F.w. Webb Company

F.W. Webb Company, doing business as FW Webb Co, is a large for-profit plumbing, HVAC, and mechanical equipment supplier headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, that competes as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) supplying specialized facility infrastructure components to federal agencies under full-and-open firm fixed-price purchase orders without set-aside designations. The company has operated for over 150 years and maintains a federal contracting footprint spanning 33 distinct customer agencies since at least 1983.

F.W. Webb's federal capability portfolio centers on the procurement and installation of water heaters (including tankless units), boiler valves, pressure-reducing valves, heat exchangers, HVAC equipment, backflow prevention devices, steam monitoring systems, and related mechanical systems for facility maintenance and emergency infrastructure replacement. Representative prime work includes a $169 thousand heat exchanger emergency repair at Federal Correctional Institution Fairton (Department of Justice, awarded May 2024), a $114.9 thousand tankless water heater supply contract with Federal Correctional Institution Danbury (Department of Justice, awarded January 2023), a $68.4 thousand IntelliHot tankless water heater installation at Federal Correctional Institution Danbury (awarded December 2025), and a $31.6 thousand cast steel pressure-reducing valve material supply to Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (Department of Veterans Affairs, awarded April 2025). The company supplies specialized equipment including custom-built Armstrong water heaters for the Coast Guard Academy ($24 thousand, September 2025) and provides calibration services for QM3 steam monitoring systems through a multi-year contract running to September 2030 with Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 ($21.3 thousand initial award, October 2025).

Customer concentration clusters within the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Justice. The top two customer groupings by potential value are Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (22 awards, $368 thousand combined potential value) and Federal Correctional Institution Danbury (3 awards, $298 thousand), followed by Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (21 awards, $269 thousand) and Federal Correctional Institution Fairton (3 awards, $230 thousand). The top five customers by award count account for 18% of all awards and represent $816 thousand in combined potential value across 96 awards; the top five by potential value (59% of total) show divergence — Federal Correctional Institution Danbury and Fairton anchor disproportionate dollar value despite fewer award instances, indicating larger-value individual projects at those facilities, while the VA networks generate substantial value through higher-frequency smaller procurements. Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command ranks third by award count (29 awards, $15 thousand combined potential value), signaling a high-volume, low-dollar transactional relationship.

F.W. Webb maintains one named parent vehicle: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N0010283C0433) carrying one task order. The company operates primarily through direct purchase orders rather than through government-wide vehicles or agency-wide IDIQs.

Award activity has remained modest but consistent, averaging approximately eight prime awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with no meaningful growth or decline trajectory. Only one award in the source data carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, valued at $24 thousand, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

F.W. Webb operates as a subcontractor on Department of Navy military construction work through prime contractor 381 Constructors, supplying PEX tubing, fittings, and pump components for the Multi-Mission Dry Dock #1 project at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine (sub awards dated November 2022 through April 2025). The company also subcontracted to EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc. for performance-based remediation services at Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts (April 2023).

The company's federal award distribution by NAICS reflects its core business: Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies (Hydronics) Merchant Wholesalers (29 awards), Plumbing Fixture Fitting and Trim Manufacturing (28 awards), and Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (9 awards) dominate the top categories. By PSC, Plumbing Fixtures and Accessories (145 awards) and Hose, Pipe, Tube, Lubrication, and Railing Fittings (65 awards) account for the highest frequency, with Waste Disposal Equipment (61 awards) and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Components (22 awards) rounding out the portfolio. F.W. Webb competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements; no awards in the source carry small business set-aside designations, consistent with its large-business classification.