Watanabe Enterprises LLC

Watanabe Enterprises LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) 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 company is minority-owned (Asian-Pacific American), self-certified small disadvantaged business, and veteran-owned, competing predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides across cemetery operations and select healthcare contracts.

Watanabe Enterprises operates across two distinct capability streams. The primary business — accounting for the majority of its recent awards and award count — centers on cemetery grounds maintenance, including turf care, marker cleaning, edging, trimming, tree maintenance, sod installation, and disinterment support services delivered across the VA National Cemetery Administration's network at locations including Willamette, Tahoma, Fort Douglas, Fort Lawton, and Pikes Peak. The secondary stream comprises physician and mid-level provider staffing, with recent placements in primary care, family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, and urgent care roles. Recent representative contracts include a $990 thousand SDVOSB single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Cemetery Administration for disinterment support services at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu (awarded March 2026), a $6.8 million multiple-award SDVOSB IDIQ with Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 for board-certified family and internal medicine physician services in San Diego (awarded October 2024 with three active delivery orders), a $3.78 million IHS purchase order for temporary healthcare staffing at the Northern Cheyenne Service Unit in Lame Deer, Montana (awarded May 2025), and a $4.7 million SDVOSB single-award IDIQ with the National Cemetery Administration for cemetery grounds maintenance in Honolulu (awarded August 2024 with five active delivery orders).

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dominant. The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration accounts for 119 of 157 awards (76% of award count) with combined potential value of $28.7 million (42% of total portfolio value). When combined with other VA components — Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (12 awards, $20.9 million), Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 (5 awards, $4.3 million), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 (5 awards, $293 thousand) — the VA represents 141 awards totaling $54.2 million, or 79% of all potential value. The Indian Health Service places 10 awards worth $10.7 million (15% of potential value). This concentration reflects the company's positioning as a specialized provider of cemetery operations and healthcare staffing to federal healthcare and veteran-serving agencies.

Watanabe Enterprises holds five single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts and one multiple-award IDIQ. The cemetery-focused vehicles dominate: a $4.7 million Honolulu cemetery grounds-maintenance IDIQ (National Cemetery Administration, August 2024, 5 active task orders), a $1.4 million Willamette National Cemetery grounds-maintenance IDIQ (National Cemetery Administration, April 2023, multiple orders through August 2024), a $935 thousand Tahoma National Cemetery grounds-maintenance IDIQ (National Cemetery Administration, April 2023, single delivery order), a $564 thousand Fort Douglas National Cemetery grounds-maintenance IDIQ (National Cemetery Administration, June 2025, 3 active orders), and a $168 thousand Fort Lawton Post Cemetery grounds-maintenance IDIQ (National Cemetery Administration, April 2023, 3 delivery orders). The healthcare vehicle is the $6.8 million multiple-award VISN 22 physician services IDIQ (October 2024) with three active task orders. Watanabe also participates in a $4.8 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (36C26219A0001) for primary care physician services with VISN 22 (7 task orders recorded).

Activity volume has remained relatively stable year-over-year — 21 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 20 in 2024, 19 in 2025, and 15 year-to-date in 2026. Thirteen awards with combined potential value of $5.7 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure concentrated in cemetery operations contracts where the company holds dominant incumbent positions.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures only limited segments of Watanabe's federal activity due to the reporting threshold and scope restrictions — SCI covers service contracts above $150 thousand and excludes goods, cemetery operations falling under different NAICS codes, and micro-purchases. SCI records show $5.3 million invoiced across FY2022–FY2023 (with zero reported for FY2024–FY2025), with roughly 12.6 to 13.5 full-time equivalents in FY2022–FY2023 delivering those services. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $109.13 per hour, ranging from a 10th percentile of $54.39 per hour to a 90th percentile of $169.98 per hour. Watanabe performs all work directly as prime contractor; across SCI-reportable contracts, zero percent of hours are subcontracted. The portfolio of 157 prime awards and zero sub awards confirms the company's posture as a prime-only operator without a subcontracting footprint.

NAICS concentration by award count reflects the dual-service model: Landscaping Services (561730, 88 awards), Cemeteries and Crematories (812220, 22 awards), Offices of Physicians except Mental Health Specialists (621111, 14 awards), and Temporary Help Services (561320, 11 awards). PSC-code patterns align: Housekeeping–Landscaping/Groundskeeping (106 awards), Family & Internal Medicine Services (18 awards), Memorials/Cemeterial/Mortuary Equipment (6 awards), and Behavioral and Mental Health (3 awards).