OLI Systems Inc.

OLI Systems Inc., a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, supplies electrolyte chemistry modeling and simulation software—OLI Studio, OLI Flowsheet, and OLI Engine API—to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards), primarily through sole-source software license renewals and maintenance contracts in the energy and environmental research space. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

OLI's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Energy. The top five customer organizations account for 68% of awards by count, led by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy (8 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (8 awards, $195 thousand combined potential value), followed by DOE's Office of Science, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, and DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. By potential value, DOE's Office of Fossil Energy dominates with $1.2 million (63% of the $1.9 million combined potential value across all awards), reflecting the criticality of OLI's software to NETL's brine separation, water treatment pilot projects, carbon capture, corrosion modeling, and thermodynamic process work. The Office of Naval Research's eight awards carry lower individual values but signal established naval research relationships. All rankings show DOE as the driving customer—sole-source status has protected OLI's contract renewals from competition.

Recent capability work centers on software license and maintenance renewal. DOE's Office of Fossil Energy awarded a $245,506 purchase order on May 23, 2026, covering OLI Studio, OLI Flowsheet, and OLI Engine API renewals through May 22, 2027, under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; NETL determined OLI the sole source for chemistry inputs and ion precipitation modeling required for water treatment and brine separation research. Prior fiscal-year renewals with the same customer ran $240,123 (2025), $238,636 (2024), $157,706 (2023), and $159,846 (2022). The Office of Naval Research placed a $74,325 software license order on April 17, 2025, for electrolyte chemistry modeling supporting naval operations research.

OLI holds three federal grant awards as prime recipient through DOE's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049): a $250,000 project grant on CO2 transport asset integrity modeling (ultimate completion July 21, 2025), a geothermal asset integrity model award (Feb 14, 2022, completion Apr 2, 2025), and the Commercialization of Produced Water Application for Beneficial Reuse project (July 22, 2024, completion Sep 30, 2025). Grant work leverages OLI's software platform to support DOE's energy and environmental research priorities.

Activity over the past five years has been modest and declining—two awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026 through May. Combined potential value across all 34 prime and sub awards totals $1.9 million, though obligated dollars reach $7.8 million due to annual renewal structures. Only one award ($246 thousand in combined potential value) completes within the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete exposure. OLI subcontracts to Pantexas Deterrence on DOE's Pantex Plant ADPE software management (Nov 17, 2025) and acts as a sub-recipient under Southwest Research Institute's DOE grant, integrating novel thermophysical data into OLI Studio's thermodynamic database for phase-separation and freezing-temperature modeling of inorganic brines (awarded Jan 13, 2025). The vendor's footprint is characterized by deep technical specialization, sole-source defensibility in electrolyte chemistry and corrosion-prediction domains, and customer concentration in DOE research and development missions.