Port Elevator, Inc.

Port Elevator, Inc., doing business as Port Elevator Co Inc., is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in New Columbia, Pennsylvania, that performs elevator repair, modernization, and maintenance work for federal facilities as a prime contractor across the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the General Services Administration, and the Department of Transportation. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards) on full-and-open competitive procurements; recent work carries no set-aside designations, though three of sixty total awards in the source dataset cite Total Small Business set-asides.

Port Elevator's customer concentration centers on federal real-property and corrections operations. The top five customer agencies, accounting for 58% of award count and 85% of combined potential value, are led by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons United States Penitentiary Lewisburg (12 awards, $216 thousand combined potential value), the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 3 (3 awards, $460 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District (9 awards, $196 thousand combined potential value). The two customer rankings diverge on dollars: GSA Region 3 anchors the dollar ranking with three awards totaling $460 thousand, while USP Lewisburg leads on award count with twelve awards at $216 thousand. Federal Aviation Administration operations represent $484 thousand across two awards (Southern Region and Headquarters), nearly matching the DOJ Bureau of Prisons portfolio by dollar value despite appearing lower on award-count rankings.

Recent named work includes a $194,750 purchase order from United States Penitentiary Lewisburg (awarded April 30, 2026, completion March 4, 2027) for elevator repair and modernization; a $197,500 purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood (awarded August 21, 2024, completion February 21, 2025) for removal and replacement of controllers, power units, door operating systems, and associated fixtures on two 2,500 lb roped hydraulic elevators to ASME, NFPA, and ADA compliance; and a $96,900 definitive contract from the Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District (awarded September 13, 2023, completion March 11, 2024) for traction elevator modernization at the FE Walter Dam in White Haven, Pennsylvania, involving microprocessor-based elevator system installation and hoistway wiring.

Activity remains sparse and flat across the award sample: one award in 2017, one in 2018, one in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026, with a combined potential value of $1.6 million and $1.5 million obligated (94% utilization). The next twenty-four-month recompete window captures one award worth $195 thousand. Port Elevator's NAICS profile is dominated by elevator and building-equipment contracting (29 awards under Other Building Equipment Contractors, 18 under Elevator and Moving Stairway Manufacturing), reflecting the vendor's primary business line. Service Contract Inventory activity is negligible: one FY2022 record showing less than one FTE in a named-subcontractor capacity, indicating minimal coverage under federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold.