Blair Inc.

Blair Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Springfield, Virginia, designs, fabricates, installs, and maintains museum exhibits, heritage displays, graphics, labels, and visual communication products for federal agencies as a prime contractor across a diversified customer base spanning 59 distinct agencies. Blair competes predominantly in the full-and-open federal marketplace without reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, though it holds two significant small-business-set-aside IDIQs with the Marine Corps and the Army. The company operates as a manufacturer of goods and exhibit-services provider under primary NAICS codes 541850 (Display Advertising) and specialty trade contractor classifications, with over seventy years of operational history in federal exhibit solutions.

Blair's customer concentration is diffuse by award count but heavily dollar-weighted toward defense and cultural institutions. The Smithsonian Institution leads by volume (42 awards, $2.9 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Treasury's U.S. Mint (46 awards, $1.3 million), and the Marine Corps (19 awards, $1.5 million). However, the Department of the Army anchors the dollar base, with 12 awards totaling $20.5 million in combined potential value, supplemented by 13 awards from Army Intelligence and Security Command valued at $6 million. Together, Army programs account for approximately 50% of Blair's combined potential value across all awards. The top five customer categories cover 62% of combined potential value, reflecting moderate concentration risk offset by breadth across civilian, defense, and cultural agencies.

Blair holds two primary vehicle positions. The Professional Services Schedule (GSA) carries 56 task orders valued at $5.3 million, representing the largest single vehicle footprint. Blair also operates under two small-business-set-aside IDIQs: a $250,000 single-award contract with the Marine Corps (established August 2023, extending through August 2028) for exhibit mounts, graphics, and labels, which has generated eight task orders under $194 thousand combined value, and a $20 million multiple-award contract with the Department of the Army for fabrication and installation services across the Army Museum Enterprise (awarded July 2022, extending through July 2027), seeded with task orders including a $73.2 thousand delivery order for Fort Belvoir fabrication and installation completed in August 2023. Blair also operates under Army-specific IDICs including TMHQ09C0005 (45 task orders, $591 thousand), FA701406A0001 (11 task orders, $1.2 million), and W911W410D0029 (6 task orders, $684 thousand).

Recent representative work spans exhibit fabrication, installation, and graphics across multiple agencies. For the Smithsonian, Blair completed a $927.9 thousand delivery order (awarded June 2025) for the National Museum of Natural History's 250th Bison Exhibition fabrication, mountmaking, and installation; a $551.3 thousand definitive contract (April 2025) for the "How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories for APAC" exhibition; and a $490.2 thousand time-and-materials delivery order (April 2023) for exhibit maintenance services at the National Museum of Natural History with a base year plus four one-year options through April 2028. For the Army, Blair executed a $513.7 thousand definitive contract (September 2025) for wall display design, fabrication, and installation for the Pentagon's HQDA Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and 9/11 commemorative displays, completing September 2026. For the Marine Corps, Blair has delivered multiple task orders for exhibit mounts, graphics, and labels under its small-business-set-aside IDIQ, including a $35 thousand delivery order (May 2026) for the 250th Display exhibit project. For the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Blair fabricated a $139.4 thousand 350-square-foot museum exhibit on Harvey Alter and Hepatitis C discovery (April 2023). For the Office of Naval Research, Blair provided booth and show services across multiple National Space Symposium and Sea Air Space Show events, with individual orders ranging from $17 thousand to $46.8 thousand.

Activity has fluctuated moderately over the past five years — six awards in 2022, climbing to thirteen in 2023, then contracting to seven in both 2024 and 2025, with five awards recorded by mid-2026. This trajectory suggests a maturation plateau after 2023 growth. Recompete exposure is minimal: only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carries a combined potential value of approximately $490 thousand, reducing near-term competitive vulnerability for Blair but also indicating limited pipeline visibility for near-term task-order growth under existing vehicles. Blair operates solely as a prime contractor with no documented sub-award footprint, eliminating sub-teaming relationships but concentrating execution and delivery risk entirely within the company's own fabrication and installation capabilities. The company's 291 total prime awards over the source's observation period, with combined potential value of $53.6 million and $19.7 million in combined obligated dollars (37% realization rate), reflects a steady-state model optimized for task-order execution under standing IDICs rather than new-prime-contract pursuit.

Custom fabrication of trade show booths, permanent installations for museums, corporate lobbies, visitor centers. Graphic design and art production, digital printing, installation and distmantle, full trade show services.