Palmer Wahl Instruments Inc.

Palmer Wahl Instruments Inc., doing business as Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group, manufactures precision temperature measurement devices, thermal control equipment, and specialized instrumentation components as a prime contractor to the Department of Defense and federal logistics agencies, operating across full-and-open and total small business set-aside vehicles with no subcontract footprint.

Palmer Wahl is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, with manufacturing and fulfillment operations in Woodfin, North Carolina. The company has held a SAM.gov registration since 2002 and competes on a mix of set-aside and unrestricted procurements; recent activity shows the company as a prime on 119 federal awards with zero subcontract exposure. The vendor's primary NAICS classification centers on instruments and related products manufacturing for measuring and controlling industrial process variables, with secondary categories in aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing and hand tool manufacturing, reflecting the breadth of its federal customer base.

Customer concentration is pronounced and defense-centric. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 64% of recent award count (39 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value) and anchors 90% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ($101 thousand across three awards), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ($46 thousand), and the Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command ($20 thousand across nine awards) round out the top tier. GSA Federal Acquisition Service and DLA Land and Maritime appear on the award roster but at substantially lower dollar volumes. The Navy appears across multiple sub-commands but with fragmented order patterns rather than concentrated vehicle presence.

Palmer Wahl's primary vehicle is a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation valued at $250,000 and running through February 2029, designated as a total small business set-aside. Under this IDC, DLA Aviation has issued multiple firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from $2,964 to $15,010 for temperature plates, thermal resistors, calibrators, and precision temperature measurement and control equipment. Individual delivery orders under this vehicle carry no set-aside designation, indicating Palmer Wahl competes effectively in full-and-open competition against larger vendors. Additional parent vehicles include multiple agency-specific IDCs with the Navy (SPE4A719D0139 with six task orders valued at $91 thousand) and other defense customers, but these carry substantially lower ceiling values and task-order volume than the DLA Aviation vehicle.

Recent activity has averaged four to six awards per year from 2024 through early 2026. The vendor's combined potential value ($1.6 million) is underwritten by $2.3 million in obligated dollars, indicating invoiced revenue exceeding stated ceiling values — a pattern consistent with incremental delivery orders against standing IDCs. Representative recent awards include a $8,590.40 delivery order for temperature plates (January 2026, total small business set-aside, DLA Aviation), a $15,010 delivery order for temperature plates (December 2024, DLA Aviation), a $14,592 delivery order for temperature plates (March 2024, DLA Aviation), and a $27,209.52 delivery order for temperature plates (August 2021, DLA Aviation). The vendor's top PSC code is helicopter rotor blades, drive mechanisms, and components (37 awards), followed by hand tools, power-driven (30 awards), and pressure, temperature, and humidity measuring and controlling instruments (14 awards), reflecting the intermixture of precision instrumentation and mechanical component supply across DLA Aviation and Navy ship-maintenance pipelines. Palmer Wahl holds no visible federal grant, GSA Schedule, or GWAC presence; all activity routes through agency-specific IDCs and transactional purchase orders.

Manufacterer of Temperature Instruments. RTD's, Thermocouples, Infrared, Thermal Imaging. Assembly, Welding, Calibration.