Mercy Air Service Inc.

Mercy Air Service Inc., headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, operates as a for-profit prime contractor providing emergency air ambulance and medevac services to federal correctional, defense, and veterans' health agencies on a full-and-open competitive basis with no set-aside designations. The company is a subsidiary of Air Methods, LLC, a parent holding that also owns Lifenet, Inc. Mercy Air holds 97% of its recent award volume as a prime contractor and competes across both civilian Bureau of Prisons facilities and military medical support missions.

Mercy Air's customer footprint is dominated by the United States Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, which accounts for 16 awards carrying $79.6 million in combined potential value — approximately 95% of the vendor's total dollar base. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Victorville drives the majority of the award count with 64 small purchase orders averaging $44,000 to $99,000 per flight, totaling $2.8 million across emergency inmate medical transport missions. Secondary federal customers include the Federal Correctional Institution Herlong (8 awards, $621 thousand), United States Penitentiary Marion (5 awards, $136 thousand), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (2 awards, $1.1 million for air ambulance service to VA Central California Health Care Systems in Fresno through April 2028). Concentration by potential value is extreme — Marine Corps work represents virtually the entire dollar base, while Bureau of Prisons work represents volume but minimal dollars.

Mercy Air operates under two significant Marine Corps delivery order vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract M6739918D0004 (9 task orders, $25.8 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract M6739917D0003 (2 task orders, $4 million). A smaller vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract M6739917D0001, carries $1.9 million across a single task order. The Bureau of Prisons purchase orders are transactional, issued without parent vehicle framing. Representative prime work includes a $3.8 million "stand by hours" delivery order awarded by Marine Air Ground Combat Center on September 1, 2023 (ultimate completion June 30, 2024); a $4.5 million air ambulance services delivery order from the same customer issued July 14, 2022 (completion June 30, 2023); a $375,740 definitive contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 for air ambulance service awarded April 6, 2023 (running through April 5, 2028); and numerous Bureau of Prisons purchase orders from Federal Correctional Complex Victorville in the $54,000 to $99,000 range for emergency inmate medical flights, issued between 2022 and 2026.

Award activity has remained modest and episodic — three awards in 2022, seven in 2023, eight in 2024, six in 2025, and five through December 2026 — with only two awards facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $453 thousand), presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure. The vendor's NAICS concentration reflects its service mix: 40 awards under "Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation," 36 under "Ambulance Services," and smaller counts across chartered passenger air and hospital-related categories. Mercy Air subcontracts minimally (3% of award volume); recent sub work includes air ambulance capabilities provision to HII Mission Technologies Corp for Marine Corps training missions in Africa, supporting force-on-force and live-fire training with medical coverage.

The company has maintained active SAM registration since June 2008 and carries over $20 million in historical delivery orders and agreements since 2013, establishing it as an established federal air medical services provider with particular penetration in Bureau of Prisons emergency inmate transport and Marine Corps standby medevac support. The vendor's capability footprint is narrowly specialized — emergency air medical transportation, standby medevac operations, and critical care patient evacuation — with geographic performance anchored to Greenwood Village, Colorado as its operational base, with service delivery at federal correctional facilities in California, Marine Corps installations at Twenty Nine Palms, and VA health systems in Fresno.