Turnitin, LLC

Turnitin, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Oakland, California, provides plagiarism detection, academic integrity, and content similarity analysis software to federal educational and research institutions as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders. The vendor operates without SBA set-aside designations across its federal footprint and competes across education-sector and research-agency customer bases entirely on proprietary software licensing, sold under firm-fixed-price purchase orders with no small-business carve-outs. Turnitin is a subsidiary of parent company Turnitin Holdings, LLC.

Turnitin's federal capability portfolio centers on two product families: iThenticate, a plagiarism detection and content similarity analysis platform aimed at research institutions and federal agencies with STEM-focused document analysis; and Turnitin Feedback Studio, a combined plagiarism detection and online assessment tool for educational use. Recent representative work includes a $325 thousand Naval Air Warfare Center purchase order (effective April 27, 2026, running through June 30, 2029) for Turnitin software base and two option years supporting St. Inigoes, Maryland operations; a $315 thousand Air Education and Training Command definitive contract (awarded September 28, 2023, running through September 27, 2028) for plagiarism detection software supporting Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base; and a $213 thousand Air Force Academy award (January 29, 2024 through January 29, 2029) for Turnitin Feedback Studio combined with Gradescope online grading integration. Smaller awards include $162 thousand to the National Institute on Drug Abuse for iThenticate plagiarism detection (January 15, 2025 through March 6, 2030), $88 thousand to West Point for Gradescope LTI system migration (November 6, 2024 through November 30, 2029), and $82 thousand to Naval Education and Training Command for Feedback Studio (September 29, 2025 through September 28, 2028).

Customer concentration is diffuse across defense education and civilian research sectors. The top five customer agencies by combined potential value account for 64% of the $4.5 million potential-value footprint: Department of Defense Education Activity leads with $1.6 million across eight awards; Air Force Academy follows with $433 thousand across ten awards; Air Education and Training Command carries $347 thousand across three awards; Naval Education and Training Command holds $337 thousand across twenty-four awards (the highest award count); and National Science Foundation Office of the Inspector General accounts for $114 thousand across five awards. Naval Education and Training Command's dominance by award count but lower dollar value reflects recurring smaller-dollar purchase orders, while DoD Education Activity's smaller count masks substantially larger contract values. Five additional civilian agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Agriculture round out active customers.

Turnitin holds a seat on a single IDC (HE125415D0017) generating five task orders worth $676 thousand combined potential value. Activity has been episodic: five awards in 2021, four in 2023, nine in 2024, five in 2025, and two in 2026. Four awards carrying $655 thousand combined potential value reach completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. All federal awards are purchase orders or definitive contracts structured as sole-source awards based on the proprietary nature of Turnitin's software platforms; no small-business set-asides appear in the award record.