Watanabe Enterprises LLC

Watanabe Enterprises LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and minority-owned firm headquartered in North Salt Lake, Utah, operates as a prime contractor delivering cemetery grounds maintenance, healthcare staffing, and landscaping services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service. The firm competes predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides and Total Small Business designations, which anchor nearly all of its recent prime work.

Watanabe Enterprises' capability portfolio centers on two distinct service lines. Cemetery operations and grounds maintenance—including trimming, edging, cleaning of flat markers, sod installation, tree maintenance, and disinterment support—represent the largest share of activity and generate the bulk of dollar value. Healthcare staffing comprises the second line, with physician placement across specialties including family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, and urgent care, primarily supporting VA health networks and Indian Health Service facilities. Representative cemetery work includes a $4.7 million single-award SDVOSB Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Cemetery Administration for cemetery grounds maintenance at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu awarded August 30, 2024; a $2.8 million single-award Total Small Business IDC with Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 for after-hours psychiatry services at Lexington VA Health Care System in Kentucky awarded April 1, 2025; and a $6.8 million multiple-award SDVOSB IDC with VISN 22 for board-certified family medicine and internal medicine physician services in San Diego awarded October 15, 2024. Recent smaller awards include a $54,700 SDVOSB sole-source purchase order from the National Cemetery Administration for turf services in Utah (June 2026) and a $30,489 Total Small Business purchase order from the National Park Service for invasive tree removal at Haleakala National Park in Hawaii (July 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme and stable. The National Cemetery Administration dominates both volume and dollars: 112 awards (75% of all awards) carrying $28 million combined potential value (41% of total portfolio). The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 places twelve awards worth $20.9 million, anchored by physician staffing IDCs. The Indian Health Service accounts for nine awards totaling $10.2 million, primarily temporary healthcare staffing. These three customers represent 96% of all awards and 98% of combined potential value. Concentration by award count and by potential value track closely—both rankings place NCA first and VISN 22 second, with no divergence signal.

Watanabe Enterprises holds no parent vehicles (GWACs or government-wide IDIQs); all work flows through single-award or multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued directly by customer agencies. The top five parent vehicles are agency-specific IDCs: National Cemetery Administration IDC 36C78620D0090 (17 task orders, $1 million combined value), NCA IDC 36C78619D0177 (12 task orders, $349 thousand), NCA IDC 36C78621D0015 (11 task orders, $1.7 million), VISN 22 IDC 36C78619D0093 (10 task orders, $2.6 million), and VISN 22 Blanket Purchase Agreement 36C26219A0001 (7 task orders, $4.8 million). These are not vehicles Watanabe can bring to a teaming arrangement; they are the contracting mechanisms through which customer agencies place task orders against Watanabe's existing seats.

Activity has remained steady but with recent decline. Awards per year ran 21 in 2022, dropped to 15 in 2023, recovered to 20 in 2024, held at 19 in 2025, and fell sharply to 7 in the first half of 2026 (reflecting incomplete coverage through mid-June). Combined potential value across all 149 awards is $67.9 million, with $28 million obligated (41% realization rate). Eight awards carrying $6.8 million combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated at the National Cemetery Administration and VISN 22.

Watanabe Enterprises operates entirely as a prime contractor—all 149 awards are prime awards; zero subcontract activity appears in the source. SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $5.3 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $3.6 million; FY2023: $1.7 million; FY2024: zero), with 12.6 FTEs in FY2022 and 13.5 FTEs in FY2023. This SCI subset captures only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and non-federal revenue; the full federal revenue footprint is substantially larger and includes significant cemetery maintenance purchase orders and the firm's complete non-federal business. On SCI-reportable service contracts, government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $54.39/hr to a median of $109.13/hr to a 90th percentile of $169.98/hr, reflecting a mix of labor-hour physician staffing and lower-wage grounds maintenance. Watanabe performs all delivery-order work directly without named subcontractors; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero percent of hours are performed by subcontractors.

Work is performed at geographically dispersed VA and IHS facilities: National Cemetery Administration cemeteries at Honolulu Hawaii, Fort Douglas Utah, Willamette Oregon, Tahoma Washington, Fort Lawton Washington, Pikes Peak Colorado, and Fort Logan Colorado; VA health networks in San Diego California and Lexington Kentucky; and IHS facilities at Lame Deer Montana and Northern Navajo Medical Center New Mexico. The firm's certified small-disadvantaged-business and Asian-Pacific American owned designations recur across its awards and reinforce its position as a minority-owned, veteran-owned provider competing under federal contracting set-asides rather than in full-and-open competition.