Laboratory Equipment Service, LLC

Laboratory Equipment Service, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Beltsville, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor providing maintenance, repair, and certification services for specialized laboratory equipment and facility infrastructure to the Food and Drug Administration. The company competes entirely under Total Small Business set-asides and holds 100% of its awards as prime contracts with no subcontractor presence; across 248 awards spanning the past five years, all work flows to a single customer agency.

Laboratory Equipment Service's concrete capability footprint centers on preventative and remedial maintenance of laboratory analytical equipment, HVAC systems, power distribution units, biosafety cabinets, autoclaves, electrical infrastructure, and data center systems. Representative work includes a $300,000 delivery order (awarded January 16, 2026) for fire suppression system repairs and helium system repairs at the FDA's White Oak Campus; a $408,118.40 task order for site scan services at Building 72 through March 31, 2027; and a $19,733,676.40 operations and maintenance services task order through March 31, 2027 for ongoing preventative maintenance across the White Oak Campus. The vendor also executes discrete repair tasks ranging from equipment component replacements (compressors, pumps, HEPA filters, control modules) to infrastructure work (electrical installations, wiring relocations, breaker installations) and specialized services such as biosafety level 3 laboratory recommissioning and autoclave rebuilding.

Customer concentration is absolute: the Food and Drug Administration accounts for 248 awards (100% of the portfolio) with $115.3 million in combined potential value. The vendor has delivered work at the FDA's White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland across more than twenty buildings and rooms, managing maintenance of over 3,400 pieces of equipment supporting the agency's regulatory and public health mission.

Laboratory Equipment Service holds two primary indefinite delivery vehicles with the FDA. The first is a $50 million single-award IDV awarded September 29, 2022 (Total Small Business set-aside, completion date March 31, 2027) dedicated to preventative maintenance services, repair, and certification for specialized laboratory equipment and infrastructure at the White Oak Campus. The second is a $4,969,737.20 single-award IDV awarded March 19, 2022 (no set-aside) for above-standard equipment maintenance task orders across FDA facilities nationwide. Against these two parent vehicles, the vendor has issued 144 task orders totaling $3.1 million under the first IDV (HHSF223201610009C) and 92 task orders totaling $31.9 million under the second IDV (75F40122D00031). A third vehicle (75F40122D00012) carries 7 task orders valued at $2.4 million. The recompete cliff shows five awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $29.7 million.

Activity has grown year over year, from 15 awards in 2022 to 40 in 2024, with 19 awards in 2025 and 1 through January 2026. SCI-reported invoicing reached $3.2 million in FY2024 on 5.9 FTEs delivered to the federal government; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed all labor with negligible subcontractor engagement (average 2% sub-hours share). Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $127.96 per hour to a median of $133.82 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $390.47 per hour at the 90th percentile. The vendor's award portfolio reflects firm fixed-price delivery order structures issued against standing IDV vehicles, with work performed at discrete buildings and rooms across the FDA White Oak Campus and associated Silver Spring, Maryland metropolitan area facilities.