Facilities Maintenance contracting in North Dakota
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.
North DakotaNorth Dakota requires contractor licensing for projects above the threshold. Qualifying work is performed by a licensed contractor of record.
AXA South is a contracting and program-management firm, not a licensed trade.
The market, honestly.
North Dakota's federal market is anchored by Minot and Grand Forks AFB. State spending out of Bismarck is small but consistent.
Oil production in the Bakken, agriculture, unmanned aircraft research around Grand Forks, and two Air Force bases supporting strategic missions.
For facilities maintenance specifically in North Dakota, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in North Dakota perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.
Minot and Grand Forks generate facility, fuel, and cold-weather support requirements, with Grand Forks increasingly tied to unmanned systems work. The State Procurement Office runs a compact state contract program, and oilfield-region counties buy infrastructure at a scale disproportionate to their population.
State fiscal year ends June 30 on a biennial budget. Winter conditions and the short construction season are the binding schedule constraint. 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.
North Dakota has no general minority set-aside program. NDDOT administers the federal DBE program, and tribal governments on the state's reservations procure under their own codes.
Pricing labor at national averages in the Bakken counties. Local labor and lodging costs there behave differently from the rest of the state and destroy thin margins.
North Dakota PeopleSoft Supplier Portal
https://www.nd.gov/omb/agency/procurement
Operated by the North Dakota Office of Management and Budget, State Procurement Office.
- · Minot Air Force Base
- · Grand Forks Air Force Base
- · NDDOT
- · ND Department of Health and Human Services
No state Little Davis-Bacon. Federal-funded work follows the Davis-Bacon Act.
North Dakota requires contractor licensing for projects above the threshold. Qualifying work is performed by a licensed contractor of record.
What this contract covers in North Dakota.
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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 North Dakota include Fargo, Bismarck.
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.