Laboratory Testing, LLC

Laboratory Testing, LLC (doing business as Laboratory Testing Inc.) is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania that supplies advanced materials testing, specimen fabrication, and mechanical testing services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) under full-and-open and small-business-set-aside vehicles. The vendor competes across testing laboratories (NAICS 541380), metal fabrication, and machining categories, with no characteristic set-aside posture — awards split between small business set-asides on NIST vehicles and unrestricted competition on Navy and Department of Energy programs.

Laboratory Testing's customer concentration is extreme: the National Institute of Standards and Technology accounts for 61 of 170 total awards and $25.5 million of the $46.7 million combined potential value across the entire federal footprint (55% by value). The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command is the second-largest customer by potential value ($7.8 million across 14 awards), followed by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation ($10 million across 10 awards, placing it third by count but second by dollars). The vendor has worked with 21 distinct federal agencies. The NIST relationship dominates both volume and dollar share; the top four customers by potential value account for 94% of the combined potential value.

NIST work centers on a $7.7 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (set-aside for total small business, running through January 2027) for machining and heat treating Charpy Standard Reference Materials and specimens in support of NIST's Materials Measurement Laboratory. Laboratory Testing has received four documented delivery orders under this vehicle totaling approximately $2.5 million: a $725,325 order for FY25 Charpy SRM production awarded February 3, 2025; a $715,148.75 order for FY24 specimen production awarded March 7, 2024; a $652,219.50 FY23 order awarded February 23, 2023; and a $414,175.75 minimum order awarded January 10, 2022. Beyond the IDIQ, NIST has issued multiple smaller purchase orders for Charpy specimen modification and side-groove depth work. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation vehicle is a $9.9 million single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (July 30, 2021, ultimate completion July 14, 2026) for special testing services; Laboratory Testing has issued eleven delivery orders under this BOA between October 2021 and March 2022, each for nominal amounts ($640 to $1,178), representing minimal utilization of available capacity.

Most recent prime awards reflect Navy and NASA customer expansion. A $7.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded September 30, 2025, running through September 30, 2030) covers specimen fabrication and ASTM testing of six steel types (10Ni, Fe-Mn, HSLA, HY, V-Aus, 4340) for submarine platform R&D including Next Generation Attack Submarine and COLUMBIA-class programs, with individual task orders capped at $749,999. Laboratory Testing holds NADCAP and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation. A $775,900 delivery order from NIST for FY26 Charpy production was awarded April 29, 2026 under total small business set-aside. NASA awarded two purchase orders: an $84,631 sole-source order for a data acquisition system (FTA DSP Interface with ADwin-X, DCPD system, differential amplifier, fatigue crack growth rate and nonlinear fracture toughness modules, cables, and training) delivered to Kennedy Space Center in May 2026; and a $96,651 sole-source order for room and high-temperature fatigue testing of NASA-developed alloys at Marshall Space Flight Center awarded December 2024. The Office of Naval Research issued a $7,127 purchase order for machine and mechanical testing of shafting materials in February 2026. The Federal Transportation Administration placed a $16,107 purchase order for software updates in support of the Structures and Materials Lab in September 2023. The Ogden Air Logistics Complex (Defense agency) awarded an $85,995 sole-source purchase order for a Fracture Technology Associates DCPD crack measurement system for Hill Air Force Base's Rapid Innovation Center in April 2023.

Activity accelerated in 2025 (18 awards) from an average of seven per year in 2022–2024, though 2026 shows only five awards to date (most recent May 29, 2026). Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $861 thousand), indicating limited near-term recompete exposure.

Laboratory Testing subcontracts to three major defense primes on materials testing and specimen machining: Bell Textron Inc. on the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) FLRAA Capability Set Three program (multiple specimen machining and HCF frame leasing orders from July 2025 onward); Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC on National Security Campus operations (Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, contract DE-NA0002839, with testing, sample fabrication, tensile, and ultrasonic testing orders from February 2024 onward); and Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC on Naval Nuclear Laboratory operations and naval nuclear propulsion program support (heat treatment, testing, and Charpy/tensile specimen orders from September 2024 onward). Electric Boat Corporation and Lockheed Martin Corporation also appear in the sub-award record. The subcontract work reflects the same materials testing and specimen fabrication core capabilities deployed on prime contracts, routed through defense and energy sector platforms rather than direct agency relationships.