Five small businesses and one ORNL staff member were recognized during the ORNL FY25 Small Business of the Year Awards, held Tuesday, May 19, at the ORNL Conference Center.
Winners were nominated by ORNL staff for their outstanding performance across several areas of the lab, including engineering, fabrication, staffing, and laboratory equipment and supplies.
Alloy Fabrication, a small business located in Clinton, was named a FY25 Small Business of the Year for providing versatility and technical expertise in aluminum welding in support of the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).
Manhattan Legacy Service (MLS), a women-owned small business headquartered in Oak Ridge, was recognized as a FY25 Women-Owned Small Business of the Year for providing outstanding staffing support for the BRIAR Biometrics Project.
Holmans USA, a small disadvantaged business headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, was named FY25 Small Disadvantaged Business of the Year for providing critical high performance computing components, enabling quick efficient procurements that shifted purchases to small businesses.
Lyme Technology Solutions, a small business located in Lebanon, NH, was recognized as a FY25 Small Business of the Year for quick response times and proactive support that set them apart as a customer-focused catalog supplier.
Schmiede Corporation, a women-owned small business headquartered in Tullahoma, was recognized as a FY25 Women-Owned Small Business of the Year for quality machining and fabrication work in support or the HFIR Beryllium Reflector Replacement (HBRR) project.
Taurus Hinton, an ORNL procurement officer, was named FY25 Business Advocate of the Year for his commitment to small business engagement, demonstrated through his participation in small business outreach events and willingness to take on additional small business responsibilities.
In FY25, small businesses received almost half of ORNL’s total subcontracting dollars — contributing to innovation, agility, and economic growth in the region and beyond.