Smith Lasalle Inc.

Smith Lasalle Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Western Springs, Illinois, provides emergency diving services, underwater inspections, and marine repair operations to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The vendor operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and competes exclusively under small business set-asides; all recent prime awards carry either total small business or sole small business designations across BPA calls and a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement.

Smith Lasalle's customer footprint is concentrated entirely within the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers ecosystem. The Corps accounts for 100% of the vendor's recent award activity: the Engineering District St. Louis division has issued 3 awards (combined potential value $119 thousand), while the broader Corps organization holds 10 awards totaling $1.1 million in combined potential value. The vendor's representative work consists of a series of BPA calls for emergency diving operations and dive team deployments. Recent examples include a $13,260 total small business BPA call for emergency diving services (LD25 EMERGENCY DIVE) issued April 21, 2026, by the Engineering District St. Louis with completion set for May 21, 2026; a $9,850 total small business call from June 2023 for a four-person emergency dive team providing eight hours of services; and a $7,220 call from October 2023 for eight hours of dive operations in support of USACE navigation infrastructure and water resource projects in Modoc, Illinois.

Smith Lasalle holds a $1 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (MVS DIVING BPA) with the Engineering District St. Louis, awarded July 11, 2024, and running through July 10, 2029. Under this vehicle, the vendor can be tasked for underwater inspections, documentation, survey, filming, repair, maintenance, and remotely operated vehicle operations at dams, docks, navigational locks, and other submerged infrastructure. Ten task orders issued under predecessor and current BPA vehicles carry a combined potential value of $78 thousand. Activity has been episodic — four awards in 2021, declining to one award in both 2022 and 2024, with two awards in 2026 — reflecting the lumpy, project-driven nature of emergency diving work. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $1.2 million, with $573 thousand obligated to date (48% realization rate). The vendor also subcontracts to Oceanetics Inc. on a $2.1 million mooring hose and hawser maintenance project supporting the Defense Logistics Agency's energy operations at a single-point mooring buoy in Kin Wan Bay, Okinawa, Japan (awarded February 4, 2026).

Marine terminal inspection and engineering; Structural analysis and design; Bridge inspection and engineering; Offshore structures; Grain handling engineering; Commercial diving services; Underwater light construction; Construction Mgt.