Caitta Inc.

Caitta Inc., a women-owned small business based in Herndon, Virginia, supplies scientific instrumentation and analytical equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly under small business set-asides (Total Small Business, EDWOSB, and 8(a) Sole Source designations recur across the portfolio). The company holds SBA certifications as an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and participates in the 8(a) Business Development Program, with a subsidiary, AC Integrity Partners LLC, also certified as a Woman-Owned Small Business.

Caitta's capability portfolio centers on procuring and delivering advanced analytical equipment—mass spectrometers, liquid chromatography systems, gas chromatographs, ion chromatographs, and specialized lab instrumentation—to support federal agencies' research, regulatory, and analytical missions. The vendor also delivers professional services in project management, epidemiology, public health analysis, regulatory consulting, and administrative support. Representative prime awards include a $1.1 billion combined potential value for a Liquid Chromatography Coupled with High Resolution-Accurate Mass Tandem Mass Spectrometer System to the FDA in September 2024, a $1.5 billion delivery order to the FDA in July 2023 for small dispensers assessment and business process improvement to establish a quality management system, a $2.1 million 8(a) Sole Source contract with NIH Clinical Center in April 2022 for on-call radiologist services, and a $1.3 billion purchase order to Air Force Materiel Command in June 2023 for a gas chromatography system. Caitta also holds a $2 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (awarded March 2022, expiring March 2027) covering 32 labor categories spanning epidemiology, public health analysis, project management, risk assessment, and research science, with hourly rates from $48.56 to $413.11 across education levels from high school through Ph.D.

Customer concentration is extreme and weighted toward federal health and research agencies. The top five customer agencies account for 65% of award count and 74% of combined potential value: the Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration leads with 117 awards and $43.9 million combined potential value, followed by the CDC Pittsburgh office (19 awards, $10 million), NIH Clinical Center (33 awards, $6.7 million), the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (9 awards, $5.6 million), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (18 awards, $4.9 million). The FDA alone represents 117 of Caitta's 313 total prime awards. Primary NAICS categories are Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (135 awards) and All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (56 awards); primary PSC category is Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (150 awards).

Caitta places task orders under five named parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract HHSF223201710025I (14 task orders, $4.1 million), an Indefinite Delivery Contract 75F40119D10017 (10 task orders, $3.2 million), an Indefinite Delivery Contract HHSD200201795136I (3 task orders, $2 million), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (2 task orders, $569 thousand), and a Government Wide Acquisition Contract 75F40120D00007 (2 task orders, $358 thousand). Most awards are direct purchase orders against agency requisitions rather than task orders under standing vehicles.

Activity has declined over the past five years. The vendor placed 14 awards in 2022, peaked at 19 in 2023, dropped to 17 in 2024, fell to 9 in 2025, and recorded 7 awards in 2026 (through mid-September). Fifteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $9.9 million and face recompete exposure. Total awards across all years in the source data number 313 with combined potential value of $96.4 million, 79% obligated.

Service Contract Inventory data, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods and products, shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $8.5 million across FY2022 through FY2025 (prime records only), with FY2022 at $2.6 million across 15.1 FTEs, FY2023 at $3.2 million across 15.6 FTEs, and FY2024 at $2.7 million across 12.6 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts run a median of $127.15 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $64.19 per hour and the 90th percentile at $327.57 per hour. Caitta self-performs all labor on its federal contracts; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share is zero percent, reflecting the vendor's posture as a 100% prime deliverer with no subcontractor footprint in the federal portfolio.

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