Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc.

Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc., doing business as Bode Technology, is a for-profit subsidiary of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings that delivers forensic DNA analysis, expert witness testimony, and investigative support services to federal law enforcement and justice agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards). The company operates from headquarters in Lorton, Virginia, competes on a full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside designations, and does not hold minority, women-owned, or other socioeconomic set-aside certifications.

Bode Technology's federal customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of Justice ecosystem. The top five funding agencies account for 83% of recent awards by count, but the dollar concentration diverges sharply from volume. The U.S. Attorney's Offices dominates by award count (493 awards, $4.7 million combined potential value), driven by numerous small expert witness and litigation support purchase orders ranging from under one thousand dollars to approximately $142,000 per engagement. By contrast, the FBI Headquarters Division anchors the dollar base with 33 awards carrying $246.5 million in combined potential value—roughly 63% of Bode Technology's total federal portfolio. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ranks third (13 awards, $29.5 million), followed by the Defense Health Agency (17 awards, $983 thousand) and the National Institute of Justice (12 awards). This split signals that the Justice Department relies on Bode Technology for both high-volume case support (AUSA offices) and large strategic forensic capacity (FBI laboratory division).

Capability framing centers on forensic DNA analysis, expert witness services, investigative genetic genealogy, and proficiency testing. Recent prime awards include a $2.062 million labor-hours contract with the FBI for laboratory division forensic support services (awarded September 2022, ultimate completion May 2024); a $243.582 million firm-fixed-price order to Army Central Command for SecurSwab intelligence field packs supporting operations in Iraq and Syria (awarded January 2023); and a $71.280 thousand Marine Corps purchase order for genealogy support services and family location assistance for Marines missing from past wars (awarded September 2023). Bode Technology also holds a $28.983 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (through September 2027) covering laboratory equipment and products, engineering research and development services, and professional law enforcement services including DNA testing, case reviews, genealogy investigations, and mitochondrial sequencing. Work is performed in Lorton, Virginia, with services delivered nationwide. The GSA labor portfolio spans 16 unique categories with hourly rates from $70.43 (casework assistant, entry-level) to $150.11 (forensic specialist, subject-matter expert), all requiring security clearances and ranging from entry-level three-year minimums through ten-year subject-matter-expert roles with master's degrees.

Bode Technology maintains three primary contract vehicles: the GSA Federal Supply Schedule ($28.983 million ceiling through September 2027) generating 54 task orders worth $36 million combined potential value; an FBI Indefinite Delivery Contract (DJFJFBI12288) with 14 task orders valued at $23.1 million; and an IDC with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (W81XWH17D0004) with 11 task orders worth $154 thousand. A single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (issued August 2023, $70,000 ceiling through August 2027) supports DNA testing for criminal investigations. Recent delivery orders under the GSA schedule and CBP BPA range from $11,600 to $24,100 per task, with customers including Navy SECNAV Criminal Investigative Service, the Office of Justice Systems, and Sacramento Field Office.

Activity has accelerated consistently over the past five years — 12 awards in 2022 to 40 in 2025 — with 31 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Forty-six awards (combined potential value $1.3 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore enter recompete window. The vendor operates nearly exclusively as a prime (99% of recent awards), with minimal subcontractor engagement; recent sub-award work includes DNA analysis support to Research Triangle Institute on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NAMUS) program (five sub-awards from 2024–2025) and a single subcontract modification with Amentum Services in December 2025 for base-year labor revision.

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing totaled $3 million across FY2022–FY2024, with $1.6 million in FY2022 (10.4 FTEs) and $1.4 million in FY2023 (9.3 FTEs); no SCI-reportable invoicing is reflected for FY2024 in the source. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $68.85 per hour, with a narrow range from $62.71 to $69.92 per hour, reflecting the standardized-labor forensic services profile. The vendor does not engage subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime contracts (zero sub-hours share).

Bode Technology holds federal grant positions as a research recipient. The National Institute of Justice awarded a $659.287 thousand project grant (January 2024–December 2026) for evaluation of target enrichment for SNP genotyping of skeletal remains to improve forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG) investigations with degraded bone samples. An earlier NIJ project grant funded a $437.383 thousand comparative evaluation of genotyping technologies for investigative genetic genealogy in sexual assault casework (January 2022–June 2023). A second NIJ grant supports optimization and assessment of an MPS workflow for improved mixture deconvolution using microhaplotypes, with a focus on developing user-friendly bioinformatic analysis and probabilistic genotyping methods (January 2023–December 2025). These grants position Bode Technology at the research frontier of forensic DNA methodologies and place it as an active participant in standards development and technology validation for the criminal justice system.

The parent relationship with Labcorp (Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina) does not appear to drive co-marketing or sub-award pipelines in the federal space; Bode Technology operates as a standalone forensic services division with its own contracting identity and customer relationships. Combined potential value across all 683 prime and sub awards (including IDVs and grants) totals $390.6 million, with $84.1 million obligated (22% of potential), reflecting the typical structure of open-end indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring large ceilings against periodic task-order call-downs.

Bode performs forensic DNA analysis, instrument validation services and DNA research & development. Bode makes DNA evidence collection products.