Echomri, LLC

Echomri, LLC, a Houston, Texas-based for-profit limited liability company, manufactures and sells nuclear magnetic resonance body composition analyzers to federal research agencies as a prime contractor, competing exclusively in full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurements with isolated participation in Total Small Business set-asides. The company designs and delivers analytical laboratory instruments that measure fat mass, lean mass, water content, and bone mineral content in live animals and human subjects without requiring anesthesia, with model variants scaled to support research on animals ranging from 7 grams to 700 grams and larger. Echomri operates entirely in the prime posture across its federal footprint — 100% of recent awards are prime purchases, with no subcontract work recorded.

Echomri's customer base reflects its analytical-instrumentation niche within the federal research ecosystem. The top five customer entities by award count represent 55% of all recent awards, led by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (3 awards, $181 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Plains Area (2 awards, $230 thousand combined potential value), and three distinct Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration service networks (2 awards each, ranging from $174 thousand to $251 thousand combined potential value per network). Recent named work includes a $142,000 purchase order from USDA Agricultural Research Service for delivery of an EchoMRI-700 analyzer to the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in April 2026; a $124,000 purchase order from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute for an EchoMRI-A130 analyzer in September 2026; and a $101,000 purchase order from NIDDK for an EchoMRI-A100 analyzer in June 2026. All awards are firm-fixed-price purchase orders; no parent IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs are present in the award record.

Activity has been sporadic, with one award each in 2019 and 2020, four in 2022, one in 2024, and three in 2026 — a recent uptick in the past six months. Two awards (combined potential value $225 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete opportunities. The combined federal footprint totals $1.9 million across twenty awards, all obligated, spanning fourteen distinct customer agencies and dominated by analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing work under NAICS 541380 (Testing Laboratories) and PSC 6515 (Laboratory Equipment and Supplies).