Standard Communications Inc.

Standard Communications Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and veteran-owned small business (VOSB) headquartered in Hume, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor exclusively delivering nurse call systems, patient elopement tracking, environmental monitoring, and healthcare IT infrastructure to the Department of Veterans Affairs across 32 distinct customer agencies. The company self-performs 100 percent of contract work with no subcontractor engagement, competing predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides and sole-source authority. Standard Communications holds a subsidiary, Smtec, LLC, also structured as an SDVOSB joint venture.

Standard Communications' federal award footprint is entirely concentrated within the VA system. The top five customer organizations by award count account for 35 percent of all awards: Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (37 awards, $17 million), Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (31 awards, $7.1 million), VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin (30 awards, $50.3 million), Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 (23 awards, $8.4 million), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (21 awards, $11.6 million). By potential value, the VA Technology Acquisition Center leads at $50.3 million across 30 awards, followed by VA Headquarters at $27 million, with the five top customers anchoring 54 percent of combined potential value across $225.2 million in total awards. The vendor serves every major VISN.

Recent representative work spans nurse call system replacement, integration, and support across VA Medical Centers. On October 8, 2026, Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 awarded Standard Communications an $8.45 million definitive contract for nurse call system removal and replacement, firm fixed price with completion targeted for October 20, 2027. On September 27, 2025, Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 awarded a $7.99 million definitive contract for nurse call system replacement at Seattle VAMC under SDVOSB set-aside, with 654 calendar days from Notice to Proceed through July 31, 2027. On August 4, 2023, Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 awarded a $1.691 million firm fixed-price purchase order for Jeron nurse call system upgrade with performance running through August 3, 2028; that order generated $1.2 million in invoiced labor in FY2024 alone at a government-paid rate of $362.12 per hour across 3,450 contractor hours and 1.7 FTEs, entirely self-performed. A $5.766 million definitive contract from Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 in May 2025 for nurse call system expansion and replacement in Asheville, North Carolina generated $427 thousand in SCI-reportable invoicing across 1.1 FTEs in FY2025 with full self-performance. Complementary capability work includes patient elopement and environmental monitoring system installation, SPOK communications platform migrations and integrations, Nutanix infrastructure support, and clinical infrastructure upgrades. On August 1, 2023, Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 awarded a $2.939 million delivery order under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for a patient elopement and environmental monitoring system at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, set aside for SDVOSB, running through January 31, 2028 and invoicing $1.4 million in FY2024 across 2,642 hours at $524.85 per hour.

Standard Communications places work through two primary parent vehicles. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (ceiling $475,000, active through March 1, 2028) carries 105 task orders totaling $20.3 million in combined potential value, with delivery orders flowing from multiple VISNs. The Veterans Technology Services contract (likely the VA Technology Acquisition Center single-award IDIQ) carries 25 task orders worth $31.8 million combined potential value and anchors the largest dollar concentration by vehicle. A Federal Supply Schedule contract (GS10F0485N) carries 10 task orders, $3.2 million, and two subsidiary IDIQs (VA248P1166 and VA101049A3P0277) carry 7 and 4 task orders respectively.

Activity has grown in recent years. Awards per year climbed from six in 2022 to a peak of seventeen in 2024, settling to fifteen in 2025 with eight awards in 2026 through October. Fifteen awards (combined potential value $27.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure and pipeline risk. The company has generated $7.2 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2024–FY2025, with FY2024 showing $2.7 million across 3.2 FTEs and FY2025 $4.5 million across 9.7 FTEs — a marked acceleration in reported federal service-contract labor. Derived government-paid rates on SCI contracts span a median of $317.76 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $136.86 and the 90th percentile at $476.03. Standard Communications carries no documented sub-hours share across SCI-reportable prime contracts; all work is self-performed.

The GSA Schedule lists thirteen labor categories spanning telecommunications technician ($67.39 per hour with high school education and three years' experience) through systems and security executive ($270.44 per hour with bachelor's degree and fifteen years' experience). No security-cleared positions are offered. The schedule enables Standard Communications to compete on healthcare IT modernization and communications infrastructure upgrades across federal civilian agencies, though the company's federal footprint remains overwhelmingly VA-concentrated.

Standard Communications operates under SDVOSB and VOSB certifications expiring September 3, 2026. The company competes under full SDVOSB set-aside authority, sole-source SDVOSB procurement, and sole-source authority under VAAR 819.7008 (authorized integrator of SPOK middleware into Vocera platforms and sole source for Jeron nurse call components), positioning it as a strategic single-source provider for specialized healthcare communications infrastructure rather than a competitive volume player.

SCI is a professional services firm specializing in telecom, clinical collaboration solutions, unified communication, medical health care collaboration systems, computer systems infrastructure & support services. Specialties include PBX installation/maint, Inside & Outside cable plants.