Palmetto Air & Chiller Service Inc.

Palmetto Air & Chiller Service Inc., a small business Subchapter S corporation based in West Columbia, South Carolina, delivers HVAC maintenance, repair, and emergency chiller services to federal facilities as a prime contractor across correctional institutions, Veterans Affairs medical centers, and military installations. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements; recent awards split between small-business set-asides and non-set-aside purchase orders, with no exclusive set-aside category designation.

Palmetto's customer concentration centers on the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The top five customer agencies account for 76% of recent awards by count, led by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (15 awards, $224 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Bennettsville (8 awards, $786 thousand combined potential value), which anchors the highest potential value. The Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg follows with 9 awards ($268 thousand combined potential value). By potential-value ranking, FCI Bennettsville dominates at $786 thousand, followed by FCI Williamsburg at $268 thousand and a single Marine Corps award at $226 thousand. The vendor's recent work includes a $245 thousand firm fixed-price repair of a 600-ton York centrifugal chiller at FCI Bennettsville (July 2025, set-aside for small business), a $110.5 thousand emergency repair of Chiller #3 at Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg in Cayce, South Carolina (August 2026, full-and-open), a $54.4 thousand chiller repair at the same Williamsburg facility (May 2026), and a $4.4 thousand emergency steam line repair at the Columbia VA Medical Center (July 2024). The vendor also delivered $21.8 thousand in generator and emergency power training at FCI Williamsburg (August 2024, small-business set-aside).

Activity has been episodic over the past six years — two awards in 2021, three in 2024, and five in 2025 — with only one award (combined potential value $111 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months. Palmetto operates exclusively as a prime contractor; across fifty recent awards spanning 2002 to 2026, no subcontractor role appears in the award record. The vendor's capability footprint centers on refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment maintenance and repair (16 awards under PSC codes for chiller and AC equipment servicing), plumbing and heating equipment repair (8 awards), and facilities support services (5 awards), with highest concentration in NAICS 541711 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors) across 18 awards. Service Contract Inventory captures minimal activity: one SCI-reportable subcontractor engagement in FY2024 representing 0.9 FTEs, which reflects the vendor's focus on small purchase orders and goods procurement rather than large federal service contracts above the $150 thousand SCI threshold.

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