Philman, Joe

Philman, Joe JP California Chiller Division, doing business as California Chiller, is a sole proprietorship based in Chino Hills, California that provides specialized chiller maintenance, repair, and analysis services to the Federal Correctional Complex Victorville as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates as a niche technical service provider focused on centrifugal chiller systems and related cooling infrastructure at a single federal customer — the Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, a Bureau of Prisons facility under the Department of Justice.

California Chiller's entire footprint consists of small-business-set-aside purchase orders from FCC Victorville. The vendor accounts for 42 of 44 total awards (95% of its portfolio), worth $519 thousand in combined potential value out of $536 thousand overall. All work is performed at the FCC Victorville facility in Victorville, California, with administrative operations based in Chino Hills. The vendor's service catalog spans annual preventative maintenance on the facility's six centrifugal chillers, emergency repairs and component replacement on chiller systems (including failed inlet guide vane actuators, purge units, and cooling tower fills), eddy tube analysis on chiller tubes, and emergency repair work on individual chiller units. Recent representative awards include a $69,068 firm fixed-price purchase order for emergency repair work on Chiller #2 (awarded January 27, 2026, with completion April 3, 2026), a $20,260 contract for eddy tube analysis on six centrifugal chillers (March 5, 2024), and a $30,615 emergency cooling tower fill replacement project (May 7, 2025). Work is categorized under NAICS 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors), with PSC coding split primarily across air conditioning equipment service, heating and waste disposal equipment maintenance, and refrigeration and air conditioning equipment repair.

Customer concentration is absolute: FCC Victorville represents 95% of awards and 97% of combined potential value across the vendor's 44-award portfolio. Activity is episodic but persistent — two awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, five in 2025, and one in early 2026. All 44 awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders designated as total small business set-asides. The vendor has maintained a continuous relationship with FCC Victorville since at least 2008 (the earliest award in the source data). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract activity and competes entirely within the small business set-aside space at a single federal facility.