Palmetto Air & Chiller Service Inc.

Palmetto Air & Chiller Service Inc., a South Carolina-based small business Subchapter S corporation, provides HVAC maintenance, repair, and refrigeration equipment services to federal civilian agencies and military installations as a prime contractor exclusively, competing predominantly in full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurements with a secondary presence in Total Small Business set-aside awards. The vendor operates from West Columbia, South Carolina, and delivers its services across primary NAICS 541711 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors) and secondary codes spanning refrigeration equipment manufacturing and facilities support.

Palmetto's customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons system and the Veterans Health Administration. The top five customer organizations account for 76% of awards by count and 97% of combined potential value. The Federal Correctional Institution Bennettsville anchors the dollars, with eight awards worth $786 thousand combined potential value, while the Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (VA) leads by award volume with fifteen awards valued at $224 thousand. The Marine Corps delivered one award valued at $226 thousand. The federal correctional institutions at Bennettsville and Williamsburg together account for sixteen awards spanning chiller repair, parts supply, mobile chiller installation, and emergency steam line work. Recent representative work includes a $245 thousand firm fixed-price repair contract awarded in July 2025 for a 600-ton York centrifugal chiller at Federal Correctional Institution Bennettsville (including refrigerant recovery, condenser tube replacement, and system testing), a $54,425 chiller repair order at Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg (May 2026, completion September 2026), and a $21,780 generator and emergency power training contract also at Williamsburg (August 2024, set aside for Total Small Business). The VA's Columbia Medical Center contributed a $4,394.78 emergency steam line repair contract in July 2024.

Activity remained sparse through 2023, averaging two to three awards per year, before accelerating to five awards in 2025 and one in 2026. Only two awards are scheduled to reach completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying a combined potential value of $299 thousand and representing minimal recompete exposure. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontract activity captured in the source. Service Contract Inventory data is limited to a single FY2024 record showing minimal SCI-reportable exposure (0.9 FTEs under sub engagement), reflecting the vendor's primary reliance on purchase orders and other contract instruments below or exempt from SCI reporting thresholds. Combined potential value across the forty-nine awards in the source dataset totals $1.6 million, with $1.5 million obligated (91% draw-down rate).

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