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Facilities Maintenance contracting in Florida

Building operations and maintenance for owned and leased government space. We hold the O&M contract and coordinate the licensed trades that touch HVAC, electrical, plumbing, life-safety, and controls.

How AXA South operates in Florida

No special license required to bid or hold the prime. No professional or trade license is required for AXA South to bid or hold the prime contract in this category. Any work that requires a state-issued trade, professional, or specialty license is performed by a properly licensed subcontractor in the project jurisdiction. AXA South does not self-perform licensed trade work and does not represent itself as a licensee of any trade or profession.

This categoryAXA South holds the O&M contract. HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and other licensed trade work is performed by subcontractors licensed in the jurisdiction.

FloridaFlorida requires a DBPR contractor license for construction. Qualifying work is performed by a DBPR-licensed contractor of record.

AXA South is a contracting and program-management firm, not a licensed trade.

Florida

The market, honestly.

Florida pairs one of the country's largest concentrations of Navy and Air Force demand with the deepest state agency footprint in the Southeast. Hurricane-season response spend drives recurring logistics and facilities work.

Space launch on the Space Coast, naval aviation at Jacksonville and Pensacola, tourism infrastructure, agriculture in the interior, and hurricane-driven emergency response and rebuild work.

For facilities maintenance specifically in Florida, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in Florida perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.

Patrick, Cape Canaveral, NAS Jacksonville, NAS Pensacola, and MacDill create four distinct regional markets rather than one. Florida DMS runs state term contracts, and county school boards, which are among the largest in the country, buy independently. Emergency and disaster response contracts are pre-positioned before storm season, not after.

Timing

State fiscal year ends June 30. The practical seasonal driver is hurricane season, June through November, which reshapes demand for generators, water, tarps, debris removal, and temporary facilities. The federal fiscal year closes September 30, so August and September carry the heaviest volume of simplified-acquisition and micro-purchase activity at every installation in the state.

Set-asides

Florida certifies minority, women, and veteran business enterprises through the Office of Supplier Diversity but does not operate hard set-asides on most state contracts. FDOT administers the federal DBE program.

Where bids die

Waiting for a storm to pursue emergency work. Agencies award standby and pre-positioned contracts months ahead, and vendors who show up after landfall are quoting against contracts that already exist.

State portal

Florida MyFloridaMarketPlace

https://www.myfloridamarketplace.com/

Operated by the Florida Department of Management Services, Division of State Purchasing.

Federal sites in Florida
  • · Naval Air Station Jacksonville
  • · MacDill Air Force Base
  • · Patrick Space Force Base
  • · Eglin Air Force Base
  • · Naval Station Mayport
Key state buyers
  • · Florida DOT
  • · Florida Department of Children and Families
  • · State University System of Florida
Prevailing wage

Florida does not have a state prevailing-wage law. Federal-funded work follows the Davis-Bacon Act.

Construction licensing

Florida requires a DBPR contractor license for construction. Qualifying work is performed by a DBPR-licensed contractor of record.

Scope

What this contract covers in Florida.

  1. 01

    Preventive and corrective maintenance

    PM schedules built from manufacturer intervals and agency history, work orders tracked in the CMMS the agency already uses.

  2. 02

    Trade coordination through licensed subs

    HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and fire-protection work is performed by subcontractors properly licensed in the state where the building sits.

  3. 03

    On-call and after-hours response

    Defined response and resolution times by trade and severity, with on-call rotations and dispatch logging.

  4. 04

    BAS and controls support

    Sequence-of-operations tuning, sensor calibration, and integration support for Tridium, Siemens, JCI, and Automated Logic platforms.

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    Compliance and inspections

    Backflow testing, generator load banks, sprinkler inspections, elevator testing scheduling, and code-compliance recordkeeping.

Where we deliver in Florida

We respond to solicitations and execute work statewide. Common delivery markets for facilities maintenance in Florida include Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Tallahassee, Pensacola.

Other contracts we hold in Florida
FAQ

Can you use our existing CMMS?

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Yes. We work in Maximo, FacilityForce, Archibus, ServiceNow, and the GSA platforms agencies most commonly require. Tickets stay in the agency's system of record.

How are licensed trades handled?

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Trade work is performed by a state-licensed subcontractor under our prime. License numbers and insurance certificates are submitted at award and tracked through expiration.

Can you bid JOC and IDIQ task orders?

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Yes. We price to the published unit-price book or RSMeans coefficients required by the vehicle and submit clean proposal packages.

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