Vandahl Engineering & Sales LTD

Vandahl Engineering & Sales LTD, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business based in Sun City West, Arizona, delivers preventive maintenance, repair, and installation services for medical sterilization and patient mobility equipment to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor exclusively. The vendor operates almost entirely under SDVOSB and Total Small Business set-asides, with occasional full-and-open awards; 100% of recent awards are prime contracts, reflecting a focused capability model that avoids subcontracting relationships.

Vandahl's customer concentration is extreme and poses structural recompete risk. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VISN 22) accounts for 66 of 196 awards (34% by count) and $114.6 million of the $134.8 million combined potential value (85% of portfolio dollars). The next four largest customers — VISN 19, VISN 21, VISN 20, and VISN 16 — together represent only $19 million additional potential value. This concentration around a single VA network means that contract performance, pricing, relationship management, and recompete execution at VISN 22 control the vendor's federal revenue trajectory. Vandahl operates across five named VA indefinite delivery contracts, with IDC VA258C0460 anchoring 18 task orders valued at $6.5 million.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on STERIS sterilization equipment maintenance (preventive maintenance, repair, parts replacement, and emergency support), AMSCO sterilizer and washer-disinfector services (chamber cleaning, preventive maintenance, inspection), SPS sterile processing system equipment support, and Hill-Rom patient lift maintenance and inspection. Recent representative work includes a $1.75 million SDVOSB purchase order from VISN 16 for STERIS service and maintenance across 29 sterilization units at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (awarded March 2026, running through May 2031), a $1.18 million SDVOSB purchase order from VISN 19 for STERIS sterilizer maintenance in Sun City West, Arizona (awarded March 2026, running through February 2031), and a $1.03 million SDVOSB definitive contract from VISN 19 for STERIS sterilizer preventive maintenance and repair at the Montana VA Health Care System (awarded November 2024, running through September 2029). Vandahl also provides ancillary services including autoclave chamber cleaning, cart refurbishing, and equipment refurbishment across multiple VA medical centers. Work is performed across domestic VA facilities in Arizona, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma.

Award activity shows volatile trajectory with concentration in 2024 (10 awards) and 2026 (7 awards to date), offset by only 2 awards in 2025 and 3 in 2023. Five awards with combined potential value of $975 thousand face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure. The vendor has held federal contracts since 2008, but recent activity pattern (71% of all 196 awards awarded since 2022) reflects either rapid growth or a data-collection boundary effect.

Service Contract Inventory data, which captures federal service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods and product sales, shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $1.2 million across fiscal years 2023–2025 ($448 thousand in FY2023, $470 thousand in FY2024, and $322 thousand in FY2025), with workforce scale ranging from 1.9 FTEs in FY2023 to 2.9 FTEs in FY2024, declining to 1.4 FTEs in FY2025. SCI is a partial view excluding the vendor's full portfolio of goods, product sales, and lower-value micro-purchases; the $134.8 million combined potential value across all 196 awards substantially exceeds the $1.2 million SCI-reportable total, indicating that most of Vandahl's federal revenue flows through equipment sales, parts, and task orders below the SCI threshold. On SCI-reportable federal service contracts, median government-paid rates run around $95.73 per hour, with rates ranging from $69.75 per hour (10th percentile) to $126.76 per hour (90th percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Vandahl self-performs substantially all work, with subcontractors accounting for 0% of reported contractor hours on average, reflecting an in-house delivery model.

The vendor's federal footprint is narrowly specialized: preventive maintenance and repair of medical sterilization and patient mobility equipment for VA healthcare facilities, predominantly under SDVOSB and Total Small Business set-asides, with essentially no defense prime work, no work for civilian agencies outside the VA, and no subcontracting relationships to other prime contractors.

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