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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

☒	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024

☐	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission file number: 001-33627

TSS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		20-2027651
(State or other jurisdiction		(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)		Identification No.)

110 E. Old Settlers Road		78664
Round Rock, TX		(Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

(512)-310-1000

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

Title of Each Class		Ticker Symbol		Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock, $.0001 par value		TSSI		Nasdaq Capital Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer,” "accelerated filer,” "smaller reporting company” and "emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.:

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
		Emerging growth company	☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of June 30, 2024, the aggregate market value of the registrant’s voting Common Stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $33,572,650. Such aggregate market value was computed by reference to the closing sale price of the Common Stock as reported on the OTCQB tier of OTC Markets Group, Inc., a centralized quotation service that collects and publishes market maker quotes for over-the-counter securities, on such date. For purposes of making this calculation only, the registrant has defined "affiliates” as including all directors, executive officers and stockholders owning more than 10% of the registrant’s common stock but excluding any institutional stockholders owning 10% or more of the registrant’s common stock.

Number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of March 30, 2025: 25,028,734.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Certain portions of the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement, relating to our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the end of the 2024 fiscal year are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

TSS, INC.

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2024

"SAFE HARBOR” STATEMENT		ii
PART I
Item 1.	Business	1
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	6
Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	11
Item IC.	Cybersecurity	12
Item 2.	Properties	12
Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	12
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	12

PART II
Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	13
Item 6.	[RESERVED]	13
Item 7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation	14
Item 7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk	30
Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	31
Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	57
Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	57
Item 9B.	Other Information	58

PART III
Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	59
Item 11.	Executive Compensation	59
Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	59
Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence	59
Item 14.	Principal Accounting Fees and Services	59

PART IV
Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	60
Item 16.	Form 10-K summary	62

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"SAFE HARBOR” STATEMENT

UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995

From time to time, we make oral and written statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements” (rather than historical facts) as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 or by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in its rules, regulations and releases, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). We desire to take advantage of the “safe harbor” provisions in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for forward looking statements made from time to time, including, but not limited to, the forward- looking statements made in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Annual Report”), as well as those made in other filings with the SEC.

Forward looking statements can be identified by our use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “continue,” “forecast,” “foresee” or other similar words. Such forward looking statements are based on management’s current plans and expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in plans that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those described under "Risk Factors” set forth in Item 1A of this Annual Report.

We expressly disclaim any obligation to release publicly any updates or any changes in our expectations or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based.

As used herein, except as otherwise indicated by the context, the terms “TSS”, “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us” are used to refer to TSS, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

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PART I.

Item 1. Business

Company Overview

TSS, Inc. provides a comprehensive suite of services for the planning, design, deployment, maintenance, refresh and take-back of end-user and enterprise systems, including the mission-critical facilities in which they are housed. We provide a single source solution for enabling technologies in data centers, operations centers, network facilities, server rooms, security operations centers, communications facilities and the infrastructure systems that are critical to their function. Our services consist of technology consulting, design and engineering, project management, systems integration, systems installation, facilities management and IT procurement services. Our systems integration services have recently been enhanced to include integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled data center server racks. TSS was incorporated in Delaware in December 2004. Our corporate offices and our integration facility are located in Round Rock, Texas.

We support a broad range of enterprise customers who utilize our services to deploy solutions in their own data centers, in modular data centers (MDCs), in colocation facilities or at the edge of the network. This market remains highly competitive and is subject to constant evolution as new computing technologies or applications drive continued demand for more advanced computing and storage capacity. In 2023, these enterprises shifted their investment priorities towards AI and accelerated computing infrastructure initiatives. Enterprise and data center operators are facing immense pressure to rapidly integrate and deploy the latest generative AI equipment and GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) and will need to adapt these next-generation servers and custom rack-scale architectures to quickly and successfully compete in the market. Ensuring adequate power and thermal management systems are implemented to support these new technologies while meeting increasingly stringent sustainability requirements is critical to a successful deployment. TSS exists to assist these operators in achieving these benefits over the life cycle of their IT investments.

Over the last ten years we have focused our business on providing world-class integration services to our customer base. As computing technologies evolve, and as we see new power and cooling technologies emerge, including direct liquid-cooled IT solutions and the rapid adoption of AI computing solutions, we will continue to adapt our rack and systems integration business to support these new products. We will also continue to offer expanded services to enable the integration, deployment, support, and maintenance of these new IT solutions. We compete in expanding market segments, often against larger competitors who have extensive resources. We rely on several large relationships and one US-based OEM (original equipment manufacturer) customer to win contracts and to provide business to us under a Master Relationship Agreement. The loss of or material decline in volume of business from this OEM customer would have a material effect on our results.

Most of the components used in our systems integration business are consigned to us by our largest OEM customer or its end-user customers. Thus, our revenues reflect only the services we perform, and the consigned components are not reflected in our income statement or on our balance sheet. We also offer our customers strategic procurement services whereby we procure third-party hardware, software and services on their behalf. Our configuration and integration service businesses often integrate these components to deliver a complete system to our customers.

In some cases, in the performance of procurement services, we also act as an agent and arrange for the purchase of third-party hardware, software or services that are to be provided to our customers by another party. However, we have no control of the goods or services before they are transferred to the customer. In these instances, we are acting as an agent in the transaction. These procurement services allow us to develop relationships with new hardware, software and professional service providers and allow us to generate higher profits on integration projects by broadening our revenue and customer base.

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Recent Developments

In October 2024, we signed a multi-year agreement with our largest customer to provide systems integration services for AI-enabled computer racks at an expected minimum monthly volume. To support this level of production and to be able to provide increased volumes over our existing facility, we are moving our headquarters and production facility to a new location in 2025 and anticipate capital expenditures of approximately $25 million to $30 million for improvements to that facility, primarily to significantly increase the available electrical power and related cooling capabilities for both air-cooled and direct liquid cooled (“DLC”) computer racks. While there may be some variability in the number of racks built in any given period, we believe the structure of the agreement provides reasonable assurance to us that, absent our material breach of the agreement, the fees we earn from this arrangement will consistently be sufficient to cover projected fixed and variable costs directly related to the performance of our obligations under the agreement. The agreement may also be terminated for convenience by either party with 180 days’ written notice. If the other party terminates the agreement for convenience, it would no longer be committed to minimum volumes, however it would remain obligated to pay us amounts that we believe would be sufficient to cover the related facility costs and debt service costs related to capital expenditures incurred to support our obligations under this agreement, or to directly assume the responsibility for such items.

Service Offerings

We have developed a unique set of solution offerings to provide a range of services that enable our customers and partners to efficiently plan, develop, build, deploy, and maintain their IT hardware and software solutions. These solutions begin with strategies for the care of information technology assets that are housed in the facility or modular data centers including power, cooling and heat management, as well as disaster recovery backup systems. Our operating expenses are not exclusively aligned to each service offering, as shared resources such as sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses support all services. Our solutions involve many aspects of the life cycle of both traditional and modular data centers and their related assets which are described in more detail below.

Systems Integration Services:

To assist our customers with IT equipment deployment in their data centers, we provide what we call "systems integration” services. We provide integrated technology services and software tools designed to accelerate the assembly and delivery of complex information technology solutions. These services include custom configuration of a broad scope of information technology products including client products, enterprise products, clusters, and modular containers. The integration of this equipment at both a rack-level or facility or modular data center level is performed to our customers’ specifications and test criteria and may include imaging of software onto the hardware as well. We are generally not responsible for the performance of the related IT equipment in the field. While we have the ability to do onsite rack integration and occasionally do so, we believe one of our competitive advantages is doing rack integration in our own centralized rack integration facility, where we have greater scalability and staff can specialize in individual parts of the integration process rather than needing to be a generalist in all phases of rack integration as is generally needed for onsite rack integration performed in clients’ data centers. This approach also allows for greater quality control as it is performed and supervised in our ISO-certified facility. We also provide warehousing of high-value equipment such as servers, switches, and other information technology hardware that are generally provided on a consignment basis to us by our OEM and end-user customers.

We also provide second-touch configuration services for our OEM and end-user customers, such as adding software, hardware, or other features to end-user devices, bundling such devices with peripherals, pre-loading customer-determined application software, tagging, asset capture, and other fulfillment services. Our services include solutions for edge devices, and client and infrastructure technologies. Many, but not all of these configuration services originate from our strategic procurement activities and are delivered as a holistic solution to customers seeking bundled services for procurement and configuration.

Facilities Management Services:

Consulting:

While we do not manufacture the individual components that go into modular data centers, we ensure all systems are correctly installed, integrate and test the computer racks in the MDC and test the entire MDC before deploying it to a customer site. Our strategy includes increasing the number of customers and MDC’s under contract so that we can increase the amount of recurring revenues from ongoing design, maintenance, and support contracts. Our mission-critical facilities experience and our skilled personnel position us as trusted advisors to our customers and allow us to work on new opportunities as our customers grow or as their facilities mature and as partners introduce us to new client opportunities. We also intend to increase our efforts at establishing direct selling and business relationships within the market. In our history, we have integrated over 500 MDC’s and currently continue to maintain over 200 such MDC’s. We anticipate enterprises may increase their evaluation of MDC’s as they seek ways to efficiently deploy AI enabled servers in their own environments without requiring the expense of building out data centers.

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Deployment:

In connection with the deployment of a solution within a customer’s existing data center, MDC or related equipment requirements, our capabilities include project management, value engineering and design management, bid negotiation support, subcontractor pre-qualification, and selection, long-lead equipment procurement, issuance of equipment and construction contracts, and refinement and management of project budgets and schedules. Our project managers mobilize the required expertise for the project, utilizing project superintendents, quality control and safety professionals, as well as qualified subcontractors and support personnel. Project managers supervise work by project team members, including subcontracted parties, and all aspects of the following: architecture and construction, electric power systems, heat rejection and cooling, energy management, and controls, cooling tower systems, security systems, voice, data and network cabling, fire and life safety systems, and process piping and plumbing systems. The project manager remains responsible for managing all aspects of the project until project completion and customer delivery.

In addition, this installation portion of a project has the largest number of outside influences that can impact project goals and objectives, such as weather, non-performance of subcontractors, equipment deliveries, unexpected project changes from the owner and influence from local authorities and utility providers. Therefore, management experience, skill, and mission focus are critical during the project installation period.

Maintenance and management:

We provide a comprehensive maintenance and service offering designed to ensure that the multiple systems critical to sustaining online applications in enterprise data centers and modular data centers remain operational and functional. Typical facilities management services include overall management of the post-construction facility maintenance program and on-site staffing of technical engineering positions (e.g., electricians, HVAC mechanics, control technicians, and voice/data technicians). Some data centers are constructed in a modular format, whereby information technology, power, cooling, air filtration, uninterruptible power supplies and other related assets are deployed in pre-integrated solutions. Modular data centers may have lower overall cost of delivery, lower energy consumption, and shorter deployment schedules compared to traditional data centers. Our on-site maintenance services provide additional project revenue for us and position us for involvement in any new facility planning, design, and construction initiatives that the customer undertakes.

In addition, we provide 24x7 network operations support by remotely monitoring our data center service contract customers’ facilities for systems operations and emergency events that could lead to outages. Temperature levels, humidity, electrical connectivity, power usage, and fire alarm conditions are among the items monitored. The system maintains all site documentation for repairs and maintenance performed on each critical piece of equipment covered under our services. Such information is useful to our customers in assessing operational efficiency and causes of failure and enables them to make critical decisions on repair or replacement strategies based on the operating history of the monitored systems.

Our facilities maintenance service contracts can be tailored to customer requirements and typically span one to three years in duration, renewable annually thereafter, with cancellation clauses for nonperformance and are typically billed annually in advance. Our service contracts take different forms including fixed-price equipment maintenance with an optional comprehensive warranty to fix failures in key components such as uninterruptible power supplies or batteries, ticket-based service provided at contracted rates in a master service agreement, comprehensive facility services agreements that include on-site staffing, scheduled equipment maintenance and nontechnical facility services, and direct job-specific contracts for additional moves, additions, refreshes, refurbishments and change work within a facility.

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As computer density increases and data centers evolve into the use of modular form factors, we found that we could leverage our facilities' maintenance experience and infrastructure by offering maintenance services for modules being deployed into new data centers. Our design services continue to evolve to support changing data center requirements including installation and maintenance of systems deployed on the edge. Ultimately, we started working with IT vendors to help them in the design and integration of their IT equipment into modular data centers, which typically leads to ongoing maintenance contracts as these modular systems deploy.

Strategic Procurement Services:

We generate revenues from fees we charge our customers to procure third-party hardware, software, and professional services on their behalf that are used in our integration services as we integrate these components to deliver a completed system to our customers. These procurement services enable highly customizable solutions for our OEM and end-user customers and enable us to expand our revenues, profits and customer base. We recognize our procurement services revenue upon completion of the procurement activity. In some cases, we act as an agent and arrange for the purchase of third-party hardware, software or services that are to be provided to our customers by another party. However, we have no control of the goods or services before they are transferred to the customer. In these instances, we are acting as an agent in the transaction. These procurement services allow us to develop relationships with new hardware, software and professional service providers and allow us to generate higher profits on integration projects by broadening our revenue and customer base. In procurement transactions where we do not take possession of the goods being sold (“net deals”), we record as revenue on our financial statements only the agent fee we earn for facilitating the transaction. For procurement services in which we take possession of and perform work to somehow transform the goods prior to shipping them to our OEM customer’s end users (“gross deals”), we record as revenue the gross value of the sale and record costs of sales for the amount we spend to acquire the goods that we transform. Thus, the gross margin percentage for this business can be significantly different, even if the gross profit dollars are the same, depending on whether we record the gross procurement transaction when we handle the products or record only our agent fee when merely arranging the sale in a net procurement transaction. This, in turn, can have a material impact on the gross margin percentage for the consolidated company, particularly in periods in which we experience a large volume of procurement transactions in relation to the volume of the remainder of our business.

Customers

Our customers include IT OEM equipment, technology and service companies, and private-sector businesses that in some cases are the end users of the facility, or in other cases are providing a facility to a government or commercial end user. The majority of our sales are currently made to or through strategic alignment with a global Fortune 100 computer technologies company with a significant presence near our headquarters and integration facility. Through them, we provide facility management services to other major technology, software, banking and cloud service providers.

Sales and Marketing

A key part of our selling strategy is entering into master service agreements with multiple partners and co-selling our range of services to our partners’ end-user customers, leveraging their customer relationships and broadening the scope of potential customers for us. Our go-to-market approach relies primarily on business generated by or through a global Fortune 100 OEM customer with whom we have strategically aligned ourselves. This approach relied on expertise in information technology hardware systems, energy consumption, real estate matters, and facilities planning and operation from this primary demand source. This marketing approach allowed the end–user customer to contract for comprehensive facilities services or to contract separately for each project phase such as integration or fulfillment services.

While we continue to embrace working closely with that strategic OEM, our updated go-to-market strategy is designed to also capitalize on our investment in direct selling personnel and leveraging our OEM partner’s capabilities at the same time. Our ability to be involved in sales engagements earlier in the cycle and with end-users will allow us to positively impact demand and provide greater visibility into the integration schedules and future pipeline. This impacts our ability to better manage personnel schedules and ultimately optimize our production capacity. We also seek to enhance our name recognition using improved web marketing, trade shows, technical seminars, direct mailings, and social media.

Our headcount in sales and marketing has been very selective and targeted to align the skill sets with our evolving service offerings, leverage partner relationships and increase the consultative capability of our sales organization.

Maintaining key alliances and creating new partnerships is an important part of our sales development and growth plan. These alliances reside with various information technology consulting firms, specialty mission-critical engineering firms, application service providers, and internet service providers. Key alliance opportunities also reside in other firms within the market sector such as equipment manufacturers, product suppliers, property management firms, developers, information technology system integrators, and firmware providers. We are focused on expanding our strategic alliances with information technology corporations to provide engineering, design, construction management services, systems integration, modular solutions, and facility management services. As we expand our configuration services business, we expect this will help us establish alliances with new hardware and software providers who operate in the IT infrastructure market.

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Competition

The mission-critical information technology solutions market is large, fragmented, and highly competitive. We compete for contracts based on the strength of our customer relationships, successful past performance, significant technical expertise, specialized knowledge, and broad service offerings. Our strength lies in our ability to deliver quality solutions on time and with high quality at a competitive price. These solutions can be complex or simple. We have gained market traction by providing complex AI solutions utilizing GPU and advanced thermal management technology and our largest customer highly values our flexibility, partnership and ability to execute on our commitments. We often compete against channel re-sellers and divisions of large information technology service and equipment providers. In some cases, because of diverse requirements, we collaborate with these and other competitors for projects. We respect competition in the information technology services sector, and we embrace what we need to do to compete and win to continue to increase in the future.

Strategy

Our goal is to profitably grow our existing businesses and to identify expanded service offerings to further our value add to our customers as we become a recognized leader in the life-cycle management of complex IT solutions. At a high level, the strategy we intend to use to accomplish this goal includes:

	-	Continue to deliver operational excellence and cost competitiveness to enhance our manufacturing capability: A key element of our success is our ability to leverage and optimize our systems integration facility. We are currently investing between $25 million and $30 million in our new, larger integration facility in Georgetown, Texas that will significantly increase the available electrical power, cooling capabilities, and the number of testing / validation stations. This increases the capacity to integrate both air-cooled and direct liquid cooled racks, particularly in the AI market space for which power and thermal management demands are increasing rapidly. We will continue to invest in our integration processes and technology to achieve additional cost efficiencies and enhance our existing capabilities. We are expanding to a hybrid integration model which allows us to generate revenues from within our facility and externally at customer locations. This allows more flexibility to support our customers’ requirements while continuing to enhance our cost-effectiveness.

	-	Expand our ability to drive demand with direct selling resources and to co-sell with our customers and partners. We believe we can expand our services portfolio penetration within these new, as well as existing customers.

	-	Maintain intense customer focus: We intend to strengthen and deepen our customer relationships. We believe that continued focus on cost-effective systems integration, deployment, and ongoing life-cycle management is important, and will help to increase our net sales, operating performance, and market share. To accomplish this, we will continue our close collaboration with our OEM partner to assist them in identifying demand for our services and design new services that allow them to meet new customer requirements and leverage innovations and technical developments. Additionally, we will continue to expand our sales force and field service technicians and add additional technical expertise.

	-	Pursue selective strategic partnerships and acquisitions: As part of our strategy to expand our service offerings and to maximize our market opportunities, we may partner with or acquire technologies, services, or product lines to accelerate our growth and to enhance our portfolio.

Employees

On December 31, 2024, we had 161 full-time employees plus approximately 43 temporary workers utilized primarily in our rack integration services. Our future success will depend on our continued ability to attract, retain, and motivate qualified personnel. We are not a party to any collective bargaining agreement, and we have not experienced any strikes or work stoppages. We consider our relationship with our employees to be very satisfactory.

Available Information

We file annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and proxy statements relating to our annual stockholders’ meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC”). Copies of these filings, including amendments to such filings are available, free of charge, on our website, www.tssiusa.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. Information contained on our website is not and should not be deemed to be a part of this Annual Report or a part of any other report or filing with the SEC. All reports that we file with the SEC are available to read and copy at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549, on official business days during the hours of 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an internet site at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.

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Item 1A. RISK FACTORS

Our business involves a number of risks, some of which are beyond our control. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Such factors could have a significant impact on our business, operating results and financial condition. We believe the most significant of these risks and uncertainties are as follows:

We derive a significant portion of our revenues from one customer.

We currently derive and believe that we will continue to derive in the near term a significant portion of our revenues from one OEM customer. We provide a range of different services and generate revenue from multiple business units and divisions of this OEM customer. To the extent that any significant business unit or division of this OEM customer uses less of our services or terminates its relationship with us, or this OEM reorganizes its business units and divisions in such a way that directly impacts the level of business with us, our revenues would decline significantly, which would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and the results of our operations. Revenues from this OEM customer comprised 99% and 96% of our total revenues in the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

A material breach of our multi-year rack integration agreement, or our choice to terminate the agreement for any reason other than the other party’s material breach of the agreement, could significantly reduce certain minimum payments from our primary OEM partner.

We have incurred notable financial commitments related to a new lease on a larger integration facility and the debt to finance capital expenditures in that facility needed to fulfil our obligations under the multi-year AI rack integration agreement with our largest OEM partner. Our multi-year agreement calls for certain minimum monthly payments to us, which we believe will be sufficient to cover the majority of the costs for the facility and debt service payments tied to the build-out of that factory for which we are responsible. While those payments are required, per the terms of the multi-year term of the agreement, our customer could terminate the agreement if we were to materially breach the agreement, leaving us with the financial obligations of the lease and debt service regardless of whether we had revenues sufficient to cover those costs. Likewise, if we were to terminate the agreement other than due to the other party’s material breach of the agreement, they would be relieved of any further obligation. Either of these events would represent a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Future power demands of AI-enabled computer racks is unknown and our ability to continue to earn revenues from AI rack integration services is highly dependent on our access to an acceptable amount of electrical power and related computer cooling capabilities.

A significant driver of our recently improved financial results is our AI rack integration services and the revenues and earnings driven by those services. Technology for AI computers continues to advance, and currently each new generation typically consumes more electrical power than preceding generations, which in turn requires even more electrical power and additional cooling equipment. We recently signed a lease on a new building to which we plan to move all of our operations including our rack integration business, primarily to secure access to the electrical power needed to perform our AI rack integration services. While we believe we are relocating to a location where we can source additional power if and when needed due to the city building an electrical power substation very near our leased property, we have no guarantee that such additional power will be available or be allocated to us beyond the 15 Megawatts to which the city has contractually committed itself to provide by mid-2025, though the city has indicated they will be able to continue to increase the available power over time. If new generations of AI computer racks continue to consume more power than preceding generations, our failure to obtain access to additional power in a reasonable time frame, or the inability to secure additional chillers or other cooling capacity to cool the related racks would have a material, negative impact on our ability to meet our customers’ needs.

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Our revenues and profitability could be materially and negatively affected by U.S. imposed tariffs.

The United States has recently begun to implement material tariffs on some of the countries with which it has a great deal of international trade and has threatened tariffs on a variety of other counties. Many of the servers we integrate, other goods on which we provide configuration services and some products we procure for our customers have recently been made or assembled in countries subject to such tariffs. This introduces additional doubt as to whether our customers will be able to pass such costs onto their customers and as a result whether they can continue to sell such products at an acceptable profit. This, in turn, could materially and negatively affect our revenues, cash flows and financial position. Even if tariffs are ultimately lifted, temporary implementation of tariffs introduces doubt in the mind of buyers and causes disruptions in the supply chain that could introduce weeks or even months of delays in the ability to source parts and therefore similar delays in our ability to operate at full capacity, negatively impacting our earnings and financial position, and possibly even leading to cancelation of customer orders based on expected delays.

Supply chain challenges have negatively affect our integration business by slowing the supply of parts needed to perform integration services, requiring us to hold greater quantities of inventory for longer periods and/or delaying completion of services for our customers.

Since the COVID 19 pandemic began in 2020, due to its impact on global production and distribution we have experienced periodic impacts from shortages of components needed to complete integration and procurement services, delaying our ability to recognize revenue for these projects and negatively impacting our profitability and cash flows. In addition to delaying our services, this has also resulted in us having to hold onto greater quantities of customer inventory for longer time periods while we wait for the missing components to be delivered. Due to our fixed storage capacity, holding customer-owned inventory for longer periods has negatively impacted our ability to perform other services and added cost and risk, including custodial risk, into our integration business. The supply chain disruptions have also directly impacted vendors and other third parties from whom we procure goods and services for our procurement business, causing delays in completing procurement services for our customers. This has the potential to materially harm our operating results by delaying recognition of revenue. This can also harm our liquidity position if we are forced to pay vendors for products and services before we have the ability to invoice and receive payment from our customers, which could also prevent us from performing additional procurement services for our customers or cause other liquidity concerns. Although our multi-year AI rack integration agreement signed in 2024 passes much of the risk for supply chain disruptions to our customer through the use of minimum quantity commitments as it relates to AI rack integration, we are still exposed to these issues in our procurement business, non-AI rack integration business and configuration services.

We may be unable to hire and retain sufficiently qualified personnel, and the loss of any of our key executive officers may adversely affect our business.

We believe that our future success will depend in large part on our continued ability to attract and retain highly skilled, knowledgeable, sophisticated and qualified managerial, professional, and technical personnel. Our business involves the development of tailored solutions for customers, a process that relies heavily upon the expertise and services of employees. Accordingly, our employees are one of our most valuable resources. Competition for skilled personnel is intense in our industry. Recruiting and training these personnel requires substantial resources particularly when seeking qualified staff in remote locations where a number of our customers operate their data centers. Our failure to attract and retain qualified personnel could increase our costs of performing our contractual obligations, reduce our ability to efficiently satisfy our customers’ needs, limit our ability to win new business and constrain our future growth.

Changes in labor market conditions are causing increases in our labor costs, and if we are unable to adequately recover these costs from our customers, our business will be negatively impacted.

At times, we experience higher levels of attrition, increasing compensation costs, and more intense competition for talent. We believe that our future success will be dependent upon retaining the services of our key personnel, developing their successors and certain internal processes to reduce our reliance on specific individuals, and on properly managing the transition of key roles when they occur. As a small company, we are particularly susceptible to negative impacts if critical and experienced personnel leave. As a result, we have invested in a Chief People Officer position and in Human Resources automation tools that help us manage through many of these challenges. Hiring and retaining qualified executives and other employees is therefore critical to our business. From 2022 to 2024, we had a number of planned changes to our executive leadership team, and we experienced increased wage pressure and challenges in hiring people in the Austin, Texas market. We have had to pay higher wages to attract new employees and retain our existing employees. If our total compensation programs, employment benefits, and overall workplace culture are not viewed as competitive, our ability to attract, retain and motivate employees could be compromised. To the extent we experience significant attrition or the loss of critical employees and are unable to replace employees in a timely manner, we could experience a loss of critical skills and reduced employee morale, potentially resulting in business disruptions or increased expenses to address any disruptions. To the extent that we are unable to promptly pass higher labor costs on to our customers, our business will be negatively impacted. Our inability to attract, retain and motivate employees or manage a succession of key roles may inhibit our ability to maintain or expand our business operations.

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We have a history of operating losses, and we may experience net losses in the future.

Although we recorded improved operating income in 2022-2024 and net income in 2023 and 2024, we had a net loss in 2022, and we recorded operating and net losses in both 2021 and 2020. We have a history of recurring net annual losses in prior years and on December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $60.3 million. We believe that changes we have made to the business in recent years, including the addition of procurement services, changes to our operating cost structure, and the new multi-year AI rack building agreement have significantly improved our operating results and allowed us to achieve multiple profitable quarters in each of the last several years. Our efforts to align costs with sales and gross margin volume have reduced our level of overhead, but there can be no guarantee that we will be successful in sustaining or increasing profitability in 2025 or beyond. The uncertainty of a rapidly changing marketplace and ongoing global supply challenges have created a volatile and challenging business climate, which may continue to negatively impact our customers and their spending and investment decisions. We may not be able to generate the level of revenue necessary to achieve and maintain sustainable profitability and a failure to maintain and grow our revenue volumes would adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.

We are attempting to diversify our customer base but there is no guarantee that we will be successful in doing so.

Revenues from our largest customer comprised 99% and 96% of our total revenues in the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. We are continuing our efforts to add new revenue streams such as our strategic procurement services that we began offering in 2019, as well as targeting other vendors in the data center infrastructure market, including Value Added Resellers and systems integrators who have the need for IT integration services. We are also targeting other vendors in the modular data center market to leverage our expertise and capabilities in this marketplace. We are also trying to stay ahead of emerging trends in the IT market space such as direct-liquid-cooled product offerings, AI computing, immersion technology and edge-based solutions so that we can develop service offerings to leverage growth opportunities for these new markets. While we believe our efforts will allow us to broaden our customer base and reduce our customer concentration, there can be no guarantee that we will be successful at these endeavors, or of the time that it will take for these efforts to be successful.

We are partially through the implementation of a new enterprise resource IT system and have yet to fully deploy this new system across all of our business units. Any challenges, delays, difficulties, or errors during the implementation of this new system may negatively impact our business operation and harm our operating results.

We rely on computerized inventory and management systems to coordinate and manage the activities in our integration business, as well as to communicate inventory and shipment information to our vendors and customers. Our ability to rapidly process incoming deliveries, track inventory through the integration process, and process shipments in a timely manner are essential to the operations of our integration business. As we introduce a new ERP system to perform these functions for our warehouse, integration and other operations functions, any challenges in the implementation of the system, changes to processes or errors in functionality where such systems fail to adequately perform as designed, could adversely affect our business and harm our operating results. For financial reporting purposes, we began to use this new enterprise system as our system of record with effect from October 1, 2022. In 2025, we expect to deploy the system across all of our business units and integrate it into our financial reporting systems, which is part of the same ERP system.

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The level of our procurement business may fluctuate significantly on a quarterly basis, requiring additional working capital to grow.

Due to the nature of our procurement business, we have experienced material fluctuations in our quarterly revenues from these services, which has had a material impact on our quarterly and annual revenues and profits. We have been able to structure our procurement activities in such a way as to minimize their overall impact on our liquidity by using trade creditors as the primary way to finance these activities and the business has minimal costs in periods of low volume partially mitigating financial risk. However, depending on the size of potential procurement and reseller contracts, we may be required to procure material amounts of hardware, software, and professional services from other third parties and there can be no guarantee that our existing sources of liquidity or available trade finance will be sufficient to enable us to finance these transactions.

As the age of modular data centers increases and customers look to shut or replace such units, our recurring maintenance revenues could be negatively impacted, and this could adversely affect our operating results.

Modular data centers (MDCs) typically have a lifespan of 6-10 years unless they are updated with new IT equipment. As they near the end of their useful life, customers can either perform maintenance to extend the MDCs' lifespan or terminate maintenance contracts for those MDCs. If customers terminate their annual maintenance contracts, it could negatively impact our maintenance revenues and profitability unless they replace the units with new MDCs. While our history suggests that customers will replace MDCs with new modules subject to annual maintenance contracts, the time period between these two events could result in a decrease in our maintenance and overall revenue in our facilities management business.

We operate in a highly competitive industry, which could reduce our growth opportunities, revenue and operating results.

The mission-critical information technology industry in which we operate is highly competitive and continues to become more competitive. We often compete against divisions of large information technology consulting and integration companies, including several large domestic companies that may have financial, technical and marketing resources that exceed our own. These larger competitors have an infrastructure and support greater than ours, and accordingly, we continue to experience some price pressure as some companies are willing to take on projects at lower margins. Our competitors may develop the expertise, experience and resources to provide services that are equal or superior in both price and quality to our services, and we may not be able to maintain or enhance our competitive position. Our size often prevents us from bidding on larger, more profitable projects, which significantly reduces our growth opportunities. Although our customers currently outsource a significant portion of these services to us and our competitors, we can offer no assurance that our existing or prospective customers will continue to outsource specialty contracting services to us in the future.

Most of our contracts may be canceled on short notice, so our revenue and potential profits are not guaranteed.

Other than our multi-year AI rack integration agreement signed in 2024, most of our contracts are cancelable on short notice by the customer either at its convenience or upon our default. If one of our customers terminates a contract at its convenience, then we typically are able to recover only costs incurred or committed, settlement expenses and profit on work completed prior to termination, which could prevent us from recognizing all of our potential revenue and profit from that contract. If one of our customers terminates the contract due to our default, we could be liable for excess costs incurred by the customer in re-procuring services from another source, as well as other costs. Many of our contracts, including our service agreements, are periodically open to bid. We may not be the successful bidder on our existing contracts that are re-bid. We also provide a portion of our services on a non-recurring, project-by-project basis. We could experience a reduction in our revenue, profitability and liquidity if our customers cancel a significant number of contracts, we fail to win a significant number of our existing contracts upon re-bid, or we complete the required work under a significant number of our non-recurring projects and cannot replace them with similar projects. In addition, we provide services under certain master service agreements. If these agreements are terminated, we would be unable to provide ongoing services to those customers.

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We submit change orders to our customers for work we perform beyond the scope of some of our contracts. If our customers do not approve these change orders, the results of operations could be adversely impacted.

We typically submit change orders under some of our contracts for payment of work performed beyond the initial contractual requirements. The applicable customers may not approve or contest these change orders, and we cannot assure you that these claims will be approved in whole, in part or at all. If these claims are not approved, our results of operations could be adversely impacted.

We may not accurately estimate the costs associated with services provided under fixed-price contracts, which could impair our financial performance.

The majority of our revenue is derived from fixed-price contracts. Under these contracts, we set the price of our services and assume the risk that the costs associated with our performance may be greater than we anticipated. Our profitability is therefore dependent upon our ability to accurately estimate the costs associated with our services. These costs may be affected by a variety of factors, such as lower than anticipated productivity, conditions at the work sites differing materially from what was anticipated at the time we bid on the contract, and higher than expected costs of materials and labor. Certain agreements or projects could have lower margins than anticipated or losses if actual costs for contracts exceed our estimates, which could reduce our profitability and liquidity.

We warranty customer equipment against failure in some of our fixed price contracts, and a major equipment failure could have a material impact on our financial performance.

Under some of our maintenance contracts we provide limited warranties for the continued performance of equipment, including batteries and actuators used in modular data centers. We estimate the anticipated failure or replacement rate of this equipment, but if a customer location experienced a failure rate of equipment greater than we anticipated, we would incur higher equipment replacement costs and incur a loss on that maintenance contract, and this could potentially have a material negative impact on our profitability and liquidity.

We may choose, or be required, to pay our subcontractors even if our customers do not pay or delay paying us for the related services.

We use subcontractors to perform some portions of our services and to manage workflow. In some cases, we pay our subcontractors before our customers pay us for the related services. If we choose, or are required, to pay our subcontractors for work performed for customers who fail to pay us, or delay paying us for the related work, we could experience a decrease in profitability and liquidity.

The industries we serve have experienced and may continue to experience rapid technological, structural and competitive changes that could reduce the need for our services and adversely affect our revenues.

The mission-critical information technology industry is characterized by rapid technological change, intense competition and changing consumer and data center needs. We generate a significant portion of our revenues from customers in the mission-critical information technology industry. New technologies, or upgrades to existing technologies by customers, could reduce the need for our services and adversely affect our revenues and profitability. Improvements in existing technology may allow companies to improve their networks without physically upgrading them. Reduced demand for our services or the loss of a significant customer or end-user could adversely affect the results of operations, cash flows and liquidity.

If we are unable to engage appropriate subcontractors or if our subcontractors fail to perform their contractual obligations, our performance as a prime contractor and ability to obtain future business could be materially and adversely impacted.

Our contract performance may involve subcontracts with other companies upon which we rely to perform all or a portion of the work we are obligated to deliver to our customers. Our inability to find and engage appropriate subcontractors or a failure by one or more of our subcontractors to satisfactorily deliver on a timely basis the agreed-upon supplies and/or perform the agreed-upon services may materially and adversely affect our ability to perform our obligations as a prime contractor.

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In extreme cases, a subcontractor’s performance deficiency could result in the customer terminating the contract for default with us. A default termination could expose us to liability for excess costs of procurement by the customer and have a material adverse effect on our ability to compete for future contracts and task orders.

Security breaches and attacks on our computer systems could lead to significant costs and disruptions that could harm our business, financial results and reputation.

We are reliant upon a number of third-party and internally developed software programs to operate our business. We store and transmit our own as well as customer information and data, including individual data of and about their end-user customers. Maintaining the security and availability of our services, network and internal IT systems and the security of information we hold is a critical issue for us and our customers. Any software failure or corruption, including cyber-based attacks or network security breaches, could lead to the dissemination of proprietary information or sensitive, personal or confidential data about us, our employees, customers and end-user customers, could threaten our ability to provide services to our customers, generate negative publicity about us, erode our customers’ confidence in our ability to handle their technology assets, result in litigation and increased legal liability or costs or lead to government inquiry or oversight. The occurrence of any of these events could harm our business or damage our brand and reputation, lead to the loss of customers and higher expenses, and possibly impede our present and future success in retaining and attracting new customers.

A successful assault on our infrastructure could damage our reputation and could adversely affect our financial condition. Similar security risks exist with respect to our business partners and the third-party vendors we rely on for aspects of our information technology infrastructure, support services and administrative functions. As a result, we are subject to the risk that the activities of our business partners and third-party vendors may adversely affect our business even if an attack or breach does not directly impact our systems.

Because we do not currently intend to pay dividends on our common stock, stockholders will benefit from an investment in our common stock only if it appreciates in value.

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all future earnings, if any, for use in the operations and expansion of our business. As a result, we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of cash dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on factors our board of directors deems relevant, including, among others, our results of operations, financial condition and cash requirements, business prospects, and the terms of our credit facility and other financing arrangements. Accordingly, realization of a gain on stockholders’ investments will depend on the appreciation of the price of our common stock. There is no guarantee that our common stock will appreciate or even maintain the price at which stockholders purchased their shares.

Our insiders beneficially own a significant portion of our outstanding common stock. Future sales of common stock by these insiders may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

Our officers, directors and their affiliates beneficially own approximately 7.0 million shares of common stock or approximately 28% of our outstanding common shares as of March 30, 2025. Stock sales by our directors and officers are subject to compliance with our Code of Conduct and the preapproval process from the Chief Financial Officer. Sales of a substantial number of these shares in the public market could decrease the market price of our common stock. In addition, the perception that such sales might occur may cause the market price of our common stock to decline. Future issuances or sales of our common stock could have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

Not applicable.

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Item 1C. Cybersecurity

We have developed and implemented a cybersecurity risk management program intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and information. We design and assess our program based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). This does not mean that we meet any technical standards, specifications, or requirements, but only that we use the NIST CSF as a guide to help us identify, assess, and manage cybersecurity risks relevant to our business.

As part of our cybersecurity risk management system, our IT management team tracks and logs privacy and security incidents across our OEM partners, Microsoft and Oracle and other IT system providers, our vendors, and other third-party service providers to remediate and resolve any such incidents. Any significant incidents are reviewed regularly by a cross-functional working group to determine whether further escalation is appropriate. Any incident assessed as potentially being or potentially becoming material is immediately escalated for further assessment and then reported to designated members of our senior management. We would consult with outside counsel as appropriate, including on materiality analysis and disclosure matters, and our senior management makes the final materiality determinations and disclosures and other compliance decisions. Our management is tasked with apprising TSS’ independent public accounting firm of matters and any relevant developments.

Our Board considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to the Audit Committee oversight responsibility for risks and incidents relating to cybersecurity threats, including compliance with disclosure requirements, cooperation with law enforcement, and related effects on financial and other risks. The Audit Committee oversees management’s implementation of our cybersecurity risk management program, and it reports any findings and recommendations, as appropriate, to the full Board for consideration. Senior management regularly discusses cyber risks and trends and, should they arise, any material incidents with the Audit Committee. The Company’s IT department regularly uses specialist firms to independently test our cybersecurity controls. The IT management team is informed about and monitors the prevention, detection, mitigation and remediation of cybersecurity risks and incidents through various means, which may include, among other things, briefings with security personnel, threat intelligence and other information obtained from government, public or private sources, including external consultants engaged by us, and alerts and reports produced by security tools deployed in our IT environment.

Currently, we have not identified risks from known cybersecurity threats, including because of any prior cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected us, including our operations, business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition. We face certain ongoing risks from cybersecurity threats that, if realized, are reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our operations, business strategy, results of operations, or financial conditions.

Item 2. Properties.

We lease a 105,000 square foot production facility, warehouse and office space in Round Rock, Texas and in 2021 renewed a 7-year lease for this space.

In December 2024, we signed a new 10-year lease for a 212,793 square foot light industrial space in Georgetown, Texas. We are in the process of building out the space to fit our needs, plan to begin production there in April 2025, and plan to completely move our operations, warehouse and office space to this new location by June or July 2025.

We have not yet determined the future use of our existing facility in Round Rock, Texas. If we are unsuccessful in selling additional work to utilize that space, we believe we would be able to sublease it on attractive terms as our current cost per square foot is substantially below prevailing market rates. We believe that our current facilities are adequate for our operations and additional or replacement facilities would be available if necessary.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

We are not a party to any material litigation in any court, and we are not aware of any contemplated proceeding by any governmental authority against us. From time to time, we are involved in various legal matters and proceedings concerning matters arising in the ordinary course of business such as employment-related matters. We believe that any potential liability arising out of these matters and proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Since November 2024, our common stock has been traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "TSSI.” Prior to that, our stock was traded on the OTCQB tier of the OTC Markets Group, Inc., a centralized quotation service that collects and publishes market-maker quotes for over-the-counter securities in real time.

The following table sets forth the high and low bid prices for our common stock for each of the quarters of 2024 and 2023 as reported by Nasdaq and the OTC Markets Group, as applicable:

	2024				2023
	Low		High		Low		High

First Quarter	$	0.24	$	0.67	$	0.42	$	0.59
Second Quarter		0.48		2.59		0.25		0.50
Third Quarter		2.11		7.34		0.27		0.45
Fourth Quarter		5.04		12.99		0.25		0.45

As of March 30, 2025, there were 68 stockholders of record of our common stock, although we believe there is a larger number of beneficial owners of our common stock.

We did not pay dividends on our outstanding stock during the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023. We currently intend to retain all future earnings, if any, for use in the operations and expansion of our business. As a result, we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of cash dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on factors our board of directors deems relevant, including, among others, our results of operations, financial condition and cash requirements, business prospects and the terms of our credit facilities and other financing arrangements.

The following table provides information with respect to shares of our common stock that were acquired by the Company during the fourth quarter of 2024:

Monthly Period During the Quarter Ended December 31, 2024	Total Shares Purchased		Average Price paid per Share		Total Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans		Approximate Dollar Amount of Shares Yet To Be Purchased Under Plans
Oct. 1, 2024 - Oct. 31, 2024		40,973	$	7.26		-		-
Nov. 1, 2024 – Nov. 30, 2024		406,442	$	8.43		-		-
Dec. 1, 2024 – Dec. 31, 2024		988	$	10.81		-		-
Total		448,403	$	8.33		-		-

(a)	All of these shares were acquired from associates to satisfy tax withholding or purchase price requirements upon the exercise of stock option grants or upon the vesting of restricted stock.

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion contains statements that are forward-looking. These statements are based on expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially because of, among other reasons, factors discussed in Item 1A–Risk Factors and elsewhere in this Annual Report. The commentary should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes and other statistical information included in this Annual Report.

Overview

TSS, Inc. ("TSS”, the "Company”, "we”, "us” or "our”) provides a comprehensive suite of services for the planning, design, deployment, maintenance, refresh and take-back of end-user and enterprise systems, including the mission-critical facilities in which they are housed. We provide a single source solution for enabling technologies in data centers, operations centers, network facilities, server rooms, security operations centers, communications facilities and the infrastructure systems that are critical to their function. Our services consist of technology consulting, design and engineering, project management, systems integration, systems installation, facilities management and IT procurement services. Our systems integration services have recently been enhanced to include integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled data center server racks. TSS was incorporated in Delaware in December 2004. Our corporate offices and our integration facility are located in Round Rock, Texas.

Most of the components used in our systems integration business are consigned to us by our largest OEM customer or its end-user customers. Thus, our revenues reflect only the services we perform, and the consigned components are not reflected in our income statement or on our balance sheet. We also offer our customers procurement services whereby we procure third-party hardware, software and services on their behalf. Our configuration and integration service businesses often integrate these components to deliver a complete system to our customers.

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In October 2024, we signed a multi-year agreement with our largest customer to provide systems integration services for AI-enabled computer racks at an expected minimum monthly volume. To support this level of production, and to be able to provide increased volumes over our existing facility, we are moving our headquarters and production facility to a new location in early 2025 and anticipate capital expenditures of approximately $25 million to $30 million for improvements to that facility, primarily to significantly increase the available electrical power and related cooling capabilities for both air-cooled and direct liquid cooled (“DLC”) computer racks. We are financially responsible for all fixed and variable costs related to this activity, including debt service requirements related to the planned capital expenditures, direct and indirect labor related to this activity, and all facility and related costs for the portion of our facility allocated to this activity. While there may be some variability in the number of racks built in any given period, we believe the structure of the agreement with our customer provides reasonable assurance to us that absent our material breach of the agreement or our termination of the agreement, the revenues we earn from this arrangement will consistently be sufficient to cover the aforementioned costs we expect to incur in fulfilling our obligations. Our customer could terminate the agreement if we were to materially breach the agreement, leaving us with the financial obligations of the lease and debt service regardless of whether we had revenues sufficient to cover those costs. Likewise, if we were to terminate the agreement other than due to the other party’s material breach of the agreement, the other party would be relieved of any further obligation. Funding sources for the build-out costs at the new facility include approximately $6.8 million contributed by our landlord, $20 million from a construction loan from Susser Bank, and cash on hand for the remainder of the costs. The construction loan is expandable up to $25 million with bank approval.

The volume of transactions we engaged in with our strategic procurement services grew substantially in 2023 and again in 2024. Customers value our ability to source disparate hardware, software and services and provide a single-source solution for their IT needs. In some cases, we merely act as agents in these transactions, and so the reported revenues will reflect only our fees earned in the transaction (“net deals”). If the procurement activities include integration services or other value-add work beyond just the procurement activity, the transactions is recorded at its gross value (“gross deals”), and revenue and costs are allocated to the procurement and systems integration segments based on the value created in each and the effort involved to fulfill the contracts. Overall, we were able to increase our recorded revenues from procurement transactions, representing only the revenues allocated to the procurement segment, by $79.0 million or 205%, compared to 2023. The aggregate gross value of all procurement transactions, regardless of whether they were recorded as gross deals or net deals increased from $123.2 million in 2023 to $169.1 million in 2024. Integration work related to these procurement activities is recorded separately in the systems integration segment.

Our total revenues in 2024 were $148.1 million, a $93.7 million or 172% increase from our 2023 revenues of $54.4 million. Improvement was seen in all three of our major revenue streams, with the majority of this increase coming from $79.0 million (205%) growth in our procurement business and $13.8 million (157%) growth in our systems integration businesses. The systems integration business growth was driven primarily by the significant increase in rack integration of AI-enabled computer racks. Our efforts in this were rewarded by winning a multi-year agreement with our largest OEM customer to continue AI rack integration for them at an expected minimum weekly volume. We also saw a 13% growth in revenues from the facilities management segment, from $7.1 million to $8.0 million in 2024.

Our gross profits increased by $11.4 million or 103% compared to 2023, mainly due to the higher volumes of activity in our procurement and systems integration businesses, including our AI rack integration activity. In addition to earning revenue for completing AI rack integrations, our multi-year agreement includes weekly volume commitments as well as certain fixed fees, which we believe will be sufficient to cover our fixed and variable costs incurred in fulfilling our obligations under the agreement. Specifically, we believe the fees received under this agreement will be sufficient to cover all of our direct labor, labor training, power consumption and other variable costs, as well as indirect labor, rent and related facility costs for the portion of our factory allocated to this activity, debt service for the assets added to support this business, and other smaller fixed costs that we will incur to perform our obligations under this agreement. If we experience periodic lulls in demand or if our customer has extended periods of inability to secure parts, we have agreed to seek opportunities to scale back a portion of our direct labor and temporary employees used in this activity, primarily in positions that can be refilled and retrained fairly quickly as demand or supply chain issues are resolved, and to in turn reduce the variable fees charged to our customer under this agreement. We believe this structure demonstrates our desire to help control the customer’s costs while protecting our financial results by reducing our fee to them only if our own internal labor costs also are reduced. Our gross profit margin as a percentage of sales decreased to 15% in 2024 from 20% in 2023. The primary cause of the decrease in gross profit margin percentage was the increase in volume of our procurement business as a proportion of our total revenue, where we generally earn much lower margins on product purchase/resell services than we do with our traditional maintenance and integration services. As more fully discussed below, we saw improvements in the margins for both the facilities management line of business and the systems integration businesses, and when viewed on a gross value basis, also improved our margins in the procurement business. The driver of the decrease in the overall blended margin was the fact that a greater portion of our procurement activity in 2024 was “gross deals” whereas the majority of the 2023 procurement activity was from “net deals.”

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With all expense lines growing at a rate slower than the growth in revenues, we leveraged the 172% growth in consolidated revenues in 2024 into a 386% increase in operating income and 7,976% growth in net income compared to 2023.

We ended 2024 with $23.2 million of cash on hand, an increase of $11.4 million from the balance at the end of 2023. This increase was driven by the $6.0 million net income during 2024 and timing differences stemming from the procurement business increasing near year-end, due to us being paid more quickly than we must pay our vendors. These inflows were somewhat offset by $4.5 million of cash used to repurchase shares from employees as a means for them to satisfy tax withholding requirements or pay the exercise price upon the vesting of restricted stock and exercise of stock options. The taxes due on such activities increased significantly in 2024 in direct relation to the increase in our prevailing stock price.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

We consider an accounting policy to be critical if:

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the accounting estimate requires us to make assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain or require the use of judgment at the time we make that estimate; and

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changes in the estimate that are reasonably likely to occur from period to period or use of different estimates that we could have reasonably used instead in the current period would have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.

Management has reviewed the development and selection of these critical accounting estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, and the Audit Committee has reviewed these disclosures. In addition, there are other items within our financial statements that require estimation but are not deemed critical as defined above. Changes in these and other items could still have a material impact upon our financial statements.

Revenue Recognition

We recognize revenues when control of the promised goods or services is transferred to our customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services.

Some of our contracts with customers contain multiple performance obligations. For these contracts, we account for individual performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations based on relative standalone selling prices.

Maintenance services

We generate maintenance services revenues from fees that provide our customers with as-needed maintenance and repair services on modular data centers during the contract term. Our contract terms typically are one year in duration, are billed annually in advance, and are non-cancellable. As a result, we record deferred revenue (a contract liability) and recognize revenue from these services on a ratable basis over the contract term. We can mitigate our exposure to credit losses by discontinuing services in the event of non-payment. However, our history of non-payments and bad debt expenses has been insignificant.

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Integration services

We generate integration services revenues by providing our customers with customized systems and rack-level integration services. We recognize revenue upon shipment to the customer of the completed systems as this is when we have completed our services and when the customer obtains control of the promised goods.

In 2024, we signed a multi-year agreement to maintain a facility and trained staffing levels to integrate AI-enabled racks for a key customer. In addition to the fixed monthly fees to which we are entitled under that agreement, we also receive payments that scale depending on the volume of AI racks integrated and for which we are prepared to integrate. To mitigate the impact of demand fluctuations and supply-chain issues on our growing AI-enabled rack integration business that are largely out of our control, our customer has committed to pay us for maintaining staffing levels to support an agreed minimum weekly quantity of racks. To the extent we cannot meet the minimum weekly volume due to our inefficiency, such as production down time or labor shortages compared to agreed-upon levels, we will reduce the fee and bill only for the quantity of racks that we actually configured or could have configured, given the actual staffing levels. We contractually agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate our customer’s costs for under-utilized staff, including during periods of extended lulls in demand or supply chain issues experienced by our customer. Under this agreement, we recognize revenue monthly for maintaining the facility and trained staffing levels to support the weekly quantity of racks our customer has contractually requested we be ready to integrate, with the staffing fees reduced for any intentional or unintentional under-staffing. The fee for staffing is not variable consideration because the customer’s usage is known weekly and is not contingent on the occurrence of any future events or subject to any estimation.

We typically extend credit terms to our integration customers based on their creditworthiness and generally do not receive advance payments. As such, we record accounts receivable at the time of shipment, when our right to the consideration becomes unconditional. Accounts receivable from our integration customers are typically due within 30-105 days of invoicing. An allowance for doubtful accounts is provided based on a periodic analysis of individual account balances, including an evaluation of days outstanding, payment history, recent payment trends, and our assessment of our customers’ creditworthiness. As of December 31, 2024, and 2023, our allowance for doubtful accounts was $7,000.

Equipment and Material sales

We generate revenues under fixed price contracts from the sale of data center and related ancillary equipment or materials to customers in the United States. We recognize revenue when the product is shipped to the customer as that is when the customer obtains control of the promised goods and when we have completed our contractual obligations. Typically, we do not receive advance payments for equipment or material sales; however, if we do, we record the advance payment as deferred revenues. Normally we record accounts receivable at the time of shipment, when our right to the consideration has become unconditional. Accounts receivable from our equipment and material sales are typically due within 30-45 days of invoicing.

Deployment and Other services

We generate revenues from fees we charge our customers for other services, including repairs or other services not covered under maintenance contracts; installation and servicing of equipment, including modular data centers; and other fixed-price services including repair, design and project management services, or the moving of equipment to a different location. In some cases, we arrange for a third party to perform warranty and servicing of equipment, and in these instances, we recognize revenue as the amount of any fees or commissions that we expect to be entitled to. Other services are typically invoiced upon completion of services or completion of milestones. We record accounts receivable at the time of completion when our right to consideration becomes unconditional.

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Strategic Procurement services

We generate revenues from fees we charge our customers to procure third-party hardware, software and professional services on their behalf, some of which are then used in our integration services as we integrate these components to deliver a completed system to our customer. We recognize our procurement services revenues upon completion of the procurement activity. For any procurement activities in which we somehow transform the product, the revenues recognized on these transactions are the gross sales amount of the transaction, and we recognize offsetting costs of sales for any costs we incur to procure the related goods (“gross deals”). In some cases, we arrange for the purchase of third-party hardware, software or professional services that are to be provided directly to our customers by another party and we have no control of the goods before they are transferred to the customer and do not transform the product in any way. In these instances, we are acting as an agent in the transaction and recognize revenue on a net basis, recording only the amount of any fee or commissions that we expect to be entitled to after paying the other party for the goods or services provided to the customer (“net deals”). Accounts receivable from our procurement activities are typically due within 80 days of invoicing. The majority of the procurement activities generally involve us transforming the product, and as such the majority of these transactions are recorded as gross deals. In order to accelerate the time period in which we receive payment, we generally factor the procurement services receivables utilizing a program that we estimate has an effective annualized interest rate below the rate at which we could borrow funds. Regardless of whether the transaction is recorded as a gross transaction or a net transaction, the interest we are charged through the factoring program is based on the gross value of the transaction.

Judgments

We consider several factors in determining that control transfers to the customer upon shipment of equipment or upon completion of our services. These factors include that legal title transfers to the customer, we have a present right to payment, and the customer has assumed the risks and rewards of ownership at the time of shipment or completion of the services.

Sales taxes

Sales (and similar) taxes that are imposed on our sales and collected from customers are excluded from revenues.

Shipping and handling costs

Costs for shipping and handling activities, including those activities that occur subsequent to transfer of control to the customer, are recorded as cost of sales and are expensed as incurred. We accrue costs for shipping and handling activities that occur after control of the promised good or service has transferred to the customer.

The following table presents our revenues disaggregated by reportable segment and by product or service type (in ’000’s):

	Year Ended December 31,
	2024		2023
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT:
Maintenance revenues	$	4,446	$	4,543
Equipment sales		1,718		844
Deployment and other services		1,841		1,680
Total Facilities Management revenues	$	8,005	$	7,067

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION:
Integration services	$	22,620	$	8,817
Total Systems Integration revenues	$	22,620	$	8,817

PROCUREMENT:
Procurement services	$	117,519	$	38,515
Total Procurement revenues		117,519		38,515
TOTAL REVENUES	$	148,144	$	54,399

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Remaining Performance Obligations

Remaining performance obligations include deferred revenue and amounts we expect to receive for goods and services that have not yet been delivered or provided under existing, non-cancellable contracts. For contracts that have an original duration of one year or less, we have elected the practical expedient applicable to such contracts and we do not disclose the transaction price for remaining performance obligations at the end of each reporting period and when we expect to recognize this revenue. As of December 31, 2024, deferred revenue of $3,384,000 includes $1,476,000 of our remaining performance obligations for our maintenance contracts, all of which are expected to be recognized within one year, and $1,908,000 relates to procurement and integration services where we have yet to complete our services for our customers. Of the $1,908,000 deferred revenues related to procurement and integration services, $1,137,000 is expected to be recognized within one year, and $771,000 is expected to be recognized beyond one year. Contract liabilities, consisting of deferred revenues were $3,370,000 on December 31, 2023, and $2,080,000 on December 31, 2022.

Intangible Assets

We recorded goodwill and intangibles with definite lives, including customer relationships and acquired software, in conjunction with the acquisition of various businesses. Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized based on their estimated economic lives. Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of net identified tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed, and it is not amortized. The recorded goodwill is allocated to the reporting unit to which the underlying transaction relates.

We perform an impairment test of goodwill annually as of December 31, or whenever events or circumstances make it more likely than not that impairment of goodwill may have occurred. As part of the annual impairment test, we review for indicators of impairment as “Step Zero” of the annual impairment test as defined by U.S. GAAP and if any exist, we compare the fair value of the reporting unit with its carrying amount. If that fair value exceeds the carrying amount, no impairment charge is required to be recorded. If the carrying value exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value, we would recognize a goodwill impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value. However, the impairment loss recognized cannot exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. If necessary, the fair value of a reporting unit will be determined using a discounted cash flow, which requires the use of estimates and assumptions. Significant assumptions that may be required include forecasted operating results, and the determination of an appropriate discount rate. Actual results may differ from forecasted results, which may have a material impact on the conclusions reached.

We also review intangible assets with definite lives for impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. If the sum of the expected undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the related asset, a loss is recognized for the difference between the fair value and carrying value of the intangible asset.

We have elected to use December 31 as our annual assessment date. As circumstances change that could affect the recoverability of the carrying amount of the assets during an interim period, we will evaluate our indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment. The Company performed a quantitative analysis of our indefinite lived intangible assets on December 31, 2024, and 2023 and concluded there was no impairment. The valuation results indicated that the fair value of our reporting units was greater than the carrying value, including goodwill, for each of our reporting units. Thus, we concluded that there was no impairment on December 31, 2024, or 2023 for our goodwill and other long-lived intangible assets. On December 31, 2024, and 2023, the carrying value of goodwill was $0.8 million.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We estimate an allowance for doubtful accounts based on factors related to the specific credit risk of each customer. Historically our credit losses have been minimal. We perform credit evaluations of new customers and may require prepayments or use of bank instruments such as trade letters of credit to mitigate credit risk. We monitor outstanding amounts to limit our credit exposure to individual accounts. We continue to pursue collection even if we have fully provided for an account balance.

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Stock Based Compensation

We account for stock-based compensation using a fair-value based recognition method. Stock-based compensation cost is estimated at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized ratably over the requisite service period of the award. Determining the appropriate fair-value model and calculating the fair value of stock-based awards at the grant date requires considerable judgment, including estimating stock price volatility, expected option life and forfeiture rates. We develop our estimates based on historical data and market information that can change significantly over time. A small change in estimates can have a relatively large change in the estimated valuation.

We use the Black-Scholes option valuation model to value employee stock option awards that are not performance-based awards. We estimate stock price volatility based upon our historical volatility. Estimated option life and forfeiture rate assumptions are derived from historical data. For restricted stock awards, we use the quoted price of our common stock on the grant date as the fair value of the award. For stock-based compensation awards with graded vesting, we recognize compensation expense using the straight-line amortization method. For performance-based stock awards, if applicable, we may use third-party valuation specialists and a Monte-Carlo simulation model to ascertain the fair value of the award at grant date.

Results of Operations

Comparison of 2024 to 2023

Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons in this section are between the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 (the “current year” or “2024”) and the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 (the “prior year” or “2023”). Based on our current structure and ways in which the business is managed and viewed at an executive level, we determined that effective in the fourth quarter of 2024, we now have three reportable segments rather than two reportable segments as historically reported. The new procurement reportable segment was previously aggregated with the remainder of the systems integration segment. The systems integration segment and procurement segments are now separated into two reportable segments, with the third reportable segment remaining Facilities Management. Prior year segment information has been recast to conform to the current year presentation.

Revenue

Revenues consist of fees earned from the planning, design and project management for mission-critical facilities and information infrastructures, as well as fees earned from providing maintenance services for these facilities. We also earn revenues from providing system configuration and integration services, as well as procurement services, to IT equipment vendors. In the quarter ended June 30, 2024, we invested approximately $1.7 million in our Round Rock facility to expand our capacity to integrate generative AI-enabled server racks, including both air cooled and direct-liquid cooled systems. We received a reimbursement from one of our customers for the majority of those investments and are amortizing that reimbursement into service integration revenues over the expected useful life of three years. We began integration services on AI racks in June 2024 and have continued that activity to date. Currently we derive substantially all our revenue from the U.S. market, with an immaterial amount derived from Canada in service of a U.S. based customer.

We contract with our customers under five primary contract types: fixed-price service and maintenance contracts, time and material contracts, cost-plus-fee, guaranteed maximum price and fixed-price contracts. Cost-plus-fee and guaranteed maximum price contracts are typically lower risk arrangements and thus yield lower profit margins than time-and-materials and fixed-price arrangements which generally generate higher profit margins, relative to their higher risk. Certain of our service and maintenance contracts provide comprehensive coverage of all the customers’ equipment (excluding IT equipment) at a facility during the contract period. Where customer requirements are clear, we prefer to enter comprehensive fixed-price arrangements or time-and-materials arrangements rather than cost-plus-fee and guaranteed maximum price contracts.

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Most of our revenue is generated based on services provided either by our employees or subcontractors. To a lesser degree, the revenue we earn includes reimbursable travel and other costs to support the project. Since we earn higher profits from the labor services that our employees provide compared with use of subcontracted labor and other reimbursable costs, we seek to optimize our labor content on the contracts we are awarded to maximize our profitability. Occasionally, our revenues will reflect certain reimbursements received from customers for expanding our capacity, typically through capital expenditures, or for adding headcount to support specific customer requests.

Our maintenance and integration services traditionally earn higher margins and maintenance contracts typically renew annually, providing consistency and predictability of revenues. In past years, we performed design and project-management services in a concentrated number of high-value contracts for the construction of new data centers. In addition to contributing to large quarterly fluctuations in revenue depending upon project timing, these projects required higher levels of working capital and generated lower margins than our maintenance and integration services. We re-focused our design and project management services towards smaller scaled jobs typically connected with addition/move/retrofit activities rather than new construction, to obtain better margins and a more predictable pattern of earnings. We have also focused on providing maintenance services for modular data center applications as this market has expanded. We continue to focus on increasing our systems integration revenues through more consistent revenue streams that will better utilize our assets in that business, and through adding revenue streams such as procurement services to help drive volume through the integration facility. The expansion into AI-enabled rack integration services which began in June 2024 bolstered both our revenues and our earnings, helping move the systems integration segment from a $1.0 million segment pre-tax loss in the year ended December 31, 2023 to a $5.0 million segment contribution to pre-tax income in 2024. These amounts exclude certain corporate expenses, such as selling, general and administrative costs as well as facility costs and interest income that are not allocated to segments.

Total revenues in 2024 increased 172% to $148.1 million, with each major revenue stream contributing to the improvement. Procurement revenues increased by $79.0 million (205%), systems integration revenues increased by $13.8 million (157%), and facilities management revenues increased by $0.9 million (13%) from 2023.

The $13.8 million (157%) increase in systems integration revenues was due primarily to the growth in integration of AI-enabled computer racks, which began with significant volume in June 2024 and continued at similar volumes throughout the remainder of 2024. With the October signing of a multi-year agreement to continue integrating AI-enabled racks at similar volumes, we expect systems integration revenues to remain significantly above the historical trend for several years. This agreement calls for certain minimum monthly payments to us, which we believe will be sufficient to cover the majority of the costs for the facility and debt service payments tied to the build-out of that factory for which we are responsible. While those payments are required under the terms of this agreement, our customer could terminate the agreement if we were to materially breach the agreement, leaving us with the financial obligations of the facility and debt service regardless of whether we had revenues sufficient to cover those costs. Likewise, if we were to terminate the agreement other than due to our customer’s material breach of the agreement, they would be relieved of any further obligation. If the customer were to terminate the agreement for convenience, they would continue to be obligated to pay us for the monthly fixed charge, but would no longer have any minimum volume commitments, as discussed below.

In addition to the fixed monthly fees to which we are entitled under that agreement, we also receive payments that scale depending on the volume of AI racks integrated and for which we are prepared to integrate. To mitigate the impact of demand fluctuations and supply-chain issues on our growing AI-enabled rack integration business, our primary customer has committed to pay us for maintaining staffing levels to support an agreed minimum weekly quantity of racks. To the extent we do not meet the minimum weekly volume due to our production down time or labor shortages in compared to agreed-upon levels, we will reduce the fee, billing only for the quantity of racks we actually configured or could have configured given the actual staffing levels. We contractually agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate our customer’s costs for under-utilized staff, including during periods of extended lulls in demand or supply chain issues experienced by our customer. While any reduction in available staff reduces the revenues to which we are entitled under this agreement, we believe our long-term partnership with our customer is strengthened as we help them mitigate a portion of the costs for which they are responsible. The periodic reduction of revenues has a muted impact on our overall results, as we also reduce our labor costs in line with the reduced revenues.

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Our non-AI rack integration services, without such minimum commitments, may be impacted by periodic supply chain issues for certain components and lulls in demand. These supply chain disruptions periodically cause delays in the timing of systems integration revenue for us as we await delivery of required components, and our vendors and partners expect these supply-chain issues to continue for at least the next several quarters, though they appear to be improving in general. It is not yet known the extent to which tariffs currently threatened or imposed by the United States may or may not impact these supply chain issues.

Our procurement services involve us procuring third-party hardware, software and services on our customers’ behalf, some of which are then used in our integration services as we integrate those components to deliver a completed system to our customer. Because we are receiving these goods and transforming them, we recognize revenue for the gross value of these transactions and offsetting cost of sales for the components we purchase to fulfill the requests. We refer to these as “gross deals.” In some cases, we also act as an agent and arrange for the purchase of third-party hardware, software or services that are to be provided to our customers by another party and we have no control of the goods or services before they are transferred to the customer. In these instances, we are acting as an agent in the transaction and recognize revenue for only the amount of any fee or commission that we expect to be entitled to after paying the other party for the goods or services provided to the customer. We refer to these as “net deals.” The volume and timing of revenues from our procurement business has been unpredictable and subject to large fluctuations, especially on a quarterly basis. Most transactions are for discrete projects that do not recur, and most jobs are completed within six months.

The increase in procurement revenues, which was unusually large this year, was driven primarily by an increase in purchases from the federal government including several individually large sales, combined with a mix shift with a greater proportion of the revenues coming from gross deals, as opposed to net deals. As much of our procurement business is ultimately related to federal government buying, we believe this can contribute to some seasonality of these revenues. As the federal government budget ends on September 30 each year, we believe this may generally lead to an increase in procurement revenues in the quarter ending September 30 each year and again in the quarter ending December 31 as federal agencies receive their budgets for the new year. However, we cannot accurately predict when other large procurement activity will occur, such as large purchases from our customers’ enterprise clients.

Due to the lighter effort required to execute procurement transactions, the gross margins are thinner in that line of business. As a result, increases and decreases in that business have a smaller impact on our overall margins and profitability compared to increases in the facilities management or systems integration lines of business. The following table presents the results of our procurement activities, both in terms of the gross value of the transactions, regardless of whether they were recorded as gross deals or net deals, along with the recorded values, to aid in an analysis of the underlying economics (in thousands, except percentages):

	Year ended December 31, 2024			Year ended December 31, 2023			Increase		Percentage Increase
Recognized Values (GAAP):
Recognized value of all procurement deals	$	117,519		$	38,515		$	79,004		205	%
Recognized cost of revenues		109,697			33,256			76,441		230	%
Gross profit		7,822			5,259			2,563		49	%
Gross margin based on recognized value of transactions		6.7	%		13.7	%

Gross Values (Non-GAAP):
Gross value of all procurement deals	$	169,053		$	123,153		$	45,900		37	%
Cost of revenues		161,231			117,894			43,337		37	%
Gross profit		7,822			5,259			2,563		49	%
Gross margin based on gross value of transactions		4.6	%		4.3	%

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The following table provides a reconciliation of the non-GAAP figures presented above to the most closely related GAAP figures presented. We review these non-GAAP figures not as a substitute for the GAAP figures, but to help in our internal analysis of the underlying economics of each transaction as we do not believe the GAAP figures are as useful for that purpose as are the non-GAAP measures.

Year ended

December 31,

2024

SEC Form 10-K filed by TSS Inc.