TPS LLC

TPS LLC, doing business as Thermal Product Solutions, is a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of environmental test chambers, industrial ovens, and precision thermal control equipment that operates as a prime contractor on 311 of 320 recent federal awards (97% prime posture) across defense and civilian agencies, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with recurring small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit manufacturer and parent to Wisconsin Oven Corp, with SAM.gov registration dating to February 2002 and an established federal footprint spanning 35 years of awards, most concentrated among Navy, Army, and NASA customers.

TPS's capability portfolio centers on specialized thermal and environmental testing equipment: environmental test chambers across temperature ranges (-65°C to 175°C and beyond), industrial and laboratory ovens including friction-heated cabinets and inert-gas models, thermal vacuum chambers, humidity chambers, and field maintenance and calibration services. Representative recent prime awards include a $27,282 sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center in June 2026 for a customized Tenney TJR test chamber supporting space radiation-induced chemistry research, a $124,640 small-business-set-aside award from NASA for a thermal vacuum chamber (June 2023), a $225,063 small-business-set-aside purchase order from Army Joint Munitions Command for a friction-heated cabinet oven (July 2021), a $99,658 total-small-business award from Defense Logistics Agency Joint Munitions Command for environmental-chamber maintenance and repair services at the Packaging, Storage, and Containerization Center running through September 2028, and an $89,433 small-business-set-aside from NOAA for environmental-chamber maintenance at Sterling Field Support Center through August 2027. The company also holds a named seat on the Federal Supply Schedules (GSA GS07F16292, GSA GS25F5108C) and an Army Indefinite Delivery Contract (W9124R08D0204, $383 thousand).

Customer concentration is diffuse but defense-heavy. The top five funding agencies by award count cover 35% of recent awards: Naval Sea Systems Command leads with 36 awards ($999 thousand combined potential value), Naval Air Warfare Center follows with 27 awards ($718 thousand), Army Research Development and Engineering Command holds 18 awards ($341 thousand), Army Communications Electronics Command carries 16 awards ($152 thousand), and NASA Shared Services Center accounts for 15 awards ($963 thousand). When ranked by combined potential value, the concentration shifts slightly—Naval Sea Systems Command and NASA Shared Services Center anchor the largest contract dollars, but the top five customers collectively represent 42% of combined potential value. Across 87 distinct customer agencies served, work spans the Navy, Army, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, NASA, NIST, NOAA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Office of Naval Research, FBI, and Department of Energy.

Activity has remained stable and modest in scale. Awards per year averaged between 8 and 14 across the past five years (2022–2025), with 9 awards in 2025 and 3 in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 320 awards totals $9 million, though combined dollars obligated reaches $10 million (111% of potential), indicating invoiced or scheduled payments exceed original ceiling estimates on some awards. Four awards valued at $318 thousand in combined potential reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete risk.

By set-aside posture, TPS competes across both full-and-open and small-business-set-aside categories without a dominant pattern—a significant share of recent prime awards carry total-small-business set-aside designations, particularly on thermal-equipment procurements and maintenance contracts, but many compete unrestricted. The company does not hold 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other socioeconomic designations in the source data.

TPS maintains a three-percent subcontractor footprint (9 of 320 awards), with named prime relationships including Electric Boat Corporation (Orion Production and Operations contract for a Tenney model thermal chamber, October 2024), Lockheed Martin Corporation (environmental test chamber maintenance kit, June 2024), Raytheon Company (Patriot firing units spares and shock-test equipment, April 2024), and Leidos Inc. (energetics research and development support through February 2023 and munitions studies through April 2024). By NAICS, the portfolio concentrates on Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing (165 awards), with secondary activity in instruments manufacturing and equipment repair. PSC coding reflects the equipment focus: Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (53 awards), Environmental Chambers and Related Equipment (52 awards), and Industrial Furnaces, Kilns, Lehrs, and Ovens (46 awards).