RON Smith & Associates, Inc.

RON Smith & Associates, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Collinsville, Mississippi, provides forensic examination and expert witness services to federal law enforcement, justice, and homeland-security agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor competes on full-and-open basis across its federal portfolio with no set-aside activity, though a recent single award from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (September 2026, $5.1 million) carries a Total Small Business designation for print and friction ridge examination services.

RON Smith & Associates' core capability is fingerprint and latent print analysis, friction ridge examination, and expert witness testimony in federal criminal litigation. The vendor's concrete service portfolio spans forensic examinations, proficiency testing, quality assurance training, and forensic training delivery. Representative recent work includes a $5.1 million Total Small Business purchase order from USCIS (awarded September 30, 2026, extending through September 2030) for certified ten-print examiner services supporting DHS-accredited laboratories under ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standards; a $17.6 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the FBI Forensic Department (September 2023) for on-site quality assurance training in the Corrective Action Process and Cause Analysis course delivered to laboratory personnel; a $19.5 thousand purchase order from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (August 2022) for friction ridge training; and a $95 thousand single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Command (November 2023, extending through November 2028) for proficiency testing, quality management support, and forensic training services. The vendor also delivers expert witness testimony services under time-and-materials purchase orders to the U.S. Attorney's Offices, typically valued between $1,350 and $29,608 per order.

Customer concentration is acute. The Department of Justice agencies (U.S. Attorney's Offices and FBI Headquarters Division combined) account for the majority of awards and dollars: the FBI Headquarters Division anchors $12 million in combined potential value across 16 awards, while the U.S. Attorney's Offices accounts for 26 awards valued at $365 thousand combined. The USCIS award inflates Department of Homeland Security's dollar share to approximately $6 million potential value (one large print-and-friction-ridge contract plus three CBP awards). The recompete cliff carries moderate risk: twelve awards valued at $187 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within twenty-four months, primarily small expert witness purchase orders expiring in 2027 and 2028.

The vendor operates as a pure prime contractor—all 69 recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs; zero sub-award activity appears in the source data. RON Smith & Associates does not sit on any government-wide vehicles or multi-award IDVs; its only named parent vehicle is the single-award Army Criminal Investigation Command BPA. Service Contract Inventory data is sparse (one SCI sub-award record in FY2022 showing minimal engagement), reflecting the vendor's concentration in small, frequently-issued expert witness purchase orders and specialized forensic-services contracts that often fall below the $150 thousand SCI reporting threshold. The company has maintained an active federal contracting presence since at least 2003 and serves eleven distinct federal agencies, with performance locations in Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia, Washington DC, and subordinate federal facilities.

Forensic training/Forensic consulting