Facilities Maintenance contracting in South Carolina
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.
South CarolinaSouth Carolina requires a LLR contractor license for projects above the threshold. Qualifying work is performed by an LLR-licensed contractor of record.
AXA South is a contracting and program-management firm, not a licensed trade.
The market, honestly.
South Carolina pairs Joint Base Charleston with the Army's Fort Jackson and the Marine Corps installations at Parris Island and Beaufort. State spending out of Columbia adds a steady civilian base.
Aerospace assembly in Charleston, automotive in the Upstate, the Port of Charleston, tourism along the coast, and a substantial military training presence.
For facilities maintenance specifically in South Carolina, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in South Carolina perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.
Joint Base Charleston combines airlift and naval support functions, Fort Jackson is the Army's largest basic training installation, and Parris Island trains Marine recruits. Training installations buy consumables, uniforms, food service, and facilities support in high, predictable volumes.
State fiscal year ends June 30. Recruit training cycles at Fort Jackson and Parris Island produce steady year-round consumption rather than fiscal-year spikes. 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.
South Carolina offers a Minority Business Enterprise certification with a tax credit incentive for prime contractors who subcontract to certified firms, rather than a hard set-aside.
Assuming training-base requirements tolerate delivery slippage. On a recruit training schedule there is no float; a late delivery is a mission problem, and it ends the relationship.
South Carolina SCEIS Procurement
https://procurement.sc.gov/
Operated by the South Carolina Division of Procurement Services.
- · Joint Base Charleston
- · Fort Jackson
- · Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island
- · Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort
- · Shaw Air Force Base
- · SCDOT
- · SC Department of Health and Human Services
No state Little Davis-Bacon. Federal-funded work follows the Davis-Bacon Act.
South Carolina requires a LLR contractor license for projects above the threshold. Qualifying work is performed by an LLR-licensed contractor of record.
What this contract covers in South Carolina.
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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 South Carolina include Charleston SC, Columbia SC, Greenville SC.
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.