Micro Epsilon America LP

Micro Epsilon America LP, a for-profit partnership based in Raleigh, North Carolina, supplies precision optical sensors, laser measuring systems, thermal imaging cameras, and related electronic components to federal research and test-and-evaluation organizations as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The vendor operates in full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its prime footprint, competing primarily on specialized equipment procurement rather than professional services.

Micro Epsilon America's capability portfolio centers on optical measurement and thermal imaging instrumentation. Representative prime work includes a $22,403 firm fixed-price purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for a compact absolute distance white light interferometer (awarded June 12, 2026, with completion scheduled for July 3, 2026), a $10,900 purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for an optical controller (awarded March 18, 2024), and a $16,450 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center for an ILD2300-300 laser optical measuring system (awarded September 27, 2023). The vendor's product portfolio also includes thermal imaging cameras in the 7.9-micron spectral range and related electronic components supporting aerospace and defense research, testing, and evaluation. NAICS classification reflects merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment and supplies, with secondary exposure in process-variable instrumentation manufacturing and analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing.

Customer concentration is broad and research-focused. The top five customer organizations account for 40% of awards by count: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (5 awards, $55 thousand combined potential value), NASA Langley Research Center (4 awards, $51 thousand), NASA's Shared Services Center (4 awards, $55 thousand), the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (4 awards, $57 thousand), and the Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey (3 awards, $40 thousand). By potential value, the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center anchors the top ranking ($72 thousand across 3 awards), with Army Test and Evaluation Command, NASA Shared Services Center, NASA Goddard, and NASA Langley rounding out the top five (51% coverage combined). The vendor serves twenty distinct customer agencies in total, signaling diversified federal reach within aerospace and earth-science research communities.

Award activity is minimal and flat — one award each in 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026, and two awards in 2024 — with a combined potential value of $575 thousand across fifty total awards (prime and sub combined) since 2004. Obligated dollars ($741 thousand) exceed potential value by 29%, indicating actual invoice-and-pay through on small purchase orders. The vendor holds two recent subcontractor positions: a May 2025 sub-award with Applied Physical Sciences Corp for advanced propulsor electronic components under a Phase 1A contract, and a November 2024 sub-award for a displacement sensor and power supply on the Velociraptor electro-osmosis velocity-measurement program. The sparse subcontract footprint reflects a predominantly prime-contractor operating model focused on direct equipment sales rather than systems-integration or service-delivery teaming.