Biotage, LLC

Biotage, LLC, doing business as Biotage, is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based manufacturer of analytical chemistry equipment and laboratory consumables that sells specialized instruments and related services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 442 full-and-open purchase orders and service contracts with no set-aside designations. Biotage is a for-profit limited liability company that has held federal vendor status since 2001 and qualifies as a small business under NAICS 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing).

Biotage's federal capability footprint centers on specialized analytical chemistry instrumentation, sample preparation workstations, chromatography systems, evaporators, and extraction equipment. Representative work includes a $286 thousand purchase order from EPA Region 5 (April 2026) for four SPEDEX 5000 systems; a $167 thousand service and maintenance agreement with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (June 2024) covering microwaves, V-10S, and Isolera systems used by multiple NCATS research groups; a $216 thousand delivery of TurboVap evaporators to CDC Pittsburgh (June 2022); and a $143 thousand flash purification chromatography system with automated mass-directed fraction collection to NCATS (August 2022) supporting the Antiviral Program for Pandemics. Equipment maintenance and service contracts recur across the portfolio, spanning preventative maintenance packages, extended warranties, and multi-year support agreements.

Customer concentration is pronounced within the Department of Health and Human Services. The top five customer sub-agencies account for 31 percent of awards by count but 46 percent of combined potential value. CDC Pittsburgh leads in both measures with 38 awards ($2 million combined potential value), followed by NIH Clinical Center (17 awards, $1.5 million), FDA (39 awards, $1.1 million), CDC Office of Acquisition Services (31 awards, $993 thousand), and NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (8 awards, $887 thousand). Environmental Protection Agency regional offices (Regions 1–9, Office of Research and Development, and Office of Land and Emergency Management) account for a secondary concentration of 30 awards. Biotage has worked with 76 distinct customer agencies, but HHS agencies dominate both volume and value; defense and civilian non-HHS agencies collectively account for smaller order volumes, principally Navy and Army medical and technical commands.

Biotage operates on a single named parent vehicle: the NIH Indefinite Delivery Contract HHSN269201700015I, under which seven task orders carry $201 thousand in combined potential value. The remaining 435 awards are standalone purchase orders or service agreements, typically in the $10 thousand to $200 thousand range, issued directly by customer agencies without an overarching IDIQ or blanket purchase agreement. This vehicle structure reflects Biotage's posture as a direct manufacturer supplying commercial off-the-shelf or lightly customized laboratory equipment through transactional spot purchases rather than large umbrella contracts.

Activity declined materially from 2022 onward. Biotage received 24 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 1 award in 2026 (as of April). Combined potential value across all 442 awards is $14.1 million, of which $12.7 million (90 percent) has been obligated. Only three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $116 thousand, representing minimal recompete exposure. The steep year-over-year decline and sparse forward pipeline suggest either reduced federal customer demand for Biotage's product lines, inventory sufficiency among existing customers, or customer migration to alternative vendors or contract mechanisms.

Biotage does not maintain a subcontractor footprint; all 442 awards are prime contracts in which Biotage directly manufactures and delivers equipment. The vendor does not appear on federal awards as a sub-recipient or subcontractor. Category concentration by NAICS reinforces the analytical chemistry equipment focus: 289 awards are classified under Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, with secondary concentrations in Pump and Pumping Equipment Manufacturing (27 awards) and repair and maintenance (23 awards). By PSC code, 272 awards fall under Laboratory Equipment and Supplies, 51 under maintenance and repair, 32 under medical and surgical instruments, and 17 under chemicals. This tight category clustering confirms a vendor profile narrowly specialized in selling analytical instruments and consumables into government research, environmental, and public health laboratories.