Richard Catlin & Associates Inc.

Richard Catlin & Associates Inc., doing business as Catlin Engineers And Scientists, is a small business engineering firm based in Wilmington, North Carolina, that delivers geotechnical investigation, civil engineering design, and environmental engineering services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), with a dominant posture in total small business set-asides across its footprint.

The firm competes almost exclusively under total small business set-aside designation. Recent prime work includes a $456,524 total small business purchase order from the Department of the Army for subsurface investigation and geotechnical testing at Brandt Island in Morehead City Harbor (awarded November 2025, completion June 2026), a $27,770 total small business purchase order from the Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District for cone penetrometer soundings at Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Disposal Area 64 (awarded March 2025), and a $27,210 total small business definitive contract from USDA Forest Service Region 8 for groundwater monitoring well drilling in Durham County, North Carolina (awarded June 2024, extended through September 2024). The firm also holds a $25 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (MATOC) with the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters, awarded April 2022 and running through April 2027, for comprehensive geotechnical engineering services including field exploration, laboratory testing, engineering analysis and design, instrumentation, and dam and levee assessments in support of Great American Outdoors Act deferred-maintenance projects across the continental United States and Hawaii.

Customer concentration leans heavily toward naval and Marine Corps infrastructure. The top five funding agencies account for 90% of awards by count, anchored by the United States Marine Corps (153 awards, $5.5 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy (151 awards, $5 million combined potential value), with the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command (95 awards, $22.8 million combined potential value) dominating the potential-value ranking. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service ($25 million MATOC) and the Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District ($5.9 million combined potential value across 10 awards) round out the active customer set. The vendor serves 20 distinct customer agencies overall.

The firm places work under five parent IDIQs, primarily Navy Indefinite Delivery Contracts: N6247001D3009 carries 139 task orders with $5 million combined potential value, N6247095D6009 carries 124 task orders, N6247005D6200 carries 69 task orders with $3.8 million combined potential value, and N4008509D3235 carries 39 task orders with $5 million combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers MATOC (N4008510D5303) carries 23 task orders with $7.3 million combined potential value and represents the firm's largest single-vehicle ceiling.

Activity has been episodic, with 463 total awards since 1992 but significant variability year to year — one award in 2022 followed by five in 2025. Recent combined potential value sits at $90.7 million with $31.8 million obligated (35% realization rate). The firm's capability portfolio, grounded in NAICS and PSC data, centers on engineering services (222 awards under NAICS 541330) and architectural services (138 awards), with top PSC coding in Architect and Engineering—General (395 awards) and subordinate strength in geotechnical analysis. Subcontractor exposure is minimal (1% of awards) and recent; Catlin Engineers and Scientists performs engineering support on task orders under Jacobs Government Services Company for Bachelor Enlisted Quarters design at MCB Camp Lejeune and under HDR Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas for 35% design borings work.

Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering, Assessment and Remediation, Drilling