Lightmachinery Inc.
Ottawa, ON
- UEI
- HSB1JD18KNN7
- CAGE
- L1816
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- FY2025 rankings
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 80 Colonnade Rd, Nepean, ON K2E 7L2, Canada
- Website
- lightmachinery.com
- Founded
- 2002
- Employees
- 11-50
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1M-$10M
- Industry
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- Health Care
- Health Care Equipment & Services
- Health Care Equipment & Supplies
- Eyewear
- SIC code
- 38 Instruments & Related Products
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $33,600 |
| FY2026 | $235,786 |
| FY2025 | $58,074 |
| FY2024 | $38,300 |
| FY2023 | $120,639 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $150,950 | |
| 2 | Department of Commerce | $118,436 |
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Research Institute | 80NSSC23K0842 | $63,000 |
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About the company
Lightmachinery Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of precision optical components and spectroscopy instrumentation, delivers highly specialized optical devices to federal research agencies as a prime contractor on sole-source and competitive purchase orders, with no federal contract IDVs and no subcontract footprint. The Nepean, Ontario–based for-profit corporate entity competes without set-aside designation across its federal portfolio and operates exclusively as a prime (98% of recent awards), with a single sub-award to Southwest Research Institute involving custom interferometer design and manufacture under a federal research grant.
Lightmachinery's customer base concentrates around federal research and development missions. The top five customer agencies account for 89% of recent awards by count and 96% of combined potential value. NASA's Shared Services Center leads by dollar value (11 awards, $713 thousand combined potential value), followed closely by the Office of Naval Research (12 awards, $674 thousand) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (12 awards, $462 thousand). The National Institute of Standards and Technology ranks fourth (10 awards, $209 thousand), with NASA Langley Research Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory rounding out the active set. Awards cluster in the Laboratory Equipment and Supplies PSC category (16 awards) and Optical Instruments, Test Equipment, Components and Accessories (16 awards), with primary NAICS concentration in Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (31 awards) and Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (8 awards).
Recent representative prime work includes a $117,350 firm fixed-price purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center (awarded August 18, 2026, completing March 15, 2027) for one off-axis pressure-tuned interferometric spectral filter for high spectral resolution lidar at 467 nanometers, issued as a sole-source acquisition; a $86,050 purchase order from NIST (July 28, 2026, completing January 30, 2027) for virtually imaged phased arrays; a $71,924 sole-source purchase order from the Air Force Research Laboratory (June 5, 2025, completing June 19, 2025) for four types of VIPAs spanning 350–1700 nanometers; and a $22.3 thousand purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center (February 27, 2025, completing October 15, 2025) for a Raman spatial heterodyne spectrometer. Activity remains modest and flat — two to three awards per year from 2022 to 2026 — with two awards (combined potential value $203 thousand) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined potential value across all 53 awards in the source stands at $2.2 million, with $2.4 million obligated, indicating full or near-full utilization of awarded values. The vendor holds no parent contract vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, or agency-wide BPAs) and competes on individual purchase orders through agency-specific procurement channels.
Quick answers
Is Lightmachinery Inc. registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Lightmachinery Inc.'s SAM.gov registration is active through April 29, 2027.
How much has Lightmachinery Inc. received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $58,074 to Lightmachinery Inc. in fiscal year 2025 and $486,399 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does Lightmachinery Inc. rank among federal contractors?
Lightmachinery Inc. ranked #11 in NAICS 327215, #12 in PSC 9340 and #22 in NAICS 3272 in FY2025.
What is Lightmachinery Inc.'s most recent federal award?
Lightmachinery Inc.'s most recent federal contract award is (2) optical filter/ specified etalon from lightmachinery (80NSSC27P0083), from Shared Services Center, on October 19, 2026.
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