Edwards Vacuum LLC

Edwards Vacuum LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Sanborn, New York, manufactures and supplies vacuum pumps, cryogenic systems, compressors, and related equipment and maintenance services to federal research, defense, and civilian agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of its recent awards. The vendor does not hold SBA set-aside certifications and competes full-and-open across all customer agencies.

Edwards Vacuum operates primarily on firm fixed-price purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement call orders, with a customer base spanning fifty-eight distinct federal agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count—the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of the Navy, the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, and NASA's Shared Services Center—account for 39% of recent awards. By dollar value, concentration is tighter: NIST leads with $1.5 million across thirty-six awards, followed by the Department of the Air Force at $844 thousand across twelve awards and the Office of Naval Research at $449 thousand across forty-two awards. The two rankings show a customer-base breadth characteristic of a specialized equipment manufacturer serving multiple agencies with similar mission profiles—research, development, test, and evaluation infrastructure requiring advanced vacuum technology and maintenance.

Edwards Vacuum holds a single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Department of the Air Force, valued at $482,987.94 and running through June 2027, for vacuum equipment service and maintenance at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Since award in July 2022, the BPA has generated four call orders totaling over $360 thousand: Call 0001 ($130,611.93, July 2022–July 2023), Call 0002 ($81,755.38, September 2023–September 2024), Call 0003 ($110,581.20, September 2024–September 2025), and Call 0004 ($38,261.11, September 2025–September 2026). The BPA is the vendor's highest-value parent vehicle; other IDVs and BPAs carry task-order volumes of one to five orders each and are scattered across NIST, NIST IDCs, and Defense Logistics Agency. Representative prime work includes a $252,626 purchase order from the Defense Microelectronics Activity (May 2024) for design, fabrication, assembly, and test of a gas abatement unit for semiconductor manufacturing; a $73,800 order from NASA's Shared Services Center (September 2023) for an Edwards abatement system with installation and training at Goddard Space Flight Center; and routine equipment and component purchases from ONR, NIST, and the Smithsonian Institution ranging from $3,000 to $56,000 per order.

Activity shows modest year-to-year variation—ten awards in 2022, sixteen in 2023, eight in 2024, and eleven in 2025—with a combined potential value of $5.4 million across all 344 prime and subcontract awards in the source. Only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete exposure. Edwards Vacuum also subcontracts to prime contractors on specialized vacuum-system work: MIT Lincoln Laboratory (two sub awards in 2024 and 2025 for FFRDC vacuum-systems support), Peraton Inc. (May 2025 for environmental test and integration services supporting NASA GSFC cryogenic equipment), Marvin Engineering (June 2024 for MIT Lincoln laboratory equipment research and development), and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (March 2024 for National Security Campus operations reimbursable funding). The subcontract footprint is minimal—seven awards, 2% of the total—and focused on equipment supply and maintenance to larger primes supporting defense and space research.

Edwards Vacuum's primary capability framing centers on vacuum pump and compressor manufacturing and maintenance for federal RDT&E infrastructure. The top procurement categories by award count are pump and pumping equipment manufacturing (118 awards), air and gas compressor manufacturing (36 awards), and analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (22 awards), with the corresponding PSC concentration in compressors and vacuum pumps (107 awards) and laboratory equipment and supplies (71 awards). The vendor has held federal contract relationships since at least 2002, serving aerospace, scientific research, semiconductor manufacturing, and defense missions across civilian and defense agencies.