A Mount Pleasant construction firm has won three Department of Veterans Affairs contracts since late July, worth about $10.5 million combined, for work at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston, federal contract records show.
The largest, signed Sept. 28 for $6.8 million, covers renovating the hospital’s Sterile Processing Service spaces, including demolition, new finishes and mechanical, electrical and plumbing work, according to USAspending.gov. That department cleans, sterilizes and prepares reusable instruments such as forceps, retractors and surgical trays, according to a Charleston VA job posting. The work is scheduled to run through Sept. 20, 2027.
The firm, MedPro Systems LLC, also won a $2.6 million contract signed July 28 to prepare the site for the hospital’s Cath Lab 1, and a $1.1 million contract signed July 29 to renovate the canteen kitchen and add hoods. Federal records list MedPro as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, and all three jobs were set aside for such companies. The sterile processing contract drew four offers.
Two other contracts signed in the same stretch bring the amount obligated on the five to about $19.5 million. They are the five largest stand-alone VA contracts for Charleston-area work signed in that period, federal records show. Some orders placed under existing agreements were larger, including two $25 million FedEx orders for the VA’s mail-order pharmacy in Ladson.
On Oct. 7, the VA awarded $4.4 million to Birmingham Industrial Construction of Columbiana, Alabama, for data center upgrades in Charleston tied to the agency’s electronic health record modernization. That contract, also set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned firms, drew nine offers.
On Aug. 26, the VA’s national mail-order pharmacy office awarded $4.6 million, without competition, to Innovation Associates of Binghamton, New York, to service and maintain automated prescription-filling equipment at its Charleston pharmacy, with the work performed in Ladson. That covers the first year of a contract that could reach $24.3 million if the VA exercises options through 2031.
In May, the VA said the Charleston system had received funding for the health record data center upgrades and for other repair projects, part of a record $4.8 billion the department is spending nationwide in fiscal 2026 to fix and modernize its facilities.
The money lets the system keep “modernizing and improving, so our facility remains safe, efficient, and equipped to provide high-quality care for our Veterans in the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia,” Scott Isaacks, its director and CEO, said then.
The VA expects to finish moving all its medical centers to the new health record system as soon as 2031, Federal News Network reported.
