Portsmouth Emergency Ambulance Service Inc.

Portsmouth Emergency Ambulance Service Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Portsmouth, Ohio, operates as a prime contractor delivering ground ambulance and wheelchair transportation services to the Department of Veterans Affairs, competing without set-aside protection in full-and-open procurements.

The vendor's federal footprint is narrowly concentrated. All 46 awards in the source span two customer entities: Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 (22 awards, $31.9 million combined potential value) and Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (24 awards, $14 million combined potential value), both within the VA's Veterans Health Administration. Portsmouth maintains 100% prime positioning across all awards; no subcontractor work appears in the portfolio. The company holds five single-award indefinite delivery contracts with VISN 5 ranging from $749,000 to $6.5 million in ceiling value, with contract periods extending through January 2029. The largest IDC, awarded February 1, 2026, carries a $6.5 million ceiling and procures Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, Critical Care Transport, and Specialty Care Transport for the Hershel "Woody" Williams VA Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia, with task orders covering Gallipolis, Ohio and surrounding counties across Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Portsmouth operates its own fleet and personnel 24/7 with stated response-time capability of 20–30 minutes and capacity for up to eight simultaneous Basic Life Support and three simultaneous Advanced Life Support transports, without reliance on major subcontractors.

Recent delivery orders exemplify the vendor's scope. A February 1, 2026 delivery order under the new VISN 5 IDC is valued at $341,018.34 through September 30, 2026. Earlier in fiscal 2026, Portsmouth received a $816,019.03 delivery order (October 1, 2025–September 30, 2026) and a $324,179.24 delivery order (October 1, 2025–January 31, 2026), both for ambulance services in Huntington, West Virginia under existing VISN 5 vehicles. The portfolio spans NAICS Ambulance Services (35 awards) and Special Needs Transportation (11 awards).

Activity has remained flat to modest. The vendor received 2 awards in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 2 in 2026 year-to-date, with only one award (ceiling value $816,000) completing within the next twenty-four months. Service Contract Inventory data, which covers federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods and non-federal revenue, shows $875,000 in invoiced revenue in FY2024 across roughly 11 FTEs deployed across one prime SCI record and five named-subcontractor records; this represents a partial view of federal services activity and does not reflect the vendor's total enterprise revenue. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts averaged $197.56 per hour. The narrow customer concentration, single-NAICS specialization, and flat award trajectory position Portsmouth as a specialist ambulance-services provider within a constrained VA customer base, with little visible growth or diversification into additional agencies or service lines.