Alicat Scientific Inc.

Alicat Scientific Inc., a Tucson, Arizona-based manufacturer of mass flow and pressure instrumentation, supplies precision scientific equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) across no set-aside categories — competing on full-and-open, firm fixed-price purchase orders. The company operates in the analytical laboratory instrument and industrial process variable measurement sectors (NAICS 334513 and 334514 primary focus) and has maintained a federal customer base since 2001.

Alicat's capability portfolio centers on mass flow controllers, flow meters, and related measurement instrumentation for research, aerospace, medical, and defense applications. Representative recent prime awards include a $68,170 sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center in August 2025 for 28 replacement mass flow controllers (25 nitrogen, 3 argon) supporting the Hypersonic Materials Environmental Test System at NASA Langley Research Center — the award emphasized Alicat's Laminar Differential Pressure technology as the only validated solution for restoring measurement stability and data integrity; a $39,560 sole-source procurement from NASA in June 2025 for mass flow controllers supporting the Habitat Logistics System BoP Cart for the Artemis lunar program; and a $32,120 purchase order from the Shared Services Center in May 2026 for instrumentation for reactant supply flow measurement. Alicat also supplied gas mass flow controllers to the National Institute on Drug Abuse ($10,108) for neuroscience research and to the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command for fleet provisioning.

Customer concentration spans 27 distinct federal agencies, with the top five accounting for 40% of awards by count and 42% by combined potential value. NASA Shared Services Center leads by dollar volume ($189 thousand across 6 awards), followed by the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center ($66 thousand, 7 awards) and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ($60 thousand, 6 awards). Other significant customers include the CDC Pittsburgh ($57 thousand, 5 awards) and the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Lab ($44 thousand, 5 awards). The vendor operates under two Federal Supply Schedules — GS07F5653R and GS07F5654R — with 12 task orders under the former carrying $88 thousand in combined potential value.

Alicat's activity has been modest and recent: two awards per year from 2022 through 2024, stepping to five in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date. Total combined potential value across 73 awards (prime and sub) stands at approximately $1 million, with $826 thousand obligated. Subcontract work is minimal (2 awards, 3% of footprint), both involving engineering materials for an automated radioxenon concentrator and spectrometer with unnamed prime contractors in 2025 and 2026. Alicat's subcontracting history includes parts and materials supply to Teledyne Brown Engineering and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on defense contracts.