R.j. Runge Company, Inc.

R.J. Runge Company, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Port Clinton, Ohio, operates as a federal prime contractor delivering construction, facility maintenance, electrical systems, HVAC, and trade services predominantly to NASA Glenn Research Center and the General Services Administration. The firm competes overwhelmingly under total small business set-asides across its prime footprint (99% of 247 awards are primes), with set-aside designations appearing on approximately two-thirds of named delivery orders and task orders in the recent sample.

R.J. Runge's customer concentration is extreme. NASA Glenn Research Center anchors 137 awards valued at $304.5 million in combined potential value—59% of the vendor's entire $517.4 million portfolio across 247 awards. GSA Region 5 Public Buildings Service ranks second with 41 awards valued at $111.1 million. These two customers account for 72% of all awards and 81% of combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District, the Air Force Air National Guard, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts trail substantially, with 7, 10, and 12 awards respectively. Recent activity centers on NASA Glenn delivery orders: a $10.1 million total-small-business task order awarded August 31, 2026, for repair of cooling towers 1–4 under the Glenn Multiple Award Construction Contract 2; a $4.9 million ISP STEAM Retrofit delivery order from August 2024; a $3.6 million Primary Cooler system repair from May 2024; and a $2.0 million ATF EMCS and metering upgrades order from August 2025. GSA work includes a $1.9 million total-small-business delivery order from March 2024 for motor controls repair at the John Weld Peck Federal Building in Cincinnati, and a $1.7 million perimeter door replacement order from August 2023, also at Peck.

R.J. Runge holds a seat on the Glenn Multiple Award Construction Contract 2, a $100 million NASA IDIQ under which 30 task orders carry $61.6 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds a $50 million GSA Region 5 Repair and Alterations Services IDIQ (awarded September 27, 2024, set-aside for total small business, running through November 2026) and a $950 thousand single-award NASA Glenn BPA for high and low voltage electrical trade services (awarded May 2, 2022, extending through May 1, 2026). Across the top five parent vehicles, R.J. Runge manages 127 task orders worth $128.2 million in combined potential value. The four other named vehicles—Indefinite Delivery Contracts NNC09BA21B (43 orders, $23.6 million), NNC14BA21B (26 orders, $27.7 million), GS05P15SLD0049 (34 orders, $5.4 million), and GSA 47PF0018D0076 (24 orders, $9.5 million)—represent older or smaller IDIQ and regional construction vehicles.

Activity has declined markedly year over year. The vendor received 20 awards in 2022, dropping to 5 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 6 in the first nine months of 2026. Eight awards with combined potential value of $20.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete risk. On the portfolio side, R.J. Runge works almost exclusively as a prime (99% of awards); sub-awards number only two, both dated 2022, for scaffolding and heater installation under test facilities operations contracts.

Across SCI-reportable service contracts (a subset of federal service work above $150 thousand), R.J. Runge invoiced $15.2 million from FY2022 through FY2025, with a sharp jump to $11.7 million in FY2025 across 2.6 FTEs, compared to $1.6 million in FY2022 across 1.4 FTEs. The SCI dataset carries 53 prime records and zero named-subcontractor records, indicating the vendor self-performs the labor captured in these invoices. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run around $343.90 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching into the $900 range. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 20% of contractor hours; the vendor has named 28 distinct subcontractors in the SCI dataset, including Wadsworth-Slawson Inc. (electrical and technology), Mielke Mechanical Inc. (mechanical systems), Dynamic Water Technologies LLC (water systems), and V.I.P. Electric Company (electrical), reflecting a lean delivery model built on selective specialty-trade subs rather than general reliance on an extended bench.

The vendor's capability portfolio clusters heavily in NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, 151 awards) and 238900 (All Other Specialty Trade Contractors, 68 awards), with secondary strength in electrical contracting (NAICS 238210, 14 awards) and HVAC (NAICS 238220, 4 awards). PSC coding reinforces facility focus: 83 awards carry PSC D307 (Construction of Government-Owned Government-Operated R&D Facilities), 72 carry D318 (Repair or Alteration of Office Buildings), and smaller tranches address maintenance, restoration, and miscellaneous construction. The portfolio reflects a regional footprint anchored in Ohio and the Midwest (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, and six-state GSA Region 5 coverage), with place-of-performance spanning NASA Glenn's Cleveland facility and multiple federal courthouse and office buildings in Ohio and Indiana.

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