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Facilities Maintenance contracting in Maine

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 Maine

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.

MaineMaine licenses construction at the trade level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trades.

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

Maine

The market, honestly.

Maine's federal market centers on Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery. Statewide civilian spending out of Augusta is small but steady.

Shipbuilding at Bath, boatbuilding, forest products and paper, commercial fishing, and a large seasonal tourism swing.

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

Bath Iron Works and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard across the border anchor a marine-industrial supplier network. Maine's Division of Procurement Services runs statewide contracts, and the state's rural geography means delivery routes matter for anything outside the Portland-Augusta-Bangor line.

Timing

State fiscal year ends June 30. Winter conditions compress the construction and exterior-maintenance season into roughly May through October across most of the state. 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

Maine does not operate a general minority set-aside program. MaineDOT administers the federal DBE program, and federal socioeconomic categories apply on federally funded work.

Where bids die

Scheduling exterior work on a twelve-month assumption. A Maine period of performance that ignores frost dates produces a schedule the agency will not accept.

State portal

Maine Vendor Self Service

https://www.maine.gov/dafs/bbm/procurementservices/

Operated by the Maine Division of Procurement Services.

Federal sites in Maine
  • · Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Kittery)
  • · Brunswick Landing (former NAS Brunswick)
Key state buyers
  • · Maine DOT
  • · Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Prevailing wage

Maine prevailing wage applies to qualifying state public-works projects.

Construction licensing

Maine licenses construction at the trade level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trades.

Scope

What this contract covers in Maine.

  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 Maine

We respond to solicitations and execute work statewide. Common delivery markets for facilities maintenance in Maine include Portland, Augusta, Bangor.

Other contracts we hold in Maine
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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