Steven Pickman Objects Conservation LLC

Steven Pickman Objects Conservation LLC, based in Washington, DC, provides specialized object and artifact conservation services to the Smithsonian Institution as a prime contractor on a series of small purchase orders. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a for-profit limited liability company, competing in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation.

The Smithsonian Institution dominates Steven Pickman Objects Conservation LLC's federal footprint, accounting for six of eight total awards and $388 thousand of the combined $408 thousand potential value across all federal work. Recent and representative Smithsonian engagements include a $28,000 firm fixed-price purchase order for conservation services related to sculpture storage assessment (awarded December 5, 2025, completion March 15, 2026), a $237,500 time-and-materials purchase order for object conservation services supporting the National Portrait Gallery (awarded June 13, 2024, completion June 24, 2024), and a $30,000 time-and-materials purchase order for National Portrait Gallery object conservation (awarded August 25, 2023, completion June 30, 2024). Two additional awards from the Department of the Army Headquarters ($16 thousand) and the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations ($4 thousand) round out the named customer set, with work spanning museum operations support, artwork preservation, and related professional conservation services.

Activity is sparse and episodic — one award per year on average across the last five years, with eight prime awards generating the full $408 thousand in potential value, all of which has been obligated. No parent vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs appear in the award history; all work flows through direct purchase orders. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The Smithsonian relationship reflects continuity; the source characterizes Steven Pickman Objects Conservation LLC as having "consistently provided high-quality conservation services" to the Institution's museum network, particularly the National Portrait Gallery, suggesting an established working relationship anchoring the portfolio.

Private art conservation practice formed to provide consultation as well as short-term and long-term solutions for the preservation, conservation, and restoration of three-dimensional art objects.