David C. Smith & Son, Inc.

David C. Smith & Son, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Monrovia, Maryland, performs construction, renovation, and facility maintenance services for federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 231 recent prime awards and no subcontract activity. The company is an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business operating as a Subchapter S Corporation, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements on NIH-held indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements rather than pursuing formal set-asides, though several IDCs are reserved for women-owned small businesses.

David C. Smith & Son operates almost exclusively within the National Institutes of Health ecosystem. The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Construction accounts for 131 awards (56% of the prime portfolio) valued at $65.3 million combined potential value, with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute adding 25 awards worth $10.1 million. The company also serves the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, the NIH Office of the Director, and smaller NIH sub-institutes including the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Twenty-one distinct customer agencies appear in the recent award history, but NIH and its components represent 99% of combined potential value, making this a highly concentrated customer base. The company's secondary customer by award count is the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, with 23 awards worth $264 thousand—a fraction of NIH exposure.

The vendor's capability portfolio is anchored in specialized animal care facility construction and maintenance aligned to AAALAC (Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care) standards. Representative work includes room preparation, painting, and sealing to AAALAC compliance; biosafety cabinet procurement and installation; cagewash equipment replacement and maintenance; architectural finishes repairs; and general handyman services across NIH research facilities in Bethesda, Maryland. A $1.34 million delivery order (awarded September 2022, with no-cost time extension through January 2026) covered biosafety cabinet procurement and installation for non-cGMP spaces in the E-Wing project under a woman-owned small business set-aside. A $1.47 million delivery order (awarded September 2024) covers design and replacement of cagewash equipment at the Office of the Director. Smaller representative orders include $397 thousand for metabolic chamber upkeep in Building 10 (September 2026) and $294 thousand for architectural finishes repairs supporting AAALAC compliance (August 2026).

David C. Smith & Son sits on three named parent vehicles. The largest is Indefinite Delivery Contract 75N99019D00030 with NIH Construction, which has generated 131 task orders valued at $13.7 million combined potential value—representing the bulk of the vendor's business pipeline. The vendor also holds a new $30 million multiple-award BPA with NIH Construction awarded July 1, 2026 (set aside for small business), with two calls issued to date totaling $692 thousand. A $10 million single-award BPA with the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, awarded August 2024 and running through August 2027, covers facility supplies, equipment, and relocation services; two calls have been issued worth $40 thousand combined. An older $2.39 million indefinite delivery contract with NHLBI for general handyman services (awarded November 2021, ultimate completion November 2025) generated 25 delivery orders valued at $10.1 million combined.

Activity trajectory has been volatile over recent years. The vendor received 21 awards in 2022, declined to 14 in 2023, recovered to 27 in 2024, then dropped to 3 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 through mid-September. This recent decline may reflect reporting lag or fluctuation in NIH construction project cycles. Five awards with combined potential value of $2.7 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure concentrated in the NIH Construction and NHLBI customer base.

Service Contract Inventory data capturing reportable prime federal service contracts shows SCI-reported invoicing of $3 million across FY2022–FY2025, with the heaviest invoicing in FY2023 ($2.6 million). The SCI dataset indicates roughly 0.8 to 1.0 FTEs delivered to the federal government in peak years (FY2022–FY2023), declining to 0.2 FTEs in FY2024 and 0.0 in FY2025. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ran from $104.47 per hour at the 10th percentile to a median of $554.08 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $3,598.52 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for 5% of total contractor hours, with two named subcontractors appearing across the dataset—indicating the company builds its own delivery teams and rarely engages subs. The vendor operates 100% as a prime across the award portfolio with no subcontract activity reported, distinguishing it as an end-delivery contractor rather than a feeder to larger primes.

Primary NAICS categories reflect the construction focus: Painting and Wall Covering Contractors (151 awards), Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (34 awards), and All Other Support Services (25 awards). The top PSC code is Repair or Alteration of Miscellaneous Buildings (132 awards), followed by Maintenance of Miscellaneous Buildings (19 awards). Combined potential value across all 231 awards reaches $88.1 million, with $26.1 million obligated to date (30% of combined potential).

David C. Smith & Son, Inc. specializes in performing construction services in the following areas: healthcare, biomedical research environments, commercial, and industrial. We have vast experience working in the unique and challenging healthcare and biomedical research environments found at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda & Poolesville Maryland campuses, Fort Detrick,and Walter Reed Medical Hospital.