Facilities Maintenance contracting in West Virginia
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.
West VirginiaWest Virginia requires a state contractor license. 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.
West Virginia's federal demand is modest. State civilian spending out of Charleston runs steady, with energy-corridor adjacency shaping certain supply categories.
Coal and natural gas, chemical manufacturing along the Kanawha Valley, and a significant federal back-office presence including IRS and FBI operations centers.
For facilities maintenance specifically in West Virginia, our model is direct: AXA South responds to the solicitation, holds the contract, and runs the program. Local crews and licensed trade partners in West Virginia perform the work that requires their license or specialized credentials.
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services division in Clarksburg and other federal facilities buy IT, facilities, and administrative support rather than field logistics. The Purchasing Division runs a formal statewide bid process, and county boards of education buy independently.
State fiscal year ends June 30. Mountain terrain and winter weather compress construction and exterior work windows across much 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.
West Virginia applies a resident vendor preference on state contracts and administers the federal DBE program through the Department of Transportation; there is no general minority set-aside.
Missing the resident vendor preference math. An out-of-state vendor needs to be meaningfully lower to win, and pricing that ignores the preference percentage wastes the bid.
West Virginia wvOASIS Vendor Portal
https://www.state.wv.us/admin/purchase/
Operated by the West Virginia Purchasing Division.
- · Sugar Grove Station
- · WV Air National Guard at Charleston and Martinsburg
- · WVDOT
- · WV Department of Health and Human Resources
West Virginia prevailing wage was repealed; federal-funded work follows the Davis-Bacon Act.
West Virginia requires a state contractor license. Qualifying work is performed by a licensed contractor of record.
What this contract covers in West Virginia.
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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 West Virginia include Charleston WV, Huntington.
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.