Toxcel LLC

Toxcel LLC, a small disadvantaged business headquartered in Gainesville, Virginia, is a prime contractor specializing in transportation safety research, human factors engineering, training program development, and technical services for federal transportation agencies. The company operates as a prime on 94% of its recent federal award footprint (111 of 118 awards), with a focused customer base anchored by the Department of Transportation's modal administrations and no security-clearance labor requirements.

Toxcel's customer concentration is exceptional and stable across both volume and dollar value. The top three funding agencies account for 100% of recent awards: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (58 awards, $171.5 million combined potential value), the Federal Highway Administration (50 awards, $79.7 million combined potential value), and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (8 awards, $58.9 million combined potential value). NHTSA alone represents 49% of combined potential value. The company also holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract ($600,000 ceiling) and a single sub-award under a Centers for Disease Control grant from the National Academy of Sciences.

The core capability portfolio centers on behavioral safety research, human factors analysis, and training delivery for highway safety initiatives. Representative prime work includes a $4.5 million FHWA delivery order (awarded November 1, 2025) for production of text, graphics, and rulemaking materials for Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) revisions; a $1.71 million NHTSA Competitive Small Business delivery order (awarded September 30, 2024) for Click It or Ticket program evaluation; a $3.02 million FHWA order (awarded August 29, 2024) for technical and administrative support on human factors activities; a $952,286 FMCSA delivery order (awarded September 25, 2023) for TECH-CELERATE NOW Phase 2 technology acceleration; and a $611,029 FHWA order (awarded September 11, 2025) examining infrastructure-based safety technologies for road user conflict prevention. Additional work spans automated vehicle safety integration, distracted and impaired driving countermeasures, commercial motor vehicle driver monitoring, work zone management, pedestrian safety research, and specialized training program development for the National Highway Institute.

Toxcel holds four major federal contract vehicles generating substantial task-order volume. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's $120 million Human Factors IDIQ (awarded September 16, 2024, completion March 15, 2030) represents the single largest vehicle and supports motor vehicle safety research across human factors engineering, driver behavior analysis, occupant protection, and vulnerable population safety. The FHWA's $16.972 million single-award Human Factors On-Site Support Services IDIQ (awarded July 2, 2024, completion July 1, 2029) has generated approximately $10.5 million in delivery orders to date for automated driving systems evaluation, traffic control device development, and pavement marking analysis, with work performed across Gainesville, McLean, and Greenway, Virginia. A $10 million FHWA multiple-award IDIQ under Total Small Business set-aside (awarded March 8, 2023, completion February 22, 2028) supports training development and delivery for business, public administration, and quality initiatives. Toxcel also holds a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (awarded December 17, 2021, completion December 16, 2026) covering 12 labor categories priced from $68.07/hr (technician) to $311.77/hr (subject matter expert with PhD), spanning engineering, consulting, research, and training services available government-wide. Additionally, the FHWA awarded a newly established $15 million multiple-award IDIQ on May 8, 2026 (completion May 7, 2031) for design and traffic operations, freight and transportation logistics, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Activity has grown from 8 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2024, with 10 awards in the trailing two years (2025–2026) reflecting either a slowdown or a later-reporting lag in the source data. Twenty-one awards with combined potential value of $15.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a significant recompete window. The company's NAICS footprint is dominated by Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (44 awards) and Professional and Management Development Training (33 awards), with secondary concentration in physical and engineering sciences research (15 awards).

Toxcel operates predominantly as a prime and builds delivery capability internally rather than through subcontracting. Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts (FY2022–FY2024), subcontractors account for an average of 3% of total contractor hours, and Toxcel names only four distinct subs across 99 SCI records. The company currently subcontracts to Battelle Memorial Institute on transportation research and work-zone management support work (five sub-awards, October 2021–October 2024) and previously engaged Transportation Research Center Inc. on automated driving systems fleet operations monitoring. SCI-reported invoicing reached $13.1 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($3.4 million in FY2022, $5.4 million in FY2023, $4.4 million in FY2024), with government-paid hourly rates spanning a median of $330.80/hr and a 90th percentile of $1,760.20/hr, reflecting a heavy mix of research and professional labor. Estimated federal FTE delivery on SCI-reportable contracts averaged 4.1–5.4 FTEs across this period, though this represents only the SCI-captured slice of Toxcel's total federal services footprint and excludes goods, grants, classified work, and non-federal revenue. The company competes across multiple pricing models—firm fixed-price, time and materials, labor-hour, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and hybrid arrangements—depending on contract vehicle and task order structure, with no apparent set-aside posture except for occasional small-business set-aside task orders issued under NHTSA and FHWA vehicles.

Toxcel is a world-class expert consultancy team of scientists and engineers dedicated to providing clients with the reliable technical support needed to support the life sciences and engineering industries.