Blair Inc.

Blair Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Springfield, Virginia, designs, fabricates, installs, and maintains museum exhibits, heritage displays, and visual communication products for federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor across 287 awards in the source data. The company competes full-and-open on all awards with no set-aside designations on the majority of recent work, though it holds two significant small-business-set-aside indefinite delivery contracts with the Department of the Army and Marine Corps. Blair specializes in concrete exhibit solutions: custom fabrication of museum galleries, memorial wall displays, mountmaking, graphics, labels, lightboxes, and maintenance labor for exhibits across Army installations, the Smithsonian Institution, and defense agencies.

Blair's customer concentration spans 58 federal agencies, but the top five by award count account for 47% of recent activity. The Smithsonian Institution leads in award frequency with 41 orders (combined potential value $2.9 million), followed by the Department of the Treasury United States Mint (46 awards, $1.3 million), and the Marine Corps (17 awards, $1.5 million). However, the top five by potential value tell a different story: the Department of the Army anchors the portfolio at $20.5 million across 12 awards, driven largely by a $20 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract for fabrication and installation services across the Army Museum Enterprise (ceiling $20 million, awarded July 29, 2022, running through July 29, 2027, set aside for total small business). The Army Intelligence and Security Command adds another $6 million across 13 awards. This dollar concentration with Army offsets the high-frequency relationship with the Smithsonian and the Mint, which place numerous smaller task orders. Blair also holds a $250,000 single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Marine Corps for exhibit mounts, graphics, and labels (awarded August 31, 2023, running through August 30, 2028, total small business set-aside) from which it has issued task orders ranging from $225 to $48,246.

Recent representative work demonstrates Blair's exhibit portfolio depth. On the Army side, Blair delivered a $513,677 definitive contract (September 17, 2025, completion September 16, 2026) for design, fabrication, and installation of wall displays for the HQDA Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and Pentagon 9/11 commemorative walls; a prior $1.43 million definitive contract (September 30, 2021, completion March 30, 2025) covered the HQDA G-3/5/7 Heritage Wall. For the Smithsonian Institution, Blair completed a $927,951 delivery order (June 25, 2025, completion May 30, 2026) for fabrication, mountmaking, and installation of the National Museum of Natural History's 250th Bison Exhibition, and a $551,254 definitive contract (April 16, 2025, completion February 28, 2026) for the "How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories for APAC" exhibition. The Marine Corps places recurring task orders under its $250,000 IDIQ for exhibit mounts and graphics, with orders such as a $48,246 delivery order (March 4, 2025, completion September 1, 2025) and a $36,507 delivery order (December 12, 2024, completion September 1, 2025). Blair also executes smaller booth rental and event services for the Office of Naval Research—for example, a $43,835 Space Symposium 2026 booth services purchase order (March 26, 2026, completion April 16, 2026).

Blair's primary vehicle positioning runs through two indefinite delivery contracts: the $20 million Army multiple-award IDIQ for fabrication and installation (45 task orders, $591 thousand combined potential value in the source's vehicle-level reporting, though the contract ceiling itself is $20 million) and the $250,000 Marine Corps single-award IDIQ. Beyond those, Blair holds a seat on The Professional Services Schedule (GSA Multiple Award Schedule equivalent), where 56 task orders carry a combined potential value of $5.3 million, predominantly Smithsonian and Department of the Navy work. Several agency-specific IDIQs appear in the vehicle list—TMHQ09C0005, FA701406A0001, M0026423D0018, and W911W410D0029—representing Army, Navy, and Treasury contract vehicles under which Blair issues fabrication and display orders.

Award activity shows volatility rather than growth trajectory: 6 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, declining to 7 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 2 through March 2026. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1 million), meaning Blair has limited near-term recompete exposure; the large Army and Marine Corps IDIQs extend through 2027 and 2028 respectively, providing stable task-order pipelines. Blair operates exclusively as a prime contractor—zero sub-award activity appears in the source—and has served federal customers continuously since 1979 according to the first award date, with substantial work volume established by 2002 when the company established its federal exhibit-services reputation. The company's business-type designation captures it as a manufacturer of goods and a woman-owned small business, positioning it competitively for civilian agency work (Smithsonian, NIH, Treasury) and defense installations (Army, Marine Corps, Navy) where exhibit solutions and visual communication products support museums, training, heritage initiatives, and public outreach.

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.