Nalco Company LLC

Nalco Company LLC, doing business as Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company, delivers industrial water treatment chemicals, equipment, maintenance, and Legionella prevention services to the federal government as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) on a full-and-open basis with no socioeconomic set-asides. A subsidiary of Ecolab Inc. headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, Nalco operates from Naperville, Illinois, and competes across 40 distinct federal agencies without leveraging small business or 8(a) designations; the vendor's parent holds a for-profit corporate structure.

Customer concentration tilts heavily toward defense and veteran healthcare. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 48% of recent awards, led by Naval Facilities Engineering Command (23 awards, $22.9 million combined potential value) and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Butner (15 awards, $329 thousand). The potential-value ranking surfaces different leverage: Naval Facilities Engineering Command still leads at $22.9 million, but the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 ranks second at $5.9 million across five awards, with Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 contributing $4.6 million across 14 awards. This concentration reflects Nalco's embedded position as the incumbent supplier for boiler, chiller, and cooling-tower chemistry across Navy installations and VA healthcare systems.

Nalco's vehicle footprint centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 42 task orders valued at $14.1 million, supplemented by single-award indefinite delivery contracts. A $5.4 million Naval Facilities Engineering Command single-award IDC for thermal commodity chemicals and water/wastewater treatment services (awarded August 2025, running through February 2031) anchors the Navy relationship and has already generated a base-year delivery order of $786,143 for Norfolk, Virginia operations. A $1.1 million Veterans Affairs Blanket Purchase Agreement (February 2023 through January 2027) under the GSA schedule funds annual chemical treatment task orders at Veterans Integrated Service Network 8. A $4.3 million Naval Facilities Engineering Command single-award indefinite delivery contract (October 2022 through December 2024) has expired but illustrates the contract vehicle profile. A $400,000 Department of Defense single-award indefinite delivery contract (April 2025, Fort Leavenworth) procures Nalco brand boiler chemicals on a sole-source basis for boilers fitted with Nalco equipment at DoD sites.

Activity has remained steady year over year — 19 awards in 2022 to 24 in 2024 — with 16 awards (combined potential value $6.9 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete risk. Representative prime work includes a $851,228 delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico for water treatment services (firm fixed price, ultimate completion September 2026); a $638,294 purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 in Orlando, Florida for water monitoring with iChlor unit installation and Legionella prevention (October 2025 through September 2028); a $786,143 Naval Facilities Engineering Command base-year delivery order for boiler and cooling-tower chemistry in Norfolk, Virginia (September 2025 through August 2026); and a $1.36 million definitive contract awarded by Pacific Air Forces to supply boiler chemicals for the Central Heat and Power Plant at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska (January 2022 through January 2027). Nalco also holds a $225,500 water treatment services contract with the Federal Aviation Administration's Southwestern Region for the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center (August 2023 through July 2028, total small business set-aside).

In its subcontractor role, Nalco delivers water treatment services to Amentum Technology on a Center Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering support contract for Langley Research Center institutional facility operations (performance periods running from October 2023 onward); to Valiant Government Services for Fort Bliss operations and maintenance contracts supporting water treatment from fiscal 2024 through 2026; to Triad National Security on a Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operations competition; and to ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics on repairs, operations, and maintenance work for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Service Contract Inventory data shows sparse SCI-reportable activity: $2.1 million invoiced in FY2023 across 2.7 FTEs, with zero invoiced revenue in FY2024 and FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on prime service contracts ranged from $413.93 at the 10th percentile to $1,112.35 at the 90th percentile, with a median of $738.64 per hour. The vendor self-performed all reported SCI hours with zero subcontractor engagement share, indicating direct delivery of water treatment engineering, testing, and maintenance labor. The low FTE footprint relative to award count reflects Nalco's business model: most federal work is goods-and-equipment provisioning (chemicals, analyzers, monitoring systems) rather than labor-intensive services, which fall below or outside the $150,000 SCI threshold.

Nalco's corporate structure includes a parent (Ecolab Inc.) and two named subsidiaries: Nalco Water Pretreatment Solutions, LLC, and Barclay Water Management, Inc. The awards in this dossier all carry Nalco Company LLC as the awardee, though the source notes that Nalco Water Pretreatment Solutions, LLC (a division of Ecolab) has separately received federal contracts for water treatment services and equipment across multiple agencies including the Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, Navy, State, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. This subsidiary structure likely reflects product-line or geographic segmentation within the Ecolab enterprise but does not alter Nalco Company LLC's competitive posture as a full-and-open, large-business supplier to federal water infrastructure customers.