Discover Echo Inc.

Discover Echo Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit corporation based in San Diego, California, supplies hybrid microscope systems and advanced imaging equipment to federal research agencies as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and competes predominantly full-and-open without set-aside designation, though a single Total Small Business set-aside award in 2026 indicates selective participation in set-aside competitions.

Discover Echo's capability portfolio centers on hybrid upright-and-inverted brightfield and fluorescence microscopy platforms branded as ECHO REVOLVE, REVOLVE R4, and REVOLVE F4, along with complementary imaging systems such as the Cellcyte XCell imaging system and associated optical components. Recent representative work includes a $54.4 thousand award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in August 2024 for a REVOLVE F4 microscope system to support research at Rocky Mountain Laboratories; a $48.8 thousand NIAID order in June 2024 for an ECHO REVOLVE microscope and components supporting vaccine research; a $116.3 thousand Department of Veterans Affairs purchase in July 2022 for an ECHO microscope; and a $24.7 thousand Department of Agriculture order in September 2026 for a hybrid multipurpose microscope supporting shellfish development and microbiology research at the Pacific Shellfish Research Unit. All awards are purchase orders with periods of performance typically under one year and place of performance in San Diego or sub-office locations.

Customer concentration centers on research-intensive agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (4 awards, $192 thousand combined potential value) and the National Cancer Institute (4 awards, $89 thousand combined potential value) together account for roughly 35% of combined potential value, while the VA's Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (1 award, $116 thousand) and NIAID dominate the potential-value ranking. Across twelve distinct customer agencies, HHS National Institutes of Health institutes account for the largest share, with secondary exposure to the Department of Agriculture, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Activity peaked in 2023 with ten awards totaling approximately $571 thousand, followed by a contraction to two awards in 2024 and one award in 2026; combined potential value across all eighteen awards is $805 thousand, fully obligated. Only one award (the September 2026 USDA microscope order, $24.7 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in that window. Discover Echo holds no parent vehicles, GWACs, BPAs, or government-wide IDIQs and performs no subcontract work. The vendor's equipment procurement footprint centers on analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (10 awards) and optical instrument manufacturing (3 awards) under primary PSC 6640 (Laboratory Equipment and Supplies) and 6650 (Optical Instruments, Test Equipment, Components and Accessories).