William Lowe & Sons Corp

William Lowe & Sons Corp, doing business as William Lowe & Sons, is a Boston-based, family-owned moving and relocation services company that operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of 495 recent awards) providing furniture moving, equipment relocation, storage, installation, property disposal, and facility transition support to civilian federal agencies across the New England region. The company competes across both set-aside and full-and-open vehicles, with a small subset of awards carrying Total Small Business designations.

William Lowe & Sons' federal footprint spans 63 distinct customer agencies over recent years, with customer concentration heavily skewed to the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (VISN 1), which accounts for 18 awards and $12.8 million in combined potential value—59% of the vendor's total federal pipeline. The next tier of customers by dollar value includes the Department of the Navy Naval Education and Training Command ($1.7 million across 9 awards), GSA Public Buildings Service Region 1 ($917 thousand across 43 awards), the Department of the Army Massachusetts Army National Guard ($659 thousand across 14 awards), and the Department of Justice US Attorney's Offices ($427 thousand across 16 awards). The top five customers by potential value account for 77% of combined pipeline dollars, indicating significant concentration risk around the VA VISN 1 relationship.

The vendor's vehicle portfolio centers on task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which anchors 161 task orders worth $6.1 million in combined potential value, and several Navy and Army IDCs: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0010203D1600 (68 task orders, $221 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract GS01P02BWD0087 (57 task orders, $688 thousand), and Indefinite Delivery Contract GS01P07BWD0018 (42 task orders, $957 thousand). The company also holds a $6 million single-award Total Small Business Blanket Purchase Agreement with VA VISN 1 for furniture and equipment storing, moving, and installation services, running through May 11, 2027, which is the anchor vehicle for its largest customer. Representative recent work includes a $234.2 thousand furniture and equipment storing, moving, and installation BPA call with VA VISN 1 (April 2026, completion April 2027), a $158.7 thousand DEA move and disposal task order for relocation from the JFK Field Office Building and North Andover lease to New Bedford, Massachusetts (May 2025, completion August 2025), and a $120.4 thousand FDA move BPA call (February 2024, completion April 2024).

Activity has declined notably: fifteen awards in 2022, fourteen in 2023, nine in 2024, four in 2025, and two through mid-2026, suggesting either a contraction in pipeline velocity or a shift toward larger single task orders. The recompete cliff is modest—only two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $236 thousand, indicating limited near-term exposure to competitive renewal risk. The company's earliest recorded award dates to 1992, establishing a three-decade history in federal relocation services.

Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal activity: only $235 thousand in invoiced revenue across FY2023 (FY2022 reported zero), reflecting the fact that most of William Lowe & Sons' work falls below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold. SCI-reported effort was equivalent to 0.2 FTEs in FY2023, with government-paid hourly rates at $700.65/hr. This SCI footprint is a strict subset of the vendor's total federal services revenue and does not represent the full scale of the company's federal moving and relocation business, which is dominated by transaction-based BPA calls in the $3,000 to $410,000 range.

Moving and storage of conventional and systems furniture within New England. Systems furniture installers and resellers. Residential moving within Massachusetts