T.f. Walz, Inc.

T.f. Walz, Inc., doing business as Walz Label And Mailing Services, is a for-profit office equipment maintenance and repair contractor based in East Peoria, Illinois, that competes almost exclusively under small-business set-asides to the Internal Revenue Service and provides specialized preventive maintenance, repair, and extended warranty services for document processing and mailing equipment. The vendor operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) with no subcontract footprint and holds no parent contract vehicles or GSA schedules.

Walz's customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Internal Revenue Service accounts for 26 of 31 total awards (84%) and $1.2 million of the combined potential value across the entire portfolio — representing 97% of award count coverage. The remaining five awards distribute across the Department of the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($50 thousand for portable scales and installation at Watervliet Arsenal), the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration. All Walz work derives from small-business set-asides or competitive buys with no vehicles specified.

Walz's capability portfolio centers on preventive maintenance, repair, and extended warranty services for Hasler folder-inserters, Baum folder-inserter and conveyor systems, and high-capacity feeders at the IRS's National Distribution Centers in Bloomington and East Peoria, Illinois. Representative awards include a $70,776 firm fixed price purchase order (February 2026) for preventive maintenance on four Hasler folder-inserters and six high-capacity feeders with response times of two hours for service calls and four hours for repairs; a $69,528 renewal (February 2025) for Hasler maintenance at the same facility; and a $49,800 purchase order (May 2025) from Army Materiel Command for procurement, delivery, installation, calibration, and training of a portable mobile scale system (six scales with wireless remote display and printer) at Watervliet Arsenal in New York. Extended warranty contracts for individual Baum folding machines range from $1,115 to $1,249 annually and include quarterly preventive maintenance, parts, labor, and travel.

Award activity has remained low and flat — two awards in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, and three in 2025 — with combined potential value of only $1.2 million and 99% of that already obligated. One award (combined potential value $71 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Primary NAICS codes cluster in office machine repair and maintenance (811310 and 811211), with secondary strength in commercial machinery repair and office machinery manufacturing. The vendor's footprint reflects a highly specialized, single-customer-dependent business model anchored to IRS document processing infrastructure maintenance, with minimal federal market diversification outside that core relationship and Army's single exploratory equipment procurement.

Since 1966, Walz Label & Mailing Systems has been a local family owned and operated business with headquarters in Central Illinois. Walz was started as a small independent scale sales and service organization, by Fred and Patricia Walz, and has grown over the years. As our customers have grown, we have grown with them by providing business automation solutions that meet their unique needs. As technology changed and improved our product and service portfolio increased, and Walz expanded with the mailing, labeling, and automation divisions. In addition to offering a wide range of postage meters and mailing machines to various companies, thousands of businesses across the Midwest rely on Walz for their business automation needs. As an independent dealer for some of the world's leading manufacturers, we can offer the solution that fits your organizations budget, specifications, and support requirements.