Gentec-Eo Usa, Inc.

Gentec-Eo Usa, Inc., a manufacturer of precision optical and electronic measurement instruments, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) supplying specialized detection and sensing equipment to federal research and defense agencies through small-value purchase orders, with no subcontract footprint. The company is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon and organized as a subsidiary of the foreign-owned parent Gentec Electro Optique Inc.

Gentec-Eo's capability portfolio centers on precision optical detectors, beam splitters, carbon nanotube sensors, current-to-voltage amplifiers, and wideband detection systems used in metrology, standards development, and optical measurement research. Representative recent work includes a $23,150 purchase order from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in September 2024 for carbon nanotube sensors, a $22,040 NIST order in July 2023 for reference trap detectors and current-to-voltage amplifiers, a $14,517 Office of Naval Research order in February 2024 for a holographic beam splitter, and a $3,633 Federal Communications Commission order in September 2026 for a Gentec wideband detector. All awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders with no set-aside designation.

Customer concentration is heavily NIST-centric: the Department of Commerce's NIST accounts for 20 awards and $387 thousand of the $643 thousand combined potential value across the entire forty-award footprint, representing 68% of awards and 76% of dollars. Secondary customers include the Department of the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (2 awards, $39 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (2 awards, $25 thousand), and the Office of Naval Research (2 awards, $18 thousand). The company serves thirteen distinct customer agencies across the federal government. The top NAICS category is instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals (15 awards), followed by analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (8 awards).

Activity has remained consistent at one to two awards per year across the past five years, with only one award ($3,633) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months. The combined potential value of $643 thousand and obligated amount of $570 thousand reflect a micro-scale supplier footprint typical of specialized scientific equipment vendors.