Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc.

Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc., operating through its Forensic Analytical Crime Lab division, provides forensic firearms analysis and expert witness testimony services to federal law enforcement and prosecution agencies as a prime contractor on time-and-materials and firm-fixed-price purchase orders. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Hayward, California, competing in full-and-open procurement without set-aside designations. Forensic Analytical Sciences has delivered services continuously since federal registration in May 2008 and does not use identified subcontractors — all work is performed directly under prime awards.

The vendor's customer footprint centers narrowly on law enforcement and law-enforcement-supporting agencies. The top three funding customers account for 100% of recent awards: the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Offices (6 awards, $247 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (2 awards, $311 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters (4 awards, $298 thousand combined potential value). The Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance each hold one award. Concentration by potential value is led by Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 and Region 9 combined ($609 thousand, 71% of the $860 thousand total portfolio), whereas the U.S. Attorney's Offices dominates by award count (6 out of 14 total awards). The two rankings reflect a portfolio of many small attorney-office engagement orders and fewer larger Fish and Wildlife forensic services contracts.

Forensic Analytical Sciences' recent work includes a $152 thousand time-and-materials purchase order from the U.S. Attorney's Offices (awarded August 28, 2025, completion July 31, 2028) for expert witness testimony and ballistics analysis in support of federal prosecutions; a $300 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (awarded May 6, 2025, completion August 30, 2030) for forensic firearms analysis, projectile and casing examination, and consistency assessment between projectiles and firearms; and a $31,690 purchase order from the U.S. Attorney's Offices (awarded June 8, 2026, completion April 30, 2029) for firearms and ballistics expert witness services performed in Washington, DC. The vendor also holds a federal grant sub-award from the City of Stockton (awarded October 1, 2023) to develop standard operating procedures for firearm-case investigation and provide ballistic confirmations including homicide (187) workups.

Activity has been sporadic and low-volume — two awards in 2020, one in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2025, and two in 2026 — with combined potential value stable at approximately $860 thousand. Only one award reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months (valued at $40 thousand), limiting near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's service profile is tightly specialized: seven of fourteen awards carry the PSC code "Support — Professional: Expert Witness," three carry "Inspection — Weapons," and the remainder split between laboratory-equipment and scientific-analysis support. The NAICS distribution mirrors this specialization, with seven awards coded to Testing Laboratories and Services (NAICS 541380) and five to All Other Legal Services (NAICS 541990), reflecting Forensic Analytical Sciences' dual role as both forensic examiner and litigation-support provider to federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies.