Mercy Air Service Inc.

Mercy Air Service Inc., a for-profit aviation services company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, delivers emergency air medical transportation and medevac services to federal correctional facilities, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor competing through full and open procurement without set-aside designation. The company is a subsidiary of Air Methods, LLC (which also owns Lifenet, Inc.) and operates as a registered federal contractor since 2008, with 97% of its recent award footprint in prime contracts.

Mercy Air's customer base is heavily concentrated in Bureau of Prisons facilities and the Marine Corps, with pronounced asymmetry between award volume and dollar value. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Victorville places the plurality of awards—62 purchase orders valued at $2.6 million combined—for routine inmate medical transport flights typically ranging from $54,000 to $80,000 per flight. The United States Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, by contrast, has issued only 16 awards but anchors the portfolio with $79.6 million in combined potential value through large-dollar delivery orders for air ambulance services and standby-hours contracts, including a $4.5 million delivery order (July 2022–June 2023) and a $3.8 million standby-hours contract (September 2023–June 2024). The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Herlong accounts for 8 awards ($621 thousand), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 holds 2 awards ($1.1 million potential value) including a $375,740 definitive air ambulance contract for VA Central California Health Care Systems running through April 2028.

Recent activity has declined from 8 awards in 2024 to 3 in 2026, though the portfolio carries only $453 thousand in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete cliff pressure. Mercy Air competes on two primary vehicle types: Indefinite Delivery Contracts under the Marine Corps (M6739918D0004 with 9 task orders worth $25.8 million, M6739917D0003 with 2 task orders worth $4 million, and M6739917D0001 with 1 task order worth $1.9 million) and the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) vehicle with 2 task orders. Work is classified predominantly under NAICS 482112 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation, 39 awards) and 621910 (Ambulance Services, 35 awards), with PSC codes reflecting Medical-Other services (58 awards) and Transportation/Travel/Relocation—Ambulance (26 awards). Mercy Air also subcontracts to HII Mission Technologies Corp on air ambulance and medevac support for Marine Corps training operations, including force-on-force and live-fire exercises in theater and within the Africa area of responsibility. The company has accumulated $86.3 million in obligated dollars across 96 total awards since 2010, with combined potential value of $84 million.