Fondriest Environmental, Inc.

Fondriest Environmental, Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer headquartered in Fairborn, Ohio, supplies specialized water quality and environmental monitoring instrumentation to federal agencies as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, which characterize roughly half of its recent prime awards; the remainder split between competitive and non-set-aside procurements. Fondriest Environmental operates primarily under NAICS 334513 (Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables), with 221 of 473 recent awards falling in that category, and holds a strong footprint in water quality sondes, data buoys, weather instrumentation, and sensor repair services.

Fondriest Environmental's customer base centers on NOAA and Army Corps of Engineers operations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leads by both award count (72 awards, $2.2 million combined potential value) and places the most task orders against the vendor's standing agreements—particularly calls under a $250,000 Blanket Purchase Agreement for buoy components running through July 2027. The Army Corps of Engineers follows with two distinct concentrations: 23 awards valued at $2.2 million through the Pittsburgh District, which maintains a long-running Indefinite Delivery Contract (W911WN20D3003, valued at $997,767.56) for water temperature profile system maintenance and replacement parts at 13 reservoirs, and a separate $152,520 H2S monitoring contract with the Huntington District running through December 2026. The U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Agriculture round out the active customer set, collectively accounting for over 150 awards. These five agencies represent 49% of award count and 69% of combined potential value across the portfolio.

Capability work centers on portable conductivity-temperature-depth instruments (SonTek CastAway-CTD units), multi-parameter water quality sondes (YSI EXO and ProDSS platforms), NexSens data buoy systems with solar panels and telemetry, temperature strings and pressure transducers, and repair services for sophisticated water quality monitoring equipment. Representative examples include a $43,152 total small business set-aside from NOAA in September 2025 for six CastAway-CTD instruments to support oceanographic missions at Marine Operations Centers, a $741,467.20 definitive contract from the Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District in July 2025 for five years of NexSens buoy maintenance and parts replacement at multiple reservoirs, and an $88,435 total small business set-aside from USGS in September 2023 for 30 multi-parameter weather transmitters supporting hydrologic monitoring programs. EPA awards include a $211,505.45 purchase order from the Office of Research and Development for a water sensor system and a $32,559.14 order for multi-port water quality meters. The vendor also holds a single authorized reseller position for NexSens buoy products across U.S. federal agencies, which surfaces in sole-source procurements from NOAA.

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years—19 awards in 2022, 21 in both 2023 and 2024, 11 in 2025, and 4 through April 2026—with only one award reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months ($153,000 potential value), indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The Pittsburgh District Indefinite Delivery Contract, the NOAA Blanket Purchase Agreement, and the Huntington District H2S monitoring contract constitute the vendor's standing vehicles; task orders and BPA calls flowing from these agreements account for the majority of recent activity. The vendor's sub-award footprint is negligible—only one sub-award appears in the source data—establishing Fondriest Environmental as overwhelmingly a prime contractor rather than a subcontractor partner. Combined obligated dollars across all awards reach $10.4 million against a $11.7 million combined potential value, indicating substantial execution velocity.