Federal contractor · COLUMBIA, MD

THE SCALE PEOPLE, INC.

THE SCALE PEOPLE, INC. received $137.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 13 awards (−24% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.1M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($52.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$137.3K
New awards
13
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
64%
UEI
F66UMPT82249
Small businessVeteran-owned
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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.

Part of the THE SCALE PEOPLE, INC company family: 3 registered entities, $352.9K in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. THE SCALE PEOPLE, INCNEWPORT NEWS, VA · Family page
    $215.6K
  2. 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. 363.6KFY2017
  2. 179.1KFY2018
  3. 205.2KFY2019
  4. 230KFY2020
  5. 234.4KFY2021
  6. 202.2KFY2022
  7. 189.4KFY2023
  8. 144.8KFY2024
  9. 180.6KFY2025
  10. 137.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$52.5K38%
    4 awards
  2. Food and Drug Administration$22.3K16%
    2 awards
  3. Consumer Product Safety Commission$21.2K15%
    2 awards
  4. Environmental Protection Agency$18.9K14%
    1 awards
  5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$14.3K10%
    1 awards
  6. Food Safety and Inspection Service$14.2K10%
    1 awards
  7. Department of the Navy-$1,4600.0%
    1 awards
  8. Defense Logistics Agency-$4,6930.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$119.7K84%
  2. Professional services$22.3K16%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$75.7K55%
  2. St. Louis city, MO$22.3K16%
  3. Wyandotte County, KS$18.9K14%
  4. Juneau City and Borough, AK$14.3K10%
  5. Howard County, MD$11.5K8.4%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition63%
    US 39% · $86.5K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · -$1,393
  • Single-offer competitions64%
    US 8.7% · $87.9K
  • 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. SCALE PEOPLE:1107797 [19-003482]$178.1K
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Jan 17, 2019 – Apr 13, 2026· 75N90019F00052
  2. 25-002098 THE SCALE PEOPLE INC. PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT FOR THE CALIBRATION OF VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS WITHIN THE CENTER FOR CELLULAR ENGINEERING (CCE) AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFUSION MEDICINE$150.3K
    National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Feb 6, 2025 – Jul 21, 2026· 75N90025F00012
  3. ANALYTICAL BALANCERS:$122.4K
    Food and Drug Administration· Howard County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· May 20, 2026 – May 20, 2026· HHSF223201400585G
  4. CONTRACT FOR CALIBRATION AND REPAIR OF LABORATORY EQUIPMENT PLUS THREE OPTION YEARS$66.8K
    Consumer Product Safety Commission· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Aug 30, 2021 – Feb 10, 2026· 61320621P0023
  5. SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT CALIBRATION$42.7K
    Consumer Product Safety Commission· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Aug 7, 2025 – May 6, 2026· 61320625P0014
  6. BALANCE CALIBRATION AND CERTIFICATION$25.9K
    Food Safety and Inspection Service· Howard County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Sep 10, 2025 – Jul 24, 2026· 123A9425F0107
  7. CALIBRATION OF UP TO 360 ADJUSTABLE PIPETTES AT OPQR-STL, ISO 17025 ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION/DOCUMENTATION EO 14398$22.3K
    Food and Drug Administration· St. Louis city, MO· Professional services· Jul 22, 2026 – Jul 22, 2026· 75F40126F80093
  8. R7 LAB: LAB EQUIPMENT CALIBRATIONS FOR THE REGION 7 LABORATORY INCLUDING BALANCES, WEIGHTS, PIPETTES, AND THERMOMETERS$18.9K
    Environmental Protection Agency· Wyandotte County, KS· Equipment maintenance· Apr 8, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026· 68HE0726P0176

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

  • Sub-contracts: $34K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. BATTELLE NATIONAL BIODEFENSE INSTITUTE, LLC$34K100%
    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 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

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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.