Nanoscience Instruments Inc.

Nanoscience Instruments Inc., a Phoenix-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, supplies scanning electron microscopes, ion mills, tensiometers, and related analytical laboratory instrumentation to federal agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards), competing predominantly on a full-and-open basis with no characteristic set-aside posture. The vendor has served 47 distinct federal agencies and maintains a 22-year contract history registered in SAM.gov since 2002, positioning itself as an authorized distributor of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Phenom product line and specialized analytical equipment across civilian research and defense laboratories.

Nanoscience Instruments' capability portfolio centers on procurement and service maintenance of desktop and benchtop scanning electron microscopes (SEM) with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) detectors, ion milling systems for specimen preparation, field-emission SEMs, optical tensiometers, and quartz crystal microbalance systems. Representative prime contracts include a $249,989 delivery of a Phenom G2 Pharos FE-SEM to the Office of Naval Research for Naval Research Laboratory analysis work, a $231,740 benchtop SEM with EDS detector to the Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering Research and Development Center, a $226,890 field-emission SEM to the CDC Pittsburgh, and a $166,917 precision ion mill system to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for transmission electron microscope specimen preparation. The vendor also performs preventive maintenance and repair services under multi-year service agreements, exemplified by a $65,018 base-year contract with four option years covering maintenance of two Thermo Phenom XL desktop SEMs at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Customer concentration is moderate and defense-heavy. The top five agencies by award count account for 44% of awards, led by the Army Materiel Command's Research Development and Engineering Command (22 awards, $2 million combined potential value), NASA's Shared Services Center (18 awards, $1.2 million), and the CDC Pittsburgh (14 awards, $1.2 million). The top-five ranking by potential value tracks closely with count ranking, indicating consistent deal sizes across the customer base. The Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Air Mobility Command, the Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Defense Intelligence Agency represent significant defense customers; civilian research agencies including NIST, NOAA, the Geological Survey, and the Department of Agriculture round out the active set. The vendor's NAICS concentration — 114 of 158 awards under Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing — and PSC concentration under Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (69 awards) underscore a highly specialized, non-diversified footprint.

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years, averaging roughly 14 awards annually (2022–2024 at 13, 18, and 18 awards respectively, declining to 11 in 2025 and 10 in the current year through September 2026). Twelve awards representing $1.4 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. The vendor places limited work under parent vehicles — only three awards sit on the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract and two on Indefinite Delivery Contract FA865120D0003 — indicating the vast majority of revenue flows from direct purchase orders rather than standing IDIQs or GWACs.

In its subcontractor role, Nanoscience Instruments supplies Phenom XL tabletop scanning electron microscopes and analytical services to Fluor Marine Propulsion on the Naval Nuclear Laboratory management and operations contract, and provides technical and logistics research support to Leidos on Chemical Biological Center decontamination sciences work under CCDC-CBC task orders. The vendor's combined obligated dollars ($13.1 million across all awards) exceed combined potential value (reported as $12.3 million), a rare signal suggesting accelerated invoicing or scope realization on mature contracts. Competition is full-and-open across the board — no small business set-asides characterize the footprint, and sole-source awards appear sporadically when Nanoscience Instruments is the sole authorized distributor for a specific Thermo Fisher product line or when continuity with existing equipment drives justified noncompetitive selection.

Provides Scanning Electron Microscopes, Nanoindentors, Optical Profilers, Electrospinning instrumentation and accessories