Flexcompute Inc.

Flexcompute Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, licenses and distributes Tidy3D Pro, a cloud-native electromagnetic and photonics simulation software platform, to federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor (71% of recent awards). The company delivers commercial software licenses under FAR Part 12 simplified acquisition procedures, selling perpetual and annual license packages with on-premises and cloud deployment options to Army, Navy, Defense Department, and civilian research agencies.

Flexcompute's federal customer base spans research and defense missions. The Office of the Secretary of Defense accounts for 3 awards and $343,000 in combined potential value; the Department of the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command, 1 award for $236,000; the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1 award for $52,000; and the National Science Foundation, 2 awards with dollar values not specified in the source. These four agencies represent 100% of Flexcompute's disclosed federal footprint across seven total awards (prime and sub combined). Notably, combined dollars obligated across all awards total $2.3 million, or 362% of the combined potential-value ceiling across those same awards, indicating that the source's ceiling figures substantially understate actual invoiced revenue or that subsequent modifications and obligations have exceeded original ceilings.

Flexcompute's primary federal work consists of three high-value sole-source purchases: a $342,650 Air Force Research Laboratory photonics chip simulation software license with FlexCredits (awarded July 2025, running through July 2027) for Tidy3D Pro with unlimited concurrent simulations and 20 billion FDTD grid capacity; a $235,500 Army Research Laboratory annual Tidy3D Pro license (awarded June 2027, running through June 2029); and a $52,000 NIST ten-month trial license (awarded April 2026) with PhotonForge Photonics Canvas capabilities and four NVIDIA V100 GPU capacity. Air Force justification for the OSD award cited Tidy3D Pro as the only known photonics chip simulation software offering parallel processing capabilities via off-site high-performance computation for rapid design iteration. Flexcompute also subcontracts simulation services: a May 2025 sub-award to Booz Allen Hamilton under the Microelectronics Assurance for Secure Trustworthy Electronics Research (MASTER) program provides SaaS simulation platform services; a May 2026 sub-award under an Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract also delivers Tidy3D simulation capabilities.

Award activity spans 2016 through 2027 with two awards in 2025 and 2026 each. Two awards carrying combined potential value of $395,000 face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure. The vendor participates on the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract (2 task orders) as a named vehicle. The vendor's NAICS footprint is split between Software Publishers (3 awards) and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (2 awards), with PSC codes spanning perpetual-license software, high-performance compute hardware and software, and service delivery support labor.