Micro Photonics Inc.

Micro Photonics Inc., a small business based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, supplies and maintains scientific instrumentation — primarily micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scanners, DEXA bone density equipment, and associated laboratory instruments — to federal research and healthcare agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The company is a subsidiary of Nanovea, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, and competes across full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles.

Micro Photonics' capability portfolio centers on high-resolution imaging equipment procurement and factory-authorized maintenance. Representative prime work includes a $365 thousand equipment contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (awarded September 2023) for a micro-CT scanner to support ocean acidification research at Key Biscayne, Florida; a $303.3 thousand definitive contract with the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (September 2023) for an X-ray micro-CT scanner with sub-4-micrometer resolution delivered to Madison, Wisconsin; a $351 thousand contract with the Food and Drug Administration (September 2022) for a high-resolution X-ray micro-CT system; a $170.5 thousand five-year preventative maintenance contract with USDA Agricultural Research Service (May 2025) for a Bruker SkyScan 1275 micro-CT scanner at the Vegetable Crops Research Unit; and ongoing warranty and maintenance orders covering DEXA equipment at multiple VA facilities and NIH institutes. Recent awards span equipment sales, five-year extended-warranty entitlements, and annual preventative maintenance services, with ultimate completion dates extending through 2031 on multi-year maintenance agreements. The company serves both equipment-procurement and sustainment roles across its customer base.

Customer concentration is diffuse across federal research agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 37% of awards: the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (9 awards, $894 thousand), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (8 awards, $851 thousand), the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (8 awards, $629 thousand), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (7 awards, $74 thousand), and the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (7 awards, $313 thousand). By potential value, the Food and Drug Administration anchors the portfolio ($1.4 million across five awards), followed by the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center ($930 thousand, six awards), VA VISN 8 ($894 thousand), NINDS ($851 thousand), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse ($812 thousand). Micro Photonics holds seats on three named parent vehicles carrying minimal task-order volume — Indefinite Delivery Contract 220010085, Blanket Purchase Agreement 648D00080, and an Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract, each with one task order.

Activity over the past five years shows modest volume — four awards in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, three in 2025, and three in 2026 — with combined potential value of $11.3 million across 106 total awards since 1996. Two awards (combined potential value $285 thousand) complete within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's award distribution aligns heavily with analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (41 awards) and equipment maintenance and repair (13 awards) under NAICS codes, with 34 awards coded to Laboratory Equipment and Supplies under the PSC. As a subcontractor, Micro Photonics performs optoelectronic technology research for the Air Force Research Laboratory under KBR Wyle Services. The parent-subsidiary structure allows Nanovea, Inc. to bid separately on complementary equipment and services contracts, though Micro Photonics carries the lion's share of federal procurement activity in the scientific instrumentation space.

Micro Photonics supplies cutting edge research equipment including but not limited to: micro-CT systems, cvd graphene and 2D material systems, laue, hand abrasion testers, QCM (quartz crystal microbalance), roughness gauges