Fisher Scientific Company L.L.C.

Fisher Scientific Company L.L.C., operating through its Fisher Science Education Division and doing business as Thermofisher Scientific, supplies laboratory equipment, chemicals, consumable supplies, and scientific reagents to federal agencies as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis. The vendor is a subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corporation, a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Hanover Park, Illinois, and competes in the federal market without SBA set-aside designations or small-business certifications.

Fisher Scientific's federal footprint centers on civilian health and research agencies. The top customer by both award count and dollar value is the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh, accounting for 167 awards and $4.6 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ranks second by potential value at $3.7 million across 49 awards. The Food and Drug Administration, the CDC's Office of Acquisition Services, and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service round out the top five, together representing significant recurring demand. The vendor's portfolio spans 158 distinct customer agencies, but the top five account for approximately 39 percent of combined potential value, reflecting concentration among HHS and defense health entities.

Recent activity shows a declining trend: Fisher Scientific recorded 62 awards in 2022, 66 in 2023, 38 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 6 through early 2026. This trajectory reflects both seasonal variation in federal lab supply procurement and potential loss of market share or consolidation of smaller orders into fewer, larger vehicles. Across the last two years, only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $158 thousand, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term.

Representative prime work includes a $202.5 thousand sole-source purchase order from NIH Clinical Center (awarded March 2023) for culture media and quality control organisms to support the Microbiology Service; a $250 thousand sole-source order from the same customer (March 2023) for reagents and sterility testing lab supplies under a base year plus three option years; a $12.3 million order from the U.S. Mint (April 2026) for ICAP systems and related service contract equipment; and a $158.1 thousand order from the FDA (July 2025) for laboratory supplies including cell lines, cell media, and chemicals to six DARS facilities at White Oak Campus. Fisher Scientific also holds recurring delivery orders under a $450 thousand five-year Indefinite Delivery Contract (123A9421D0003) with the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service for disposable pipets, and a $150 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Indian Health Service for lab supplies. The vendor places task orders under a $142 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement (HHSI241200410142B) with HHS, which generated 58 task orders, the single largest vehicle in the footprint.

The award portfolio reflects Fisher Scientific's primary business: equipment procurement spanning analytical instruments (NanoDrop spectrophotometers, real-time PCR systems, centrifuges, incubators), lab consumables (pipets, reagents, chemicals, glassware), personal protective equipment (respirator masks, surgical gowns, gloves), and facility infrastructure (refrigerators, freezers, environmental chambers, biohazard containment cabinets). The top PSC code is Laboratory Equipment And Supplies (2,938 awards), followed by Medical And Surgical Instruments, Equipment, And Supplies (636 awards) and In Vitro Diagnostic Substances, Reagents, Test Kits And Sets (414 awards). Top NAICS categories are Other Professional Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (396 awards), Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (381 awards), and Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (182 awards).

Subcontract work is minimal: only 4 sub-awards appear in the source, representing less than 0.1 percent of total awards. Named primes include Mriglobal (sub-award for PHILIS platform modernization components, March 2026), Arcticom LLC (sub-award for CBRNE support to Army National Guard, April 2024), and unnamed primes on technology refresh and equipment funding modifications in 2024 and 2025. The vendor functions almost entirely as a prime contractor rather than a supplier to larger systems integrators.

Fisher Scientific competes in full-and-open federal procurements across civilian health, research, and environmental agencies, with particular strength in CDC and Navy medical supply procurement. The vendor's positioning reflects its role as a reliable, established lab supplies distributor with broad product coverage and direct relationships across federal laboratory networks. The recent contraction in award volume and minimal recompete cliff suggest either market saturation, shift to larger consolidation vehicles, or competitive pressure from other life-sciences suppliers.