Facilities Maintenance contracting in New York
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.
New YorkNew York licenses construction at the city and county level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed contractors in the project jurisdiction.
AXA South is a contracting and program-management firm, not a licensed trade.
The market, honestly.
New York pairs Fort Drum and West Point with the largest state agency civilian buying program in the Northeast. NYC metro authorities like the MTA and Port Authority operate adjacent procurement programs at scale.
Financial services, healthcare and academic medical systems, agriculture and dairy upstate, semiconductor investment in the Capital Region, and heavy transit and infrastructure spending downstate.
For facilities maintenance specifically in New York, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in New York perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.
Fort Drum supports a light infantry division with cold-weather training demand. On the civil side, OGS runs centralized contracts, but the MTA, Port Authority, and public authorities buy independently at scales larger than most states, each with its own registration and prequalification.
New York's state fiscal year ends March 31, which is unusual and important: the state spend-down happens in February and March, months before most other states, and again before the federal year-end in September. 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.
New York enforces a 30 percent MWBE participation goal, one of the highest in the country, plus a 6 percent SDVOB goal, with utilization plans required at bid submission.
Planning around a June state year-end. New York's March 31 close catches out-of-state vendors every year, and the authorities' separate calendars add further variation.
New York State Contract Reporter
https://www.nyscr.ny.gov/
Operated by the New York Office of General Services, Procurement Services.
- · Fort Drum
- · West Point
- · Fort Hamilton
- · Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station
- · NYSDOT
- · NY OGS
- · SUNY system
- · MTA
New York prevailing wage applies broadly to public-works projects.
New York licenses construction at the city and county level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed contractors in the project jurisdiction.
What this contract covers in New York.
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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 New York include New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse.
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.