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Facilities Maintenance contracting in Kentucky

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 Kentucky

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.

KentuckyKentucky licenses construction at the trade level rather than statewide GC. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trades.

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

Kentucky

The market, honestly.

Kentucky carries strong Army demand at Fort Knox, Fort Campbell, and the Blue Grass Depot. State spending out of Frankfort and Louisville rounds out the market.

Automotive assembly, bourbon and beverage production, air cargo through Louisville, and Fort Knox and Fort Campbell as major Army installations.

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

Fort Knox hosts Human Resources Command, which generates administrative, IT, and facilities requirements rather than heavy field logistics. The Finance and Administration Cabinet runs the state's centralized procurement, and the university systems buy independently.

Timing

State fiscal year ends June 30. Kentucky's biennial budget means capital and equipment cycles run on a two-year rhythm. 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

Kentucky certifies minority and women-owned businesses and operates a Small Business Credit and procurement participation framework; the Transportation Cabinet administers the federal DBE program.

Where bids die

Skipping the Kentucky sales and use tax exemption paperwork on government sales, which delays payment and creates reconciliation problems that a purchasing officer remembers at renewal.

State portal

Kentucky eProcurement

https://finance.ky.gov/services/eprocurement/

Operated by the Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet, Office of Procurement Services.

Federal sites in Kentucky
  • · Fort Knox
  • · Fort Campbell (shared with TN)
  • · Blue Grass Army Depot
Key state buyers
  • · Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
  • · Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Prevailing wage

Kentucky repealed its prevailing-wage law for state-funded work. Federal-funded work follows the Davis-Bacon Act.

Construction licensing

Kentucky licenses construction at the trade level rather than statewide GC. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trades.

Scope

What this contract covers in Kentucky.

  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.

  5. 05

    Compliance and inspections

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

Where we deliver in Kentucky

We respond to solicitations and execute work statewide. Common delivery markets for facilities maintenance in Kentucky include Louisville, Lexington.

Other contracts we hold in Kentucky
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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