Bruker Scientific LLC

Bruker Scientific LLC, a for-profit limited liability corporation and subsidiary of Bruker Corporation, manufactures and sells advanced analytical instrumentation—mass spectrometers, Fourier Transform infrared and Raman spectrometers, and related detection equipment—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside activity. Headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, Bruker Scientific operates across NAICS 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing) and PSC 6640 (Laboratory Equipment and Supplies), competing predominantly as the original equipment manufacturer on firm fixed-price purchase orders and maintenance agreements rather than as a subcontractor or on consolidated vehicles.

Bruker Scientific's federal work splits between equipment sales and multi-year maintenance contracts. Representative prime contracts include a $2.89 billion NASA Goddard Space Flight Center order (May 2024) for 14 EM27/SUN and 1 IFS 125HR Fourier Transform spectrometers supporting greenhouse gas monitoring networks; a $2.19 million NIEHS contract (September 2025) for a timsTOF fleX MADLI 2 mass spectrometry imaging system with microGRID technology; a $1.31 million NIAID contract (September 2024) for a timsTOF flex mass spectrometer with installation and operator training; a $1.03 million USDA Agricultural Research Service order (August 2024) for an LC-MS system; and a $812.6 thousand CDC five-year maintenance service agreement (July 2024) for mass spectrometry equipment. Recent sub-awards involve supply of mass spectrometry equipment and maintenance services to Los Alamos National Laboratory via Triad National Security LLC, RDTE support for biodefense research via Excet LLC and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and optical equipment support to Air Force Research Laboratory via KBR Wyle Services.

Customer concentration is distributed but tilted toward health-related federal agencies. The top five customers by award count—CDC Pittsburgh (46 awards, $4.9 million), Office of Naval Research (27 awards, $1.4 million), NIST (26 awards, $4.1 million), FDA (23 awards, $3.1 million), and VA VISN 1 (21 awards, $3.1 million)—account for 23% of awards and 32% of combined potential value. CDC and FDA anchor most of the dollar value in the health and life-sciences tier; NIST and ONR drive defense and research spending; the VA sustains high-volume equipment and maintenance work. Awards cluster in analytical instrumentation (303 awards) and maintenance/repair services (162 awards), with 175 awards each in Laboratory Equipment and Supplies and equipment maintenance PSCs.

Bruker Scientific holds a single-award $641.7 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement with VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (effective February 2025 through February 2029) covering MALDI Biotyper LabScape 24 systems and maintenance services across New England VA medical centers—a vehicle generating approximately $319.5 thousand in BPA calls through early 2026. Additional parent vehicles include VA Indefinite Delivery Contract 123A9421D0004 ($1.3 million across two task orders) for BRUKER instrumentation and maintenance at three Food Safety and Inspection Service labs; a GSA Schedule GS24F9021H (13 task orders, $82 thousand); GSA Schedule GS07F5453P (7 task orders, $274 thousand); and VA Blanket Purchase Agreement 36C24125A0037 (9 task orders, $344 thousand). This portfolio reflects Bruker Scientific's status as an incumbent supplier of specialized analytical equipment rather than a consolidator of industry-wide vehicles.

Activity has remained stable year over year: 38 awards in 2022, ramping to 48 in 2023 and 2024, moderating to 45 in 2025, with 37 awards recorded through September 2026. Forty-four awards (combined potential value $5.7 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. The $66.6 million combined potential value across 624 prime and sub awards exceeds the $78.3 million in obligated dollars (118% ratio), suggesting some contract options and modifications have increased scope beyond original ceiling values.

SCI-reportable invoicing (federal service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold) shows minimal activity in the source dataset: $247 thousand across FY2024 alone, delivered by 0.1 FTEs, with zero invoicing in FY2022, FY2023, and FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts run a median of $1,047.28 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $1,310.42 per hour and entry-level support at $691.95 per hour. The SCI profile reflects that Bruker Scientific's federal business is predominantly goods (equipment sales) and maintenance agreements priced on firm fixed-price commercial item bases, not labor-intensive service contracts. Across SCI prime records, subcontractors performed 0% of total contractor hours, confirming Bruker Scientific builds delivery in-house as the original equipment manufacturer.

Bruker Scientific competes on 109 distinct federal agency customer relationships across research, health, defense, and civilian civilian missions. The company operates as a full-and-open competitor with no recurring set-aside activity, positioning itself as the sole responsible source for proprietary analytical instrumentation and factory-authorized maintenance services. Parent company Bruker Corporation holds additional federal contract vehicles and grant awards, creating a broader corporate footprint in advanced scientific instrumentation across the federal government.