South Dade Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Inc.

South Dade Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Homestead, Florida, delivers HVAC systems maintenance and repair, electrical systems work, plumbing services, and comprehensive facilities maintenance and construction support to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards). The vendor holds concurrent veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business certifications, is Black American-owned, and self-certifies as a small disadvantaged business. South Dade competes predominantly under set-asides—service-disabled veteran-owned small business and HUBZone set-asides recur across the prime footprint, with Total Small Business and competitive full-and-open calls representing a smaller share.

Customer concentration is tightly anchored in the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, which accounts for approximately 79% of awards across five regional entities. GSA Public Buildings Service Region 2 (primarily New York, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico facilities) leads with 629 awards and $452 million in combined potential value, followed by GSA Region 4 (Georgia) at 196 awards and $310.8 million, and GSA Public Buildings Service (national) at 382 awards and $304.8 million. GSA National Capital Region (Washington, DC area) carries 119 awards worth $181.4 million. The top five customers account for 79% of awards. By dollar value, the ranking is similar—Region 2 and Region 4 dominate—though the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command places 15 awards valued at $168.5 million, likely representing a single large HVAC or facilities support contract. This concentration reflects South Dade's position as a trusted regional and national provider of routine and emergency facilities maintenance under GSA's Multiple Award Schedule vehicle.

South Dade's primary contracting vehicle is the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, under which the vendor has placed 2,920 task orders valued at $2.01 billion in combined potential value. The vendor also holds three major Blanket Purchase Agreements under the MAS for facilities maintenance in specific geographic areas: a $74.6 million Kentucky facilities maintenance BPA (award date March 5, 2026, through September 30, 2035) with a major call for complete facilities maintenance issued at $73.6 million; a $48.1 million Texas facilities maintenance BPA covering San Antonio, Pearsall, Corpus Christi, and Victoria (award date October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027) designated as a Total Small Business set-aside; and a $49.4 million Georgia facilities maintenance BPA (award date August 18, 2025, through May 31, 2027, with option periods extending to May 31, 2036). These BPAs demonstrate South Dade's role as a volume provider of routine and emergency facilities work across federal buildings statewide. The vendor also participates in smaller IDIQs with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and holds Indefinite Delivery Contracts W9124M20D0007 (31 task orders, $10.3 million) and W9124M24D0001 (29 task orders, $4.5 million), likely for construction or facilities support.

Activity has grown substantially from 2022 onward. The vendor executed 188 awards in 2022, climbing to 278 in 2023, 382 in 2024, 315 in 2025, and 447 in 2026 to date—a compound annual growth trajectory with high acceleration. Combined potential value across all 1,845 awards reaches $1.92 billion, though only $344 million (18% of potential) is obligated. This gap reflects the nature of the MAS and BPA structure, where ceilings are set but task order execution and funding follow agency need. Recent awards cluster heavily from July through October 2026, spanning emergency facility repairs, HVAC maintenance, electrical systems work, plumbing, painting and restoration, and specialized infrastructure projects (boiler replacement, chiller repair, water intrusion remediation, mold remediation) at federal courthouses, IRS service centers, GSA buildings, and other agencies nationwide. Two major single awards underscore the vendor's scale: a $34.5 million operations and maintenance BPA call (September 1, 2026, through November 30, 2031) for facilities at 201 Varick Street, New York, and a $46.2 million complete facilities maintenance call (July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031) for the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York.

Within the next twenty-four months, 267 awards with combined potential value of $31.8 million face ultimate completion dates and therefore present recompete exposure for the vendor and corresponding opportunity for competitors.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $77.6 million across FY2022–FY2025. The vendor ramped from $8.2 million (FY2022) to $37 million (FY2024), then decreased to $7.9 million in FY2025, reflecting the lumpy, project-based nature of facilities work. The SCI dataset shows an FTE trajectory climbing from 41.6 FTEs in FY2022 to 198 FTEs in FY2024, dropping to 43.1 in FY2025, also consistent with project-driven labor deployment. SCI government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts ran around a median of $81.17 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $48.69 and the 90th percentile at $127.59. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio reflects the same span: 254 unique labor categories ranging from Driver/Sales Workers at $27.71 per hour to Chief Executives at $201.20 per hour, with education requirements from high school through bachelor's degree and no security-clearance positions offered. Median-priced categories include Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators ($70.78/hr) and senior mechanical and electrical trades in the $45–$55/hr band, consistent with HVAC technician, electrician, and plumbing roles that dominate the vendor's delivery model.

South Dade operates as a prime contractor (1,844 of 1,845 awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement—only one sub-award appears in the portfolio (roof replacement work under prime Ark Construction Management LLC, dated November 2022). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero percent of hours were performed by named subcontractors, indicating South Dade builds and deploys its own labor teams rather than relying on a supply chain of subs. This posture positions the vendor as a self-contained delivery organization rather than a project integrator or general contractor that coordinates multiple specialty subs.

By capability framing, the vendor's award distribution clusters in Facilities Support Services (1,598 awards), Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (132 awards), and Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (66 awards), primarily under GSA Maintenance of Office Buildings codes. Representative recent prime work includes the $313.7 million chiller replacement at Preston Federal Building in Statesboro, Georgia; the $181.5 million split system installation at J.G. Low Federal Building in Savannah; the $163.4 million boiler replacement at Dublin Federal Courthouse; the $228.5 million emergency water damage remediation at the Old Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas; the $144.3 million emergency generator switchgear repair at Cochran Federal Courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi; and dozens of smaller emergency HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and structural repairs across New York federal buildings (Alexander Hamilton Custom House, 201 Varick Street, Charles L. Brieant Courthouse, James M. Hanley Federal Building). The vendor demonstrates capacity for both routine preventive maintenance (scheduled HVAC service, fire alarm testing, equipment certification) and emergency response (mold remediation, water intrusion, facility outages) at scale across multiple federal regions and over one hundred named agencies.

Design Build HVAC / General Construction. Facility Support Services including Management, Custodial, Mechanical Maintenance, Pest Control, Grounds Maintenance, and other related services.