Southern Aire Contracting, Inc.

Southern Aire Contracting, Inc., doing business as Sac Federal, is a Jacksonville, Florida-based women-owned small business that delivers construction, facilities maintenance, infrastructure repair, and specialty trade services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across a mix of total small business set-asides and unrestricted competition. The company holds SBA certifications as an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and 8(a) Business Development Program participant, positioning it to compete across multiple set-aside vehicles while maintaining open-competition capability. Southern Aire competes exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) with no sub award footprint.

Southern Aire's customer concentration skews heavily toward defense infrastructure and civilian agency facilities work. The top five customer agencies account for 67% of recent awards by count: Naval Facilities Engineering Command (47 awards, $47.4 million), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (45 awards, $36.9 million), Air National Guard (33 awards, $70.5 million), Navy Installations Command (30 awards, $19.5 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command (9 awards, $2.6 million). However, dollar concentration tells a different story — Air Combat Command (7 awards, $263.2 million) and Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region (7 awards, $197 million) anchor half the combined potential value across all awards, indicating a small number of very large infrastructure modernization or base construction vehicles that Southern Aire holds seats on but has not yet heavily ordered against. The FLETC relationship is operationally the deepest: a $20 million single-award IDIQ (June 2023 through December 2028) has generated approximately 21 delivery orders totaling $5.4 million, covering fire alarm system retrofits, HVAC repairs, building renovations, roadway repairs, and facility upgrades at the Brunswick, Georgia campus.

Southern Aire holds six major parent vehicles, anchored by two $193 million and $500 million IDIQs and three single-award contracts in the $20–50 million range. The $193 million Fort Benning DPW MAIDIQ (awarded July 16, 2026, total small business set-aside, performance through July 15, 2031) supports Army construction work and has generated minimal task order activity to date beyond a $500 pilot order. The $500 million GSA Public Buildings Service IDIQ for electric vehicle supply equipment installation (November 1, 2022, base period through October 31, 2026, total small business set-aside) has yielded four to five significant delivery orders including a $5.14 million Naval Air Station Jacksonville make-ready infrastructure order (September 2024) and a $3.47 million Naval Station Kings Bay EV charging order (September 2024). The Air National Guard MATOC ($49.5 million, July 15, 2025 through July 14, 2030, total small business set-aside) and Air Force Special Operations Command MACC ($25 million, September 9, 2025 through September 8, 2030, total small business set-aside) both support HVAC and facility repair work at multiple installations. The FLETC $20 million single-award IDIQ and a Navy NAVFAC $4.5 million construction contract (May 2022, 8(a) sole source, through May 11, 2027) round out the vehicle portfolio, with the Navy contract generating approximately 6–7 task orders for Gulf Coast region repair and construction work at Gulfport and Jacksonville facilities.

Recent capability work demonstrates Southern Aire's focus on federal facility infrastructure modernization and emergency repair. Prime definitive contracts include a $1.697 million fire alarm system retrofit at FLETC Glynco (October 2026, total small business set-aside, 120-day installation window); a $7.26 million Air National Guard repair and upgrade of Buildings 4210–4211 at Camp Blanding, Florida (May 2024, total small business set-aside, HVAC, roof, fire suppression, code compliance work, completion August 2025); a $6.6 million Air National Guard Corrosion Control Building 1046 construction at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina (August 2025, total small business set-aside); a $4.04 million Air National Guard Munitions Administrative Facility at McEntire (February 2025, total small business set-aside, conference rooms, offices, maintenance bay, mechanical/electrical infrastructure, completion January 2026); and a $1.83 million Army Corps of Engineers aircraft apron demolition and construction at Savannah International Airport (May 2024, total small business set-aside, sealed bid, completion August 2025). Delivery order work under the FLETC IDIQ spans a wide range from $35 thousand (flooring replacement, September 2026) to $766 thousand (ATF Vehicle Storage Garage #3, May 2026), with typical scope including interior renovations, restroom upgrades, HVAC repairs, fire alarm replacement, sewer line repairs, and building envelope work at the Brunswick and Glynco facilities.

Activity has remained stable over the past five years — averaging 16–22 awards annually from 2022 through 2025, with 13 awards recorded in 2026 to date. Recompete exposure is modest: 16 awards (combined potential value $18.2 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, primarily delivery orders under the FLETC IDIQ and a handful of Navy NAVFAC and other single-agency orders. Southern Aire's capability portfolio concentrates in NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, 121 awards), with secondary work in All Other Specialty Trade Contractors (37 awards) and Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (35 awards), reflecting its position as a general construction and facilities maintenance prime serving base operations, training infrastructure, and energy modernization across defense and civilian installations. The company's service contract inventory shows modest SCI-reportable revenue ($8.7 million across FY2022–FY2025) relative to total federal contract potential ($1.2 billion), indicating that Southern Aire's federal delivery is dominated by construction and repair work priced in the definitive and delivery-order contract mode rather than T&M or labor-hour service contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid labor rates run approximately $865/hr, with rates spanning from about $274/hr (10th percentile) to roughly $2,986/hr (90th percentile), and an average subcontractor utilization of 34% of total labor hours across reported prime contracts.

General, Mechanical, Electrical, HVAC, Microbial (Mold) Remediation, Spray Foam Insulation, construction, services, energy upgrades, environmental,