Integrated Service Networks. VISN 9 dominates both volume (18 awards) and dollars ($131.4 million combined potential value), followed by VISN 15 (16 awards, $83.4 million), VISN 6 (14 awards, $35.9 million), VISN 16 (8 awards, $16.7 million), and VISN 10 (16 awards, $12.9 million). A major outlier in the potential-value ranking is the VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin, which awarded Jett's a $700 million ceiling multiple-award IDIQ MATOC on August 5, 2026, exclusively set-aside for SDVOSB firms, covering construction and maintenance services across VISN 8 Caribbean VA Healthcare System (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, with work performed at 11 clinics and medical centers). This single vehicle represents 70% of the combined potential value across all awards and recalibrates the vendor's dollar footprint dramatically; without it, Jett's would show roughly $294.5 million in non-IDIQ potential value concentrated in the five domestic VISNs.

Vehicle position is distributed across small-dollar parent vehicles. Jett's holds task orders under a Blanket Purchase Agreement 36C24922A0037 (5 task orders, $602 thousand combined potential value) for chiller preventative and emergency maintenance services with VISN 9 through September 30, 2026, a single-award $900 thousand BPA running October 2022 through September 2026 also with VISN 9, and multiple smaller IDIQ and BPA vehicles with individual VISNs. The newly awarded $700 million VISN 8 IDIQ MATOC is the vendor's largest parent vehicle by ceiling; one $1,000 minimum-guarantee delivery order has been issued against it as of the award date.

Activity has remained flat year over year at five to eight awards per year across the past five years, with 11 awards (combined potential value $44 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and thus facing recompete exposure. The combined obligated dollars across all 82 awards total $141.1 million (14% of combined potential value), indicating that most awards remain open with substantial remaining ceiling.

On federal services contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory dataset, Jett's reported invoiced revenue of $47.5 million across FY2023–FY2025, with $10.8 million in FY2023, $24.2 million in FY2024, and $12.5 million in FY2025 (reflecting a peak-and-decline trajectory driven by contract completion cycles rather than business growth). The SCI dataset shows roughly 12.3 FTEs delivered in FY2023, 30.3 FTEs in FY2024, and 11.3 FTEs in FY2025 — volatile staffing aligned to project completion schedules. On federal services contracts reported in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran from a median of around $346/hr to senior labor pricing through $1,163/hr, with a 10th percentile floor of $98.92/hr, reflecting a mix of equipment operators, technicians, and project management labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Jett's self-performed 100% of contractor hours — no subcontractor engagement in the SCI-captured work.

Jett's operates as a pure prime contractor with zero recorded subcontractor footprint and zero sub-awards in the source data. The company builds and staffs its own delivery teams and does not function as a feeder for larger primes or rely on named subcontractor networks. This posture is consistent with the concrete, site-specific nature of VA HVAC and mechanical construction work, which typically requires co-located labor and equipment at individual medical center facilities.

The recompete cliff of $44 million in the next twenty-four months represents material exposure: five SDVOSB-set-aside Definitive Contracts from VISN 15, VISN 6, and VISN 9 reach ultimate completion by October 2026 through March 2027, with individual awards ranging from $2 million to $8.7 million. The vendor's concentrated customer base and 100% SDVOSB set-aside posture insulate it from full-and-open competition but bind its growth potential to VA-only sourcing and competing contractors holding equivalent SDVOSB certifications.