Mckay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory Inc.

Mckay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory Inc., doing business as Mckay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, is a small business that provides specialized conservation assessment, restoration treatment, and maintenance services for sculptures, fountains, murals, neon artwork, and architectural elements in federal buildings across the United States as a prime contractor only. Mckay Lodge operates the nation's largest art and artifacts conservation center and competes primarily on total small business set-asides and open-market delivery orders against its three active indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA), holding a Subchapter S Corporation structure based in Oberlin, Ohio.

The company's federal customer base concentrates almost entirely on the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service (PBS). The top five PBS divisions account for 82 percent of recent awards. The GSA National Capital Region anchors the dollar value, representing 120 awards ($40.9 million combined potential value), while the GSA Central Office Acquisition Services Division accounts for 210 awards ($15.8 million), reflecting a portfolio of numerous smaller delivery orders paired with a smaller number of large restoration projects. GSA Region 1 places 46 awards ($10.2 million), and PBS Central Office Program Management Support Division issues 74 awards ($1.3 million). The concentration is acute: over 92 percent of combined potential value flows to the top five customer divisions, all within GSA.

Mckay Lodge holds three single-award IDIQs with the GSA. The largest is the $17.4 million, five-year Sculpture and Architectural Arts Conservation contract with the GSA National Capital Region (awarded August 1, 2022, running through July 30, 2027), which anchors the company's most significant restoration work. Recent delivery orders under this vehicle include a $593 thousand conservation treatment of a historic aluminum fountain at the Robert F. Kennedy Federal Building, a $304 thousand neon artwork conservation project, a $134 thousand landscape installation conservation treatment at the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, and a $77 thousand conservation treatment of the "VOX POPULI" artwork at the New Carrollton Federal Center. A second IDIQ, valued at $8.75 million for five years with GSA Region 1 (awarded October 1, 2023, running through September 30, 2028), is designated as a total small business set-aside and supports sculpture and cultural artifact conservation nationwide; representative delivery orders include a $273 thousand Sprout sculpture conservation project in Madison, Wisconsin, and a $115 thousand Sol LeWitt sculpture conservation project in Chicago. A third, smaller IDIQ for $250 thousand covers cyclical maintenance services in six western states. These three vehicles have generated 136, 117, and 83 task orders respectively across the five GSA regional and national divisions.

Activity has declined over the past several years—from 43 awards in 2022 to 31 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 6 through April 2026. Only 21 awards (combined potential value $880 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, implying a modest recompete exposure relative to the company's current base.

Mckay Lodge operates as a pure prime—all 575 awards in the source portfolio are prime awards; the company neither subcontracts work nor appears as a named subcontractor to other federal primes. The company competes across both set-aside and open-market vehicles; the two largest IDIQs carry total small business set-aside designations, but the majority of individual delivery orders across the portfolio are issued without set-aside restrictions.

SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2024 reached $593 thousand on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold. This single SCI record reflects a highly specialized, project-based delivery model: the conservator on that contract achieved a government-paid rate of $1,257 per hour on fewer than 0.2 full-time-equivalent FTEs. The vendor reports zero sub-hours, consistent with the company's prime-only posture. SCI data cover only service contracts and exclude goods, products, and non-federal revenue; the company's true federal footprint and enterprise scale are substantially larger than these figures suggest. Mckay Lodge's federal work centers on condition assessments, conservation treatment, restoration, stabilization, and maintenance planning for cultural assets ranging from individual sculptures to large-scale architectural installations at federal facilities nationwide—from the National Building Museum in Washington to federal courthouses, border stations, and federal office buildings in Honolulu, San Francisco, Denver, and dozens of other locations.