Energy Research Inc.

Energy Research Inc., a for-profit technical and scientific consulting firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, provides nuclear regulatory research, computational modeling, and reactor licensing support services to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing on full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations. The vendor operates as a pure prime, with no subcontractor footprint across its federal work.

Energy Research Inc. exhibits extreme customer concentration: the NRC Central Office anchors 158 of 200 tracked awards (79% of all prime awards) and $361.3 million of $377.1 million combined potential value (96% of total). GSA Federal Acquisition Service places a distant second with two awards ($13.6 million), followed by the broader NRC entity (29 awards, $1.1 million), NASA Johnson Space Center, and the Department of the Interior, each carrying minimal exposure. This concentration reflects the vendor's long-standing role as the NRC's principal technical assistance contractor for nuclear safety analysis and regulatory decision-support work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on TRACE (TRAC/RELAP Advanced Computational Engine) and PARCS (Purdue Advanced Reactor Core Simulator) plant-model development, thermal-hydraulic analysis, and coupled transient simulation to support reactor licensing and emergent safety assessments across light-water and advanced reactor designs. Recent representative prime work includes a $369.2 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract from the NRC awarded July 22, 2026, for TRACE and PARCS plant-model development for the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Station (4-loop Westinghouse PWR with ice-condenser containment, performance through May 31, 2027); a $582.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from August 2024 for TRACE and PARCS plant-model development and code assessment supporting licensing actions; and a $749.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from September 2023 for TRACE assessment relevant to the NuScale advanced reactor design. Capacity extends to non-light-water reactor topical-report technical review ($325.1 million delivery order, March 2023) and model development supporting new reactor and high-burnup/accident-tolerant-fuel licensing ($1.19 million delivery order, August 2022, ultimate completion October 2026).

Energy Research Inc. holds a $9 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (Multiple Award Schedule, effective through May 12, 2027) under Special Item Numbers spanning engineering analysis, testing, design integration, and research planning. The GSA schedule labor portfolio spans four tiers: Support Staff at $83.14/hr (bachelor's, three years' experience), Senior Engineer/Scientist at $136.00/hr (master's, ten years' experience), Corporate Engineer/Scientist at $166.66/hr (master's, fifteen years' experience), and Executive at $246.63/hr (PhD, thirty years' experience). No security-cleared roles are offered across the labor categories.

Activity trajectory shows limited recent award volume: one award in 2021, three in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026, reflecting the episodic nature of large licensing-support contracts and the long tail of multi-year delivery orders under existing indefinite-delivery vehicles. SCI-reportable invoicing on federal service contracts above $150,000 totaled $2.4 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($295 thousand in FY2022, $872 thousand in FY2023, $1.2 million in FY2024), with a government-paid hourly-rate median of $165.76/hr and a 90th percentile reaching $406.99/hr, reflecting a mix of senior technical labor and executive oversight roles. The vendor's FTE footprint in SCI data peaked at 2.8 FTEs in FY2024 and shows zero FTEs reported for FY2025, likely reflecting reporting lag or completion of near-term delivery orders; only two awards face ultimate completion within twenty-four months, carrying $1.6 million combined potential value. The vendor self-performs all work with zero subcontractor engagement across prime service contracts.

Specialists in safety and risk assessment, engineering analysis, policy development and regulatory support services. Have provided support to US and European government agencies and international organizations, since 1989. Recognized internationally.