Water Treatment Services Inc.

Water Treatment Services Inc., doing business as First Defense Operations Management, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) headquartered in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, that delivers water treatment, legionella testing, facility maintenance, and HVAC services to federal agencies as a pure prime contractor across 46 awards with no subcontractor engagement. The vendor competes almost exclusively under SDVOSB set-asides and one Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside, with a handful of full-and-open awards; SDVOSB designations recur across the prime footprint and anchor the majority of dollar value.

Water Treatment Services operates across two primary service lines. The first spans water testing and treatment: legionella dental water testing for VA dental facilities in Pennsylvania (firm fixed-price delivery orders under a single-award SDVOSB IDC valued at $131,372.72 through February 2028); water treatment and chemical supply services at VA medical centers in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including phosphate polymers, scale inhibitors, oxygen scavengers, and quarterly legionella monitoring (a $662,011.39 purchase order from VISN 5 running through March 2030); water purification services at the VA Las Vegas Healthcare System ($2,045,848.28 ceiling under a VOSB set-aside through July 2027); and glycerin-based denitrification services for the Defense Logistics Agency ($35,886.19 under Total Small Business set-aside, completed September 2024). The second line encompasses facility operations and maintenance: a time-and-materials AITC CRAC and CRAH maintenance contract at a VA facility in Austin, Texas, valued at $5.1 million with performance through September 2027, carrying a 5.0 FTE footprint with self-performed labor at derived rates around $79.50 per hour; HITC gate repair maintenance at Hines VA Medical Center in Illinois ($155,016.22, SDVOSB sole source); and hot water filtration system work.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which accounts for substantially all of the award footprint. Within VA, the Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick dominates by dollars (8 awards, $22.2 million combined potential value, 66% of total), while the three Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN 4, VISN 5, and VISN 21) collectively anchor 21 awards valued at approximately $9 million and represent the operational customer base for water testing and treatment work. The Coast Guard placed 4 awards worth $173 thousand, and GSA Federal Acquisition Service holds 1 award for $500 thousand. Top-customers-by-potential-value and top-customers-by-award-count rankings track closely, signaling that Water Treatment's VA concentration is both broad (many small delivery orders) and deep (also large maintenance contracts).

Water Treatment holds two parent vehicles. The primary vehicle is a single-award SDVOSB Indefinite Delivery Contract (36C24423D0050) for legionella dental water testing through February 2028, which has generated 4 delivery orders valued at $65 thousand combined. The vendor also holds a position on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and has placed a $3.8 million order against it. Work is categorized across Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (8 awards); Testing Laboratories and Services (8 awards); Facilities Support Services (7 awards); Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (4 awards); and Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (4 awards). Corresponding PSCs emphasize Environmental Systems Protection–Water Quality Support (6 awards), Chemicals (5 awards), and technical representative roles for chemical products (4 awards).

Activity has flattened significantly. The vendor recorded 4 awards in both 2022 and 2023, declined to 3 in 2024, and dropped to 2 in 2025 and 1 in the first half of 2026. Combined potential value across the 46-award portfolio stands at $33.2 million with $27.2 million obligated (82% of potential). Three awards reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $7.2 million and representing near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reportable invoicing (service contracts above $150,000) totaled $2.2 million in FY2024 and $2.6 million in FY2025 across roughly 11 FTEs, with median government-paid rates around $107.50 per hour and senior labor pricing through $2,110.55 per hour. The vendor self-performs all reported labor with zero subcontractor engagement across the SCI dataset, indicating a vertically integrated delivery model for the contracts large enough to report under Service Contract Inventory thresholds. The company's federal services activity reflected in SCI represents a narrow slice of its total enterprise; the broader award portfolio suggests substantial goods and micro-purchase activity not captured in SCI.

GSA Contract holder, Schedule 73 Chemicals [47QSWA19D0051] providing a wide-range of facility management services including asset protection of critical systems including boilers, cooling towers, RTU's, generator switchgear, potable water, wastewater, and Legionella prevention services. We provide blended chemical formulations to prevent corrosion and scaling in water systems such as cooling towers, boilers, and, process systems and erosion and sedimentation control