Creative Sign Service Inc.

Creative Sign Service Inc., doing business as Creative Signage Systems, manufactures and installs custom signage, wayfinding systems, and visual communication products for federal agencies as a prime contractor, operating entirely under full-and-open competition with no set-aside activity across its federal footprint. The Beltsville, Maryland-based for-profit manufacturer holds primary NAICS 327599 (Sign Manufacturing) and PSC 21060 (Signs, Advertising Displays, and Identification Plates), with a 1,003-award prime portfolio spanning 82 distinct federal customer agencies and $99.6 million in combined potential value since 1978.

Creative Signage Systems' customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of Veterans Affairs across multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks, anchored by VISN 5, which holds 34 awards worth $27 million combined potential value (27% of the vendor's total dollar footprint). The next tier of dollar concentration includes the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland (12 awards, $10.6 million), VISN 15 (8 awards, $5.5 million), and VISN 12 (8 awards, $3.1 million). The top five customer entities account for 49% of combined potential value. Within the VA network, volume and dollars track closely — VISN 1, VISN 6, and other regional networks generate 90 awards collectively across the VA enterprise, though at lower per-award magnitude than VISN 5's anchor contracts. Recent work includes a $439,924 delivery order for Phase IV wayfinding signage at William S. Middleton VA Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin (VISN 12, September 2026); an $86,669.51 delivery order for wayfinding signage at the Lowell Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Calverton, Maryland (VISN 1, September 2026); and an $18,733.64 delivery order for interior signage renovation at Social Security Administration headquarters in Baltimore (September 2026).

Creative Signage Systems operates predominantly through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), holding two primary vehicles: the "Sports, Promotional, Outdoor, Recreation Trophies and Signs" schedule with 725 task orders worth $58.2 million combined potential value, and the core Multiple Award Schedule with 29 task orders worth $18 million combined potential value. The vendor also holds a $15 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with VISN 5 and a $6 million MAS contract, both used for ongoing signage maintenance, wayfinding services, and hospital signage delivery across the VA network. Task orders flow consistently across GSA federal supply schedules GS07F8172B (35 task orders) and GS07F1828A (23 task orders), alongside an indefinite-delivery contract with the Department of Justice (10 task orders, $608 thousand). The vendor competes full-and-open across all vehicles; recent Total Small Business set-aside awards account for two orders (a $20,945 outdoor signage order from VISN 5 in September 2024 and a $38,602 exterior sign system order from VISN 6 in January 2023), but the set-aside posture is negligible relative to the full-and-open mainstream.

Award activity has declined over the past five years — seven awards in 2022, six in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and three in the first nine months of 2026 — suggesting a shift toward larger task orders rather than greater frequency. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months is minimal, with only three awards (combined potential value $545 thousand) reaching ultimate completion by October 2028, indicating low near-term recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable federal services revenue: $200 thousand invoiced in FY2025 across 1.2 FTEs on a single prime contract, with no SCI-reportable activity in FY2023 or FY2024. SCI captures only service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods; Creative Signage Systems' core business is goods manufacturing and installation, so SCI coverage substantially underrepresents the vendor's federal services footprint. The vendor delivers its own signage production and installation without named subcontractors across the reported award portfolio.