Labkey Corporation

Labkey Corporation, doing business as Labkey Software, is a for-profit software publisher based in Seattle, Washington that licenses enterprise data management and scientific collaboration platforms to federal research agencies as a prime contractor, competing on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime on its federal footprint — 100% of awards across the sixteen tracked federal contracts — and does not pursue sub work or federal grants.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases dominates Labkey's federal customer base, accounting for 15 of 16 awards totaling $1.3 million in combined potential value. NIAID has renewed Labkey Server Premium Enterprise licenses on a recurring annual basis since at least 2022 to support clinical research infrastructure, COVID-19 research tracking, and sample management across the Division of Intramural Research, the Vaccine Research Center, and the Centralized Sequencing Program. Recent awards include an $119,053 license renewal placed on August 29, 2026 (completion August 28, 2027), a $113,384 renewal from August 29, 2025, and a $109,023 renewal from June 5, 2024. NIAID has characterized the Labkey platform as a sole-source solution under FAR 13.106-1, citing that no other responsible source can meet the agency's requirements for clinical sample management, study data integration, secure collaboration, integrated data modeling for longitudinal research data, and role-based access controls with automated audit trails for protected health information and personally identifiable information. The platform provides native interoperability with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Redshift, Tableau, RStudio, and RShiny, and includes specialized modules for Clinical Study Management, Assay Data Management, Flow Cytometry, Mass Spectrometry, and Ontology Annotation. GSA Federal Acquisition Service accounts for the single remaining award, a $475,000 contract for optical instruments or related equipment, which represents an outlier in Labkey's otherwise health-research-concentrated portfolio.

Labkey's activity has been sparse and irregular — one award per year across 2022–2026, with combined obligated dollars of $1.3 million (69% of the $1.8 million combined potential value). One award ($119 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, posing minimal recompete risk. The Service Contract Inventory reports minimal activity, capturing 1.2 FTEs delivered on Labkey as a named subcontractor in both FY2024 and FY2025, indicating that Labkey's federal footprint is driven by its own license sales and maintenance agreements rather than services delivery. The vendor's primary NAICS coding spans Software Publishers (7 awards) and Custom Computer Programming Services (2 awards), with PSC coding split between Information Technology Software (7 awards) and Business Application Software Perpetual License Software (6 awards).

LabKey is a software and professional services provider that specializes in helping organizations overcome the unique data management, collaboration, and workflow challenges faced in the scientific research environment. Our team, many of whom have scientific backgrounds themselves, is deeply committed to the success of our clients. We work hand-in-hand with organizations to understand the complex needs of modern labs and develop flexible, scalable, extensible systems to address them. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.labkey.com.