E.a. Fischione Instruments, Inc.

E.a. Fischione Instruments, Inc., doing business as Fischione Instruments, manufactures specialized scientific instrumentation for materials characterization and electron microscopy specimen preparation, selling equipment and repair services directly to federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders with no set-aside posture. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Export, Pennsylvania, with a secondary service facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and operates predominantly under NAICS 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing), with repair work classified under equipment maintenance services.

Fischione's federal customer base concentrates in civilian research agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of recent awards and 79% of combined potential value, led by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (16 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (13 awards, $736 thousand), followed by the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and the Naval Air Warfare Center. NIST and ONR dominate both award count and dollar concentration, with no secondary concentration pattern — the rankings track closely, indicating sustained customer relationships rather than a few large outlier projects.

Recent capability work spans electron microscopy specimen preparation and materials analysis equipment. Representative awards include a $309,279 firm fixed-price purchase order from NIST in March 2022 for a broad-beam argon ion mill for SEM sample preparation supporting energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy; a $249,999 sole-source purchase order from the Office of Naval Research in December 2021 for a Fischione Nano Mill Model 1040; a $139,176 purchase order from NASA in August 2026 for an ion milling system for cross-section preparation in scanning electron microscopy; and a $29,788 order from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in April 2026 for a Model 110 Twin-Jet Electropolisher featuring cryogenic capability to -60 degrees Celsius. Fischione also performs repair work on its own equipment — a $16,225 nanomil repair contract with NIST in September 2023 exemplifies this service footprint.

Activity volume has remained sparse and episodic — one award per year in 2021–2023, two in 2024, and three in 2026 — with a combined potential value of $3.3 million across 59 total awards spanning the source data window. Two awards totaling $448 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure. Fischione holds a single named parent vehicle, a Blanket Purchase Agreement (NA134102N1315), with one task order, suggesting that most of its work flows through direct purchase orders rather than standing IDIQs or GWACs. Subcontract exposure is minimal — one sub award under NASA's Johnson Space Center Engineering and Exploration Integration and Science Directorates for a nanomil specimen preparation system — leaving the vendor's footprint overwhelmingly prime (98% of awards).