The R.T. Clark Companies, Inc.

The R.T. Clark Companies, Inc., a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, manufactures and distributes specialized geophysical data-acquisition equipment to federal research and survey agencies as a prime contractor operating entirely outside small-business set-asides despite its WOSB and SDB certifications. The vendor competes on full-and-open solicitations and sole-source awards where it qualifies as the only available source for proprietary or compatible nodal seismic sensing systems.

R.T. Clark's capability portfolio centers on nodal seismic data-acquisition systems, broadband seismic sensors, cross-borehole seismic tomography equipment, and related geophysical instrumentation for earthquake monitoring, geological surveying, and hydrologic characterization. The vendor operates as a distributor and integrator of specialized sensing platforms — principally SmartSolo IGU-16HR nodal seismometers and Guralp broadband seismic stations — which it bundles with GNSS receivers, digitizers, data extraction systems, and field-deployment accessories. Recent representative work includes a $182,374 firm fixed-price purchase order from USGS for 100 SmartSolo nodal seismometers and accessories to support the Earthquake Science Center's field response capabilities (completed February 2025), a $137,739 purchase order from USGS for 80 SmartSolo systems supporting the Earthquake Disaster Assistance Team project (completed June 2024), and a $107,260 purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for Guralp broadband seismic stations with dual-storage and integrated environmental sensors for Coastal Resiliency and Planetary Rocket Launch projects at Marshall Space Flight Center (completed November 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme. USGS (Department of Interior, Office of Acquisitions and Grants) accounts for 12 of 22 total awards and $1.4 million of the $1.7 million combined potential value — 82% of award count and 99% of dollar value across the top five customer agencies. The vendor has served six distinct federal agencies: USGS dominates; NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention represent single or paired follow-on awards at substantially smaller values. The dollar concentration amplifies further when viewed against award frequency — two awards completing in the next twenty-four months carry only $148 thousand in combined potential value, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure but indicating sparse new-business pipeline outside USGS.

Activity has remained sparse and episodic — one award in 2021, two in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2026. All awards are sole-source or no-set-aside full-and-open competitive, with USGS determinations frequently citing R.T. Clark as the sole distributor of required SmartSolo systems compatible with existing government-owned seismic node networks, or as the only source capable of providing specialized programming and integration software for coordinated timing and sampling-frequency synchronization across seismic arrays. The vendor holds no prime positions on IDIQs, GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide vehicles. Federal award work is entirely domestic, performed in Oklahoma City and field sites; subcontracting is absent.

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