Respec Company, LLC

Respec Company, LLC (doing business as Respec Co LLC), a subsidiary of Re/Spec Inc. based in Rapid City, South Dakota, delivers geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, IT infrastructure support, and facility assessment services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 29 awards (41% of recent activity) and as a subcontractor on 41 awards (59%), competing predominantly full-and-open with no characteristic set-aside posture across the prime footprint.

The company operates across 25 federal customer agencies with award concentration driven by mission scope rather than volume. The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration leads by award count (19 awards, $23 thousand combined potential value), but this reflects smaller transactional work. More substantial customer relationships anchor with the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service (8 awards, $2.1 million combined potential value), the National Park Service Midwest Region (3 awards, $879 thousand), the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (2 awards, $830 thousand), and the Department of the Air Force Pacific Air Forces (3 awards, $617 thousand). A $17.64 million definitive contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District for design-bid-build construction and geothermal generation at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming (ultimate completion July 31, 2026) represents the largest single award in the visible portfolio. Recent prime work includes a $329.6 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from IHS for Tier-2 RPMS/EHR support services at the Phoenix Area office (ultimate completion January 31, 2027), a $364.9 thousand time-and-materials purchase order from DOJ for expert witness services in environmental litigation (ultimate completion February 1, 2031), a $633.1 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the National Park Service for rock block monitoring system maintenance at Mount Rushmore National Memorial (ultimate completion February 3, 2031), and a $715.5 thousand definitive contract from the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet Forces for ESTCP thermal microgrid conceptual design and testing (completed November 2024).

Respec holds a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite delivery contract, a multi-billion-dollar multiple-award IDIQ issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, extending through December 28, 2035, with an initial delivery order of $500 for performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The vendor also operates under GSA Multiple Award Schedule labor contracts (47 active labor categories spanning $27.42/hr to $263.39/hr, from high school to bachelor's-level education, no security clearances offered), an 18-task-order vehicle under Indefinite Delivery Contract 69056721D000007, and a DOI Architecture and Engineering Services MATOC 2022–2027 with 2 task orders. Four awards (combined potential value $18.7 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

The vendor operates predominantly as a subcontractor to large engineering and construction primes. Across the sub-award footprint, Respec subcontracts extensively to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. on Yellowstone National Park infrastructure and road design projects (Northeast Entrance Road environmental assessment and phased design, Mammoth to Gardiner road restoration design, Canyon to Fishing Bridge Junction NEPA and wetland delineation), with additional sub work on general dynamic information technology contracts for IHS EHR program management and operations. Respec also subcontracts to Booz Allen Hamilton on Department of Defense nuclear weapons enterprise research and analysis, to Leidos on electromagnetic advanced testing and technical assistance for system vulnerabilities, to General Dynamics Information Technology on IHS enterprise baseline planning and engagement services, and to multiple smaller construction primes (Patrick Constructors, Asrc Builders, Asrc Prime Constructors, Red Point Construction, Bratslavsky Consulting Engineers, Watterson Construction) on facility design and engineering services across Alaska military installations and National Parks. Service Contract Inventory captures 21 records (7 prime, 14 sub) spanning FY2022–FY2024; SCI-reportable invoiced revenue runs zero across all three fiscal years (SCI excludes goods, micro-purchases, and classified work), though the FTE trajectory shows 15.3 FTEs in FY2022, 0 in FY2023, and 21.5 FTEs in FY2024 across prime and sub records. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs account for 0% of total contractor hours, indicating Respec builds its own delivery teams on prime engagements while operating as a named sub to larger system integrators on defense and federal agency modernization initiatives.

The top NAICS category concentration sits with 541512 (Engineering Services, 28 awards) and 541712 (R&D in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, 7 awards), reflecting the core portfolio of geotechnical, environmental, and infrastructure engineering work. Federal grant activity is limited; Respec received one prime grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science (Improved Creep Testing Approach for Bentonite EBS, completed April 30, 2024) and holds sub-grant positions under the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education on geothermal resource evaluation and drilling optimization (INGENIOUS initiative, awarded July 24, 2025) and under the State of New Mexico Finance and Administration on FITKIDS early intervention database support (awarded June 30, 2024). Activity has grown from 5 awards in 2022 to 25 in 2025, with recent acceleration driven by sub-award volume rather than prime contract growth.