Girod Holt Conservation LLC

Girod Holt Conservation LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Takoma Park, Maryland, provides conservation treatment services for paper objects, photographs, and flat artwork to federal agencies and museums as a prime contractor operating exclusively in full-and-open competition without set-asides. The firm is certified as a self-certified small disadvantaged business and DOT-certified DBE, structured as a limited liability company.

Girod Holt's capability portfolio centers on conservation and preservation work for cultural institutions. Representative work includes a $36,000 purchase order from the National Library of Medicine for photograph and flat art on paper conservation (awarded September 2021, completed September 2024); a $12,750 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Smithsonian Institution for conservation treatment of the James Wells Collection (March 2025, completion targeted June 2025); a $5,500 purchase order from the Smithsonian for conservation treatment supporting the CAAMA exhibition (August 2022); and a $6,225 purchase order from the Smithsonian for conservation treatment of paper objects (December 2021).

Customer concentration is high and narrow. Three agencies account for 94% of awards by count and 93% of combined potential value: the Smithsonian Institution anchors the footprint with 11 awards totaling $75,000; the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH) placed 3 awards worth $73,000; and the National Library of Medicine (NIH) placed 2 awards worth $59,000. Combined potential value across all 17 federal awards in the source data is $223,000, with $220,000 obligated. The vendor appears on one blanket purchase agreement (F16BPA6800000350463), though with minimal activity on that vehicle.

Award activity is sparse and episodic — one award in 2018, one in 2019, three in 2021, one in 2022, then a gap until a single award in 2025. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.