Tecplot Inc.

Tecplot Inc., a foreign-owned software company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, sells computational fluid dynamics (CFD) visualization and data analysis software to the federal government as a prime contractor on nearly 100% of its recent awards, competing predominantly through sole-source purchase orders without set-asides. The company does not hold SBA certifications; one outlier award in 2022 (a $235 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command contract) carried a Total Small Business set-aside designation, but that represents a departure from Tecplot's standard full-and-open posture and may reflect a misclassification at award time.

Tecplot's federal footprint centers on software licensing, maintenance, and support renewals. The company's flagship products—Tecplot 360, FieldView, and TecPLUS support—enable engineers and researchers to process, visualize, and analyze complex datasets from computational simulations and experimental work across aerospace, defense, and scientific research domains. Representative recent prime awards include a $68,180 annual FieldView software license renewal to NASA Shared Services Center for 14 seats at Marshall Space Flight Center (May 2026), a $92,385 TecPLUS renewal for nine Tecplot 360 single-user licenses to Naval Sea Systems Command with four option years running through June 2029 (June 2025), a $209,000 Tecplot 360 commercial site license renewal to NASA Langley Research Center for calendar year 2024 (January 2024), and a $235 thousand TecPLUS license renewal to Naval Sea Systems Command (April 2022). All recent awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders procured as commercial items under FAR 12 and sole-sourced as the only source of the required product.

Customer concentration tracks tightly across both volume and dollar metrics. The top five funding agencies account for 46% of awards across 461 total primes and subs. NASA Shared Services Center leads by potential value with 49 awards worth $2.4 million, reflecting recurring site license and maintenance renewals across NASA centers including Marshall, Langley, and Ames. Naval Sea Systems Command places the most orders (75 awards) for $1.3 million combined, followed by 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). The two rankings diverge only modestly—Langley Research Center appears in the top-five dollar ranking but not the top-five count ranking, anchored by a single large site license renewal that inflates its per-award average.

Vehicle position is sparse. Tecplot places task orders under a few indefinite delivery contracts and one Blanket Purchase Agreement (W9127N13A0005), but these vehicles carry only four to two task orders each and account for immaterial dollar value compared to the direct sole-source purchase orders that dominate the portfolio. The vast majority of the footprint is direct commercial-item purchase orders issued by individual agencies without reliance on larger IDIQs or GWACs.

Activity has remained flat. Awards per year averaged roughly 9 to 14 annually over 2022–2025, with only two awards recorded year-to-date in 2026. The company faces minimal recompete cliff exposure: only five awards (combined potential value $149 thousand) complete within the next twenty-four months, indicating that most of Tecplot's active contract base extends well beyond that window and recompete risk is spread across future years rather than concentrated in the near term.

In its rare subcontractor role (1% of recent awards), Tecplot supplies TecPLUS license renewals and FieldView software maintenance to Fluor Marine Propulsion on the Naval Nuclear Laboratory management contract, to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on Sentinel Systems engineering services, and to Beyond New Horizons and Inuteq on NASA and Department of Defense task orders. Tecplot maintains a subsidiary, Stat-Ease Inc., which does not appear in the source's federal award listings and is not characterized further.

The portfolio's concrete scope is narrow: 287 of 461 awards carry the Software Publishers NAICS, 47 Software Reproducing, and the remainder scattered across related software and IT categories. All work is software licensing and support—there is no services revenue, no engineering deliverables, and no R&D contract work. Ceiling values cluster in the low tens of thousands per award; the source describes typical Tecplot contracts as ranging from several thousand to approximately $235 thousand. The combined potential value across all 461 awards is $8.7 million, but actual obligated dollars total $11 million, indicating that reexercise of option periods and task order volume on existing IDIQs has outpaced initial ceiling values.