VPS Testing & Inspection, Inc.

VPS Testing & Inspection, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit corporation headquartered in La Porte, Texas, provides maritime fluid testing and analysis services to the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration as a prime contractor under single-award and delivery-order vehicles, with 100% of its federal work concentrated at MARAD.

VPS operates as a specialized laboratory service provider, delivering oil, hydraulic fluid, grease, and fuel oil testing and analysis critical to the preventive maintenance and operational readiness of MARAD's Ready Reserve Fleet, Schoolship vessels, and Fleet Support Craft. The company maintains ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation and delivers both standard 72-hour turnaround and same-day expedited testing capabilities. Recent awards include a $774,694.85 single-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded by MARAD on December 18, 2024, running through June 18, 2030, for comprehensive fluid testing services across MARAD's maritime fleet; a $200,000 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded February 20, 2026, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside under NAICS 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services) for fuel oil quality management and marine fuel oil and bunker analysis supporting the National Defense Reserve Fleet; and a $200,000 delivery order awarded April 8, 2026, to exercise Option Year 1 of the lube oil contract through February 4, 2030. The IDC ceiling of $774,694.85 anchors VPS's MARAD relationship; two delivery orders totaling $400 thousand in combined potential value have been issued against it as of the most recent award date.

VPS's federal footprint totals six awards (100% prime, 0% sub) with $1.9 million in combined potential value and $1.1 million obligated to date. Customer concentration is absolute — MARAD accounts for all six awards and 100% of combined potential value. Activity has been intermittent, with one award in 2018, a gap through 2023, then two awards in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026. Work is performed in Washington, D.C. and La Porte, Texas, with the IDC solicitation emphasizing technical capability, past performance, and pricing as evaluation criteria. VPS competes outside set-asides in most work but holds the Total Small Business designation on the fuel oil quality management contract.

From our beginnings in an Oslo laboratory as part of Det Norske Veritas (DNV), VPS has evolved into the largest bunker fuel testing company for ship operators in the world. Along our journey we have acquired the expertise to test oils of all types, for both marine and non-marine customers. In VPS we lead through innovation and in partnership with our customers we continue to evolve our testing methods, technologies and advisory services.

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