Facilities Maintenance contracting in Vermont
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.
VermontVermont 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.
The market, honestly.
Vermont runs a small but steady civilian state buying program out of Montpelier and Burlington. Federal demand is modest, centered on the Air National Guard.
Dairy and specialty food production, tourism, precision manufacturing and semiconductors, and a small but consistent federal and Guard presence.
For facilities maintenance specifically in Vermont, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in Vermont perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.
Vermont's federal footprint is limited, so the Agency of Administration, the Agency of Transportation, and the state's towns and school districts make up most of the market. Town-level buying in Vermont is genuinely local and relationship-driven.
State fiscal year ends June 30. The construction and exterior maintenance season is short and mud season in early spring further compresses it. 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.
Vermont does not operate a general minority set-aside program. VTrans administers the federal DBE program, and the state applies preferences supporting Vermont-based products in some categories.
Bidding town work with a corporate posture. Vermont municipalities award to vendors who respond to a phone call, and a distant vendor with no local presence loses on responsiveness even at lower price.
Vermont Bid System
https://bgs.vermont.gov/purchasing-contracting/
Operated by the Vermont Office of Purchasing and Contracting.
- · Vermont Air National Guard at Burlington
- · VTrans
- · Vermont Agency of Human Services
No state Little Davis-Bacon. Federal-funded work follows the Davis-Bacon Act.
Vermont licenses construction at the trade level. Qualifying work is performed by appropriately licensed trades.
What this contract covers in Vermont.
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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 Vermont include Burlington VT, Montpelier.
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.