The Scale People, Inc.

The Scale People, Inc., operating as The Scale People through its parent entity and subsidiaries, supplies precision weighing equipment, analytical balances, calibration services, and laboratory instrumentation to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and single-award vehicles. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and veteran-owned company headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, competing in full-and-open federal procurements without reliance on set-aside categories, though several awards carry Total Small Business designations.

The Scale People's capability portfolio centers on analytical balance calibration, pipette calibration, microbalance equipment supply, scale and weighing system procurement, and preventive maintenance services for laboratory instruments. Representative work includes a $171.7 thousand delivery order from the NIH Clinical Center (February 2025) for preventive maintenance and calibration of instruments in the Center for Cellular Engineering and Department of Transfusion Medicine under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $113.4 thousand purchase order from EPA Region 7 (April 2026) for laboratory equipment calibrations including balances, weights, pipettes, and thermometers at the Region 7 Laboratory in Kansas City, Kansas; and a $78.9 thousand delivery order from NOAA (April 2026) for analytical balance calibration services for RECA and Genetic Program balances at the Juneau, Alaska facility, with performance through April 2031. The vendor brings over fifty years of precision measurement expertise and maintains ISO 17025 balance calibration certification.

Customer concentration is diffuse across 64 distinct federal agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 26% of all awards: the Food and Drug Administration (12 awards, $551 thousand potential value), the Office of Naval Research (10 awards, $124 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command (7 awards, $95 thousand), NOAA (6 awards, $144 thousand), and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (6 awards, $86 thousand). By potential value, the ranking shifts substantially: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors 88% of combined potential value across five awards ($12.7 million), driven largely by the Multiple Award Schedule vehicle itself, while the FDA (12 awards, $551 thousand), NIH Clinical Center (5 awards, $505 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (6 awards, $272 thousand), and EPA Region 7 (3 awards, $168 thousand) follow at smaller magnitudes. This divergence signals that The Scale People holds high-value ceiling or blanket positions on GSA MAS with sporadic task-order pull-through, alongside deeper operational relationships with NIH and FDA characterized by recurring smaller orders.

The Scale People seats 114 task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with $2.5 million in combined potential value, the primary vehicle for federal work. The vendor also operates under the Federal Supply Schedule GS07F9036G (5 task orders, $60 thousand) and an Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A620D5909 (5 task orders, $22 thousand). The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation holds two significant $250 thousand IDCs with the vendor for precision weighing equipment supply, generating multiple delivery orders over the past five years.

Activity is flat to declining: nine awards in 2022, five in 2023, five in 2024, six in 2025, and two in 2026 through mid-April. Only three awards (combined potential value $215 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Combined potential value across all 159 prime awards is $16.2 million, with $2.9 million obligated to date (18% burn rate), reflecting the large ceiling position on GSA MAS relative to actual call-down velocity. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

Category concentration by NAICS shows 99 awards under Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (a broad category), 36 under Scale and Balance Manufacturing, and smaller concentrations in equipment manufacturing and repair. By PSC code, Scales and Balances dominate at 54 awards, followed by Laboratory Equipment and Supplies at 44 awards and maintenance/repair services at 19 awards. Corporate structure includes subsidiaries SPI Systems Inc. (also self-certified small disadvantaged business and veteran-owned) and Scale People, Inc. (self-certified small disadvantaged business), though the source does not articulate distinct capability or market positioning across the subsidiary entities.

New Sales: Laboratory Weighing, Medical Weighing, Industrial

Weighing, General Weighing, Force Measurement, Material Testing

Equipment, Dynamometers, Pipettes, Process Control, Lab Consumables

Calibration and Repair Group: Calibration and repair of weighing

products (scales and balances), pipettes, temperature, force measurement,

weights, dynamometers and torque equipment