Turtle Shell Industries LLC

Turtle Shell Industries LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Briarcliff Manor, New York, manufactures and installs patented protective shielding systems for federal laboratory and data-center equipment as a prime contractor operating entirely outside set-aside categories. The company designs, fabricates, and delivers custom water and debris barriers, ceiling flood protection systems, and mounting hardware — typically on a sole-source basis — to protect mission-critical research infrastructure from environmental damage at National Institutes of Health institutes and other civilian federal agencies.

Turtle Shell's customer base concentrates within the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health system, which accounts for the vast majority of its federal work. The top five NIH components by award count cover 67% of recent awards, led by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (5 awards, $178 thousand combined potential value), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (3 awards, $386 thousand), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (3 awards, $41 thousand), and the National Institute of Mental Health (3 awards, $52 thousand). By dollar value, the National Institute on Drug Abuse anchors the portfolio at $386 thousand across three orders, followed by the National Eye Institute ($201 thousand across two awards). Outside NIH, Turtle Shell has delivered water barriers and PVC curtains to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Bohemia, New York data center and protective shielding to the NIH Construction program. All awards are full-and-open competitive purchase orders with firm fixed pricing; no federal subcontracting activity is present in the source.

Recent representative work includes a $249 thousand National Institute on Drug Abuse order for turtle shell protective shielding (awarded September 2023, completing February 2025), a $137 thousand National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders order for protective shielding above high-value laboratory equipment at the Westlake, Maryland facility (August–October 2023), a $103 thousand National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke order for patented TurtleShell shielding to protect mission-critical lab equipment (awarded August 2024, completing November 2024), and a $127 thousand National Eye Institute order for design, fabrication, installation, and mounting hardware with delivery to Bethesda, Maryland (awarded August 2026, completing August 2027). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration procured eight turtle shell water barriers, two cut-outs, and ten manual release PVC curtains for $18 thousand (awarded September 2025, completing November 2025) on a sole-source basis documented as the only known manufacturer of the patented system meeting NOAA's requirements.

Award volume grew from two orders in 2022 to a peak of seven in 2023, then declined to three in both 2024 and 2025, with one award placed in 2026. Only one award faces recompete within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $128 thousand). The source categorizes the work primarily under NAICS 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing), with secondary NAICS covering plastics fabrication and analytical instrument manufacturing. All twenty-four awards in the source are proprietary purchase orders priced firm fixed, reflect the company's registered SAM status since 2014, and carry no small business set-asides — positioning Turtle Shell as a niche specialized vendor competing on technical uniqueness rather than set-aside eligibility.