Johnson Controls, Inc.

Johnson Controls, Inc., Building Efficiency Division, a foreign-owned large manufacturer and service provider, delivers HVAC maintenance, building automation systems (Metasys platform), chiller repair and replacement, security infrastructure, and facility management solutions to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) with no reliance on small-business set-asides. The division competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurements, drawing on parent Johnson Controls' $1.75 billion combined federal award portfolio across 6,292 prime and subcontract awards spanning decades of federal engagement.

Johnson Controls Building Efficiency operates overwhelmingly as a prime contractor through the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which anchors 3,113 task orders worth $484.9 million and 1,968 additional MAS task orders totaling $536.9 million combined potential value. The division's federal customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of Veterans Affairs: Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (180 awards, $38.1 million), VISN 1 (134 awards, $36.1 million), VISN 17 (117 awards, $42.1 million), VISN 12 (120 awards, $27.8 million), and VISN 23 (100 awards, $28.8 million) account for substantial volume and dollars. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Acquisition Services ranks as the largest single non-VA customer by award count (188 awards, $10.8 million). The top five customers represent 12% of all awards and roughly 10% of combined potential value, indicating a diversified federal footprint across 348 distinct customer agencies.

Concrete capability examples ground the division's market position. Recent representative prime work includes a $2.668 million five-year chiller maintenance and service delivery order for VA Fargo Health Care System (VISN 23) under the GSA MAS, a $2.405 million chiller plant maintenance and Metasys building automation system support contract with VISN 7 through July 2030, a $1.236 million operation and maintenance contract for the Energy Monitoring Control System at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune (Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Defense) through September 2026, and a $1.214 million energy management control system equipment upgrade at Barksdale Air Force Base (Air Combat Command). Smaller discrete work includes a $224.2 thousand Metasys operational support delivery order from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder, Colorado) and a $164.2 thousand annual building automation system maintenance purchase order from USDA Agricultural Research Service (Ithaca, New York). The division also holds a $99 million indefinite delivery contract with Military Sealift Command for engineering, HVAC, and refrigeration supplies and services to support the MSC fleet through October 2030, and several single-award blanket purchase agreements including a $670.6 thousand energy management system quarterly inspection and service agreement with VISN 15 (Marion VAMC) through December 2030 and a $250 thousand emergency chiller maintenance and service BPA with the Social Security Administration.

Activity has grown over the past five years—102 awards in 2022 climbing to 222 in 2024—though 2025 and 2026 year-to-date figures (210 and 56 awards respectively) suggest either seasonal reporting or a recent slowdown. Within the next twenty-four months, 106 awards face ultimate completion with combined potential value of $79.4 million, creating recompete exposure across the portfolio.

Johnson Controls Building Efficiency operates as a predominantly in-house delivery organization. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (those above the $150,000 threshold, a strict subset of total federal revenue), the division reported SCI-invoiced amounts of $294 thousand in FY2022, $8.3 million in FY2023, and $15.9 million in FY2024, scaling from 0.5 FTEs to 14.5 FTEs to 25.5 FTEs across those fiscal years. On those SCI-reportable prime contracts, average subcontractor-hours share stood at 1%, with only 4 named subcontractors across the entire portfolio, indicating the division builds and executes most federal delivery in-house. SCI-reportable government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $126.36/hr to a median of $219.65/hr to a 90th percentile of $691.71/hr, reflecting a blend of field technicians (HVAC controls technicians, fire alarm security systems technicians in the $120–$185/hr band) and higher-skill roles (building automation systems controls technicians, project managers in the $200–$305/hr range). The division's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 660 unique categories, with hourly rates between $120.40 and $304.77, covering high-school-educated technicians through bachelor's-level project managers with three to five years of experience; no security-cleared positions are offered through the GSA vehicle.

The division's federal award portfolio centers on HVAC, chiller, and building automation infrastructure. Top NAICS classifications by award count are Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (3,689 awards—likely capturing Metasys building automation systems), Facilities Support Services (1,485 awards), Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (286 awards), and Security Systems Services (83 awards). Product/Service Code distribution reinforces this: Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Air Circulating Equipment (982 awards), Miscellaneous Alarm, Signal, and Security Detection Systems (702 awards), and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Plumbing, Heating, and Waste Disposal Equipment (313 awards) dominate. The division competes in full-and-open procurements with no small-business set-asides, positioning itself as a large-business prime capable of mobilizing substantial delivery infrastructure for multi-million-dollar facility management engagements.

Johnson Controls Building Efficiency Division also received a federal grant as part of the parent company: the Department of Energy awarded Johnson Controls, Inc. a project grant under the Inflation Reduction Act Heat Pump Defense Production Act Program with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025, to expand electric heat pump manufacturing across three facilities, delivering greenhouse gas emissions reductions and domestic heat pump supply chain leadership.

Sub-award footprint is minimal. Named primes contracting Johnson Controls as a subcontractor include Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (for controls integration and electronic boards work on National Security Campus management and operation, and camera and mounting installations), Amentum Services (skilled labor support), Mill Creek Firelake JV (generator building automation system controls integration on the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility), Midnight Sun-Centennial Sunnliaq JV (HVAC controls for FWS Gateway Visitor Center), and others. The sub-awards total 60 across 6,292 total awards (1% of volume), reflecting Johnson Controls Building Efficiency's emphasis on prime contracting and in-house delivery rather than a feeder role to larger integrators.

Johnson Controls Building Efficiency Division is a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, Inc., a foreign-owned parent company also structured with a Controls Group division and five additional named subsidiaries (Johnson Controls Of Puerto Rico Inc., Tyco Fire Products LP, Ionicblue Management LLC, Johnson Controls, K.K., and Fm:systems Group, LLC). The parent company's global scale and diversified portfolio provide capital, engineering, and supply-chain backing that enables the Building Efficiency Division to compete for and execute large, multi-year federal facility management contracts across dispersed federal installations with minimal subcontractor reliance.