Merrill Field Instruments, Incorporated

Merrill Field Instruments, Incorporated, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, provides aircraft fleet maintenance, avionics upgrades, instrumentation installations, and related repair services to the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside designations. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) with no sub-award footprint, competing entirely under set-asides — all work across the portfolio falls under total small business designations.

Merrill Field Instruments' customer concentration is absolute: 100% of its 32 awards and $15.4 million in combined potential value come from a single federal customer, the Department of the Interior. Within Interior, 25 awards ($15.2 million) flow through the Office of Policy Management and Budget's aviation operations, with the remaining 7 awards ($113 thousand) sourced from the Interior Business Center. This monolithic customer dependency reflects Merrill Field Instruments' operational and geographic specialization — the vendor's primary work involves maintenance and modernization of Interior's government-owned aircraft fleet stationed at Merrill Field in Anchorage, Alaska.

Work is delivered under three single-award BPAs issued by Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget. The largest vehicle is a $7.5 million BPA established in September 2023 running through August 2028, under which Merrill Field Instruments has issued six task orders totaling $176 thousand combined potential value. Two smaller BPAs (140D8121A0004 and 140D8120A0001) account for an additional four and three task orders respectively, carrying $168 thousand and $125 thousand in combined potential value. Representative recent work includes a $59,144.52 firm fixed-price task order for N732K avionics reconfiguration (ADS-B transponder and inverter installation), issued January 2024; a $57,000 order for OAS N7875D avionics upgrade, issued December 2023; and a $17,801.40 aircraft re-wiring task order on N8360Q, issued February 2026.

Activity has remained flat at one to three awards per year over the past five years, with 2022 showing the highest volume at three awards and 2025–2026 showing one award each. The portfolio clusters heavily in NAICS 561612 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation), accounting for 23 of 32 awards. PSC coding emphasizes maintenance and repair of aircraft structural and component systems (16 awards under aircraft frame maintenance; 2 under aircraft component repair; 3 under component installation). The vendor has held Federal status since June 2006 per SAM.gov registration. Combined dollars obligated across all awards stands at $852 thousand — only 6% of the $15.4 million potential ceiling value — signaling that Interior has not yet obligated most of the BPA capacity Merrill Field Instruments holds.