Southwest Access LLC

Southwest Access LLC, a for-profit partnership based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, supplies prosthetic mobility equipment — stair lifts, vertical platform lifts, and modular ramp systems — to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor under full-and-open competitive purchase orders with no set-aside designation.

The vendor operates exclusively with a single customer, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VISN 22), which accounts for all 14 prime awards and the full $214 thousand in combined potential value across the portfolio. All work is classified under NAICS 334510 (Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing) or 334516 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing), with all awards carrying PSC code for Medical And Surgical Instruments, Equipment, And Supplies. The vendor competes on pricing and product quality without set-aside advantage; no awards carry set-aside designations.

Recent representative contracts include a $32,986.00 purchase order awarded March 26, 2025, for custom curved stair lifts and vertical platform lifts; a $17,547.12 order from November 15, 2024, for stair lift delivery with completion through December 31, 2024; and a $15,783.52 purchase order from August 21, 2024, for prosthetic stair lift equipment. A fourth-quarter 2024 order for $15,300.00 covered a Stair Glide EST 1272 model with completion through September 30, 2024. The most recent award, dated April 17, 2026, is a $18,825.30 purchase order for a stair lift with completion through June 30, 2026. All awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders; place of performance centers on Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Activity peaked in 2024 with seven awards, declined to six awards in 2025, and has slowed to one award so far in 2026. All 14 awards have been obligated in full (100% of combined potential value). The vendor has no subcontract footprint and does not sit on any government-wide vehicles, BPAs, or IDIQs; all work flows through direct purchase orders from VISN 22. The narrow customer concentration — exclusive reliance on a single VA network for a specialized equipment category — represents both operational simplicity and significant recompete risk if VISN 22's procurement strategy shifts or if competitive alternatives emerge in the prosthetic mobility equipment market.