Optimum Low Voltage LLC

Optimum Low Voltage LLC, doing business as Optimum Fire & Security, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, that provides fire alarm inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and suppression system services to federal facilities as a prime contractor on 91 of 93 recent awards. The vendor is also certified as a small disadvantaged business and labor surplus area firm, competes predominantly under SDVOSB and total small business set-asides, and operates across 35 distinct federal customer agencies with $51 million in combined potential value across recent prime and sub work.

Optimum Low Voltage specializes in fire protection and life-safety systems for federal government facilities. Concrete service scope includes quarterly and annual fire alarm and sprinkler system inspections, emergency repairs with 24-hour response capability, certification testing to National Fire Protection Association standards, system upgrades and installation, and facility assessments with cost estimates and corrective action recommendations. The vendor's award portfolio spans NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and related codes, with top PSC categories concentrated in fire control equipment maintenance and repair, fire-safety equipment testing and inspection, and alarm system services. Recent representative prime work includes a $12.1 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service for fire inspection, testing, and maintenance services across federal facilities (awarded October 2024, ultimate completion October 2029); a $7.1 million single-award IDC from Washington Headquarters Service for fire alarm inspection, testing, and maintenance services (awarded March 2024, completion March 2029); a $5.5 million delivery order from Washington Headquarters Service for fire services including inspection, testing, and maintenance in Washington, Virginia (awarded October 2024, completion October 2029); a $1.5 million fire suppression system inspection and testing contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs' Hampton VA Medical Center (awarded November 2022, completion September 2027); and a $1.01 million fire alarm inspection and maintenance order with VA's Fayetteville VAMC (awarded July 2025, completion June 2030).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward DoD and VA. The Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service anchors 83% of combined potential value across five awards totaling $26.8 million. The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 holds four awards worth $6.6 million combined; VISN 1 holds ten awards worth $3.7 million; and VISN 6 holds seven awards worth $3.3 million. The top five customer entities by potential value account for 83% of the vendor's award portfolio. By count, the top five customers represent 41% of all awards — VISN 1 leads with ten awards at $3.7 million, the U.S. Coast Guard follows with eight awards at $251 thousand, the National Park Service Southeast Region holds seven awards at $443 thousand, VISN 6 holds seven awards at $3.3 million, and the Air National Guard holds six awards at $305 thousand. This divergence reflects Washington Headquarters Service's dominance in dollar value through a small number of large IDVs, while VA and Interior customer concentration is distributed across many smaller task orders and purchase orders.

Optimum Low Voltage holds a $12.1 million single-award IDC with Washington Headquarters Service (awarded October 2024, two delivery orders issued totaling $7.56 million); a $7.1 million single-award IDC with Washington Headquarters Service (awarded March 2024); a $5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 (awarded October 2023, three BPA calls issued); and a multiple-award Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded September 2024, no ceiling). The vendor also sits on several smaller IDVs and BPAs across VA facilities and the National Park Service regional offices.

Activity has remained relatively stable: the vendor received 11 awards in 2022, 12 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 8 in 2025 (partial year), and 5 in 2026 (through early July). Fourteen awards representing $5.9 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across VA, Interior, and DOD contracts. The vendor operates as a prime on 98% of awards, with only two sub-awards on record — one as fire alarm and mass notification system designer and installer on a $35 million Walter Reed Army Institute of Research renovation led by Valiant Government Services LLC (awarded January 2025), and one performing fire alarm work on a Turner Construction Company USCIS federal building repair project in Atlanta (awarded October 2021).

SCI-reported invoicing of $1.5 million spans FY2022 through FY2024 (FY2023 shows zero SCI reportable revenue). FY2022 delivered $1.2 million across 9.1 FTEs; FY2024 delivered $306 thousand across 1.2 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from $22.45/hr at the 10th percentile to a median of $49.62/hr, with senior labor reaching $180.22/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 14% of total contractor hours, with six named subcontractors reported. The vendor builds much of its delivery in-house: the SCI data captures only a narrow slice of the vendor's federal service-contract portfolio (records above the $150,000 threshold in FY2022–FY2024), and does not include the larger IDC and BPA work or goods-related revenue, so the SCI FTE and invoicing figures represent a small subset of actual federal services delivery.

Installation, service & repair of all low voltage systems including but not limited to fire alarm, access control, security, phone/data and cable