Federal facility services, performed by local crews.
A Houston small-business prime contractor. We hold the contract and the compliance; vetted local crews do the work. One accountable party for the Government.
Sized for the work you struggle to place
Micro-purchase and simplified-acquisition work, bridges and short extensions.
Your crews do the work. We carry the paperwork.
Free, non-exclusive, no W-9 until there is a subcontract. One minute to register.
Janitorial, grounds and facilities support
Federal buyers group work by NAICS code. These are the trades AST bids — the core ones under our own NAICS, the specialty trades through vetted local firms under one contract and one point of accountability. If you do it with your own crews, we want to know.
561720Custodial, floor care, restrooms, consumables
Daily cleaning of office, warehouse and institutional space; periodic floor and carpet care; restroom sanitation.
561730Mowing, trimming, beds, pest and exterior
Landscaping and grounds keeping, pressure washing, pest control and waste handling — the work national cemeteries and bases re-buy every year.
561210One contract, every trade, one accountable party
Operations and maintenance of a site with HVAC, electrical, plumbing and specialty trades integrated under the prime.
Not on the list? Register anyway and tell us what you do — the list grows with the network.
One prime, vetted crews, and the records to prove it
The prime-with-subcontractors model is a strength only if the prime actually manages. This is the procedure, in the order it happens on every contract.
- Vetting before anyone is named. Active SAM.gov registration and no exclusions — checked by hand, dated. Size status certified under 13 C.F.R. part 121. Certificates of insurance accepted, licences current. A firm that fails any line is not on the offer.
- A written teaming agreement with full flow-down. FAR 52.219-14 limitations on subcontracting, 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards, no further subcontracting without AST's written consent, five-day notice of any change in status.
- Named in the offer only with consent. We call before we name a firm, because a Contracting Officer may phone them to verify — and the past performance we cite is theirs, under 13 C.F.R. § 125.2(g).
- Transition with AST on site. The wage determination is mapped per labor category before day one; conformance requests for unlisted classes go through the prime, not the customer.
- Compliance measured, not assumed. Certified payroll collected, records kept three years, and the 50 percent limitation on subcontracting computed at the end of the base year and of each option — contract by contract.
- One invoice, one payer. AST invoices the Government and chases the payment. Subcontractors are paid within 10 days of AST receiving it. Nobody waits on anybody but the Treasury.
What the public data shows about this market
An argument about a market should rest on numbers rather than on opinion, so we measured one Federal site in Houston against the public award data.
One site, one year of contracting
A buyer that keeps re-buying the same services, in pieces, from whoever is ready — and a grounds contract that changed hands repeatedly through bridges and short extensions. That is the work a responsive small prime with crews already vetted is built to catch.
Measured from the public USASpending.gov award data. AST does not use any automated tool against SAM.gov — the signed Terms of Use prohibit it — and nothing on this page comes from a private or paid data source.
Where AST stands today — said plainly
American Strategic Team is a new entrant and holds no Federal past performance to date. Anybody can look that up in two minutes, so there is no sense in dressing it up. We are deliberately pursuing first awards at the micro-purchase and simplified-acquisition levels, and subcontracting roles with established primes, to build a documented record.
What we have is the part that is hard to buy: the regulation read properly, a pricing model built on wage determinations and productive hours rather than guesswork, a bid factory that turns a solicitation into a complete, compliant offer inside the few days these things stay open — and a bench of local crews whose record, under 13 C.F.R. § 125.2(g), the agency considers as the prime's own.
The Federal market is not closed to you.
The paperwork is.
The work itself — mowing, cleaning, pest control, repairs — is work you already do. What stops a local firm from bidding is everything around it: the registration, the clauses, the wage determinations, the four-day deadlines, the certifications you sign under penalty of law. That is the part AST takes.
What AST puts in
- We are the prime and the sole offeror. The contract, the risk and the certifications are ours.
- We watch the solicitations every day and tell you when one fits what you do.
- We price it, write the technical approach, the quality plan and the transition plan.
- We carry the Service Contract Act compliance: the wage determination, the conformance of unlisted classes, the certified payroll, the three-year records.
- We do the 50 percent limitation arithmetic and prove it at the end of the base year and each option.
- We invoice the Government and we chase the payment.
What we ask of you
- That you are a small business and say so truthfully — that one fact is what makes the whole structure legal.
- That you keep your licences and insurance current, and tell us before one lapses.
- That you let us name your firm and your record in offers you agree to join.
- That you do not hand your scope to somebody else without asking us first.
- That you pay your people what the wage determination says, and give us the payroll records when we ask.
- That you can wait for the Government's payment cycle. We are not a bank.
A team of small firms can beat a national incumbent
Not as a slogan. These are three specific provisions of Federal regulation, and each one is doing real work for you.
Your record counts as the prime's
Where a prime has no past performance of its own, the agency shall consider the past performance of its first-tier subcontractors as the prime's own. Your twenty years of grounds work is the team's twenty years. 13 C.F.R. § 125.2(g); § 121.103(h)(3)(ii).
Your share is not "subcontracted away"
Work performed by a similarly situated entity — another small business — does not count against the prime's 50 percent limitation on subcontracting. That is the clause that lets your crews do most of the job. FAR 52.219-14(b) and (e).
Most solicitations close in four days
That window is why incumbents keep winning: nobody else can assemble a priced, compliant offer in time. If your licences, rates and references are already on file, we can.
Three steps, and nobody owes anybody anything
There is no money in either direction until a contract is awarded and a subcontract is signed.
You register
One minute for the account; about twenty for the file, at your pace — your trades, your licences, your insurance and your contract history, with your UEI pulled in for you from public Federal data.
We bid
When a solicitation matches what you do, we call you, agree a price, and name your firm in the offer with your experience behind it. You can say no to any one of them.
If we win, we sign
Only then is there a subcontract, and only then is there money. AST pays within 10 days of receiving the Government's payment for your invoiced work.
Your file is a task list, not a form
Seven fields create the account. Inside, each requirement is a task that says what is needed, why, and who does it — you or AST. Upload a certificate and you see, in writing, whether we accepted it. Write to us and it is in the same numbered record we read.
- Registering is free and is not a contract
- No W-9 and no tax ID until a subcontract
- Non-exclusive — keep bidding with anyone else
- Nobody pays to be on this list, ever
The things people actually ask
Does registering cost anything?
No. There is no fee, no membership and no charge of any kind, ever. AST makes money on the margin between what the Government pays and what the work costs — never on its subcontractors.
Do you need my W-9 or my tax ID?
No, and we deliberately do not ask. For a sole proprietor the taxpayer ID is the Social Security number, and storing that turns a registration form into a target. We ask for it when there is a subcontract to sign — not before.
When would I get paid?
Within 10 days of AST receiving the Government's payment for the work you invoiced. Federal payment runs on its own cycle, and we will not pretend otherwise: AST is not a source of advance financing. If your business cannot carry that cycle, say so early and we will size the work to fit.
Will you use my company's name without telling me?
No. The authorisation you sign covers opportunities your firm agrees to participate in. We call you before we name you, because a Contracting Officer may phone you to verify it, and an answer of "who?" ends the offer.
I have never done Federal work. Does that disqualify me?
No, and it is worth being precise about why. What the agency evaluates is relevant past performance — commercial work on comparable sites counts. What you do need, to be named and to be paid, is an active registration in SAM.gov and no exclusions. If you do not have one yet, tell us and we will walk you through it.
Do I have to work only with AST?
No. The teaming agreement is non-exclusive. Bid with whoever you like, including as a prime yourself. The only thing we ask is that you do not bid against the specific offer you agreed to join.
What happens if AST does not win?
Nothing is owed in either direction. The agreement is conditional: outside of confidentiality, it obligates neither party to perform or pay anything unless there is an award.
Can I subcontract part of it to someone else?
Not without asking us first, and this is not bureaucracy. Under FAR 52.219-14(e), work that a subcontractor further subcontracts counts against the prime's 50 percent limitation — so one quiet hand-off can put the whole contract in breach.
I am a Contracting Officer. Can AST perform now?
AST's SAM.gov registration is in validation and we say so on this page rather than hide it. For requirements you need placed now, ask us for the capability statement and the named local firms we would perform through; for anything that must be awarded today, we would rather tell you straight than waste your time.
Ask for the capability statement
One page: NAICS, PSC, posture, the named crews, and the person who signs.
Get on the list we price from
Register once. We call you when something fits. No fee, no exclusivity, no obligation, and no tax paperwork until there is something to sign.