Andor Technology, Inc.

Andor Technology, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit scientific instrumentation company headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, delivers advanced imaging systems, microscopy software, and spectroscopic equipment to federal research agencies as a prime contractor on 96% of its awards. The company competes in full-and-open federal procurement with no set-aside participation, winning awards across analytical instrument manufacturing, software licensing and maintenance, and specialized equipment repair services.

Andor's federal portfolio centers on Imaris microscopy analysis software licenses and maintenance contracts, confocal and spinning-disk microscope systems, scientific cameras including EMCCD and sCMOS variants, spectroscopic imaging instruments, and associated service plans. Representative prime awards include a $309,163 benchtop confocal microscopy system to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (May 2024), a $556,906 Dragonfly imaging system suite to Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 (June 2023), and a $246,976 BC43 benchtop confocal microscope to the Food and Drug Administration (August 2022). Recent awards show a shift toward higher-value equipment and systems procurement; smaller Imaris software renewals and maintenance contracts typical of 2023–2024 have given way to sole-source and specialized equipment orders valued at $67,000 to $309,000 in 2025–2026. Across the full award set, 33 awards fall under Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 333314), with 19 awards each coded to laboratory equipment and supplies and to perpetual-license software, indicating balanced equipment and software revenue.

Customer concentration clusters within the National Institutes of Health ecosystem. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 36% of awards: the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (6 awards, $435 thousand combined potential value), the National Institute on Aging (6 awards, $131 thousand), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (6 awards, $190 thousand), NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (6 awards, $267 thousand), and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (6 awards, $122 thousand). By dollar magnitude, the concentration shifts toward VA regional service networks and DoD; Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 anchors the portfolio at $581 thousand (two awards), followed by NINDS at $435 thousand, VHA VISN 1 at $385 thousand, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at $324 thousand. The Office of Naval Research places 6 awards valued at $308 thousand combined, representing the single largest defense customer. Across the NIH-dominated portfolio, awards are dispersed across multiple institutes rather than concentrated within a single bureau, and three parent IDIQs appear in the vehicle lineup with single task orders each, indicating Andor operates primarily through direct purchase orders rather than large standing vehicles.

Activity grew from 11 awards in 2022 to a peak of 26 awards in 2024, then declined to 14 in 2025 and 4 in the first half of 2026. The recompete window shows seven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $173 thousand—modest renewal risk relative to the annual award flow. In its limited subcontractor role, Andor supplied imaging spectrographs and camera systems to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services on an Instrumentation Range Support Program III sub-award (February 2024) and optical components to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on CBRN Science & Technology work (February 2024). Three awards show sole-source justification under FAR 6.302-1, including the NASA Langley camera procurement ($67,529, July 2025) and NIST's EUV spectroscopic camera ($34,132, July 2024), indicating Andor's equipment carries proprietary technology that limits competitive procurement in specialized research applications.