Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products, Inc.

Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Valencia, California, supplies specialized radioactive materials, isotopes, and calibration standards to the federal government as a prime contractor on purchase orders and definitive contracts across 55 distinct agencies, with 98% of recent awards held as prime awards and no recurring set-aside posture — work is competed full-and-open. The company manufactures radioactive sources including Californium-252, Cobalt-60, Cesium-137, and custom isotopic solutions under NAICS categories centered on basic inorganic chemical manufacturing (48 awards) and analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (21 awards), with PSC concentration in hazard-detecting instruments and apparatus (62 awards) and laboratory equipment and supplies (46 awards).

The customer footprint reflects heavy concentration in nuclear and defense agencies. The top five funding organizations account for 46% of awards by count and 53% of combined potential value: the Naval Sea Systems Command leads by volume (68 awards, $292 thousand combined potential value), but the Defense Threat Reduction Agency anchors dollar value (13 awards, $411 thousand). The Office of Naval Research (7 awards, $61 thousand), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (9 awards, $108 thousand), and the Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (3 awards, $120 thousand) round out the active set. Individual contract values are modest — ranging from $3,770 to $104,100 — reflecting the nature of specialized isotope procurement as discrete purchase orders rather than blanket or task-order vehicles.

Representative prime work includes a $104,100 definitive contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for Californium-252 (awarded April 2024), a $40,400 purchase order with the Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate for radioactive sources (September 2023), a $20,845 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order with Naval Sea Systems Command for gamma reference sources for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (September 2024), and a $18,098.63 purchase order with Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 for sealed radioactive sources used for scanner calibration (September 2024). Recent awards show Naval Sea Systems Command activity as recently as June 2026 ($7,475 purchase order for radioactive sources) and August 2025 ($9,200 Total Small Business set-aside for epoxy-matrix radioactive sources).

Activity has been episodic: six awards in 2022, declining to two in 2023, then recovering to five in 2024 and three in 2025, with four awards in 2026. The combined potential value across all 230 awards (prime and sub) is $2 million, with $2.4 million obligated, indicating significant execution on smaller, commodity-style contracts. Subcontract exposure is minimal (2% of recent awards by count), represented by five sub-awards to large defense primes: Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration LLC (March 2026, for NIST-traceable isotope solutions including Iodine-129, Thorium-230, and Americium-241 supporting the 222-S Laboratory complex); Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC (January 2026, for Naval Nuclear Laboratory and nuclear propulsion program support); Triad National Security LLC (June 2025, minerals-level support for the Los Alamos National Laboratory management competition); Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC (June 2024, for Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex operations); and a sub-award associated with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant operations (June 2024). The corporate structure includes one named subsidiary, Eckert & Ziegler Analytics, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of goods.