Portable Air Group LLC

Portable Air Group LLC, a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, sells portable climate control equipment—air conditioners, evaporative coolers, heat pumps, and industrial fans—to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) competing predominantly full-and-open on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The company is a small business without SBA set-aside designations (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB), though it wins delivery orders and purchase orders carrying Total Small Business set-asides from civilian and defense agencies.

Portable Air Group operates as a single-award and multiple-award contractor. The company holds a $10.5 million Federal Supply Schedule (GSA Multiple Award Schedule) contract awarded July 16, 2025, running through July 15, 2030, and a single-award $73,710 Indefinite Delivery Contract with Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services (effective through February 1, 2030) for commercial cooling fans meeting minimum 50-inch fan diameter specifications. Recent representative work includes a $169,585 delivery order from the Joint Munitions Command (February 2026) for four 5-ton MIL-STD-810 ruggedized ECUs under the GSA schedule; a $524,952.34 delivery order from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (August 2024) for a portable chiller providing backup cooling for campus infrastructure; a $224,833.40 purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs (July 2023) for a mobile emergency chiller supporting the Chillicothe VA Medical Center; and a $210,363.95 purchase order from DLA Troop Support (July 2022) for 85 evaporative air cooler units.

Customer concentration is broad-based but skewed toward federal facilities and logistics. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the portfolio with 16 awards and $29.5 million combined potential value (56% of dollars); the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region holds 6 awards and $12 million; and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment carries 30 awards but only $1.7 million combined value, reflecting numerous small tactical procurements. Together, these top three customers account for 84% of combined potential value across 118 distinct customer agencies served. The Air Force (19 awards across multiple commands) and Department of Homeland Security (18 awards) represent the next tier of activity.

Portable Air Group places nearly all work through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule—261 task orders with $6.7 million combined potential value—with subordinate vehicles including a DLA Indefinite Delivery Contract (4 task orders, $45 thousand) and two blanket purchase agreements. Award count has grown modestly from 20 awards in 2022 to 34 in 2025, with 6 awards recorded through mid-July 2026. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months is modest: only 7 awards with ultimate completion dates in that window carry combined potential value of $232 thousand. The company maintains two subcontract engagements, including work under ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC as a prime on a task order for a KwiKool 60,000 BTU portable air conditioner (April 2025).

The portfolio is heavily concentrated in portable air-conditioning equipment and industrial fans. The top NAICS category—Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing—accounts for 307 awards. Product Service Code concentration follows: Air Conditioning Equipment (224 awards) and Fans, Air Circulators, and Blower Equipment (71 awards) represent 82% of categorized activity. Work spans CONUS and overseas locations, with recent delivery to Fort Eustis, Virginia; McAlester, Oklahoma; Erie, Pennsylvania; and overseas military installations under the Status of Forces Agreement Defense Acquisition Program. The company has supplied equipment to the Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps), Department of Veterans Affairs (15 VISN networks), Department of Homeland Security (Coast Guard, USCIS), Department of Commerce (NOAA), General Services Administration, and specialized agencies including the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, National Gallery of Art, and Smithsonian Institution.

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.