Southern Custom Exhibits Of Alabama, Inc.

Southern Custom Exhibits Of Alabama, Inc., doing business as Southern Custom Exhibits, is a small business manufacturer based in Anniston, Alabama that designs, fabricates, and installs museum-quality interpretive exhibits for federal agencies, primarily as a prime contractor on delivery orders and definitive contracts set aside for total small business concerns. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards), with no subcontractor engagement, and competes across multiple small business set-aside vehicles at the Department of the Interior's National Park Service.

Southern Custom Exhibits' concrete capability footprint centers on exhibit planning, design, fabrication, installation, and maintenance work. The portfolio spans custom architectural woodwork and millwork manufacturing (NAICS 337212), specialized design services (NAICS 541430), and graphic design services (NAICS 541430), with representative recent work including a $458,559 delivery order for exhibit planning, design, fabrication, and installation services across multiple National Park sites (April 2026); a $1.164 million definitive contract for comprehensive exhibit development at Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument's Gaston Hotel (September 2024); a $458,355 definitive contract for exhibit services at Eisenhower National Historic Site (September 2024); and a $387,112 delivery order for exhibit fabrication at Cape Lookout National Seashore (November 2024). Work spans interior and exterior exhibits, tactile and audiovisual components, wayside interpretive displays, kiosks, and minor exhibit repairs and rehabilitations.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. The National Park Service National Office dominates the portfolio, accounting for 69 awards with $190.1 million in combined potential value — 91% of the vendor's total $209 million federal footprint. The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 ranks second with 54 awards but only $4.1 million in combined potential value, followed by NPS Intermountain, Southeast, and Pacific West regional offices, which together account for less than $4.2 million. The top five customer entities represent 95% of combined potential value, with the vast majority flowing through the National Park Service's National Office.

Southern Custom Exhibits holds three primary vehicle positions, all with the National Park Service and all set aside for total small business. A $45 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 401810D015, May 2022 through May 2027) has generated 114 task orders with $2.2 million in combined potential value for museum interpretive exhibit fabrication and installation services across all National Park sites. A $45 million multiple-award IDC (IDC INP13PC00061, June 2025 through June 2030) carries 27 task orders with $5.5 million combined potential value for exhibit planning, design, fabrication, and installation work. A $20 million multiple-award IDC (July 2025 through July 2030) provides parks with assistance in rehabilitating or replacing outdated wayside exhibits and media. Additional vehicle positions include Fish and Wildlife Service IDCs (INF06PC60284 with 70 task orders at $5.5 million, and INP07PC60673 with 25 task orders at $5.7 million), and a Fish and Wildlife Service contract vehicle (C1190020012 with 16 task orders at $4.3 million).

The vendor's activity trajectory remains flat. Awards per year have held steady across 2022–2026 (six, five, five, six, and two awards respectively, with the 2026 count reflecting data through mid-July). Over 444 total prime awards across the source data, combined potential value sits at $209 million with $37.6 million obligated (18% realization rate). Five awards with combined potential value of $2.2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the overall portfolio size.

Service Contract Inventory data provides limited insight into Southern Custom Exhibits' federal service-contract footprint. SCI covers only three records spanning FY2023–FY2024, with $343 thousand in invoiced revenue across 0.1 FTEs in FY2024 and zero invoiced amount in FY2023. The sparse SCI activity reflects that the vendor's business model centers on goods and fabrication work (exhibits, kiosks, signage, and displays) rather than labor-intensive service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold. SCI-reported hourly rates show a median of $0/hr with a 90th percentile around $1,370/hr, but these figures are artifacts of the minimal dataset and do not characterize the vendor's pricing posture; the true revenue stream lies in firm fixed-price exhibit fabrication and installation delivery orders outside SCI's scope.

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