Vanguard Inspection Services

Vanguard Inspection Services, a Tampa, Florida-based for-profit partnership or limited liability partnership, provides large-scale residential damage assessment and housing inspection services exclusively to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under full and open competition with no set-aside designations.

The vendor operates with singular customer focus: FEMA accounts for 100% of the 79 awards in the source data, representing a combined potential value of $2.23 billion. Vanguard holds a primary position on FEMA's Individuals and Households Program (IHP) Field Services IDIQ, a multiple-award contract ceiling of $918 million running through October 31, 2026, awarded January 24, 2025, through which 71 task orders have been placed (combined potential value $346.1 million). The vendor also executes work under a second FEMA IDIQ (70FB8020D00000003) with six task orders worth $25.7 million combined. Delivery orders span disaster response nationwide: representative recent work includes a $22.5 million order for 150,000 housing inspections supporting Florida's Hurricane Ian recovery (DR-4834-FL, ultimate completion March 3, 2026); a $11.8 million order for approximately 20,000 inspections in support of Hurricane Milton in Florida (DR-4828-FL, completion April 24, 2026); a $9.8 million order for 20,000 inspections in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene (DR-4827-NC, completion August 12, 2026); and a $5.98 million order for 45,000 inspections in Wisconsin for presidentially declared disaster DR-4923-WI (completion January 9, 2027). All awards are firm fixed price, full and open competition, with no small business set-aside usage across the portfolio.

Activity accelerated sharply in 2024 (24 awards) compared to prior years (6 awards annually in 2022–2023), followed by 9 awards in 2025 and 6 awards year-to-date in 2026. Nine awards with combined potential value of $27.3 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (through October 2026), signaling a recompete exposure window aligned with the current IDIQ's expiration. SCI-reported federal invoicing totaled $282.3 million across FY2022–FY2025: FY2022 invoicing of $79.9 million across 56.2 FTEs, FY2023 invoicing of $70 million across 60.6 FTEs, FY2024 invoicing of $38.3 million across 43.2 FTEs, and FY2025 invoicing of $94.1 million across 47.9 FTEs. Vanguard operates as a pure prime on service contracts captured in SCI — average sub-hours share across prime contracts is 2%, with only five named subcontractors reported across the portfolio, indicating the vendor self-performs substantially all inspection and assessment labor. Government-paid median hourly rates on the vendor's service contracts run approximately $544.74 per hour, with the 90th percentile reaching $1,483.34 per hour.

Vanguard's capability portfolio is narrowly focused: residential property damage assessment, housing inspections, on-site and remote damage evaluations, and geospatial assessment services in support of FEMA's Individual Assistance Program following presidentially declared disasters. The vendor executes orders ranging from 1,000 to 150,000 inspections per delivery order, deploying field teams nationwide to assess disaster-affected properties and generate assessments that determine federal aid eligibility. All recent awards carry no set-aside, confirming Vanguard competes in full and open federal procurement.