Russ Bassett Corp

Russ Bassett Corp, a Whittier, California–based manufacturer of mission-critical console furniture and workstations, operates as a prime contractor on 97% of its federal awards, competing predominantly full-and-open across civilian and defense agencies with selective use of Total Small Business set-asides. The firm is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation registered as a federal contractor since at least 2002, and has been a registered federal contractor since at least 2002.

Russ Bassett delivers design, fabrication, delivery, and installation of ergonomic console systems, dispatch center workstations, and modular slatwall consoles for air traffic control towers, command centers, and specialized operational environments. Representative prime work includes a $516.2 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for nationwide console solution system designer and fabricator services, awarded October 30, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2040 and designated a Total Small Business set-aside; a $7.1 million delivery order under that IDC (December 11, 2025) for enroute console solution system designer and fabricator services with transformer slatwall conversion and equipment materials; a $701.2 million definitive contract from the FAA Southwestern Region (August 2022) for console modernization and slatwall installation at the Long Beach Airport Traffic Control Tower; and a $613.8 million firm fixed-price definitive contract from the FAA (February 2024) for slatwall console design, fabrication, delivery, and installation at multiple TRACON facilities in Pennsylvania and New York. The company also delivers console solutions under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, with eighty task orders placing $5.7 million in combined potential value.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the FAA. The top five customer agencies by count account for 27% of awards, but the top customer by dollar value—the FAA Headquarters—anchors 95% of combined potential value across its portfolio ($596.7 million of $626.8 million total). The Air Force places the most awards by count (27 total) but with minimal dollar concentration ($1.1 million combined potential value), reflecting small-dollar purchase orders and delivery orders. The Department of the Army, Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center, and Air National Guard round out the active set with volumes under $1 million each.

Russ Bassett holds positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and Federal Supply Schedules GS25F0019M and GS29F0108G, which collectively represent 203 task orders with $7.1 million in combined potential value. The firm also executed task orders under two agency-specific IDCs: the FAA's DOT ATCT and TRACON Slatwall Consoles 2017–2022 vehicle (9 task orders, $59.2 million) and the Indefinite Delivery Contract DTFACN12D00011 (7 task orders, $2 million). The single-award IDC awarded in October 2025 supersedes these prior vehicles for FAA work.

Activity remained relatively flat over the past five years—9 awards in 2022, 9 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 2 year-to-date in 2026—with only three awards facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and combined potential value of $510 thousand, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The source reports $626.8 million in combined potential value across all 334 awards but only $40.1 million (6%) obligated, reflecting the prevalence of indefinite-delivery vehicles with ceiling values that substantially exceed invoiced performance.

Russ Bassett subcontracts as a component supplier under large defense and civilian integrators. Named primes include Leidos Inc. (En Route Automation and Modernization support, with multiple task orders from January 2024 through June 2025), KBR Wyle Services LLC (Mission Systems Operations Contract manufacture and installation of console furniture, multiple engagements April 2024 through September 2024), and Serco Inc. (support services and goods provision, with sub awards spanning July 2023 through December 2024). These sub engagements position Russ Bassett as a furniture and workstation supplier to FAA and DoD integration programs rather than as a systems integrator in its own right.

The vendor's capability portfolio concentrates in office furniture manufacturing (195 awards under NAICS 337214) and related industrial and support services, with secondary strength in cabinets, lockers, and shelving (NAICS category "All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing" accounting for 77 awards). PSC coding reflects the same product concentration: Office Furniture (152 awards), Cabinets/Lockers/Bins/Shelving (44 awards), and Miscellaneous Furniture and Fixtures (29 awards). Technical and engineering services represent a minimal footprint (4 awards under Engineering Services NAICS, 11 awards under the Support–Professional Engineering/Technical PSC).