Comsol, Inc.

Comsol, Inc., doing business as Comsol Inc., is a foreign-owned software manufacturer that sells COMSOL Multiphysics computational modeling and simulation software to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing on full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company is classified under Software Publishers (NAICS 541511) and delivers finite-element analysis and multiphysics simulation capabilities across mechanical, electrical, thermal, acoustic, electromagnetic, fluid dynamics, and structural disciplines to support federal research, engineering, and technology development.

Comsol's federal work is heavily concentrated in defense and civilian research agencies. The Office of Naval Research leads by award count with 273 awards ($5.3 million combined potential value), followed by NASA's Shared Services Center with 194 awards ($8.4 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command with 188 awards ($4.3 million). These three customers account for 55% of awards and align closely in both volume and dollar rankings, indicating consistent demand across the Navy's modeling and simulation ecosystem and sustained NASA purchasing. The Air Force Research Laboratory (63 awards, $1.5 million) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (62 awards, $1.6 million) round out the active tier. Across 78 distinct federal agencies, Comsol delivers software licenses, modules, maintenance, and technical support through firm fixed-price purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement task orders, with contract values typically ranging from roughly $2,000 to $238,000.

Comsol holds two major blanket purchase vehicles: a $5 million single-award BPA with NASA's Shared Services Center (80NSSC19A0003, established 2019, extended through June 2024) supporting 96 task orders ($4.5 million), and a separate $5 million NASA BPA (NNX14MC69Z, 89 task orders, $3.5 million). These BPAs allow NASA and other federal agencies to place recurring calls for COMSOL software renewals, modules, licenses, and associated support services. Representative work includes a $150,748 NASA Shared Services Center renewal for nine base COMSOL Multiphysics licenses and 26 specialized modules (April 2026, sole-source under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i)); a $145,808 annual renewal to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for floating network licenses and 32 specialized modules including CFD, electromagnetics, and heat transfer (April 2025, sole-source); and a $186,030 Office of Naval Research floating network license (September 2024).

Activity has been steady, averaging roughly 33 to 39 awards annually from 2022 through 2024, with 21 awards in 2025 and 3 to date in 2026. Combined potential value across the entire 1,409-award footprint is $38.7 million, with $34.1 million obligated (88% capture rate). Seven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $453 thousand in combined potential value and representing modest recompete exposure.

Comsol operates as a subcontractor on a limited basis (17 sub-awards, 1% of total), primarily delivering COMSOL software licenses and renewals to defense research and development primes. Recent subcontract work includes COMSOL multiphysics and perpetual licenses to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies on the National Security Campus management contract (January 2026), software licensing to University of Dayton on emerging fuze technologies research (November 2024), and technical services to The MITRE Corporation on systems engineering R&D for DoD (November 2024). Subcontract engagement is opportunistic rather than systematic; the vendor's federal footprint is anchored to direct prime licensing.

Comsol competes full-and-open across all tiers and does not pursue SBA set-aside categories. The vendor's market position rests on proprietary software status and sole-source justification under FAR simplified acquisition procedures; repeated Special Notices cite COMSOL's unique capabilities and lack of authorized alternates as grounds for non-competitive award. The company's federal strategy is a high-volume, transactional software licensing model distributed across 78 agencies, with pricing discipline through firm fixed-price structures and sustained customer lock-in achieved through technical specialization in multiphysics simulation that federal agencies have embedded in validated analysis workflows and legacy project data.