Gel Laboratories LLC

Gel Laboratories LLC, a woman-owned small business subsidiary of The Gel Group, Inc. based in Charleston, South Carolina, provides analytical laboratory services — environmental, radiological, and biological sample testing — to federal agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements (40% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to environmental remediation and national security primes (60% of recent awards). The vendor competes full-and-open; none of its recent prime awards carry set-aside designations.

Gel Laboratories' capability footprint centers on environmental compliance testing, radiological sample analysis including detection and quantification of radioactive materials across biological and environmental matrices, PFAS remediation verification using EPA Method 1633A, tissue and water sample analysis, and bioassay services supporting nuclear security and defense health missions. Representative prime work includes a $1.93 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the Defense Health Agency awarded September 26, 2025, for radiological analysis of environmental and biosurveillance samples collected worldwide and delivered to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, with an estimated annual volume of 2,000 to 10,000 samples through September 2030; a $73,116 purchase order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command awarded December 30, 2025, for PFAS testing under the Sorbent Onsite Testing Apparatus project, including EPA Method 1633A analysis of 108 samples with results delivery within five weeks; and a $450,000 single-award BPA from the Joint Munitions Command awarded September 23, 2024, supporting Pine Bluff Arsenal's environmental laboratory testing through September 2029. A newly awarded $1.5 million multiple-award BPA from the Department of Defense effective August 15, 2025, covers environmental sample testing (sediment, soil, drinking water, waste, air) for DoD projects and other federal and state programs through August 2030, with an $8,035 stormwater outfall monitoring call at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri executed January 26, 2026.

Customer concentration tracks heavily toward defense and environmental remediation missions. The top five customers by award count account for 49% of recent awards, led by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (22 awards) and the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (14 awards), with the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water and Region 9, and the Department of the Air Force filling the remaining spots. By potential value, the Defense Health Agency anchors the portfolio at $2.5 million across three awards, followed by the Department of the Army Medical Command ($863 thousand), the Joint Munitions Command ($700 thousand), the Federal Bureau of Investigation ($690 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command ($682 thousand) — together accounting for 71% of combined potential value. The divergence reflects that the Energy agency awards are numerous but lower-dollar subcontract calls, while Defense Health Agency and DoD awards carry larger single-award purchase-order ceilings.

Gel Laboratories holds positions on several parent vehicles. The One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services - Small Business vehicle carries nine task orders; the EPA Remedial Acquisition Framework: Design and Engineering Services BPA hosts five task orders; and the Indefinite Delivery Contract 68HE0923D0002 (Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mines Response Assessment and Evaluation Services under EPA Region 6) carries nine task orders. The Joint Munitions Command BPA and a Department of the Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity BPA (W81XWH16A0017, three task orders) round out the active IDV footprint.

Activity has expanded sharply: one award in 2022, twelve in 2023, thirty-four in 2024, and twenty each in 2025 and 2026 year-to-date. Awards completing in the next twenty-four months total only three with combined potential value of $128 thousand, positioning the vendor with minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The vendor's subcontractor role runs deep — Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC (Naval Nuclear Laboratory and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program support, including bioassay and laboratory analytical services at Knolls Laboratory and Kesselring Site), Tetra Tech, Inc. (Environmental remediation investigation and feasibility studies at Navajo Nation uranium mine sites, Old Church Rock, and other Tronox locations), Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration LLC (222-S Laboratory Complex operations including S-SX Farm vadose sample analysis and waste tank effluent analysis), EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC (drinking water state revolving fund technical support with lab analysis components), and Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant operations) dominate its sub footprint. Gel Laboratories also subs to CDM Federal Programs Corporation, Amentum Technology, Inc., and Weston Solutions Inc. on remedial investigation and site characterization work. The vendor's accreditations include ISO 17025:2017 and DoD Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program certification — credentials the source identifies as prerequisites in competitive solicitations. Combined obligated funding ($12.3 million) exceeds combined potential value ($7.7 million) by 160%, reflecting frequent modifications and funding increases on active sub work.