Design And Production Incorporated

Design And Production Incorporated, doing business as Design & Production Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer and exhibit design-and-fabrication firm headquartered in Lorton, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (99% of awards) delivering museum exhibit design, fabrication, installation, audio-visual systems, and preventative maintenance services to civilian federal agencies under full-and-open competition. The company is a subsidiary of Chargeurs Protective Inc., itself a foreign-owned entity.

Design & Production Inc. competes without SBA set-asides and has accumulated 181 awards spanning four decades, with recent activity running at roughly six awards annually across fiscal 2022–2026. The company's award portfolio ($491.1 million combined potential value, $227.1 million obligated) reflects concentration in Smithsonian Institution work (38 awards, $143.2 million), Coast Guard museum programs (7 awards, $115.1 million), Department of Army National Museum of the United States Army (NMUSA) exhibit contracts (33 awards, $14.1 million), and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gallery projects (9 awards, $31.9 million). The rankings by potential value expose a distinct cliff: Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District New England accounts for $169.2 million across just five awards—large-scale fixed-price construction work—while Smithsonian (38 awards) anchors volume at $143.2 million. Together, the top five customer agencies represent 96% of combined potential value.

Design & Production Inc. holds three significant agency IDVCs. A $65 million single-award IDIQ with the Coast Guard (ultimately capped at approximately $84.3 million through bilateral modification, performing through September 2027) covers exhibition design, fabrication, conservation, and maintenance across 62 labor categories and firm-fixed-price deliverables. A $6.7 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Army (through June 2028) supports NMUSA exhibit design, fabrication, installation, and audio-visual media software; recent delivery orders include a $2.8 million exhibit fabrication and design task (April 2024), a $1.5 million audio-visual media software order (September 2024), and a $550 thousand exhibit design task (June 2023). A $17.5 million single-award BPA with NARA (through November 2024) funds exhibit fabrication and installation support; a $13.2 million BPA call awarded August 2023 addressed exhibit fabrication consulting for the Signature Gallery and Learning Center project. The vendor also operates under smaller vehicles: an Air Force Basic Ordering Agreement (seven task orders, $695 thousand), an Army Indefinite Delivery Contract (eight task orders, no dollar figure provided), and a Department of Interior IDC (six task orders, $1.9 million). Representative prime delivery-order work includes a $55 million definitive contract from the Smithsonian for six state-of-the-art exhibitions and common areas at the National Air and Space Museum (awarded June 2022, ultimate completion July 2027), a $19.8 million Coast Guard delivery order for complete setup of Coast Guard Museum exhibits (awarded September 2025, completion January 2027, New London, Connecticut), and a $401.8 thousand NARA task order for exhibit preventative maintenance at the National Archives Museum (awarded September 2026, performing through September 2031 with four option years).

Recompete exposure runs significant: five awards with combined potential value of $94.2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The NARA BPA ($17.5 million ceiling) expired in November 2024; the Coast Guard IDIQ completes September 2027; the Army Indefinite Delivery Contract extends through June 2028.

Service Contract Inventory data capture a subset of the vendor's federal services footprint. SCI-reported invoicing reached $50.9 million across FY2023–FY2025 ($975 thousand in FY2023, $5.9 million in FY2024, $44 million in FY2025), reflecting sharp growth. The SCI dataset shows 41.2 FTEs delivered in FY2025 against 5.4 FTEs in FY2024, indicating ramped delivery capacity aligned with the Coast Guard and Smithsonian exhibit programs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $243/hr, with senior labor pricing through $513/hr and entry-level labor priced near $15/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average 24% of contractor hours, with 14 named subs engaged across the portfolio—indicating Design & Production Inc. builds integrated delivery teams for complex exhibit work rather than operating purely as a labor-shop. The vendor subcontracts to Chargeurs Protective Inc. (its own parent) on a December 2024 Department of State National Museum of American Diplomacy exhibit renovation (construction services, media hardware, and fabrication-installation work).

NAICS classification emphasizes manufacturing and design: top categories are All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing (23 awards), Museums (19 awards), Industrial Design Services (12 awards), and Graphic Design Services (10 awards). PSC coding confirms Support–Professional (Other) dominance (38 awards), with Construction of Museums and Exhibition Buildings (6 awards) and Purchase of Museums and Exhibition Buildings (6 awards) rounding out the profile. The vendor's specialization—complex exhibit design, fabrication, installation, and preventative maintenance for U.S. cultural and historical institutions—places it alongside prime competition from larger integrators but as the dominant specialist in federal exhibit services.