Fabrication Designs, Inc.

Fabrication Designs, Inc., doing business as Fabrication Design, manufactures metal door frames, screens, glazing panels, and related security infrastructure components for U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide, operating as a prime contractor on 100% of its federal awards. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Hanover, Maryland, with no SBA set-aside designations, though it has competed successfully in both full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories across its footprint.

The Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) dominates the customer concentration, accounting for 320 awards valued at $51.2 million combined potential value across 87% of the vendor's award count. Three additional State Department components—the State Department proper (39 awards, $975 thousand), the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (5 awards, $124 thousand), and the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1 award, $15 thousand)—round out the civilian customer base. The U.S. Agency for International Development and its Office of Security contribute 27 awards valued at $1.273 million combined potential value. Concentration is high and stable; OBO alone represents approximately 52% of combined potential value across all awards, with the top five customers accounting for 55% of dollars. Recent representative work includes a $277,799 purchase order from OBO in January 2025 for metal door screen site survey, preparation, and fabrication work in Trinidad and Tobago; a $227,086 order in June 2024 for procurement and air shipment of 13 doors and one polycarbonate door to the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay; and a $552,977.55 definitive contract awarded in September 2021 for design and construction of two Compound Emergency Sanctuaries at the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, completed in 2023.

The vendor sits on two indefinite delivery contracts as the primary vehicles for task order placement: SALMEC05D0063 (44 task orders, $20 million combined potential value) and SAQMMA11D0001 (19 task orders, $15.7 million combined potential value). The vendor holds manufacturing capabilities across metal window and door manufacturing (332 awards by NAICS classification), security systems services (14 awards), and related fabricated metal product categories. Performance locations span the globe, with recent work in South Africa, India, the Philippines, Somalia, Ecuador, France, Brunei, Kenya, Uruguay, Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Canada, and numerous other international locations alongside domestic manufacturing and staging at its Hanover, Maryland headquarters and a secondary facility in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Place of performance reflects OBO's mission footprint across U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide.

Activity has been volatile year to year, with 20 awards in 2022, a significant drop to 2 awards in 2023, then recovery to 45 awards in 2024 and 26 in 2025, with 4 awards recorded in early 2026. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months shows minimal exposure, with only 2 awards valued at $29 thousand facing ultimate completion dates within that window. Combined dollars obligated across all awards stand at $42.3 million (43% of the $98.1 million combined potential value). The vendor's subcontractor footprint is minimal; two sub-awards exist: a March 2024 engagement with General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. for global security engineering and supply chain services, and an August 2023 engagement with Vectrus Systems LLC for LOGCAP V support services in Kuwait. Fabrication Designs operates as a specialized supplier to OBO and allied State Department security functions, with no meaningful defense or civilian agency diversification outside the diplomatic security infrastructure domain.