Metropolitan Board Installers

Metropolitan Board Installers, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Dover, Pennsylvania, supplies posterboard and display board rental and setup services to defense health and research institutions as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly in the open federal marketplace and has not pursued small business set-asides across most of its award footprint, though it has won work designated as total small business set-aside.

Metropolitan Board Installers' customer base concentrates heavily within defense health and National Institutes of Health organizations. The top five customer organizations account for 83% of recent awards by count and 92% by combined potential value. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences leads by dollar magnitude with 11 awards carrying $129 thousand in combined potential value, closely followed by the Defense Health Agency with 10 awards worth $117 thousand. The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director places the most orders with 15 awards valued at $89 thousand combined, with subordinate NIH institutes—the National Institute of Nursing Research and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering—adding $24 thousand and $22 thousand respectively. Recent named work includes a $24,475 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Defense Health Agency in April 2026 for rental and setup of 55 four-by-six poster boards at Bethesda, Maryland with ultimate completion in May 2030; a $5,195 order from the Defense Health Agency in April 2025 for delivery and setup of 55 four-by-six-foot posterboards at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with removal upon event conclusion; and a $10,125 order from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in May 2023 for display board rentals.

The vendor's award activity remains sparse and intermittent—one award per year across 2023 through 2026 after 52 total awards dating to 2002. Combined potential value stands at $414 thousand, with $474 thousand obligated across the portfolio (115% of combined potential value), indicating substantial completion against stated contract ceilings. The vendor holds positions on two NIH blanket purchase agreements carrying minimal task-order volume. Metropolitan Board Installers operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint, and does not sit on government-wide vehicles or major IDIQs. NAICS classification skews toward convention and trade show organizers (16 awards) and consumer goods rental (8 awards), with a minor footprint in graphic design services and wood product manufacturing reflecting ancillary capabilities in display design and material fabrication.

Extensive past performance in providing display boards for meetings and conferences