Lab Leasing Co., Inc.

Lab Leasing Co., Inc. Chesapeake Operations Division, doing business as Chesapeake Labs, operates as a small business prime contractor providing water and wastewater facility management, chemical supply, laboratory testing, and infrastructure operations support to federal research agencies. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements and holds a single large Indefinite Delivery Contract that generates recurring task orders; no set-aside designations recur across the prime footprint.

Chesapeake Labs' capability portfolio centers on water and wastewater treatment plant operations, superintendent and operator services, facility maintenance, chemical procurement, and laboratory testing and analysis for federal research facilities. Representative work includes a $660,841.50 total small business definitive contract from USDA ARS Northeast Area (awarded October 2021, extending through October 2026) for water and wastewater laboratory and testing services at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center covering sample collection, analysis, documentation, and reporting for eight water wells, a raw water system, water treatment plant, water distribution system, wastewater collection system, and two wastewater treatment plants. A $573,600 total small business purchase order from USDA ARS Northeast Area (February 2026, completing February 2031) adds comprehensive laboratory testing services under a five-year scope. Chesapeake Labs also holds a $3,725,000 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA ARS Northeast Area (awarded September 2023, completing September 2028) for water and wastewater chemicals and operation supplies at BARC, from which the vendor has issued eight task orders totaling $1.1 million to date. Supplementary work includes a $177,300 total small business purchase order from USDA ARS (August 2025) for water superintendent and wastewater reporting support services and two purchase orders from the Office of Naval Research in March 2025 and March 2026 (combined $30.6 thousand) for potable and wastewater sampling services supporting Naval Research Laboratory and Chemical and Biological Defense operations in Washington, DC.

Customer concentration is extreme. USDA ARS Northeast Area accounts for 27 awards and $9.3 million of the vendor's $9.3 million combined potential value (100% coverage), with the Office of Naval Research placing two small orders totaling $31 thousand. The vendor serves only two distinct federal customer agencies. Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to a peak of eight in 2023, with recent trajectory showing four awards in 2024 and seven in 2025; the source reports five awards so far in 2026 as of March. Three awards carrying combined potential value of $738 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure principally at USDA ARS. The vendor holds no subcontract positions and operates exclusively as prime. Work is performed at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and subordinate facilities in Calverton and Stevensville, Maryland, with limited task work in Washington, DC.