K.w.p.h. Enterprises

K.w.p.h. Enterprises, doing business as American Ambulance, is a small business based in Fresno, California, that provides ground ambulance transportation—Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) services—to federal agencies as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The vendor competes across both set-aside and unrestricted procurements, with recent work split between Total Small Business set-asides (notably with the National Interagency Fire Center and VA Pacific Southwest Region) and full-and-open competitive awards, particularly with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (VISN 21).

Customer concentration is acute and geographically rooted. The Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for 94% of all awards: VISN 21 alone anchors 19 awards and $23 million in combined potential value (83% of the vendor's total prime footprint), with secondary VA regional offices contributing an additional 12 awards and $232 thousand. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service adds 17 awards across three customer offices—the R5-Pacific Southwest Region (10 awards, $2.3 million), the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (4 awards, $1.8 million), and Forest Service general (3 awards, $68 thousand). All performance is concentrated in California, with primary operations in Fresno County and surrounding counties (Kings, Madera, Merced, Tulare, Mariposa) and secondary fire-suppression support across California and Region 13 National. The vendor has served these two agency families since at least 2020 and shows no diversification beyond VA healthcare transportation and USDA fire-suppression ambulance support.

The vendor holds five active indefinite-delivery contracts serving as parent vehicles for task orders. The largest is a $3.2 million single-award IDC with VISN 21 (ultimate completion March 31, 2030) for 24/7 emergency and non-emergency ground ambulance services, from which six task orders have been issued totaling $4.5 million in combined potential value. Two USDA Forest Service IDCs—one for $250 thousand (VIPR I-BPA for ALS/BLS ambulance services, through May 8, 2030) and one for $250 thousand (VIPR I-BPA for emergency medical responder services, through April 25, 2030)—serve as blanket purchase agreements generating delivery orders. Two additional National Interagency Fire Center multiple-award IDCs, awarded February 6, 2026, carry ceilings of $750 thousand (ALS/BLS ambulance services, Region 13, through May 8, 2030) and $500 thousand (emergency medical responder services, Region 13, through April 25, 2030), both under Total Small Business set-asides. Representative recent awards include a $620,890.79 delivery order from VISN 21 (effective April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2027) for ALS/BLS ground ambulance services in Fresno under full-and-open competition; a $19,680 delivery order from VA Pacific Southwest Region (August 14, 2026) under Total Small Business for ALS/BLS transport in Grass Valley; and a $217,408 delivery order from VA Pacific Southwest Region (August 28, 2025) for ground ambulance services in Clovis.

Activity has accelerated sharply in the most recent two years. The vendor recorded one award per year in 2023 and 2024, then six awards in 2025 and four in 2026 (through mid-August), driven largely by new NIFC and Forest Service vehicle awards in early 2026 and expanded VISN 21 delivery-order issuance. Combined potential value across all 51 prime awards is $27.6 million, with $14.9 million obligated (54%). Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months—a $621 thousand delivery order—presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure through mid-2028.

SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing is limited and episodic. The vendor reported $1.6 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across six prime contracts spanning FY2023–FY2025 (no FY2022 or FY2024 SCI records). FY2023 invoicing reached $930 thousand against 0.9 FTEs (contract-level aggregate); FY2025 dropped to $622 thousand against 0.4 FTEs. SCI represents a narrow slice of the vendor's federal ambulance-services activity—most awards are delivery orders under indefinite-delivery vehicles or fixed-price purchase orders below the SCI reporting threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts run a median of $498.01 per hour, with a 10th percentile of $474.72/hr and a 90th percentile of $521.31/hr, reflecting paramedic and EMT labor pricing. The vendor operates with zero subcontractor engagement across all SCI-reportable prime work, maintaining internal staffing of licensed Emergency Medical Technicians, Advanced EMTs, and Paramedics.

The vendor's federal footprint is a specialized, repeatable niche: ground ambulance transportation for two stable, geographically proximate customer bases (VA healthcare delivery and USDA fire-suppression response) across a single state. Long tenure (awards visible since at least 2020, with company background referencing service since 2008), direct renewal of existing IDCs, and minimal recompete exposure in the near term indicate entrenched customer relationships and low churn risk, but negligible geographic or mission diversification.