Buchi Corp

Buchi Corp (doing business as Buchi Analytical Inc.), a small-business laboratory-equipment manufacturer based in New Castle, Delaware, supplies specialized scientific instruments—rotary evaporators, spray dryers, flash chromatography systems, freezedryers, and related analytical equipment—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders, with 97% of recent awards issued as prime contracts under small-business set-asides.

The vendor's federal footprint spans 113 awards across forty-four distinct agencies since 2005, with combined potential value of $3 million and combined obligated dollars of $3.2 million. Recent prime work includes a $170 thousand purchase order from the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service for a Buchi S-300 Advanced mini spray dryer and accessories (awarded September 2025, delivered to Glenside, Pennsylvania under a Total Small Business set-aside), a $226 thousand purchase order from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for unspecified products or services (awarded August 2023, no set-aside), an $88 thousand EPA Region 4 purchase order for one Buchi Extractor E-916 with installation (awarded September 2024, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $92 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command order for a Buchi C850 auto flash/prep chromatography system (awarded August 2023). The vendor also holds a $31 thousand VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 maintenance services contract running through August 2028 (awarded September 2023, Total Small Business set-aside) to provide repair and upkeep of analytical instruments.

Customer concentration clusters among research-focused and testing agencies. The top five funding organizations by award count account for 30% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (9 awards, $167 thousand), the Department of Agriculture Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards (7 awards, $132 thousand), the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (7 awards, $187 thousand), the Department of the Army Research Development and Engineering Command (6 awards, $261 thousand), and the Food and Drug Administration (5 awards, $152 thousand). The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences ranks first by potential value (3 awards, $268 thousand), with the Army R&D center and Agricultural Research Service also anchoring dollars. The vendor does not sit on government-wide vehicles; its only recorded parent vehicle is a single Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract.

Award activity has contracted sharply—six awards in 2022 declining to one award in 2026—and only two awards face completion inside the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $48 thousand). The vendor subcontracts minimally; recent sub-work includes a role under Leidos on technical and analytical research for the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (awarded February 2025) and a mini spray dryer delivery under an unnamed prime on option year nine funding (awarded March 2024). A single grant sub-award appears as a sub-recipient under General Atomics on an unspecified CFDA program (awarded October 2024). Buchi's capability portfolio is concentrated in analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (73 awards, primary NAICS), with secondary work in laboratory equipment maintenance and direct sales channels; the top PSC is Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (67 awards).