Gerling & Associates, Inc.

Gerling & Associates, Inc., a for-profit corporation based in Sunbury, Ohio, designs and manufactures custom mobile vehicles, trailers, and specialized units for federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards), competing on the open market without SBA set-aside certification. The company holds two active indefinite delivery contracts through GSA Federal Acquisition Service and sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, from which it receives the majority of its task orders for mobile medical units, command centers, broadcast vehicles, instrumentation platforms, and specialized response equipment.

Gerling's federal work concentrates with GSA FAS (46 awards, $28 million combined potential value) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration (10 awards totaling $9.9 million across Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 and 21). The VA relationship represents recurring procurement of 53-foot mobile medical unit trailers, mobile operating room trailers, and mobile communication equipment; the largest single award is a $2.99 million purchase order from VA VISN 21 for three mobile operating room trailers with completion targeted for June 30, 2026. GSA FAS acts as both a direct customer and the contracting vehicle for task orders placed by other agencies including the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Federal Highway Administration. Recent high-value prime awards include a $1.59 million delivery order from Customs and Border Protection (September 2025) for MUAS operations and maintenance trailers with generator modifications, a $1.53 million delivery order from Army Test and Evaluation Command (September 2025) for mobile instrumentation vehicles supporting FIRES systems testing, and a $1.50 million delivery order from the Department of Defense (September 2025) for a video production truck.

Gerling's capability portfolio centers on engineering and manufacturing of motor vehicle bodies and light truck utility vehicles — 71 and 70 awards respectively across NAICS classification — with heavy PSC concentration in trucks and truck tractors (124 awards). The company manufactures purpose-built vehicles for emergency response (mine emergency units, seismic trucks, CBR screening vehicles), health delivery (mobile medical units, operating room trailers), communications infrastructure (broadcast vehicles, communication trailers), command and control (mobile command centers), and environmental monitoring (Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer mobile air monitoring laboratory, $849,900, EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management, September 2025). Work is performed and manufactured in Sunbury, Ohio.

Activity has been uneven — ten awards in 2023, declining to seven in 2024 and rising to nine in 2025 — with seven awards (combined potential value $6.6 million) completing within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. The company holds two GSA indefinite delivery contracts beyond the Multiple Award Schedule: Indefinite Delivery Contract GS30FP0017 (30 task orders, $3.6 million combined potential value) and GS30FBA043 (12 task orders, $4.9 million combined potential value), anchoring flexible procurement of non-standard vehicles for government agencies. In its minor subcontractor role (4% of recent awards), Gerling subcontracts to the National Opinion Research Center and the State of Montana Department of Health and Human Services on National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data collection work, a marked departure from its prime specialty in vehicle manufacturing and representing operational diversification into field data collection services.