Acquisition Research & Logistics Inc.

Acquisition Research & Logistics Inc., doing business as ARL, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Veteran-Owned Small Business based in Lanham, Maryland, that delivers program management, acquisition support, administrative, and technical contractor services to federal agencies predominantly as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). ARL also holds minority-owned and small disadvantaged business designations and competes across both set-aside and full-and-open vehicles, with recent activity concentrated in SDVOSB and total small business set-asides through the OASIS+ family of contracts and unrestricted full-and-open competition on large defense acquisition vehicles.

ARL's customer concentration reflects a heavy footprint in civilian acquisition and homeland security. Department of Homeland Security entities dominate by award count — the DHS Office of Procurement Operations (42 awards) and Science and Technology Directorate (16 awards) — accounting for 83% of recent awards by coverage. However, the top-five customers by potential value tell a sharply different story: five awards carry $15.92 billion in combined potential value, with GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchoring $10 billion (five awards under OASIS+ vehicles), DHS Customs and Border Protection at $3 billion, DHS Chief Procurement Officer at $1.5 billion, the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration at $1 billion, and the Department of Energy Office of Management at $300 million. This divergence reflects ARL's recent seat on large governmentwide IDIQs — particularly the OASIS+ Total Small Business vehicle (awarded December 19, 2024, $999.999 billion placeholder ceiling, five-year base plus option through December 18, 2029) and the OASIS+ SDVOSB vehicle (awarded April 16, 2025, matching placeholder ceiling, through April 15, 2030) — alongside a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery contract with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, extending through December 28, 2035) that gates access to advanced multi-domain defense systems development and production work across air, missile, space, and cyber threat domains.

ARL's primary vehicle portfolio centers on OASIS+ family vehicles (both total small business and SDVOSB set-asides), GSA Multiple Award Schedule (30 task orders, $354.3 million combined potential value), the GSA Professional Services Schedule (26 task orders, $23.4 million), and legacy DHS IDIQs. The SHIELD vehicle, despite an initial delivery order ceiling of only $500, represents ARL's entry into a ten-year, full-and-open competition space for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, and production of advanced defense technologies. Concrete named work includes a $25.6 million Department of Energy Professional Administrative Support Services BPA call (awarded May 31, 2022, ultimate completion November 30, 2027) delivering management consulting and technical support to the Corporate Business Systems program and DOE Office of the Chief Financial Officer; a $3.9 million Department of Homeland Security delivery order under PACTS II (awarded September 29, 2023, ultimate completion September 28, 2027) for mission and technical contractor support to DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer; and subcontract work on chemical-biological-radiological-nuclear defense testing and analytics to Battelle Memorial Institute on a Naval Sea Systems Command sub-award (August 30, 2022).

SCI-reportable federal service-contract invoicing totaled $14.9 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $4.3 million, FY2023: $5.1 million, FY2024: $5.5 million), with SCI data showing 10 prime contracts and 4 named subcontractor roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, ARL reported an average subcontractor-hours share of 53%, with 11 named subcontractors—a profile indicating material reliance on subcontract delivery alongside direct-hire labor. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-recorded prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $6.62 per hour to a median of $97.49 per hour and a 90th percentile of $336.27 per hour, reflecting a mix of administrative and specialized technical labor. ARL's active GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 25 unique categories priced from $53.00 per hour (Administrative Specialist, associate degree) through $218.16 per hour (Program Manager III, master's degree with fifteen years of experience), with no security-cleared roles offered. Work category concentration reflects administrative management consulting (69 awards), engineering services (13 awards), and research and development (11 awards), tracked across Professional Services and Engineering/Technical support PSCs.

Activity has been episodic over the past five years—three awards in 2020, minimal activity in 2022–2023, then three awards in 2025—with only two awards (combined potential value $29.6 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. Combined obligated dollars total $99.2 million against the $15.92 billion combined potential value across all 100 awards, reflecting the high proportion of IDIQ ceiling value not yet obligated through individual task orders. ARL's workforce profile, per the SHIELD contract documentation, comprises retired senior military officers, former career civil servants, and industry professionals, with over half holding advanced degrees.

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