NCS / EML Joint Venture Iii, LLC

NCS / EML Joint Venture III, LLC, an SBA 8(a) joint venture based in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, delivers facility operations, maintenance, repair, and improvement services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across a portfolio dominated by federal building and infrastructure work. The joint venture is a partnership between NCS Technologies, Inc. and EML Services Corp.; it carries minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned business designations. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open markets without set-aside designation, though the underlying 8(a) certification positions it for 8(a) sole-source and competitive 8(a) vehicle holds.

NCS / EML's capability footprint centers on facility maintenance and infrastructure repair—HVAC system repair and replacement, plumbing and water line work, electrical upgrades, fire alarm and fire suppression system service, lighting fixture installation and repair, roofing, parking lot resurfacing, and emergency infrastructure response. The work spans routine maintenance calls valued at under $3,000 (replacement of thermostats, exterior light repairs) to capital projects exceeding $693,000 (third and fourth floor lighting replacement at the Social Security Administration's Wilkes-Barre facility). Representative examples include a $204,248 firm fixed-price delivery order with SSA to repair a large section of the west-side parking lot at the Wilkes-Barre Direct Operations Center; a $707,361 order from Navy Installations Command for chiller rental extension at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi; and a $1,097,518 option-year funding task order from the Army Aviation and Missile Command for facility operations, maintenance, and repair services.

Customer concentration is pronounced and geographically aligned. The General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service Region 7 (Laredo, Texas area) dominates by both award count and dollar volume: 83 awards worth $22.8 million combined potential value. The Social Security Administration follows with 32 awards totaling $16.1 million, driven by the single-award $13.1 million Indefinite Delivery Contract for Wilkes-Barre Direct Operations Center operations and maintenance running through January 2027. The Department of the Navy (both Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Installations Command combined) accounts for 29 awards worth $14.6 million. These three customers represent 93 percent of awards and 96 percent of combined potential value, creating substantial concentration risk around SSA and GSA Region 7 renewals.

NCS / EML holds four primary parent indefinite delivery vehicles. The largest by task-order volume is GSA Region 7's IDV 47PH0221D0008 (92 task orders, $1.6 million combined value)—a $21.3 million indefinite delivery contract for full maintenance and operations of five federal buildings in Laredo, Texas, through May 2026. The Social Security Administration's competitive 8(a) IDV 28321322D00060009 for Wilkes-Barre operations and maintenance spans 31 task orders valued at $3.1 million. The Navy's IDV N6945021D0026 carries 31 task orders totaling $7 million in combined potential value for base operations support at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi and Navy Operational Support Center Harlingen. A GSA Region 8 IDV (47PJ0022D0007) supporting operations and maintenance in the Ogden-Salt Lake City-Provo, Utah area issued 4 task orders worth approximately $55,000 before completion in January 2023.

Award activity shows declining volume. The vendor received 47 awards in 2022, declining to 36 in 2023, 31 in 2024, 24 in 2025, and 10 through May 2026. The recompete horizon in the next twenty-four months carries modest risk: only four awards with ultimate completion dates in that window, combined potential value of approximately $579,000. However, the larger structural recompete exposure centers on the SSA Wilkes-Barre IDV and the GSA Region 7 Laredo full-maintenance contract, both of which will face renewal competition by late 2025 and mid-2026 respectively, representing approximately $37 million in aggregate revenue at risk.

Work is performed primarily at three geographic clusters: the Laredo, Texas federal facilities complex (ports of entry, courthouses, border patrol facilities); the Social Security Administration's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Direct Operations Center; and Naval installations in Corpus Christi and Harlingen, Texas. The vendor carries no subcontract footprint—all 164 awards are prime awards with no sub-award activity in the source data. Delivery orders are uniformly firm fixed-price with performance timelines ranging from same-day emergency repairs to multi-month capital projects. Award set-aside patterns reflect the 8(a) status: the SSA Wilkes-Barre IDV carries competitive 8(a) designation, several Navy task orders specify 8(a) sole-source awards, and the vast majority of execution-phase task orders carry no set-aside (full-and-open competition), consistent with the typical lifecycle of 8(a) vehicle usage.