International Met Systems Inc.

International Met Systems Inc., doing business as Intermet Systems, manufactures meteorological instruments—primarily radiosondes, weather balloon systems, train regulators, and atmospheric sensors—and sells them to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor on purchase orders and delivery orders under GSA Multiple Award Schedule and agency-specific IDIQs. The company is a for-profit manufacturer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, registered with SAM.gov since 2001, competing full-and-open with no small business set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Intermet Systems' customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) accounts for 100 of 183 total awards (55% of award volume) with a combined potential value of $3.4 million, representing 6% of the vendor's $53.3 million combined potential value across all federal sources. The gap between award count and dollar share reflects NOAA's pattern of small, frequent purchase orders for radiosondes and related equipment—individual awards range from $5,081 to $67,000. The top customer by potential value is the GSA Federal Acquisition Service with a single $4.6 million award, followed by NOAA ($3.4 million across 100 orders), NASA's Shared Services Center, NASA Langley Research Center, and the Navy's Naval Education and Training Command. Across twenty-two distinct customer agencies, the top five account for roughly two-thirds of recent awards by count; however, dollar concentration is much lower, reflecting a vendor model built on frequent small-order consumption rather than large prime contracts.

Intermet Systems operates under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (40 task orders, $1 million combined potential value) and several agency-specific IDIQs, including NOAA's DOC50DGNW090121 (6 task orders, $24 thousand) and a Department of Commerce vehicle (DOCWC133W09CQ0001, 4 task orders, $326 thousand). Representative work includes a $119,369 NOAA purchase order for train regulators (May 2026, completion August 2026), a $59,776 NOAA delivery order for IMET-4RSB radiosondes (August 2025), a $46,294 sole-source NASA purchase order for 235 Intermet radiosondes for the SHADOZ network (September 2025, supporting U.S. Space Force and NOAA operations), and a $69,440 NOAA delivery order for 300 IMET-4RSB and 60 IMET-54-AS research radiosondes (July 2023). The company operates as a pure prime; it holds no subcontract positions and does not subcontract to other primes.

Activity has been modest and uneven—four awards in 2022, five in 2023, three in 2024, four in 2025, and one to date in 2026—with only two awards facing completion inside the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $166 thousand). The award portfolio spans nearly thirty years (first award September 1997), reflecting a stable, niche position as NOAA's primary radiosonde and weather balloon supplier, but recent activity does not indicate growth trajectory or diversification beyond meteorological instrumentation and maintenance support. The vendor's category concentration aligns with its core product: 119 awards fall under Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (NAICS), with 59 awards classified under Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus (PSC).