Meghan E Phillips

Meghan E Phillips, operating as a sole proprietorship woman-owned small business from Washington, DC, delivers museum collections management, entomological curation, and informatics services to federal civilian agencies, exclusively as a prime contractor. Phillips competes under woman-owned small business set-asides on approximately half of recent awards and full-and-open on the remainder, with a narrow customer footprint concentrated almost entirely at the Smithsonian Institution.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on museum specimen database administration, collections cataloguing, and technical data science support for research institutions. Recent representative work includes a $19,975 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Smithsonian on September 26, 2025, for registrar department cataloguing contractor services (ultimate completion December 31, 2026); an $80,000 woman-owned small business set-aside purchase order from the Smithsonian on August 29, 2024, for technical informatics and data science services; and an $87,500 full-and-open purchase order from the Smithsonian on September 16, 2023, for technical services supporting collections management and entomological curation. Phillips has also delivered a $20,000 award from the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Smithsonian Institution represents 6 of 7 total awards and $322,000 of the $342,000 combined potential value (94% across both rankings). Activity is minimal and flat — one award per year across the past five years — with only one award ($20,000) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Phillips does not subcontract and carries no parent vehicle relationships. The vendor's federal footprint remains narrow and specialized, anchored to the Smithsonian's curatorial and collections-management missions rather than broader federal procurement vehicles.