Progressive Recovery Inc.

Progressive Recovery Inc., a small business manufacturer headquartered in Dupo, Illinois, supplies original equipment and specialized maintenance and certification services for effluent decontamination systems (EDS) and thermal tissue autoclaves (TTA) used in high-containment biomedical and agricultural research facilities, operating predominantly as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) with recurring small business set-aside designations on USDA contracts.

The company's core capability centers on designing, manufacturing, and servicing biocontainment waste treatment equipment—specifically EDS and TTA systems for biosafety level 3 research environments. Representative work spans annual filter integrity testing and system certification (a $143,986 USDA Agricultural Research Service purchase order awarded in July 2026 for annual validation of a Biosafety Level 3 effluent decontamination system at Frederick, Maryland, running through July 2030), repair and technical support delivery orders under a $650.3 thousand National Institutes of Health indefinite delivery contract (including a $191,750 delivery order for EDS software upgrades at NIH's Integrated Research Facility in Bethesda, Maryland, and a $72,100 delivery order for repair and operator training at Fort Detrick), and supply of specialized components such as valve rebuild kits and CPU modules (a $125,960 USDA purchase order in September 2025 for EDS spare parts at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas). The company also supplies non-biocontainment solvent recovery equipment—a $493,020 purchase order from NASA Johnson Space Center (awarded September 2022) for a hydrofluoroether distillation and recovery system supporting clean room operations.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to USDA Agricultural Research Service locations. The top five funding offices account for 77% of award count and 95% of combined potential value: USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area dominates both metrics (15 awards, $5.9 million combined potential value, anchored by a $1.5 million facilities service contract for TTA and EDS maintenance at NBAF running through September 2026), followed by NIH Construction (18 awards, $1.7 million combined potential value), USDA ARS Northeast Area (10 awards, $458 thousand), USDA ARS Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery (3 awards, $500 thousand), and NASA Johnson Space Center (1 award, $493 thousand). The USDA-NIH split reflects the vendor's positioning as the original equipment manufacturer for systems deployed across federal biosafety research infrastructure; dollars are concentrated in USDA maintenance and spare-parts contracts while NIH awards trend toward higher-value system upgrades and service orders.

Activity has remained modest and relatively stable—nine awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, declining to six in 2024 and seven in 2025, with three awards in the first half of 2026. Six awards (combined potential value $2.1 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure on USDA spare-parts orders and NIH certification work. The vendor holds positions on two NIH indefinite delivery contracts (six task orders generating $193 thousand combined potential value under 75N99018D00021 and four task orders generating $357 thousand under 75N99024D00009), reflecting its status as a single-award OEM vendor for NIH biocontainment facilities. The vendor carries only one subcontract award in the source (a $1 modification to a PRI EDS-2500S system upgrade, February 2024), with no prime subcontract relationships evident.

Progressive Recovery's NAICS concentration reflects its equipment and manufacturing footprint: Metal Tank (Heavy Gauge) Manufacturing leads at 15 awards, followed by Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (8 awards) and Engineering Services (7 awards). PSC codes cluster on maintenance and repair of laboratory and medical equipment (Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Instruments and Laboratory Equipment accounts for 8 awards). Across the prime portfolio, roughly 55% of awards carry explicit total small business set-aside designations; the remainder are either full-and-open or single-source awards to the vendor as OEM. The vendor competes for set-asides on spare-parts and maintenance contracts with USDA ARS but pursues non-set-aside delivery orders and NASA work on technical merit and OEM status.

PRI has established itself as the leading engineering and manufacturing firm specializing in waste processing systems including hazardous and bio-waste materials, and solvent management solutions.