Facilities Maintenance contracting in Illinois
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.
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.
IllinoisIllinois licenses construction trades at the local level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trade contractors.
AXA South is a contracting and program-management firm, not a licensed trade.
The market, honestly.
Illinois pairs Naval Station Great Lakes with one of the largest civilian state buying programs in the Midwest. Chicago metro spending dominates volume.
Rail and freight consolidation in Chicago, agricultural equipment manufacturing, healthcare systems, and Scott Air Force Base as the home of U.S. Transportation Command.
For facilities maintenance specifically in Illinois, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in Illinois perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.
Scott AFB and USTRANSCOM generate transportation, logistics, and IT requirements with national reach from a single location. Illinois CMS runs centralized procurement, and the state's Chief Procurement Officer structure means solicitations move through a formal, well-documented, and slow process.
State fiscal year ends June 30. Illinois' payment cycle is a real planning factor: vendors should price and plan for extended payment timelines on state contracts. 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.
Illinois runs the Business Enterprise Program (BEP) with an aspirational goal of 30 percent of state contract dollars to minority, women, and disabled-owned firms, plus a separate Veteran Business Program. Chicago enforces its own MBE/WBE requirements.
Submitting a BEP utilization plan as an afterthought. On Illinois solicitations with BEP goals, an incomplete utilization plan makes the bid non-responsive even when the price is best.
Illinois BidBuy
https://www.bidbuy.illinois.gov/
Operated by the Illinois Department of Central Management Services.
- · Naval Station Great Lakes
- · Scott Air Force Base
- · Rock Island Arsenal
- · Illinois DOT
- · Illinois Department of Human Services
- · University of Illinois system
Illinois Prevailing Wage Act applies to qualifying public-works projects.
Illinois licenses construction trades at the local level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trade contractors.
What this contract covers in Illinois.
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Preventive and corrective maintenance
PM schedules built from manufacturer intervals and agency history, work orders tracked in the CMMS the agency already uses.
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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.
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On-call and after-hours response
Defined response and resolution times by trade and severity, with on-call rotations and dispatch logging.
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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.
We respond to solicitations and execute work statewide. Common delivery markets for facilities maintenance in Illinois include Chicago, Springfield, Rockford.
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.