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 fire suppression system services to federal facilities as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The vendor is also certified as a small disadvantaged business and a labor surplus area firm and competes predominantly under service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-asides and total small business set-asides on the federal prime side.

The core capability portfolio centers on fire protection and life safety system services: fire alarm and sprinkler system inspections and testing per NFPA standards (NFPA 20, NFPA 25, NFPA 72), preventive maintenance and emergency repairs with 24-hour response capability, fire pump performance testing at multiple flow points, UL-certified service delivery, and NICET-certified technician field work. Representative work includes a $12.1 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service (awarded October 2024, performing through October 2029) for fire inspection, testing, and maintenance across federal facilities; a $7.1 million single-award IDC with Washington Headquarters Service (awarded March 2024, performing through March 2029) for fire alarm inspection, testing, and maintenance at Pentagon and related defense facilities; and a $5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 (awarded October 2023, performing through September 2028) for fire and sprinkler maintenance at the Memphis VA Medical Center and other VISN 9 VA facilities. Concrete award examples include a $2.04 million delivery order from Washington Headquarters Service for fire inspection, testing, and maintenance in Washington, Virginia (September 2025); a $1.01 million purchase order from VA VISN 6 for fire alarms inspection and maintenance in East Fayetteville, North Carolina (July 2025, performing through June 2030); and a $350.9 thousand definitive contract from the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center for fire suppression maintenance at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire (July 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs accounts. The top five funding entities by potential value — DOD Washington Headquarters Service ($26.8 million across 5 awards), VA VISN 9 ($6.6 million across 4 awards), VA VISN 1 ($3.7 million across 10 awards), VA VISN 6 ($3.6 million across 7 awards), and the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology ($1.8 million across 1 award) — account for 83% of combined potential value across the 96 total awards in the source. The top five customer agencies by award count (42% of awards) include VA VISN 1, the Coast Guard, National Park Service Southeast Region, VA VISN 6, and the Air National Guard, reflecting a broad base of smaller orders across the VA network and Defense installations but with dollars anchored to Washington Headquarters Service. The vendor has worked with 35 distinct federal agencies.

The vendor holds three primary indefinite delivery vehicles. The $12.1 million single-award IDC with DOD Washington Headquarters Service (awarded October 2024) has generated three delivery orders totaling $7.58 million, including the $5.52 million and $2.04 million deliveries noted above. The $7.1 million single-award IDC with Washington Headquarters Service (awarded March 2024) has generated three delivery orders totaling $7.6 million focused on fire alarm inspection and maintenance at Pentagon and related facilities. The $5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with VA VISN 9 (awarded October 2023) has issued three BPA calls totaling $1.59 million for Memphis VA Medical Center fire and sprinkler maintenance. A Naval Sea Systems Command multiple-award Basic Ordering Agreement was executed in September 2024 with no ceiling value and no task orders to date.

Activity has remained relatively stable year over year (11 awards in 2022, 12 in 2023, 13 in 2024, with 8 in 2025 and 8 in 2026 to date), though the source indicates awards per year have moderated from prior peaks. Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $3.7 million, representing recompete exposure at VA VISN 1, VA VISN 6, and National Park Service regions. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime contractor; across 94 prime awards, it subcontracts 15 percent of labor hours on average to 11 named subcontractors, suggesting it builds its own core delivery teams but brings in specialist subs for specialized work. One sub award appears in the source: fire alarm and mass notification system design and installation at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research under prime Valiant Government Services LLC (January 2025).

SCI-reported service contract invoicing totaled $2.2 million across FY2022–FY2025 (FY2022: $1.2 million; FY2024: $306 thousand; FY2025: $712 thousand; FY2023 showed zero invoicing). SCI data captures only federal service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, and classified work, so these figures represent a strict subset of the vendor's federal services revenue and a fraction of total enterprise revenue. The SCI dataset shows roughly 9–14 FTEs delivered on federally reportable service contracts in FY2022, declining to 1–2 FTEs in FY2024–FY2025 as the vendor's work shifted toward smaller purchase orders and task orders under IDVs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ran from a 10th percentile of $37.42/hr to a median of $114.16/hr, with senior labor pricing through $268.51/hr.

The source names NAICS 541621 (Security Systems Services except Locksmiths) as the primary classification across 36 awards, with secondary NAICS codes in electrical contracting (11 awards), plumbing and HVAC (11 awards), and equipment repair (7 awards). PSC codes cluster on fire control equipment maintenance and repair (16 awards), alarm system inspection (9 awards), alarm system maintenance and repair (9 awards), and fire equipment testing (8 awards). The vendor competes across both set-aside and full-and-open categories, though service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-asides and total small business set-asides dominate recent prime work. A single no-set-aside delivery order from Washington Headquarters Service for $5.52 million (October 2024) and a single no-set-aside delivery order for $2.04 million (September 2025) indicate the vendor can compete in unrestricted procurements when the opportunity aligns with existing vehicle work.

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