Tecplot Inc.

Tecplot Inc., a foreign-owned software company based in Bellevue, Washington, licenses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and data visualization software to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards), competing without set-aside designation across full-and-open procurements. The company operates as a subsidiary within Friedman Corporation's portfolio and generates federal revenue predominantly through sole-source purchase orders for its proprietary Tecplot 360 and FieldView software licenses, maintenance renewals, and technical support.

Tecplot's federal customer base concentrates heavily in defense research and civilian space agencies. The top five funding organizations account for 46% of award count: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (75 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value), NASA Shared Services Center (50 awards, $2.4 million), the Naval Air Warfare Center (34 awards, $258 thousand), the Air Force Research Laboratory (29 awards, $690 thousand), and the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Wright Patterson (23 awards, $330 thousand). When ranked by dollar value, NASA Shared Services Center leads at $2.4 million, followed by NASA Langley Research Center ($1.7 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command ($1.3 million). The vendor serves 49 distinct federal agencies across recent years, with NASA, Navy, and Air Force organizations anchoring nearly all significant contracts.

Tecplot's procurement posture centers on single-seat and multi-seat Tecplot 360 perpetual and floating licenses, annual TecPLUS maintenance and support renewals, and occasional FieldView product licenses, all structured as firm-fixed-price purchase orders issued under FAR Part 12 (commercial items) and FAR Part 13 procedures. Representative prime awards include a $209 thousand commercial site license renewal for NASA Langley Research Center (January 2024), a $235 thousand TecPLUS license renewal for Naval Sea Systems Command exercising Option Year 4 (April 2022, scheduled to complete May 2026), a $195.3 thousand FY23 Tecplot renewal bundle to NASA Shared Services Center covering multiple product lines (January 2023), and a $94.15 thousand two-year TecPLUS renewal to NASA Shared Services Center (October 2023). Most awards fall in the $7 thousand to $92 thousand range, with occasional outliers reaching $209 thousand.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—10 awards in 2022, 10 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 year-to-date—with 462 total awards across the portfolio since 1984. Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $174 thousand, representing minimal recompete exposure. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (99% of awards) with minimal subcontract activity; recent sub-awards include a $1.1 million+ Tecplot license renewal modification under Fluor Marine Propulsion's Naval Nuclear Laboratory management contract (November 2024), a task-order engagement under Inuteq's NASA Advanced Computing Services IDIQ (October 2024), and FieldView software maintenance and support under Beyond New Horizons' Test Operations and Sustainment II program (October 2024).

Tecplot's award history reflects its market position as the sole supplier of its proprietary visualization tools across the federal R&D enterprise. Every award explicitly states sole-source justification under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) or equivalent, and the overwhelming majority carry no set-aside designation—consistent with a foreign-owned firm competing on specialized technical merit rather than small-business or minority-owned categories. NAICS concentration runs entirely to software publishing (287 of 364 categorized awards) and related IT services, with product service code IT software dominating at 249 awards. The vendor's revenue footprint is modest—$8.8 million in combined potential value across all awards, with $11.1 million in obligated dollars reflecting contract completion and option-year exercises—and the customer base exhibits pronounced stability, anchored by recurring annual license renewals and TecPLUS maintenance contracts at the same research centers year after year.