Avant Garde Scientific, Inc.

Avant Garde Scientific, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Damascus, Maryland, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering preventive maintenance, emergency repair, and equipment procurement services for laboratory instruments and facility infrastructure across federal research institutions. The company competes on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations on nearly all awards; it holds no SBA 8(a) certification and does not pursue set-aside vehicles. Avant Garde Scientific specializes in maintenance and repair of autoclaves, cage washers, sterilizers, tunnel washers, glassware washers, and related scientific equipment at federal facilities, with a portfolio anchored to the National Institutes of Health and subordinate component institutes.

Customer concentration is extreme and durable. The top five customer entities account for 86% of combined potential value across a 400-award portfolio spanning 27 distinct agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations dominates by dollar value—34 awards carrying $20.2 million in combined potential value—while the NIH Office of the Director (88 awards, $2.9 million), the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (43 awards, $3.7 million), and the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (69 awards, $1.2 million) round out the core set. The ranking by award count and by potential value diverges sharply: the Office of the Director places numerous small individual purchase orders and BPA calls, while the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations anchors large indefinite delivery contracts. Beyond HHS and DOD, the vendor has worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Bureau of Naval Personnel, all on small individual orders.

Avant Garde Scientific holds three high-value parent vehicles. A single-award indefinite delivery contract from the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (HHSN263201300009I) carries a $1.9 million ceiling through June 30, 2029 for preventive maintenance of cage wash equipment at NIH Building 10 in Damascus; a second IDC (75N98024D00031) holds $1.2 million in potential value. A $10 million blanket purchase agreement with HHS (referenced across multiple award summaries and cited in the contract narratives as established in April 2021) underpins recurring task orders for operation, maintenance, and instrument procurement across NIH components. A 33-task-order BPA (HU000116AJV02) totals $1.4 million in combined potential value. These vehicles drive task-order flow to the vendor; the portfolio shows 33 to 18 task orders per vehicle across the top vehicles.

Recent activity has flattened and faces recompete exposure. Award volume declined from 12 in 2022 to 6 in 2026 (through September), with nine awards placed in 2025. Of 400 total awards, 5 carrying combined potential value of $2.2 million reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. The larger indefinite delivery contracts—particularly the $1.9 million cage wash IDC through June 30, 2029 and the $1.2 million IDC through the same date—place recompete risk downstream beyond that window.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC footprint reflects narrow specialization. The top NAICS categories are Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (189 awards) and Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (49 awards), under NAICS 811219 and 811310 respectively. The top PSC is Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Instruments and Laboratory Equipment (156 awards), followed by support services related to veterinary and animal care (33 awards), and laboratory equipment and supplies (27 awards). Named representative work includes a $790,464 delivery order from the NIH Office of the Director for cage washer services at NIH Building 10 (July 1, 2025, ultimate completion June 30, 2027), a $709,052 BPA call from the same office for DVR autoclave preventive maintenance and repair (September 1, 2026, completion August 31, 2031), a $560,322 purchase order from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for preventive maintenance and repair of NINDS autoclaves (August 28, 2023, completion August 27, 2028), and an $848,151 purchase order from the Defense Health Agency for full-service preventive maintenance of autoclaves, glassware washers, and drying ovens in Damascus (June 2, 2023, completion June 1, 2028).

The Service Contract Inventory dataset reports zero invoiced revenue across SCI-reportable prime contracts in FY2023, FY2024, and FY2025, with zero FTE trajectory reported across the same period. SCI coverage is limited—only six records appear in the dataset (five as prime, one as a named subcontractor)—indicating that Avant Garde Scientific's federal service work either falls below the $150,000 reporting threshold or centers on goods, products, and micro-purchases excluded from SCI reporting. The portfolio of 400 awards and $34.5 million in combined potential value, with $15.2 million obligated to date, sits largely outside SCI visibility. The vendor operates as a sole proprietor on all federal work, with zero subcontractor engagement recorded; it does not feed work to subs and does not carry a sub footprint to other primes. Advance Garde Scientific's federal footprint is tightly concentrated in NIH facility maintenance, equipment procurement, and animal care logistics, with defense health agency exposure through Uniformed Services University and the Defense Health Agency representing secondary but stable customer relationships.

Service and repairs to biomedical equipment such as sterilizers, cage washers, steam generators. Also installation of such equipment.