Lawson Electric Company, Inc.

Lawson Electric Company, Inc., a for-profit electrical contractor based in Hixson, Tennessee, operates exclusively as a subcontractor to federal prime contractors, delivering electrical installation, grounding, cable termination, and testing services to defense and federal civilian agencies. The company has no direct prime contract awards in recent activity; 82% of its award footprint consists of subcontract work, with the remaining 18% representing minimal prime activity dating to the 1990s and 2010s.

The vendor's recent federal footprint is dominated by work under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services–Small Business (OASIS+SB) vehicle. Seventeen of the company's twenty-two total awards route through OASIS+SB task orders, with the Office of the Secretary of Defense accounting for 17 awards across that vehicle. The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (2 awards, $22 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (1 award, $8 thousand), Tennessee Valley Authority (1 award), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center (1 award) complete the customer set. The vendor's NAICS profile reflects electrical work: seventeen awards fall under Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), with three categorized under Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors, and one under Engineering Services. Recent concrete subcontract work includes electrical grounding materials, labor, and installation for HPA (High Pressure Autoclave) systems under Integration Innovation Inc. on September 23, 2022, and medium-voltage cable replacement, termination, splicing, and testing for power equipment systems under Beyond New Horizons, LLC, awarded January 16, 2026.

The source data shows significant oscillation in award activity — one award in 2014, one in 2015, one in 2017, then a spike to seventeen awards in 2022, followed by a single award in 2026 — though the combined potential value across all twenty-two awards totals only $31 thousand, suggesting the footprint reflects small, task-order-level electrical work rather than sustained contract volume. The combined dollars obligated ($1 million) exceed the combined potential value by a factor of 32, indicating that actual spend against these small task orders has significantly exceeded ceiling amounts, a signal of scope creep or contract modifications. Service Contract Inventory coverage is minimal: two SCI records in FY2024 as named subcontractor, representing 3.5 FTEs, indicating that the vendor's federal services activity is either below the $150,000 reporting threshold, classified, or concentrated in goods and installation work outside SCI's scope.