Palmetto Air & Water Balance Inc.

Palmetto Air & Water Balance Inc., based in Greer, South Carolina, delivers HVAC testing, balancing, and certification services alongside pharmacy compliance and clean room engineering inspection work to federal agencies as a small business prime contractor (60% of recent awards) and subcontractor on military construction and facilities maintenance programs. The vendor competes under Total Small Business set-asides where applicable and operates without SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB designations; the firm's award footprint centers on facilities engineering and compliance inspection work grounded in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), 561210 (Facilities Support Services), and related mechanical trades.

Customer concentration is extremely narrow. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration dominates the prime footprint — Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 alone accounts for 11 awards valued at $65 thousand combined, while Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 holds a single $359,660 award for sterile compounding compliance services at VA pharmacy facilities in Little Rock, Arkansas through August 2029. The Defense Health Agency anchors the second-largest prime award at $185,944 for secondary engineering inspection and clean room certification at Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, also running through September 2026. These three customers account for roughly 88% of award count and 100% of combined potential value. The vendor's largest single award, the $359,660 VISN 16 sterile compounding compliance order (Total Small Business set-aside, issued September 1, 2024), involves inspections, testing, certifications, preventative maintenance, and filter replacement to ensure compliance with USP Chapters 797 and 800, ANSI/NSF standards, and CETA guidelines. Most other prime awards are purchase orders under $3,000 to $186,000, with a median sub-$100,000 profile.

Activity is intermittent — one award in 2016, one in 2021, a spike to eight awards in 2024, then two each in 2025 and 2026 — and the vendor's combined potential value across all awards stands at $629 thousand with $560 thousand obligated. Only one award faces recompete inside the next twenty-four months ($186 thousand potential value). The vendor subcontracts on military construction and facilities maintenance programs under Weston Solutions Inc. (appearing on recurring facilities maintenance and minor repair contracts for the South Atlantic Division Air Force and Iraq/Afghanistan-related work, with multiple change orders in 2024–2025) and RQ Construction LLC (magnetic silencing facility repairs at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, and Phase 2 radio battalion complex work at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in 2025–2026). The Multiple Award Schedule carries eight task orders in the parent vehicle portfolio. Palmetto's capability set is bounded to HVAC balancing, testing, and certification; pharmacy facility compliance inspection; and clean room certification engineering — narrowly specialized, facilities-focused, and overwhelmingly VA-anchored.