Southern Management Inc.

Southern Management Inc., based in Goldsboro, North Carolina, is an SBA-certified HUBZone small disadvantaged business that provides airfield pavement repair, runway maintenance, and base infrastructure construction to the U.S. Air Force as a prime contractor across its entire $364.6 million federal award footprint.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command accounts for 375 of 496 awards (98% of count) and $353.4 million of $364.6 million combined potential value (97% of dollars). The remaining four customer agencies—Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Air Mobility Command, the general Department of the Air Force, and the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Secret Service—collectively represent 3% of potential value. This concentration reflects Southern Management's role as a specialized regional infrastructure contractor locked into Air Force base maintenance at two primary installations: Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.

Southern Management's capability footprint is concrete and narrowly focused. The vendor executes asphalt and concrete pavement rehabilitation, runway and taxiway repairs, airfield marking and rubber removal, parking lot construction and repair, concrete spall and joint seal repair, waterline replacement, sidewalk and curb/gutter installation, and general base facility improvements. NAICS coding confirms this focus: 490 of 496 awards (99%) are classified under Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (541200). PSC codes track similarly across repair and alteration of highways, roads, streets, and bridges (255 awards), airfield runway maintenance and repair (97 awards), and miscellaneous building maintenance (27 awards).

Southern Management holds five active indefinite-delivery vehicles with Air Combat Command. The two largest are single-award HUBZone set-aside IDIQs: Indefinite Delivery Contract FA480906DC004 ($27.8 million, 93 task orders) and FA480916DC002 ($27 million, 79 task orders), both for airfield and base pavement repairs at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Dare County Bombing Range, and Fort Fisher. Additional vehicles include FA480911DC007 ($34.6 million, 50 task orders) and FA480319DA003 ($11.1 million, 44 task orders). A newly awarded single-award HUBZone set-aside IDC (October 2024, $9.6 million ceiling, September 2028 completion) covers base paving at Shaw Air Force Base. These five vehicles anchor most of Southern Management's task-order pipeline.

Southern Management competes predominantly within HUBZone set-asides. Of the awards visible in the recent delivery-order slice, a material portion carry explicit HUBZone set-aside designations, though many individual task orders under the IDIQs are awarded full-and-open. The underlying IDIQ vehicles themselves are reserved for HUBZone small businesses, which gates competition at the vehicle level.

Activity has declined materially in recent years. Southern Management averaged 23 awards annually in 2022, declining to 21 in 2023, 13 in 2024, and 8 in 2025, with only 1 award in the first quarter of 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal: only 1 award worth $296 thousand reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. This flat recompete exposure reflects the multi-year stability of the underlying IDIQ vehicles rather than a robust new-business pipeline. The vendor has operated continuously since at least 2003, indicating long-standing vendor relationship status with Air Combat Command.