Henderson-resident multi-trade operator running specialty-trades plus commercial-kitchen plus affordable-housing-services across HCS plus HCC plus Housing Authority of Henderson under triple-procurement-code literacy.

HCS anchors the steady-state floor. Stacked specialty-trades across twelve sites — pest, fire-alarm, UL-300 hood, playground, kitchen-equipment, locksmithing, AED, fire-extinguisher, generator — runs $140K-$310K. Commercial-kitchen and USDA Foods coordination across twelve cafeterias adds $45K-$110K. Transportation fleet PM on the Type C and Type D bus fleet adds $35K-$85K. Construction-clean on the April 2026 preschool expansion plus annual turnover-clean adds $60K-$150K. HCS total: $280K-$655K annually. KSBA cooperative-purchasing provides a parallel attachment path on FF&E, technology, transportation, and food-services; KEDC, OVEC, and GRREC cooperative-membership status is not yet confirmed as of May 2026.

HCC adds a smaller KCTCS state-agency surface — eMARS-routed janitorial, HVAC PM, pest control, and small-electrical and small-plumbing at the 2660 South Green Street campus — at $80K-$180K annually. KMA master agreements pre-empt entire categories at statewide volume; the founder competes by attaching to KMA primes for Henderson-end installation labor and responding to HCC local-discretion solicitations under the small-purchase threshold. HCC apprenticeship-coordination consulting is held for a separate Henderson candidate; it operates under a different operator archetype and is outside this candidate's scope.

The Housing Authority plus adjacent HUD-multifamily portfolio carries the largest founder-scale surface and the most procurement-compliance overhead. NSPIRE inspection-readiness and deficiency-correction at PHA scale plus the adjacent $3.7 million portfolio runs $115K-$350K stacked. HCV administrative-services and HQS-to-NSPIRE tenant-side inspection adds $80K-$200K. EPA RRP plus asbestos-abatement coordination adds $45K-$140K. Section 3 compliance consulting plus targeted-hiring administration adds $35K-$110K. Resident-services contracting adds $60K-$180K. Physical-improvement sub-trade work — roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, kitchen-and-bath replacement — is addressable at $400K-$1.6 million across the combined surface, but most routes through pre-qualified prime construction firms with PHA-specific bonding and Davis-Bacon administration. A Henderson-resident founder-scale sub-tier reaches perhaps $150K-$500K of that physical-improvement surface at maturity.

Aggregate run-rate ladder. Year 1 ramp $300K-$550K against initial HCS specialty-trades plus HCC eMARS entry. Year 2 $550K-$950K as PHA cadence enters. Year 3 plus $800K-$1.6 million annually as the triple-code stack matures. Labor runs 45-55% at a W-2 crew of five to ten ($42K-$72K fully-loaded at the Henderson MSA-adjacent wage-base — materially above Eastern-Kentucky-rural wage-bases) plus one or two discipline-leads ($65K-$95K). Materials 18-25%. Vehicles plus tools depreciation 4-7%. Insurance plus bonding 4-7% with PHA bonding modestly elevated. Overhead 9-13%, elevated by triple-code compliance — Section 3 reporting, Davis-Bacon certified-payroll, NSPIRE inspector training, EPA RRP renewal. Founder draw $40K-$90K Year 1; $90K-$150K Year 2; $130K-$220K at maturity.

The triple-code procurement literacy dimension. Most Henderson-resident services firms carry one procurement-code competence; very few carry KCTCS state-agency eMARS literacy; even fewer carry HUD 2 CFR 200 plus Davis-Bacon plus Section 3 plus NSPIRE literacy at PHA scale. Henderson stacks all three procurement codes at three named principals operating concurrently inside one county — KRS 45A at the Fiscal Court and City, KCTCS eMARS at HCC, and HUD 2 CFR 200 plus Davis-Bacon plus Section 3 plus NSPIRE at the Housing Authority and adjacent multifamily portfolio. Recurring-services dominance over capex is the operating shape of the Henderson lane.

HCS surface at $280K-$655K annually. Stacked specialty-trades across twelve sites (pest, fire-alarm, UL-300 hood, playground, kitchen-equipment, locksmithing, AED, fire-extinguisher, generator) at $140K-$310K. Commercial-kitchen and USDA Foods coordination across twelve cafeterias at $45K-$110K. Transportation fleet PM on the Type C and Type D bus fleet at $35K-$85K. Construction-clean on the April 2026 preschool expansion plus annual turnover-clean at $60K-$150K.

HCC surface at $80K-$180K annually. KCTCS state-agency janitorial plus HVAC PM plus pest control plus small-electrical and small-plumbing at the 2660 South Green Street campus under eMARS routing plus KMA master-agreement attachment.

Housing Authority plus adjacent $3.7 million HUD-multifamily portfolio surface at largest founder-scale operating surface. NSPIRE inspection-readiness and deficiency-correction at PHA scale plus adjacent portfolio at $115K-$350K stacked. HCV administrative-services and HQS-to-NSPIRE tenant-side inspection at $80K-$200K. EPA RRP plus asbestos-abatement coordination at $45K-$140K. Section 3 compliance consulting plus targeted-hiring administration at $35K-$110K. Resident-services contracting at $60K-$180K. Physical-improvement sub-trade work addressable at $400K-$1.6 million across the combined surface; Henderson-resident founder-scale sub-tier reaches $150K-$500K at maturity.

Aggregate run-rate ladder. Year 1 $300K-$550K against initial HCS specialty-trades plus HCC eMARS entry. Year 2 $550K-$950K as PHA cadence enters. Year 3 plus $800K-$1.6 million annually as the triple-code stack matures. Labor 45-55% at a W-2 crew of five to ten ($42K-$72K fully-loaded at the Henderson MSA-adjacent wage-base) plus one or two discipline-leads ($65K-$95K). Materials 18-25%. Vehicles plus tools depreciation 4-7%. Insurance plus bonding 4-7% with PHA bonding modestly elevated. Overhead 9-13% elevated by triple-code compliance (Section 3 reporting, Davis-Bacon certified-payroll, NSPIRE inspector training, EPA RRP renewal). Founder draw $40K-$90K Year 1, $90K-$150K Year 2, $130K-$220K at maturity.

Founder-side capital $250K-$650K. Service vehicles plus tools across pest plus fire-alarm plus UL-300 plus playground plus kitchen-equipment plus locksmithing plus AED plus fire-extinguisher plus generator disciplines at $60K-$140K. Larger tool inventory plus bonding capacity on the PHA physical-improvement sub-trade side at $40K-$120K reachable Year 2-3 (single-project $400K-$700K bonding plus aggregate $1.3-$2.4 million bonding capacity reachable Year 3-4). Service-shop lease (2,000-4,000 square feet in Henderson with loading-dock access) at $20K-$45K Year 1 build-out plus $24K-$45K annual lease. Working capital plus payroll float plus 12-18 month operating reserve at $80K-$240K. Triple-code procurement-competence investment (KRS 45A plus 200 KAR 5 plus eMARS plus 2 CFR 200 plus 24 CFR 75 plus 24 CFR 985 plus Davis-Bacon plus EPA RRP plus NSPIRE training) at $15K-$45K. Section 3 plus EPA RRP firm-certification plus NSPIRE-inspector credentials at $8K-$20K. PL plus GL plus workers'-comp plus auto plus bonding-premium insurance stack at $35K-$80K per year.

Explicit non-PE operator structure. No platform-rollup arithmetic, no add-on EBITDA multiple, no franchise posture. The founder capital range sits inside the owner-operator multi-trade-contractor envelope with no single-audit CPA principal (the single-audit line at the Housing Authority runs through an independent CPA firm under AICPA and Government Auditing Standards independence rules and is outside this candidate's scope). Family-capital deployment at this tier is realistic; founder-of-record on the trade-licensure plus procurement-code-literacy plus Section 3 business-concern registration stack is the operating shape the candidate is built around.

• Henderson County Schools (district offices 1805 Second Street, Henderson)

  Single-district K-12 procurement counterparty under KRS 45A + 702 KAR 3:135 with KSBA cooperative-purchasing access

  Institution

  Superintendent Dr. Bob Lawson since December 2020 per WSON Radio and Henderson Family Magazine. Approximately 528 certified plus 514 classified employees per November 13, 2025 HCS portal capture. Eight elementary plus two middle plus one high school plus ALC plus preschool center — twelve operating sites — per published district materials. 38.2% Master's and 38.6% Rank I per HCS communications; Exemplary distinction on annual review per HCS communications. April 2026 preschool expansion per Spectrum News 1 Louisville. Director of Finance, facilities director, transportation director, and School Nutrition director office titles plus KSBA, KEDC, OVEC, and GRREC cooperative-membership status plus April 2026 preschool expansion scope and procurement schedule plus 2026-27 capital plan and DFP submission items we have not confirmed as of May 2026. Lawson 2026-27 incumbency not yet confirmed as of May 2026.
• Henderson Community College (2660 South Green Street, Henderson)

  KCTCS member two-year college — state-agency procurement counterparty under 200 KAR 5 + eMARS routing

  Institution

  Approximately 1,450 students per HCC and KHEAA communications. Programs aligned to Construction and Industrial Trades plus Business and Computer Technology plus Nursing plus Agriculture per published HCC materials. $11.76 million across 16 Department of Education awards. KMA master-agreement utilization, eMARS procurement footprint over prior three years, campus business officer and facilities manager office titles, and current janitorial / HVAC PM / pest-control / small-trade incumbent vendors items we have not confirmed as of May 2026.
• Housing Authority of Henderson

  Public housing authority — federal procurement counterparty under 2 CFR 200 + 24 CFR + HUD program-specific rules (CFP, Operating Subsidy, NSPIRE, HCV, Section 3, EPA RRP)

  Institution

  $23.68 million across 81 HUD awards — largest non-state federal-procurement-data channel in Henderson by award count. Exact address, Executive Director, Board-of-Commissioners, ACOP bed count, HCV voucher allocation, Section 9 versus Section 8 distinction, NSPIRE-score history, CFP project list, 2025-26 capital plan, 5-year capital-plan scope, HCV admin-fee revenue, landlord-recruitment program, family-self-sufficiency program, and ROSS service-coordinator participation all items we have not confirmed as of May 2026. Procedural framing throughout.
• Adjacent Henderson HUD-multifamily portfolio — Redbanks Regency Apartments + Woodsview Apartments + Windy Way Apartments + Green River Independent Living III + Henderson County Health Care Corporation-Two

  Section 202 / 811 / Section 8 multifamily portfolio — adjacent affordable-housing-services surface

  Institution

  Approximately $3.7 million combined across the three-year federal-procurement window. Ownership structure, property-management firm identity, Section 202 versus 811 versus Section 8 distinction, and REAC-to-NSPIRE inspection cycle items we have not confirmed as of May 2026. Property-management-firm gatekeeping plus Section 3 business-concern preference plus competitive bid-positioning on physical-improvement scopes that private management routinely sub-contracts are the relationship-investment surfaces.
• Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) + KCTCS + KY Finance and Administration Cabinet

  State-level procurement-and-program oversight channels — KRS 45A + 200 KAR 5 + eMARS administration

  Out-of-county

  KDE oversight of district-procurement under KRS 45A and 702 KAR 3:135. KCTCS system-level coordination of college-procurement under 200 KAR 5. KY Finance Cabinet administration of eMARS plus KMA master-agreement system. Procedural references; no characterization.
• KSBA + KEDC + OVEC + GRREC

  K-12 cooperative-purchasing organizations — parallel attachment path on FF&E, technology, transportation, food-services

  Out-of-county

  Kentucky School Boards Association cooperative-purchasing program plus Kentucky Educational Development Corporation plus Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative plus Green River Regional Educational Cooperative provide statewide-volume pre-emption channels. HCS cooperative-membership status not yet confirmed as of May 2026. The founder competes by attaching to KSBA primes for Henderson-end installation labor and direct-bid on specialty-trades scopes outside KSBA pre-emption.
• HUD + DOL (Wage and Hour Division) + EPA + AICPA (Government Auditing Standards Yellow Book)

  Federal regulatory channels — 2 CFR 200 + 24 CFR 75 (Section 3) + 24 CFR Part 5 (NSPIRE) + 24 CFR 982 (HCV) + Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage + EPA RRP + Yellow Book single-audit independence rules

  Out-of-county

  Procedural references to published regulatory standards only. The single-audit line at the Housing Authority runs through an independent CPA firm under AICPA and Government Auditing Standards independence rules and is outside this candidate's scope.
• Kentucky Department of Agriculture + Kentucky Board of Housing, Buildings and Construction (KBHC)

  State-level trade-licensure channels — structural-pest-control + HVAC technician licensure

  Out-of-county

  Structural-pest-control operator license under Kentucky Department of Agriculture; HVAC technician licensure under KBHC. Procedural references; founder trade-licensure stack sequenceable in the founder onboarding plan.
• Kyndle (kyndle.us) + Henderson Chamber of Commerce + Green River Area Development District

  Regional EDC, chamber, and procurement-introduction channels

  Institution

  Kyndle covers Henderson plus Webster plus Union plus McLean. GRADD administers Section 3 plus WIOA workforce-funding programs. Procedural relationship channels.
• Brad Schneider Judge-Executive + Brad Staton Mayor

  Henderson County and City of Henderson elected office-of references

  Institution

  Procedural framing only; 2026 incumbencies not yet confirmed as of May 2026. No characterization beyond official-title reference.

The founder profile is a mid-career multi-trade operator with either (a) Henderson-resident or Evansville-MSA-resident specialty-trades contractor tenure plus prior K-12 or PHA procurement experience plus willingness to add KCTCS state-agency eMARS literacy and HUD 2 CFR 200 plus NSPIRE plus Section 3 plus EPA RRP literacy through a phased credential build, or (b) prior PHA-side facilities or maintenance-superintendent tenure with willingness to add K-12 specialty-trades and KCTCS state-agency procurement literacy through a phased credential build. Henderson plus Webster plus Union plus McLean plus Daviess labor-shed residence and a discipline-lead-per-lane structure materially lowers customer-trust friction across the three principals. A first-time founder without prior trades-contractor or facilities-superintendent tenure cannot enter this lane cold; the triple-code credentialing arc plus the W-2 crew-build arc compound against the founder capital range.

Relationship-portfolio target at launch. HCS Director of Finance, facilities director, transportation director, and School Nutrition director office contacts; HCC campus business officer and facilities manager office contacts; Housing Authority Executive Director plus maintenance supervisor plus Board-of-Commissioners procedural-reference office contacts; adjacent HUD-multifamily portfolio property-management firm contacts for Redbanks Regency plus Woodsview plus Windy Way plus Green River Independent Living III plus Henderson County Health Care Corporation-Two; KSBA cooperative-bid program manager plus KEDC plus OVEC plus GRREC cooperative-membership liaison; KCTCS state-agency procurement-coordinator office-of contact; KY Finance Cabinet eMARS vendor-services office-of contact; KDE district-procurement-oversight office-of contact; Kentucky Department of Agriculture structural-pest-control plus KBHC HVAC-licensure office contacts; HUD Louisville field-office office-of contact for PHA-program technical-assistance; EPA Region 4 RRP-rule contact; DOL Wage and Hour Division Louisville office-of contact for Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage administration; Kyndle plus Henderson Chamber plus GRADD WIOA workforce coordinators; surety-broker relationship for PHA-specific bonding capacity. Eighteen to twenty-five named contacts minimum by end of Year 1.

Entity and credentialing posture phased over 24-36 months. Year 1 single-code entry: Kentucky-domiciled LLC or corporation plus Kentucky structural-pest-control license plus KBHC HVAC technician licensure plus initial trade-licensure stack plus KRS 45A HCS direct-bid plus KSBA cooperative-purchasing attachment. Year 2 dual-code expansion: 200 KAR 5 eMARS vendor registration plus first HCC contract plus KMA master-agreement-attachment posture plus expansion of Kentucky electrical-contractor and master-electrician plus journeyman-plumber discipline-lead hiring. Year 3 triple-code mature: 2 CFR 200 PHA CFP sub-tier entry plus Section 3 business-concern registration under 24 CFR 75 plus Davis-Bacon certified-payroll administration plus EPA RRP firm-certification plus NSPIRE-inspector credentialing. Insurance-broker-of-record relationship with a Kentucky public-works-experienced broker structures the PL plus GL plus workers'-comp plus auto plus PHA-specific surety-bonding stack at the public-works-and-PHA underwriting tier.

The practice operates as a Henderson-resident multi-trade contractor built on triple-code procurement literacy plus discipline-lead-per-lane structure plus phased credential build. There is no platform-rollup arithmetic and no minimum-multiple add-on math; the apprenticeship-coordination consulting work at HCC is held for a separate Henderson candidate and is not folded into this scope. National facility-services firms and national HUD-PHA-prime construction firms compete at scopes where engagement size absorbs their cost structure; Henderson-resident sub-tier specialty-trades plus commercial-kitchen plus affordable-housing-services work sits at a relationship-recruiting plus Section-3-business-concern-preference plus local-trades-licensure layer where the Henderson-resident contractor-of-record carrying the triple-code stack is the structural advantage the nationals do not naturally hold. The discipline-lead-per-lane structure manages founder bandwidth across the four operational disciplines (HCS plus HCC specialty-trades; HCS plus HCC commercial-kitchen; PHA plus HUD-multifamily physical-improvement sub-trade; NSPIRE plus Section 3 plus EPA RRP compliance overlay).

• — HCS Director of Finance, facilities director, transportation director, and School Nutrition director named individuals — procedural framing carry — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — HCS KSBA cooperative-purchasing confirmation plus KEDC, OVEC, and GRREC cooperative-membership status — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — HCS direct-bid history at specialty-trades plus commercial-kitchen-PM plus transportation-fleet-PM plus construction-clean threshold over the prior three years — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — HCS April 2026 preschool expansion scope, budget, timeline, and procurement schedule plus HCS 2026-27 capital plan plus DFP submission plus KSFCC project list plus bond capacity — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — HCC campus business officer and facilities manager named individuals — procedural framing carry — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — HCC eMARS procurement footprint and KMA master-agreement utilization over the prior three years plus current janitorial / HVAC PM / pest-control / small-trade incumbent vendors — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Housing Authority exact address, Executive Director, and Board-of-Commissioners — procedural framing carry — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Housing Authority ACOP bed count plus HCV voucher allocation plus Section 9 versus Section 8 distinction plus Section 202 or 811 administration if any — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Housing Authority NSPIRE-score history plus CFP project list plus 2025-26 capital plan plus 5-year-capital-plan scope plus HCV admin-fee revenue plus landlord-recruitment program plus family-self-sufficiency program plus ROSS service-coordinator participation — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Adjacent HUD-multifamily portfolio (Woodsview, Windy Way, Green River Independent Living III, Redbanks Regency, Henderson County Health Care Corporation-Two) ownership structure plus property-management firm plus Section 202 or 811 versus Section 8 distinction plus REAC-to-NSPIRE inspection cycle — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Henderson-resident incumbent specialty-trades, commercial-kitchen-PM, and physical-improvement-sub-trade operators plus competitive set in Daviess, Webster, Union, and McLean — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Bonding-market availability at Henderson-resident operator scale plus surety relationships through Kyndle introduction plus Davis-Bacon Henderson-MSA-adjacent prevailing-wage current rates by trade — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Section 3 business-concern Henderson-resident-registration count plus EPA RRP firm-certification Henderson-resident-firm count plus NSPIRE-credentialed-inspector Henderson-resident count and cross-county availability — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — Service-shop lease availability in Henderson at the 2,000-to-4,000-square-foot range with loading-dock access — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.
• — I-69 Henderson-Evansville Ohio River Crossing bridge construction sequencing affecting labor-shed wage-rate pressure at the Henderson MSA-adjacent wage-base — as of May 2026, we have not confirmed this.

Tonight, this week, this month — in that order. Each step produces a yes/no or a number, not a deeper understanding.