Southern Custom Exhibits Of Alabama, Inc.

Southern Custom Exhibits Of Alabama, Inc. (doing business as Southern Custom Exhibits) is a small business manufacturer of museum-quality interpretive exhibits and wayside displays headquartered in Anniston, Alabama, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on federal awards with zero subcontractor engagement across its portfolio. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, with 100% of its 448 federal awards held as prime contracts and no subcontract footprint.

The National Park Service dominates Southern Custom Exhibits' customer base to an overwhelming degree. The NPS National Office alone accounts for 71 awards carrying $191.3 million in combined potential value — representing 90% of the vendor's total federal portfolio of $211.6 million across 19 distinct customer agencies. The broader Interior Department picture shows Fish and Wildlife Service contributing 127 awards (primarily in Region 4 with $4.1 million potential value), while regional NPS entities (Intermountain Region, Southeast Region, and other NPS sub-offices) add another $5 million. This concentration is extreme: the top five customer lines cover 95% of combined potential value, and the NPS National Office alone drives nine-tenths of the vendor's federal revenue footprint. Obligated dollars total $40.6 million (19% of potential value), suggesting a backlog of delivery orders awaiting performance.

Southern Custom Exhibits holds three primary IDIQs anchoring its work stream. A $45 million single-award IDC awarded May 2022 through May 2027 has seeded 27 delivery orders; a $45 million multiple-award IDC awarded June 2025 through June 2030 anchors recent work with delivery orders including $1.267 million for fabrication and installation of new exhibits at Mesa Verde National Park, $816,747 for Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument visitor center exhibits, $461,560 for everglades exhibits work, and $353,712 for HAFC exhibit planning and design. A newer $20 million multiple-award IDC awarded July 2025 through July 2030 targets wayside exhibit rehabilitation and replacement. These vehicles collectively support work ranging from schematic design through design development, production design, fabrication, installation, and closeout across park visitor centers, historic sites, and monuments nationwide. Secondary IDIQs with lower call volume (IDC 401810D015 at $2.2 million across 114 task orders; IDC INF06PC60284 at $5.5 million across 70 task orders) indicate older contract vehicles with continuing delivery activity. Representative recent work includes a $174,292 total-small-business delivery order from NPS for exhibit planning and design of tactile maps at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island (completion October 2027); a $1.164 million definitive contract for exhibit planning, design, fabrication, and installation at the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument Gaston Hotel in Birmingham (completion August 2027); a $458,355 contract for comprehensive exhibit development at the Eisenhower National Historic Site (completion November 2026); and a $313,534 contract for Fort Matanzas National Monument visitor center and wayside exhibits in Florida (completion March 2027).

The vendor's primary NAICS codes reflect its core business: Graphic Design Services (234 awards), Custom Architectural Woodwork and Millwork Manufacturing (57 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing (52 awards), Sign Manufacturing (26 awards), and Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing (16 awards). PSC coding emphasizes Support-Professional: Other (163 awards) and Signs, Advertising Displays, and Identification Plates (66 awards), alongside Construction of Exhibit Design (38 awards). Southern Custom Exhibits specializes in custom architectural woodwork for exhibits, graphic design integration, tactile and audiovisual components, interactive kiosks, and wayside interpretive displays — all tailored to NPS preservation and educational missions.

Activity has remained flat at five to six awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with eight awards (combined potential value $4.4 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and thus facing recompete exposure. The vendor has operated at a minimal federal service-contract scale: SCI-reported invoicing of $611 thousand across FY2023–FY2025 (primarily FY2024 and FY2025 activity) reflects contract-level reporting thresholds and likely understates total delivery work, which is predominantly goods-and-fabrication-based rather than labor-intensive services. The vendor maintains no named subcontractors and brings no sub-teaming footprint to prime opportunities.

Exhibit fabrication and installation, exhibit design, kiosks, interactive exhibits, multimedia/AV production, media production, directional signage, entrance signage