Paula F Price Enterprises LLC

Paula F Price Enterprises LLC, a woman-owned small business and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) headquartered in North Augusta, South Carolina, supplies medical-grade bulk liquid oxygen, industrial gases, equipment procurement, and specialized facilities maintenance services to the federal government primarily as a prime contractor. The vendor competes across both set-aside categories (SDVOSB, Total Small Business, Women-Owned Small Business) and full-and-open competitions, with set-aside designations recurring across approximately 40% of recent awards and driving most of the company's prime footprint.

Paula F Price Enterprises operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); the company does not subcontract work. Recent activity shows 543 total federal awards spanning 2010–2026, with momentum building year over year—86 awards in 2022, 99 in 2023, 96 in 2024, 123 in 2025, and 47 through early August 2026. Combined potential value stands at approximately $81 million, with $32.5 million obligated to date (40% of ceiling). The vendor's award base is concentrated in federal service-contract delivery orders: industrial gas manufacturing dominates the capability portfolio at 360 awards (NAICS 325120), with medical-grade bulk liquid oxygen and compressed/liquefied gases accounting for 304 awards under PSC code 6830 (gases, compressed and liquefied).

Customer concentration is stark and represents a structural recompete risk. The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center (VA TAC) accounts for 264 awards worth $34.8 million in combined potential value—54% of all awards and 43% of total dollars. The remaining top four customers—VA Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (54 awards, $9.4 million), National Cemetery Administration (51 awards, $7 million), VA VISN 4 (39 awards, $6.7 million), and VA VISN 2 (22 awards, $5.4 million)—collectively represent another 166 awards worth $28.5 million. This concentration means Paula F Price Enterprises derives roughly 78% of its recent federal dollar value from Department of Veterans Affairs entities across multiple organizational components, with the bulk routed through VA TAC's monthly express-spend delivery-order cycles for medical-grade oxygen supply to Veterans Integrated Service Networks nationwide.

Paula F Price Enterprises holds position on five parent indefinite-delivery vehicles. The company's primary vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C77622D0011, which carries 54 task orders worth $1.2 million combined potential value; four similar VA TAC IDCs (36C77622D0010, 36C77622D0013, 36C77622D0014, and 36C77622D0028) support 50–53 task orders each with combined potential values between $1.5 million and $2.6 million. Beyond VA TAC, the vendor holds a $9.9 million IDC with VA TAC for VISN 10 oxygen supply, a $3.8 million IDC with VISN 4, a $2.7 million contract with VISN 2, and a $494.6 thousand contract with VISN 6—all single-award vehicles for bulk oxygen delivery. The company also carries a $725.4 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for medical-grade bulk liquid oxygen and liquid carbon dioxide, a $356 thousand Army Indefinite Delivery Contract for bulk gas delivery and storage equipment rental at Letterkenny Army Depot, and a GSA Federal Supply Schedule with a $500 thousand ceiling. This IDC footprint reflects narrow, deep specialization in recurring medical-gas supply to VA networks rather than diversification across vehicle types or agencies.

Recompete exposure is material: 50 awards worth combined potential value of $4.7 million reach ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months. Given that the vendor's revenue is anchored to monthly VA TAC delivery orders tied to expiring base-year and option-year IDCs, contract modifications to renew or extend existing vehicles will be critical to sustaining volume.

Service Contract Inventory data reveals minimal SCI-reportable activity—only $184 thousand invoiced across FY2022–FY2024, concentrated in FY2023 at $184 thousand with 0.2 FTEs. This reflects the vendor's award portfolio structure: the vast majority of Paula F Price Enterprises' federal work consists of delivery orders for goods (bulk oxygen, equipment) and short-duration maintenance services priced below the $150 thousand SCI reporting threshold or structured as purchase orders rather than billable service contracts. Median government-paid hourly rates on the sparse SCI-reportable records run approximately $1,203 per hour, with rates spanning $446 to $1,537 per hour, suggesting a mix of warehouse-level labor and technical field-service roles. The vendor performs zero subcontract hours on its prime contracts, indicating Paula F Price Enterprises builds and staffs its own delivery and installation teams rather than leveraging a subcontractor network.

Named concrete work includes a $1.1 million patient-lift maintenance contract with VA VISN 16 (awarded June 2025), a $690.7 thousand fire-extinguisher inspection and maintenance contract with VA VISN 7 (June 2025), a $539.8 thousand pool and spa maintenance contract with VA VISN 7 (September 2025), a $912 thousand bulk oxygen delivery contract for the Army Corps of Engineers' J. Strom Thurmond Dam project (May 2025), a $1.07 million bulk oxygen contract with VA VISN 7 covering the Decatur, Birmingham, and Central Alabama VA medical centers (September 2025), and recurring monthly delivery orders from VA TAC ranging from $18 thousand to $68 thousand for oxygen and tank rental across multiple VISN regions. Equipment procurements include Torchmate CNC plasma cutting tables, Caterpillar skid-steer loaders, Club Car electric utility vehicles, Bintelli golf carts, Miller welders, Fisher salt spreaders, and specialized components sourced through Defense Logistics Agency demand (magnetic contactors, hydraulic cylinders, hose assemblies, compressors, dryers, lift equipment). National Cemetery Administration awards cover equipment procurement and facilities support, while the CDC engagement is liquid carbon dioxide delivery for research or operational support.

Paula F Price Enterprises' federal footprint is characterized by shallow competitive differentiation—the company competes primarily on cost and existing contract incumbency in a market segment (industrial gas supply, oxygen delivery, equipment procurement) where barrier to entry is low and switching costs for the customer are minimal once a contract is in place. The VA's reliance on the vendor for monthly oxygen express-spend cycles creates operational lock-in despite the lack of exclusive-supplier language. Growth trajectory suggests the company has successfully renewed and expanded several VA IDC vehicles since 2022 and has begun pursuing adjacent federal customers (Defense Health Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, CDC, Defense Logistics Agency), but the core revenue source remains VA oxygen supply and maintenance services.