Ivan Ware & Son, LLC

Ivan Ware & Son, LLC, doing business as Ware, a Louisville, Kentucky-based commercial and industrial boiler rental and service company, operates as a prime contractor delivering mobile boiler rentals, emergency repairs, maintenance, operator training, and control system upgrades to federal agencies across the Veterans Health Administration, Coast Guard, Army, Navy, and Bureau of Prisons. The vendor competes on a full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside designations across its recent award footprint, though one Coast Guard award notes incumbent status and 8(a) procedural language without a formal set-aside code applied.

Ware's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Veterans Health Administration. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 accounts for the plurality of potential value ($5.7 million across 7 awards, 81% of the combined potential value in the top five customers), while Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 leads by award count (17 awards, though carrying only $307 thousand combined potential value). Together, the two VISN regions represent the bulk of Ware's active pipeline. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute and Federal Correctional Institution Edgefield) and the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard round out the next tier. Recent representative work includes a $987.8 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from VISN 19 for temporary boiler rental and maintenance at the VA Western Colorado Healthcare System (awarded December 2025, running through December 2026), a $759.2 thousand boiler rental and operational support contract from VISN 19 at the Sheridan VA medical center (awarded February 2025, extending through January 2027), a $1.66 million temporary boiler and maintenance agreement from VISN 19 in Grand Junction (awarded September 2024, completing November 2025), a $22.7 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Coast Guard for boiler operator training at Ware Boiler University in Louisville for up to six students (awarded April 2026, completing May 2026), and a $94.6 thousand purchase order from the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute for emergency hot water system services (awarded December 2025, completing June 2026).

Activity volume remains low relative to the vendor's award count. Recent annual award frequency sits at two awards in 2024, eight in 2025, and three in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 116 prime and sub awards totals $7 million, though obligated dollars across the portfolio reach $10.1 million (143% of potential value), indicating that actual spending has exceeded initial ceiling estimates. Two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.7 million and therefore face recompete in that window. The vendor's primary NAICS and PSC footprint sits in Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing, Plumbing and HVAC contracting, and equipment rental and leasing, with boiler lease/rental and industrial boiler maintenance codes dominating the procurement taxonomy across the award set.

Ware operates almost exclusively as a prime (99% of awards are prime; 1% is a single subcontract). Service Contract Inventory reporting, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods and micro-purchases, shows minimal SCI activity: $684 thousand in invoiced prime revenue in FY2024 alone (FY2022, FY2023, and FY2025 reporting zero SCI revenue), with 0.2 FTEs recorded for FY2024 and 0.0 FTEs in other years. SCI data is a strict subset of the vendor's federal services revenue and excludes the vendor's substantial equipment-rental and goods-delivery footprint. On the single SCI-reportable records, government-paid hourly rates averaged $1,221.18 per hour. The vendor carries no named subcontractors across its prime contracts and demonstrates no sub-engagement pattern within SCI records. Ware's federal contracting history extends back to at least 2002 registration in SAM.gov; the vendor's oldest award in the source dataset carries a date of November 1983, though activity has been sporadic, with meaningful volume appearing only in 2025 and 2026. Ware sits on several Navy and Air Force indefinite delivery contracts (N6824884C0417 with 3 task orders, N6247784C3287 with 2 task orders, and F3360188C0096 and F3360188C0130 with 1 task order each), which represent the primary parent vehicles for task-order placement.

At WARE, we specialize in industrial and commercial boiler rentals, sales, and service. It's been our passion to provide state-of-the-art boiler room technology and unequaled customer service and support for over sixty years. WARE's respected boiler rental staff will deliver to your location to get your boiler system up and running 24 hours a day. Our boiler rental service solutions include 24/7 Delivery and support, Start up service, Pre-installation consultation, Operator training, Turnkey installations. WARE sells new boiler equipment as well as rebuilding used boilers and chillers. The Parts Department is equipped with over 10,000 boiler parts in stock. Among the portable equipment available for rent are boilers built inside semi-trailers, boilers mounted on low-boy trailers, boiler room equipment, as well as rental chillers. WARE has provided emergency services to customers nationwide with temporary steam, hot water and cooling for power, heat, comfort and processing.