Archival Arts Services, Inc.

Archival Arts Services, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, supplies custom framing, art preservation, matting, and related archival services to federal cultural and diplomatic institutions exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing under full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designations. The vendor has maintained continuous SAM.gov registration since December 2004 and operates with a footprint concentrated in museum curation and embassy facility support.

The vendor's customer base splits between two dominant agencies accounting for 73% of awards. The Smithsonian Institution (20 awards, $392 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (18 awards, $567 thousand combined potential value) anchor the portfolio. The two rankings align closely on concentration — BOBO dominates by dollars, Smithsonian by volume — with ancillary work for the Department of the Interior's Departmental Offices and the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service rounding out the active set. Representative work includes a $31.8 thousand Smithsonian purchase order (awarded September 2025, completed March 2026) for framing visual arts gallery displays; a $46.6 thousand BOBO purchase order (awarded June 2023, extended through June 2026) for arts, drawings, frames, and related materials for international embassies; and most recently a $21.0 thousand Smithsonian order for custom frames with glazing for prints (awarded September 2023, completed December 2023). Current work under performance includes a $20.9 thousand BOBO purchase order for art framing and preservation (awarded August 2026, completion November 2027) and a $25.0 thousand BOBO order for metal door screen frames and materials for international embassies (awarded September 2025, completion October 2027).

Activity has remained flat over the past five years — three awards in 2023, two in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 — with three awards (combined potential value $71 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months and thus subject to recompete. All 56 awards in the source record are purchase orders; the vendor holds no positions on IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. Combined potential value across all recent awards totals $1.1 million, with 100% of that amount obligated, indicating primarily closed or executing work. The vendor's NAICS footprint clusters around Art Dealers (14 awards) and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers (12 awards), with secondary classification under Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers and Interior Design Services, reflecting the specialized nature of the framing and archival preservation work.