Capitol Exhibit Services, Inc.

Capitol Exhibit Services, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, designs, fabricates, installs, and maintains museum exhibits, visitor center displays, trade show booths, and educational installations for federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open competition vehicles, with no use of set-aside designations across most of its portfolio despite holding two small-business-set-aside IDIQs.

The company operates across a sprawling federal footprint spanning 71 customer agencies, though customer concentration is steep. The top five agencies by award count account for 57% of recent awards: NASA Headquarters (105 awards, $27.5 million combined potential value), the Smithsonian Institution (89 awards, $12.8 million), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (75 awards, $12.9 million), the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center (40 awards, $6.4 million), and the Department of the Army (22 awards, $4 million). Dollar concentration diverges notably from award volume; the National Park Service leads by potential value at $52.7 million across 13 awards, and the Army anchors $38.8 million across six awards, reflecting the large-dollar ceiling on Capitol Exhibit Services' $45 million National Park Service IDIQ and $20 million Army IDIQ. Recent representative work includes a $760 thousand exhibit fabrication delivery order to the Smithsonian Institution for three exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (awarded March 1, 2024), a $931 thousand delivery order to the National Park Service for museum interpretive exhibits at Sitka National Historical Park (awarded September 22, 2022), a $415 thousand deep ocean theater upgrade for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (awarded September 27, 2022), and a $318 thousand THST exhibit fabrication order (awarded May 15, 2025, total small business set-aside).

Capitol Exhibit Services holds four primary parent vehicles. The $45 million National Park Service small-business-set-aside IDIQ (through May 12, 2027) procures museum interpretive exhibits and displays nationwide. The $20 million Department of the Army small-business-set-aside IDIQ (through July 29, 2027) covers museum exhibit fabrication and installation services. A $2.5 million single-award NOAA Blanket Purchase Agreement for exhibit support services (through May 31, 2031) was awarded June 1, 2026. The $1 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (through June 2, 2027) carries 27 labor categories spanning apprentice cabinetmakers at $66.29 per hour through senior A/V systems design engineers at $133.42 per hour, with education requirements from high school through bachelor's degree and no security-cleared roles. The company's activity has declined year over year—30 awards in 2022 to five awards in the first half of 2026—with only 11 awards (combined potential value $3.2 million) reaching completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

The company's award portfolio is dominated by convention and trade show organizing work (223 awards), miscellaneous professional services (85 awards), and display advertising (63 awards), with museums accounting for 38 awards and support services 25 awards. Service Contract Inventory data show modest scale: SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $3.8 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2022 showing a spike to $1.7 million across 551 FTEs before dropping to under $850 thousand and 5 FTEs in subsequent years. On SCI-reportable service contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran from a tenth percentile of $1.77 per hour to a median of $51.53 per hour and a ninetieth percentile of $138.27 per hour; the wide spread reflects inconsistency in how SCI-reported contracts are structured (some appear heavily materials-laden or time-and-materials-priced). Capitol Exhibit Services performs work entirely with its own staff on federal contracts—0% subcontractor hours share across SCI-reportable prime contracts—and does not operate as a subcontractor to other primes in the source data (100% of awards are prime).

Full Service Exhibit & Environments Fabricator specializing in trade show, museum, corporate marketing centers, custom P.O.P displays, lobbies and retail enviroments. We also are capable of on-demand custom millwork and carpentry.