Fairbanks Scales Inc.

Fairbanks Scales Inc., a Mission, Kansas-based manufacturer of precision weighing devices, operates as a federal prime contractor (94% of recent awards) delivering scale maintenance, calibration, repair, and equipment services across defense and civilian agencies on a full-and-open competitive basis without set-aside designations.

The company's customer base concentrates heavily on Air Force Materiel Command and the United States Mint. Air Force Materiel Command anchors the dollar value with 17 awards totaling $2.3 million in combined potential value, driven by a $719.4 thousand single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded in October 2020 for heavy aircraft scale maintenance at Edwards Air Force Base, California, which has generated annual delivery orders ranging from approximately $71 thousand to $125.8 thousand. The U.S. Mint represents the largest award count with 19 orders ($324 thousand combined potential value) for scale calibration services, software repair and updates, and warehouse scale equipment, running through September 2026. Together, these two customers account for approximately 73% of the combined potential value across all recorded awards. The Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection, the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, and the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command round out the top-five customer set. Across 108 total awards, Fairbanks Scales has worked with 33 distinct federal agencies since 1992.

Fairbanks Scales' capability portfolio centers on heavy aircraft scale maintenance and calibration (particularly for Air Force testing and evaluation), precision scale calibration across multiple agencies and installations, scale repair and emergency maintenance, and equipment repair and software support. Representative prime work includes the $125.8 thousand January 2026 Air Force delivery order for aircraft heavy scales at Edwards AFB (firm fixed price, completion January 2027), a $97.9 thousand October 2022 U.S. Mint purchase order for scale calibration services through September 2026, a $84.4 thousand October 2024 Air Force Materiel Command delivery order for heavy scales maintenance, a $33.6 thousand May 2023 Navy Installations Command purchase order for scale calibration and emergency maintenance at Norfolk, Virginia (running through May 2028), and a $10.3 thousand September 2024 Army Contracting Command purchase order for Fairbanks scale repair and calibration.

Activity has fluctuated year to year with eight awards in 2021, declining to three awards each in 2022 and 2023, then rebounding to seven in 2024 and two through mid-2026. Three awards carrying combined potential value of $257 thousand reach completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. On the IDV front, Fairbanks Scales holds a newly awarded single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Air National Guard (ceiling $730 thousand, January 2026 through January 2031) for aircraft heavy scales, concurrent with which the Air Force issued the $125.8 thousand delivery order noted above. Earlier single-award IDIQ vehicles include three Air Force Materiel Command contracts (FA930115D0004, FA930121D0003, and FA930126D0002) that have generated 14 task orders totaling $1.017 million, plus additional Navy and Army single-award IDIQs. The vendor also places task orders under Alliant II (seven orders on record).

In its subcontractor role, Fairbanks Scales supports Science Applications International Corporation on Department of Homeland Security border-security programs, providing IT service and support for license plate reader equipment maintenance and troubleshooting at ports of entry and Border Patrol locations (six sub-awards across 2021 and March 2024). The Service Contract Inventory dataset shows minimal SCI-reportable service-contract activity — three sub-records (zero as prime) spanning FY2022–FY2024, with workforce scale of approximately 5.7 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 3.6 FTEs by FY2024 — indicating that Fairbanks Scales' federal business is dominated by goods and equipment sales, repair orders, and maintenance tasks below or outside the SCI reporting threshold rather than labor-intensive service contracts. The vendor competes across full-and-open federal procurements without SBA set-aside designations and holds no position on government-wide acquisition contracts; its presence is anchored to single-award IDIQs and tactical purchase orders from direct customer agencies.