Product Evaluation Systems, Llc.

Product Evaluation Systems, LLC (doing business as Product Evaluation Systems Inc.), a foreign-owned limited liability partnership based in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, delivers specialized materials testing and metallurgical evaluation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on single purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements and as a subcontractor on defense nuclear and advanced manufacturing programs. The company is a subsidiary of Applied Technical Services, LLC, a Marietta, Georgia-based parent entity, and competes full-and-open with no set-aside designation across recent awards.

Product Evaluation Systems operates as a specialized testing laboratory focused on high-temperature, cryogenic, and fatigue mechanical testing of advanced alloys, particularly oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) alloys and nickel-cobalt-chromium-based materials. Representative prime work includes a $160 thousand sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center (awarded March 17, 2026, completed July 7, 2026) for high-temperature ODS alloy mechanical testing supporting three NASA-developed alloy variants (GRX-810, ORCalloy-21, and Alloy 754-ODS) at Marshall Space Flight Center, a $124.7 thousand sole-source purchase order from NASA (August 27, 2025, completed May 27, 2026) for elevated-temperature ODS alloy fatigue and tensile testing of 315 specimens up to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit, and a $290 thousand purchase order from the Defense or Civilian Agency Shared Services Center (June 23, 2026, completion January 19, 2027) for high-temperature very high cycle fatigue and tensile testing of hydrogen-resistant and ODS alloys requiring Nadcap and A2LA (ISO/IEC 17025:2017) accreditation in ASTM E8/21 and E606/E466 standards.

Customer concentration centers heavily on the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (7 awards, sub work), NASA's Shared Services Center (5 awards, $786 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (1 award, $7.5 million combined potential value). The Navy's single award — a five-year multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (September 30, 2025, completion September 30, 2030) with a $7.5 million ceiling and $749,999 individual order caps — represents 90% of the combined potential value across the entire portfolio and establishes Product Evaluation Systems as a specimen fabrication and ASTM testing services provider for submarine platform research and development across six steel material types (10Ni Steel, Fe-Mn Steel, HSLA, HY Steel, V-Aus Steel, 4340 Steel). The BPA was initially designated as a small business set-aside under NAICS 332710 but was subsequently opened to all eligible contractors; selection was based on technical capability demonstration and possession of at least two of three specified accreditations (NADCAP, ISO/IEC 17025:2017, or A2LA) combined with minimum five years of CNC machining experience.

Award activity has grown from single annual awards in 2008–2009 to four to five awards per year in 2024–2026, with one award (the $290 thousand Defense or Civilian Agency purchase order) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. In its subcontractor role, Product Evaluation Systems performs metallographic preparation, evaluation, heat treatment, and testing of powder metallurgy billets and alloys under Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC on the Naval Nuclear Laboratory and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Support contract (seven sub-awards between February 2024 and February 2026), and delivers advanced manufacturing testing services under Concurrent Technologies Corp on a powder bed fusion equipment extension program (one sub-award, October 2025). The company's prime-to-sub split runs 50-50 across recent awards.