Portable Air Group LLC

Portable Air Group LLC, a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based small business competing full-and-open without SBA set-aside certifications, supplies portable air conditioning units, evaporative coolers, heat pumps, and industrial fans to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The company is structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and has been registered in federal contracting since 2006. Portable Air Group's core capability is the distribution and delivery of commercial-off-the-shelf portable climate control equipment and related components, from individual 16,800-BTU cooling units to large-scale ruggedized systems meeting MIL-STD-810 specifications for harsh environments. Representative prime work includes a $524,952 delivery order from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for a portable chiller to serve as backup cooling at its Charleston, South Carolina campus; a $189,772 Defense Logistics Agency purchase order for 24 evaporative air cooler units; a $172,601 Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region purchase order for a portable commercial HVAC system; and a $169,585 Joint Munitions Command delivery order for four 5-ton ruggedized ultra-light high-temperature skid-mounted engine cooling units manufactured to MIL-STD-810 specifications for vibration and harsh environments at McAlester, Oklahoma.

Portable Air Group's customer concentration is dominated by the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service, which accounts for 16 awards valued at $29.5 million (56% of combined potential value across all awards). The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region follows distantly at 6 awards and $12 million, and the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment places the highest volume of task orders at 30 awards but with a much lower combined potential value of $1.7 million, reflecting the company's role as a rapid-order supplier for tactical cooling procurements. These top three customers represent roughly 70% of the potential value in the pipeline. The broader customer set spans 121 distinct federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and civilian agencies such as the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution. The two top customer rankings diverge sharply — GSA dominates dollars while DLA and the Air Force drive order volume — indicating that Portable Air Group captures high-value indefinite delivery contracts through GSA while serving as a distributed transactional supplier to defense logistics and operational command nodes.

Portable Air Group sits on two parent vehicles: a $10.5 million Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded by the GSA Federal Acquisition Service on July 16, 2025, running through July 15, 2030, which anchors the majority of recent activity with 270 task orders generating $7 million in combined potential value; and a $73,710 single-award Indefinite Delivery contract with Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services effective through February 1, 2030, with four delivery orders totaling approximately $47,966 issued as of mid-2025. The GSA schedule is a governmentwide catalog vehicle under the Multiple Award Schedule program, allowing federal agencies to place orders against Portable Air Group's pre-negotiated price list without new competition. The DLA contract addresses commercial cooling fan requirements across Continental United States sites meeting a minimum 50-inch fan diameter specification for spaces up to 6,500 square feet.

Activity has grown from 20 awards in 2022 to a peak of 35 awards in 2025, with 17 awards recorded through September 2026. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months is minimal — only four awards with ultimate completion dates in that window carry a combined potential value of $131,000 — indicating stable and renewable vehicle positions. In its rare subcontractor role, Portable Air Group has supplied KwiKool portable air conditioners and cooling systems to Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics LLC and an unnamed prime under Task Order work addressing HVAC requirements at military installations.

Portable Air Group's footprint is driven almost entirely by the delivery of portable air conditioning equipment and fans under PSC 4120 (Air Conditioning Equipment) and PSC 4140 (Fans, Air Circulators, and Blower Equipment), with primary NAICS 333715 (Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment Manufacturing) covering 311 of 375 awards. The company maintains a distributed operational posture, with place-of-performance locations spanning Chapel Hill, North Carolina (administrative and primary fulfillment); McAlester, Oklahoma; Fort Eustis, Virginia; Dover, Delaware; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Charleston, South Carolina; and numerous other federal installations nationwide and overseas. Total combined potential value stands at $52.9 million, with obligated dollars at $11.7 million (22% realization), reflecting a pipeline of longer-completion-term delivery orders against GSA and DLA vehicles.

Portable Air rents and sells portable cooling, heating, HEPA Filtration and dehumidification equipment sized from 1 to 1200 tons in size. Affiliate offices across the country enable Portable Air to deliver quickly to any market.