Jeol Usa, Inc.

Jeol USA, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit scientific instrumentation manufacturer headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts, operates as a prime contractor (99% of awards) delivering electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance equipment and associated maintenance services to 137 federal agencies. The company is registered as a self-certified small disadvantaged business and competes predominantly full-and-open; no set-aside categories recur across its prime footprint.

Jeol's capability portfolio centers on manufacturing and servicing advanced analytical instruments—scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), field emission scanning electron microscopes (FESEMs), mass spectrometers (including DART, time-of-flight, and GC-TOF systems), NMR spectrometers, and electron beam lithography systems. The vendor delivers preventative maintenance, emergency repair, installation, training, and technical support for these specialized instruments. Representative recent work includes a $660 thousand transmission electron microscope supply to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (August 2026); a $1.157 million electron beam lithography system for the Air Force Research Laboratory (July 2026); a $654.4 thousand preventative maintenance contract on a transmission electron microscope for the Army Research Development and Engineering Command through June 2028; and a $397.9 thousand five-year service agreement for electron probe microanalyzer maintenance with the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (March 2025 through March 2030).

Customer concentration reflects a broad civilian research footprint. The top five agencies by award count—Army Materiel Command RDECOM (112 awards, $11.8 million combined potential value), NIST (98 awards, $40.7 million), Army general (87 awards, $1.7 million), Office of Naval Research (68 awards, $4.4 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command (67 awards, $3.1 million)—account for 21% of awards but drive material dollars. By potential value, NIST dominates ($40.7 million, representing one-fifth of the total $216.3 million portfolio), followed by RDECOM, USGS, FDA, and ONR. The vendor has served NIH components, CDC, NASA, DOD laboratories, EPA, NOAA, NSF, DOE, and USDA Forest Service across 2,024 awards spanning four decades.

Jeol sits on several standing vehicles including Indefinite Delivery Contract 263010001 (22 task orders, $6 million combined value), GSA Federal Supply Schedules GS00F5976A and GS24F0036N (19 and 17 task orders respectively), and a $3 million single-award IDV with USDA Forest Service for global mass spectrometry services. The vendor fields frequent sole-source awards justified by proprietary equipment access and OEM qualification—exemplified by NIST special notices for electron beam lithography and electron microprobe systems, DOE sole-source justifications for field emission SEMs, and FDA/NOAA sole-source procurements for equipment maintenance where Jeol holds exclusive authorization.

Award activity has remained relatively flat year-over-year (2022 through 2026: 38, 55, 52, 48, and 33 awards annually), with 46 awards (combined potential value $14.3 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's footprint spans highly fragmented NAICS categories—Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (844 awards) and Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (563 awards) dominating the distribution.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue from federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $2.3 million across FY2022–FY2024, with median government-paid rates around $1,241/hr and senior labor pricing through $1,522/hr; FTE delivery scaled down from 0.4 FTEs in FY2022 to 0.2 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting the vendor's shift toward smaller, less labor-intensive service call work captured below the SCI threshold. Jeol subcontracts minimally as a prime—0% average sub-hours share across SCI-reportable records—and rarely sits as sub itself; recent sub work includes preventative maintenance for Leidos on critical minerals research (September 2025), equipment maintenance for CACI (July 2024), and lab operations support for Astrion and Triad National under Los Alamos and JSC engineering services.

Jeol USA operates as a single-entity vendor with no named parent companies or subsidiaries in the source and no meaningful teaming footprint as a subcontractor to other major primes, positioning the firm as an incumbent incumbent in narrow, proprietary equipment categories rather than a diversified systems integrator.