Systems Northwest, LLC

Systems Northwest, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Evergreen, Montana, performs low-voltage systems integration, security systems maintenance, access control, and facility infrastructure upgrades as a prime contractor exclusively — with 100 percent of its federal award footprint as direct prime awards across contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles, and zero sub-award activity.

Systems Northwest concentrates on two primary capability areas grounded in its award history. First, physical access control and security systems support — encompassing installation, maintenance, and repair of security equipment including PACS (Physical Access Control Systems), video surveillance, fire suppression systems, and integrated access-control readers. Second, low-voltage electrical infrastructure — data cabling, fiber optic runs, network systems, and telecommunications equipment at federal research and administrative campuses. Work is predominantly firm fixed price, performed at the National Institutes of Health Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus in Hamilton, Montana, and at other NIH facilities including Bethesda, Maryland, Fort Detrick, and Poolesville. Representative recent work includes a $2.2 million purchase order (September 2025) for PACS-AE hardware delivery across multiple NIH facilities; a $732 thousand delivery order (February 2024) for PACS system upgrade to Access Xpert at RML; and a $800 thousand delivery order (June 2023) for wireless network refresh and expansion at the RML campus.

Customer concentration is extreme and NIH-dominated. The top five customer agencies account for 91 percent of all awards by count and 99 percent by potential value. The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Construction alone anchors 91 awards (76 percent of the total portfolio) worth $25.3 million combined potential value — roughly 90 percent of Systems Northwest's total federal pipeline. Within HHS, two subsidiary customers rank second and third: the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (11 awards, $210 thousand) and the Indian Health Service (3 awards, $74 thousand), both also conducting work at or supporting the Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus. Secondary customers — the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, and Department of Agriculture Forest Service — represent tactical diversification with minimal dollar exposure (fewer than $100 thousand combined across all three).

Systems Northwest holds five active indefinite-delivery contracts, all with NIH Construction. The largest, IDC 75N99020D00020, carries 51 task orders worth $7.4 million combined potential value and covers broad low-voltage systems support and security infrastructure. A second $2 million single-award IDC (75N99018D00015, ultimate completion April 2027) is dedicated to security systems maintenance and repair services; it has generated seven delivery orders to date. Three smaller IDCs focus on fire suppression system inspection and maintenance ($1 million, ultimate completion May 2028), facility infrastructure upgrades, and related support services, collectively backing 13 additional delivery orders. All five vehicles are set aside for total small business.

Activity has declined sharply from peak. Awards per year dropped from 17 in 2022 to just 2 in 2026 — a 88 percent reduction in annual award volume over four years. The vendor's SCI-reported invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above the $150 thousand reporting threshold) totaled $1.3 million in FY2022 across 0.3 FTEs, fell to zero dollars and activity in FY2023, and recovered to $1 million in FY2024 across 0.4 FTEs. This irregular invoicing pattern and low-FTE footprint reflect the project-based, delivery-order nature of Systems Northwest's work: individual task orders are small to mid-sized (median award around $100 thousand based on portfolio statistics), episodic, and concentrated on discrete infrastructure upgrades at a single customer location rather than sustained staffing arrangements. Only five awards totaling $1.2 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure but underscoring the vendor's reliance on IDC reorders and task-order authority at NIH to sustain pipeline. On federal service contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $1,864 per hour, with senior-level labor pricing extending through $5,252 per hour and entry-level technical work at the $666 per hour floor. Systems Northwest performs all work with its own labor; SCI records show zero sub-hours engagement across its prime contracts.

Across the entire award portfolio, security systems services (NAICS 561621) dominate — 83 awards — with electrical contracting (NAICS 238210) rounding out the secondary capability set at 24 awards. The vendor's posture is entirely competitive small-business set-aside (Total Small Business and Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business), with no full-and-open awards in the present footprint.

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