RTI Laboratories Inc.

RTI Laboratories Inc., doing business as RTI Laboratories, is a minority-owned small business based in Livonia, Michigan that provides environmental, chemical, and materials testing services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles. The company is a Subchapter S corporation and a child entity of SGS North America Inc., a foreign-owned parent, with over 25 years of experience in scientific testing and analysis supporting federal research, monitoring, and environmental compliance programs.

RTI Laboratories' customer base concentrates heavily on Army Corps of Engineers district offices across multiple locations. The top five customers by award count account for 61% of awards, led by the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Buffalo (126 awards, $9.2 million combined potential value), Engineering District Louisville (78 awards, $5.9 million), Engineering District Detroit (41 awards, $3.2 million), the Navy Military Sealift Command (37 awards, $8 million), and Engineering District Huntington (34 awards, $4.2 million). By potential value, however, the top five customers account for 70% of combined dollars, dominated by the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (25 awards, $49.8 million potential value) and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Kansas City (32 awards, $13.9 million). This value concentration reveals a stark division: USGS anchors the largest dollar awards through a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for chemical and geotechnical analysis, whereas Army Corps district offices generate high-volume, lower-dollar task orders.

RTI Laboratories holds six primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts totaling approximately $40 million in ceiling value: a $25 million single-award IDIQ with USGS (awarded April 18, 2024, through December 31, 2029) for chemical and geotechnical analysis using over 100 analytical testing methods on environmental samples; a $7.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers ENDIST Omaha (awarded December 2, 2024, through December 1, 2029) for on-demand analytical laboratory services; a $4.6 million single-award IDIQ with the Defense Health Agency (awarded September 28, 2024, through September 27, 2029) for non-drinking water sample analysis; a $3.15 million single-award IDC with Military Sealift Command (awarded November 8, 2023, through December 5, 2028) for failure analysis on diesel engine components and related materials testing; a $760,000 single-award IDC with the Bureau of Reclamation (awarded September 20, 2024, through September 30, 2029) for water and sediment sample analysis; and a $147,000 single-award IDIQ with USGS (awarded August 2, 2021, through August 1, 2023, now completed) for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances laboratory analysis. Task orders under these vehicles dominate the footprint: the top five IDCs and BPAs account for 233 task orders worth $7.9 million combined potential value.

RTI Laboratories' concrete service portfolio spans water and sediment sample analysis, materials failure analysis, chemical and geotechnical testing, environmental quality assurance, and specialized analytical laboratory support for federal research and compliance programs. Representative work includes a $2.0 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Defense Health Agency (awarded September 28, 2024, completion September 27, 2029) for non-drinking water sample analysis supporting military installation safety, with anticipated annual sample volumes of 3,000 to 10,000 samples scalable for emergencies; a $500,000 USGS delivery order (awarded February 10, 2026, completion February 10, 2027) for chemical and geotechnical analysis performed at RTI's Livonia facility; a $52,500 Military Sealift Command delivery order (awarded June 10, 2025) for thruster seal analysis on USNS Arrowhead; a $596,730 USGS delivery order (awarded November 3, 2023, completion May 13, 2025) for chemical and geotechnical analyses extending an existing indefinite delivery vehicle; and multiple Army Corps of Engineers task orders for sediment and water sampling analysis at locations including Trail Creek in Michigan City, Indiana ($29,643.50, September 2025), Fox River ($83,289.72, September 2025), Sheboygan Harbor ($34,835.50, August 2025), and Port Washington Harbor ($16,315.50, July 2025). Small-business set-aside work clusters in Army Corps environmental remediation and quality assurance BPA calls, typically valued at $4,000 to $35,000 per task.

Activity has remained moderate and relatively flat year over year — 7 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 16 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and 2 awards so far in 2026 — reflecting the task-order-driven character of the business under large IDCs and BPAs. Only one award (a $500,000 delivery order from USGS) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term; the bulk of the IDC ceilings run through 2028 and 2029. RTI Laboratories subcontracts minimally, with three recorded sub-awards all under CDM Federal Programs Corporation for analytical laboratory services and surveying work supporting the Mclouth Steel Corp Superfund Site remediation (awarded January 18, 2024, February 1, 2024, and September 15, 2023). The vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open and total small business set-aside vehicles; the USGS and Defense Health Agency IDCs carry total small business set-asides, whereas Army Corps and Military Sealift Command vehicles are mostly full-and-open. Across the portfolio, Testing Laboratories and Services (NAICS 541380 and related) dominates at 455 of 514 awards, with Engineering Services and Remediation Services representing niche work.