SAF Inc.

SAF Inc., a minority-owned, HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business and Black American-owned Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Akron, Ohio, delivers facilities construction, renovation, maintenance, and environmental remediation services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, with no subcontractor activity in its federal footprint. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and HUBZone designations; across recent awards, approximately 62% of its portfolio carries explicit small business or HUBZone set-aside framing, with the remainder awarded full-and-open or without set-aside restriction.

SAF Inc.'s capability portfolio centers on design-build construction, civil engineering, facility maintenance, and infrastructure upgrades at military and civilian federal installations. Representative work includes a $10.6 million definitive contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District for hydraulic system upgrades and building construction at Braddock Locks and Dam in Pennsylvania (awarded April 2026, NAICS 237990 / PSC Z2KA); a $55 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Coast Guard District 9 Regional Maintenance and Logistics Command Center for civil engineering and construction services across the Great Lakes region (awarded September 2024, running through September 2028); a $2.9 million design-build delivery order for a hangar fire suppression system at Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City (awarded November 2024); and a $1.9 million design-build replacement of an oil-water separator at Coast Guard Air Station Detroit (awarded July 2026). The vendor also holds a $45 million HUBZone set-aside IDIQ with the Army Corps of Engineers' Great Lakes and Ohio River Division. On Federal Aviation Administration work, SAF delivered a $328,590 definitive contract for TRACON facility refurbishment at Canton and Mansfield airports in Ohio (awarded October 2024, full-and-open competition).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to military and defense infrastructure agencies. The top five customers account for 77% of combined potential value. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region leads by dollars ($302.5 million across 45 awards), anchored by multiple roof replacements, building renovations, and infrastructure repairs at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard follows with $237.8 million across 80 awards, dominated by facility maintenance, dredging, and environmental remediation across the Great Lakes and coastal stations. The Army Corps of Engineers accounts for $116.5 million across 13 awards, with Engineering Districts Rock Island and Buffalo placing $54.8 million and $78.1 million respectively across 43 and 24 awards. The Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command contributed $55.2 million on 2 awards. This concentration reflects SAF's positioning as a regional small business prime for military facilities work in the Great Lakes, Ohio, and Southeast regions.

SAF's primary parent vehicles are Army and Coast Guard IDIQs. The Indefinite Delivery Contract W9124818D0008 (Army) carries 43 task orders worth $26.7 million combined potential value. The Coast Guard RMACC 2019 vehicle has generated 23 task orders valued at $9.6 million. The Youngstown ARS SABER Construction IDIQ (2012–2017) shows 39 historical task orders totaling $11.3 million. These vehicles provide the scaffolding for SAF's recurring small task order stream.

Activity has been consistent but slightly declining year over year — 13 awards in 2022 declining to 7 in 2025 and 8 in 2026 (as of early September). The near-term recompete exposure is modest: only 6 awards (combined potential value $15.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting immediate recompete risk for the vendor and recompete opportunity for competitors.

The vendor's Service Contract Inventory (SCI) footprint is minimal and reflects the goods-heavy nature of SAF's federal work. SCI-reported invoicing across prime federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $4.9 million from FY2022 through FY2025, with peaks of $2.4 million in FY2024 across roughly 3.4 government-delivered FTEs. Hourly rate posture on SCI-reportable service contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $154.26/hr to a median of $859.35/hr and a 90th percentile of $2,529.06/hr. SCI captures only a narrow slice of federal service work above the reporting threshold; the bulk of SAF's federal revenue derives from construction delivery orders and definitive contracts for goods and materials, which fall outside SCI scope.

SAF operates as a pure prime contractor — 100% of its award portfolio consists of prime contracts and IDIQs, with a single sub-grant award for restroom improvements at Elizabeth Park (funded November 2025). The vendor does not subcontract federal work and does not serve as a feeder to larger primes, which distinguishes it from typical small business contractors that blend prime and sub roles.

The vendor's dominant NAICS codes are Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (228 awards) and Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (84 awards), with PSC work concentrated in repair or alteration of miscellaneous buildings (109 awards) and office buildings (40 awards). This profile maps to SAF's core market: military and federal facility maintenance and upgrade, concentrated in the Great Lakes region and Southeast, with recurring small maintenance orders and periodic larger design-build projects.

General Contractor, Construction Manager, Design Build, Remodling, Site Remediation, Demolition, Abatement, Painting, Reconstruction