Project One Retrievers LLC

Project One Retrievers LLC, doing business as Project One Retrievers PLLC, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business that breeds, trains, and delivers purpose-bred working canines to federal security agencies as a prime contractor. The firm, based in Crown Point, Indiana, operates exclusively in NAICS 115210 (Support Activities for Animal Production) and PSC 8820 (Live Animals, Not Raised For Food), with 100% of recent awards as prime contracts — no subcontract footprint. All fifteen recent awards are full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designation, despite the vendor's small disadvantaged business self-certification.

Project One Retrievers specializes in providing trained explosive detection, personnel screening, and patrol canines to the Department of Defense military working dog program and homeland security agencies. Canine personnel are Labrador Retrievers no older than two years, trained to specified temperament and drive standards including hunt drive, prey drive, social temperament, courage, independence, and intense toy possession. The vendor is an active participant in the DHS Domestic Breeding Consortium with testing facilities and breeding operations located within 700 miles of Beltsville, Maryland. Recent representative contracts include a $208.8 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Secret Service (April 2025) for twelve personnel screening explosive odor detection canines in two batches, a $30.2 thousand purchase order from TSA (February 2026) for two domestic breeding initiative canines for the Canine Training Center, and a $68.4 thousand Secret Service purchase order (June 2024) for four canines supporting explosives detection operations.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed by vehicle size. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Security Forces Center represents just one award but carries $11 million in combined potential value — a single-award blanket purchase agreement running through March 2027 to supply trained military working dogs for patrol, drug and explosive detection, and specialized mission functions across the Defense Department and other federal agencies. By award count, the Air Force Air Education and Training Command leads with seven awards worth $650 thousand combined potential value for pre-trained military working dog delivery and potential training services. The Secret Service and Transportation Security Administration account for four and three awards respectively, with $2.2 million and $1.1 million in combined potential value. The vendor holds two active parent vehicles: a multiple-award BPA with TSA (ceiling $1.03 million, expiring September 2029) supporting canine procurement with five task orders totaling $400 thousand, and a newly awarded single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Secret Service (ceiling $1.6 million, through July 2031) for personnel screening canines with explicit task-order scheduling through February 2028 requiring candidate pools of seven to ten animals per delivery tranche.

Activity remains sparse — one to two awards annually over the past five years — with just $1.1 million in combined dollars obligated against $15 million in combined potential value across all awards. The Secret Service IDIQ and associated task order, awarded in July 2026 and therefore future-dated relative to the portfolio snapshot, represents the highest near-term transactional value and signals expansion into standing inventory relationships beyond episodic purchase orders.

Developing quality performance Labrador Retrievers for all explosive detection needs. Event coverage for explosive detection. Specialized Search Dog training and development. Green Labrador Detection Dogs. Canine Handler Training. Off-Leash E-Collar Training.