Federal contractor · NEWPORT NEWS, VA

THE SCALE PEOPLE, INC

THE SCALE PEOPLE, INC received $215.6K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 152 awards (−50% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.1M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($215.6K).

Obligations · FY2026
$215.6K
New awards
152
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $352.9K in FY2026 together.

  1. THE SCALE PEOPLE, INCNEWPORT NEWS, VA · Family page
    $215.6K
  2. THE SCALE PEOPLE, INC.COLUMBIA, MD
    $137.3K
  3. SCALE PEOPLE, INC.COLUMBIA, MD
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 377.8KFY2017
  2. 657.8KFY2018
  3. 795.6KFY2019
  4. 430.1KFY2020
  5. 618.3KFY2021
  6. 564.5KFY2022
  7. 389.3KFY2023
  8. 606.9KFY2024
  9. 430.5KFY2025
  10. 215.6KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$215.6K100%
    152 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$137.2K64%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$78.4K36%

Where the work was performed

  1. Newport News city, VA$215.6K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · -$21.1K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · -$8,315
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$12.8K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. 8511931580!SCALE,WEIGHING$17.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 19, 2026 – Feb 19, 2026· SPE4A626F6306
  2. 8511709261!SCALE,WEIGHING$17.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 19, 2025 – Oct 19, 2025· SPE4A626F0707
  3. 8511751440!SCALE,WEIGHING$17.7K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 13, 2025 – Nov 13, 2025· SPE4A626F2217
  4. 8512145546!SCALE,WEIGHING$15.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· May 28, 2026 – May 28, 2026· SPE4A626F128Z
  5. 4571418460!LEVEL 2 PIPETTE CALIBRATION- SINGLE CHAN$11.2K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Health & medical· Apr 9, 2026 – Apr 9, 2026· SPE2D426F111Q
  6. 8511180085!SCALE,WEIGHING$9,140
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 12, 2025 – Oct 21, 2025· SPE4A525P3332
  7. 8512139652!SCALE,WEIGHING$8,910
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· May 28, 2026 – May 28, 2026· SPE4A526V1371
  8. 4570293901!LEVEL 4 PIPETTE CALIBRATION- SINGLE CHAN$7,709
    Defense Logistics Agency· Newport News city, VA· Health & medical· Dec 16, 2025 – Dec 16, 2025· SPE2D426F3571

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $106.1K reported

  1. FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$72.1K
    GREENVILLE, SC · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. BATTELLE NATIONAL BIODEFENSE INSTITUTE, LLC$34K
    FORT DETRICK, MD · 1 subaward

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 22 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ON SITE GAS SYSTEMS INC$1.8M+1.4% in FY2026
    NEWINGTON, CT · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing
  2. HENRY SCHEIN, INC.$859.1K
    MELVILLE, NY · 3 entities · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
  3. COAST EMS, LLC$739.6K−78% in FY2026
    ANAHEIM, CA · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersVeterans Affairs · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.