The Murphy Elevator Co

The Murphy Elevator Co, a Louisville, Kentucky-based elevator services provider competing as a prime contractor (100% of awards), holds a diversified federal footprint across 26 customer agencies with $27.4 million in combined potential value across 211 total awards. The vendor operates without SBA set-aside designations on the majority of its work; however, it holds a $1.633 million Total Small Business set-aside definitive contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 running through July 2028 and a $891,545 small business IDIQ with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic extending through June 2030, indicating selective participation in small-business competitions alongside full-and-open procurements.

Customer concentration is diffuse but anchored in federal infrastructure and facility support. The top five customer agencies by potential value—the Department of the Army ($5 million), Veterans Health Administration VISN 5 ($3.1 million), Naval Sea Systems Command ($2.3 million), Veterans Health Administration VISN 9 ($2.1 million), and Army Corps of Engineers ($1.5 million)—account for 51% of combined potential value. By award count, the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center Lexington leads with 18 awards ($836 thousand), followed by GSA Public Buildings Service Region 5 (17 awards, $1.5 million) and Army Corps of Engineers (16 awards, $1.5 million), collectively representing 36% of all awards. The vendor's work splits between routine facility maintenance and emergency repair across military installations, federal courthouses, and civilian federal buildings.

The Murphy Elevator Co's capability portfolio is concrete and specialized: elevator maintenance, repair, installation, and inspection services, with work spanning routine preventive maintenance, emergency repairs, and facility upgrades. Representative recent work includes a $1.633 million five-year definitive contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 for elevator services at Huntington, West Virginia (awarded July 2023); a $111,170 delivery order with Naval Sea Systems Command for vertical transportation equipment maintenance and repair at Naval Support Activity Crane, Indiana (awarded July 2025); a $30,000 emergency repair delivery order with GSA Public Buildings Service for the Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio (awarded December 2025); and a $5 million five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement with Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District for elevator inspections at federal facilities (awarded March 2025).

The vendor holds five active Indefinite Delivery Vehicles: the GSA Region 5 single-award IDC ($645,826, running through February 2027) covering elevator services at four Ohio federal facilities (two courthouses, one federal building, one parking garage); the Navy small business IDIQ at Naval Support Activity Crane ($891,545, through June 2030); the Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District BPA ($5 million, through March 2030); ENDIST Louisville single-award BPA ($1.25 million, through July 2030) for three Olmsted control-tower elevators; and Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 definitive contract ($1.633 million, through July 2028). The vendor also operates under a GSA Multiple Award Schedule, from which 18 task orders carrying $3.9 million in potential value have been issued. The award portfolio shows work concentration in Other Building Equipment Contractors (78 awards) and Materials Handling Equipment repair (55 awards) by primary NAICS and PSC classifications.

Activity has remained modest but consistent, with five awards in 2023, two in 2024, and nine in 2025, with one award issued in July 2026. Only two awards totaling $1.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $332 thousand across FY2023–FY2024 (0.4 FTEs in FY2023, 1.8 FTEs in FY2024), with government-paid hourly rates for prime contract labor ranging from a 10th percentile of $145.54/hr to a median of $180.52/hr and a 90th percentile of $188.45/hr. The vendor's federal contracting presence dates to SAM.gov registration in 2002 and operates exclusively as a prime, with no subcontract activity reflected in the award portfolio.

Family owned and operated since 1932. As the largest union independent elevator company in the region, We perform 24 hour elevator service, repair, modernization, and new installation. We service and repair all brands, any age equipment.