Who buys NAICS 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 301 | $67.8M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 346 | $77.1M | +14% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 306 | $33.5M | -57% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 476 | $104.4M | +212% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards (DoD is 36% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MERRICK & COMPANY | $21.0M | 7.4% |
| 2 | MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION | $20.6M | 7.3% |
| 3 | RTX CORP | $20.4M | 7.2% |
| 4 | INFINITY BIOLOGIX LLC | $14.6M | 5.2% |
| 5 | TEMPUS AI, INC | $13.6M | 4.8% |
| 6 | MCCRONE ASSOCIATES INC | $10.8M | 3.8% |
| 7 | TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER INC | $9.5M | 3.3% |
| 8 | METABOLON, INC. | $8.2M | 2.9% |
| 9 | LINDE SPECIAL PROJECTS LLC | $7.6M | 2.7% |
| 10 | VERITAS CAPITAL FUND MANAGEMENT, L.L.C. | $7.4M | 2.6% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $103.2M | 36.5% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $64.0M | 22.6% |
| Department of Agriculture | $32.0M | 11.3% |
| Department of Transportation | $29.1M | 10.3% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $11.7M | 4.1% |
| Department of the Interior | $11.6M | 4.1% |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $10.8M | 3.8% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $8.4M | 3.0% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $4.4M | 1.6% |
| Department of Commerce | $3.0M | 1.1% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $7.7M | 9.2% |
| 8(a) | $2.1M | 2.5% |
| SDVOSB | $8.4M | 10.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $10K | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| Other (Indian economic enterprise, veteran, …) | $24K | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $65.7M | 78.3% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 30% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Showing the 10 most recently posted of 41. Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.