Violeta Grounds Management Co., Inc.

Violeta Grounds Management Co., Inc., doing business as Violeta Grounds Management, is a woman-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business certified under the SBA 8(a) Business Development Program that delivers grounds maintenance, turf management, landscaping, and environmental restoration services exclusively as a prime contractor to the federal government. The Mt. Airy, Maryland–based company operates as a Subchapter S corporation under NAICS 51 (Landscaping Services) and PSC codes emphasizing housekeeping, landscaping, groundskeeping, and natural resource conservation work.

Violeta Grounds Management has received 53 prime federal awards totaling $59.6 million in combined potential value since 2017, with 34% obligated across its portfolio. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no sub-award activity appears in the source. The firm has received over 50 prime contracts, predominantly from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service National Office, which accounts for 44 awards (83% of the 53-award portfolio) and $58 million (97% of combined potential value). The remaining customer base includes the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (5 awards, $1.1 million), the National Park Service Midwest Region (2 awards, $224 thousand), the Department of the Army (1 award, $215 thousand), and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Baltimore (1 award, $92 thousand). Concentration at a single agency and sub-office is near-total; nearly every active contract traces to NPS National Office in Washington, D.C.

Capability work centers on grounds maintenance at National Capital Region parks and memorials. Flagship awards include a $4.3 million 8(a) sole-source purchase order for turf maintenance at the George Washington Memorial Parkway through March 2028, a $1.93 million 8(a) sole-source definitive contract for Georgetown Waterfront Park grounds maintenance at Rock Creek Park through April 2028 (invoicing $197 thousand in FY2023 and $375 thousand in FY2024 across government-reported labor at median rates around $45/hour), a $2.3 million delivery order for mowing services on the Baltimore Washington Parkway and related sites through December 2026, a $1.78 million delivery order for Anacostia Park and National Capital Parks-East mowing through December 2026, a $1.15 million delivery order for Capital Hill Parks and historic home grounds mowing through January 2027, and a $540 thousand 8(a) sole-source definitive contract for Rock Creek Park plumbing services through August 2027. The company also holds a $1 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Department of the Interior's National Office for meadow restoration services through April 2027, against which three task orders totaling $102.5 thousand have been called.

Violeta Grounds Management operates under two primary parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (140P3020D0003) carrying 30 task orders and $11.5 million combined potential value, and the aforementioned meadow restoration BPA (140L0122A0004) with 4 task orders and $110 thousand. The indefinite delivery vehicle supplies most of the vendor's active work across National Park Service landscape maintenance in the National Capital Region.

Activity declined sharply in recent years: 13 awards in 2022, dropping to 8 in 2023, 4 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 3 awards in the first half of 2026. This downward trend reflects aging task orders under the primary indefinite delivery contract. The vendor faces significant recompete exposure; 14 awards with combined potential value of $15.6 million complete within the next twenty-four months. Key expiring awards include multiple mowing and grounds-maintenance task orders on the NPS indefinite delivery vehicle and several sole-source 8(a) contracts at Rock Creek Park and George Washington Memorial Parkway properties approaching option-period exhaustion.

SCI-reported invoicing totaled $4.7 million across FY2023 and FY2024 (no FY2022 reportable volume). The vendor reported 21.0 FTEs in FY2023 and 28.2 FTEs in FY2024 across SCI-captured prime service contracts, indicating modest workforce growth on reportable federal service work. Government-paid median hourly rates ran approximately $45/hour, with 10th-percentile labor at $35/hour and 90th-percentile at $61/hour. The vendor self-performed all reported hours; average sub-hours share across prime contracts was zero, signaling internal delivery of labor rather than reliance on subcontractors.

Violeta Grounds Management competes across both 8(a) sole-source and full-and-open designations; sole-source 8(a) awards dominate the high-value contract base ($4.3 million GWMP turf maintenance, $1.93 million Rock Creek Georgetown, $540 thousand Rock Creek plumbing), while smaller task orders and BPA calls frequently carry total small business set-aside or no set-aside tags. The vendor's 8(a) certification expires November 4, 2026, a near-term administrative cliff affecting eligibility on future sole-source opportunities. Recent awards—including a $402.6 thousand central mowing services purchase order with the National Park Service National Office awarded June 20, 2026—do not carry set-aside designations, suggesting the company may be transitioning into full-and-open competitive posture as certification approaches expiration.