Equipment Resource Center, Inc.

Equipment Resource Center, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Westminster, Maryland, supplies precision metrology equipment and industrial machinery to the federal government as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations, though it maintains eligibility for small business set-asides and has won multiple total small business set-aside awards across its footprint.

Equipment Resource Center's capability portfolio centers on laser trackers, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), articulated arm portable CMMs, theodolites, and metalworking machinery—lathes, bandsaws, milling machines, surface grinders, and drill presses—in support of defense and civilian agency maintenance, manufacturing, and quality control operations. Representative prime work includes a $1,012,443.55 delivery order from Air Force Materiel Command in June 2025 for two Leica Laser XR Trackers and accessories under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $395,249 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command in April 2023 for a theodolite with gyro package under total small business set-aside; a $266,412.02 delivery order from Naval Sea Systems Command in August 2022 for a Leica Absolute Tracker AT960-LR under the GSA MAS; and a $257,101.50 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command in September 2024 for a Leica Absolute Tracker AT960-LR and related measurement equipment under total small business set-aside.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with the Navy and defense logistics. The top five customers by award count represent 33% of awards: Naval Sea Systems Command (37 awards, $4.2 million), Naval Air Systems Command (16 awards, $1.1 million), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (15 awards, $4.5 million), National Institute of Standards and Technology (10 awards, $1.6 million), and NASA Shared Services Center (9 awards, $710 thousand). By potential value, the rankings shift modestly: GSA Federal Acquisition Service (4 awards, $7.1 million), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (15 awards, $4.5 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (37 awards, $4.2 million), Air Force Materiel Command (5 awards, $3.1 million), and NIST (10 awards, $1.6 million). The tension between volume and dollars reflects the GSA MAS contract's high-dollar delivery orders offsetting lower transaction counts, while Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the high-transaction portfolio.

Equipment Resource Center holds a $1.9 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (47QSMS24D008A) awarded June 10, 2024, and running through June 9, 2029. This vehicle carries 181 task orders worth $17.6 million combined potential value and dominates the vendor's prime work. Delivery orders under the MAS have been placed by the Office of Naval Research, Air Force Materiel Command, Air Education and Training Command, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, the Department of Agriculture, and NASA Shared Services Center, among others.

Activity has remained relatively stable at 12 awards annually in 2024 and 2025, following volatility in prior years (13 awards in 2022, 5 in 2023). The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carries $195 thousand in potential value. Equipment Resource Center's subcontractor footprint is negligible (1% of awards); recent sub work includes a February 2025 sub-award for Bridgeport milling machines under a NASA Johnson Space Center engineering and scientific products contract, and a July 2024 sub-award to Consolidated Nuclear Security for management and operating services at Y-12 National Security Complex.

The award portfolio is concentrated in metalworking machinery manufacturing (169 awards, 63% of the total) and precision measurement instruments (26 awards). The vendor has maintained federal relationships since SAM registration in 2001 and obligated $29.7 million (82% of combined potential value) across its 267-award footprint.