Federal contractor · ASHEVILLE, NC

BLUE RIDGE RESEARCH AND CONSULTING, LLC

BLUE RIDGE RESEARCH AND CONSULTING, LLC received $446.4K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+495% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($313.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$446.4K
New awards
4
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
QDC6G5B837C3
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 287.2KFY2017
  2. 552.6KFY2018
  3. 72.7KFY2019
  4. 553.8KFY2020
  5. 51.1KFY2021
  6. 194.8KFY2022
  7. 136.9KFY2023
  8. 1.4MFY2024
  9. 75KFY2025
  10. 446.4KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$313.5K70%
    1 awards
  2. Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation$110.8K25%
    1 awards
  3. National Park Service$22.1K4.9%
    1 awards
  4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$313.5K70%
  2. Professional services$110.8K25%
  3. Construction & real property$22.1K4.9%

Where the work was performed

  1. Buncombe County, NC$446.4K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $446.4K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $446.4K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Navy$313.5K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation$110.8K
    Department of Transportation · 1 awards
  3. National Park Service$22.1K
    Department of the Interior · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. PROTOTYPE EQUIPMENT PURCHASE AND ASSEMBL$313.5K
    Department of the Navy· Buncombe County, NC· Facilities & utilities· Jan 28, 2026 – May 5, 2026· N0042126C0017
  2. FY24 SBIR PHASE I- FULL-SCALE EVTOL CABIN NOISE MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS$150K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Buncombe County, NC· Research & development· Jul 30, 2024 – Dec 30, 2025· 80NSSC24PB219
  3. ADVANCED ACOUSTIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATE CONCEPTUAL TOOL TO PREDICT SONIC BOOM FOOTPRINTS OVER A RANGE OF METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS.$110.8K
    Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation· Buncombe County, NC· Professional services· Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 21, 2026· 6913G626P800046
  4. ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE EVALUATION FOR A250$22.1K
    National Park Service· Buncombe County, NC· Construction & real property· May 12, 2026 – May 12, 2026· 140P1326P0021

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

BLUE RIDGE RESEARCH AND CONSULTING, LLC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0
Since FY2022
$500K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 250KFY2022
  2. 250KFY2023

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2022–FY2023.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $206.8K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $230.6K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $778.7K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $478.3K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

11 companies · $3.3M reported

  1. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$1.4M
    MCLEAN, VA · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC.$993K
    DENVER, CO · 3 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$210K
    MELBOURNE, FL · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. POLARONYX INC$1M−100% in FY2026
    CHAPEL HILL, NC · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. INTEGSENSE INC$1M
    ORLANDO, FL · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. AXOMETRICS INC$999.6K−100% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.