Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC

Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC, doing business as Bnbi, operates as the prime contractor for all 110 awards in its federal footprint, delivering biological and biodefense research, facility operations, and technical support services exclusively to the Department of Homeland Security (104 awards, $680.4 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy (1 award, $6 thousand). Bnbi is a non-profit limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Battelle Memorial Institute, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio; it carries no SBA certifications and competes exclusively on full-and-open solicitations.

Bnbi's entire operation revolves around managing and operating the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), a DHS-owned facility located at Fort Detrick, Maryland, with subordinate operations at Atlantic City, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. The vendor's capability portfolio encompasses biological threat detection, pathogen characterization, countermeasure development, laboratory operations, facility maintenance, equipment procurement, and specialized scientific research in support of national biodefense missions. Representative prime work includes a $10.67 million delivery order (September 2026) for construction and improvements at NBACC under the parent indefinite-delivery contract HSHQDC-15-C-00064, a $6.42 million delivery order (September 2024) for Phase II of the NBACC Energy Recovery System funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, a $2 million delivery order (July 2026) for equipment acquisition and demonstration project planning under the Generative Unconstrained Intelligent Drug Engineering (GUIDE) Phase II program, and a $10.55 million delivery order (September 2023) for EPDM roof replacement and laboratory equipment acquisition. Bnbi also delivers recurring facility support, sterilized waste disposal, physical security maintenance and upgrades, insurance coverage, and analytic tasks including pathogen decay analysis, viral stability assessment, and median lethal dose (LD50) determinations for threat agents such as Nipah virus.

Customer concentration is extreme: the DHS Science and Technology Directorate accounts for 100 percent of meaningful award volume and dollar value across the prime footprint. All 110 awards funnel through five DHS entities, with the Science and Technology Directorate anchoring 104 awards at $680.4 million combined potential value. The remaining four awards—two from the DHS Chief Procurement Officer ($329.2 million combined potential value), two from the DHS Office of Procurement Operations ($873 thousand), one from the DHS Office of the Under Secretary for Management ($367 thousand), and one from the Department of the Navy ($6 thousand)—represent administrative or incidental transactions rather than operational programs.

Bnbi's entire prime work sits under a single parent vehicle: the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract HSHQDC-15-C-00064 awarded to Bnbi by DHS, which hosts 106 task orders with $124.3 million combined potential value. This vehicle structure means Bnbi's competitive position and renewal risk are inseparable from the NBACC contract's recompete cycle. Six awards with combined potential value of $25.9 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, triggering recompete exposure for Bnbi unless the contract is renewed or extended.

Activity has declined markedly: twelve awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, seven in 2024, five in 2025, and three in 2026 (through late September). This contraction reflects task order issuance patterns under the single-vehicle footprint rather than diversified pipeline growth. The combined potential value across all 110 awards stands at $1.01 billion, with $836.1 million obligated (83% of ceiling).

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $43.3 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $12.4 million in FY2022 (11.1 FTEs), $7.5 million in FY2023 (7.8 FTEs), $16.9 million in FY2024 (4.8 FTEs), and $6.5 million in FY2025 (2.9 FTEs). SCI captures only a narrow slice of federal service contract work and excludes goods, classified contracts, and non-federal revenue; these figures represent Bnbi's reportable labor-intensive services, not total company revenue or federal footprint. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $134/hr at the 10th percentile to a median of $411/hr, with senior labor and specialized scientific positions pricing through $12,138/hr at the 90th percentile.

Bnbi performs work internally with minimal subcontractor engagement. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 5 percent of total contractor hours, with only six named subcontractors reported across the SCI dataset. Named subcontractors on delivery orders include Power Solutions LLC (UPS battery replacement), Atlas Copco Compressors LLC (air compressor maintenance), Altura Communication Solutions LLC (Avaya hardware support), Sterling Computers Corporation (a Women-Owned Small Business providing Cisco and Dell IT hardware procurement), International Television Corporation (test equipment procurement), Allmark Door Co LLC (emergency egress door replacement), and Johnson Controls Security Solutions LLC (emergency technical support for physical access control systems). These subcontracts support facility maintenance and equipment procurement rather than core scientific delivery. Bnbi's facility-operations-centered mission and technical complexity around NBACC operations create barriers to competitive recompete; the vendor's entire federal footprint depends on retaining or succeeding to the HSHQDC-15-C-00064 vehicle.