Lois Williams

Lois Williams School Cars Division, doing business as School Cars, is a woman-owned small business based in King's Lynn, United Kingdom, that provides student transportation services to the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) exclusively, operating as a prime contractor under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its recent federal footprint.

School Cars delivers school bus transportation and special needs student mobility services for military-dependent children at DoDEA schools overseas, primarily at Lakenheath in Great Britain. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on daily commute transportation, special education student transportation, and scheduled curricular and co-curricular student movement. Recent delivery orders illustrate the scope: a $357,268 order awarded November 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026, for special needs student transportation at Lakenheath; a $304,852 order from November 2024 through July 2025 for special needs services; an $88,425 order from August 2024 through October 2024 covering special education transportation for Lakenheath and Feltwell military communities. School Cars operates under NAICS 485410 (School and Employee Bus Transportation) and PSC V222 (Motor Passenger Transportation).

Customer concentration is absolute: the Department of Defense Education Activity accounts for 62 of 64 awards (97% of recent awards) and the full $23.5 million combined potential value across the vendor's footprint. School Cars holds five agency IDCs with DoDEA, the largest being HE128009D0019 with 19 task orders and $2.3 million combined potential value, followed by HE128014D0023 (15 task orders, $2.1 million) and HE125419D2028 (10 task orders, $2.2 million). The vendor's primary contract vehicle is a single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded August 1, 2024, valued at $3,991,242.79 and running through January 31, 2030, under which DoDEA has issued four delivery orders. School Cars operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Activity has remained modest and flat — three awards in 2021, declining to two in 2022 and 2023, rebounding to three in 2024 and two in 2025 — with only one award ($357 thousand) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure. Combined dollars obligated total $8.4 million (36% of potential value), indicating DoDEA has drawn down roughly one-third of available contract capacity to date.