Nanoscience Instruments Inc.

Nanoscience Instruments Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, supplies scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), tensiometers, ion mills, and related analytical laboratory instrumentation to federal research agencies as a prime contractor (95% of awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The company operates in a predominantly full-and-open posture with no characteristic set-aside profile, though it qualifies as a small business and has won several Total Small Business set-aside awards across USDA, Navy, NIST, and Army customers.

Nanoscience Instruments' customer concentration reflects deep penetration across civilian research and defense laboratories. The top five customer agencies account for 42% of award count and 45% of combined potential value, led by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (22 awards, $2 million combined potential value), NASA Shared Services Center (16 awards, $1 million), and the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh (12 awards, $719 thousand). The Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research and the Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command round out the top tier. The company serves 47 distinct customer agencies across a 22-year award window, indicating sustained market traction across both defense and civilian science communities.

Nanoscience Instruments' capability footprint centers on desktop and benchtop electron microscopy systems, particularly Thermo Fisher Phenom XL G2, Phenom Pharos field-emission scanning electron microscopes, and associated detector and spectroscopy upgrades; tensiometer and surface-tension measurement systems (Biolin Scientific, Theta Flow optical tensiometers, Sigma force tensiometers); ion mills and broad-beam ion polishers for sample preparation; and ongoing service, maintenance, and repair support for microscopy and analytical instrumentation. Representative recent prime awards include a $239,624 firm fixed-price purchase order from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in September 2025 for one Phenom Pharos G2 field-emission SEM with software and one-year warranty to support cryo-electron microscopy research for vaccine development; a $169,716.90 sole-source procurement from NASA Johnson Space Center in August 2025 for a Phenom XL G2 SEM with motorized stage for the Cosmic Dust Laboratory; and a $231,740 firm fixed-price award from the Army Corps of Engineers in May 2022 for a benchtop Phenom Pharos G2 FEG-SEM with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy for materials analysis at the Engineering Research and Development Center. USDA Agricultural Research Service awarded a $53,119 Total Small Business purchase order in February 2026 for a complete tensiometer instrument system with installation and training. NIST awarded a $168,510 small business set-aside purchase order in August 2024 for an electron scanning microscope with spectroscopy capabilities. The company also draws recurring revenue from multi-year maintenance agreements—a $65,018 service maintenance agreement with the Army covering two Phenom XL desktop SEMs at Aberdeen Proving Ground runs through August 2028 with option years.

Nanoscience Instruments' primary NAICS concentration is 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing), which accounts for the vast majority of its 108-award footprint; secondary NAICS categories include Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance and research and development. PSC coding reflects laboratory equipment supply (66 awards) and optical instrument test equipment (21 awards). The company's award trajectory has remained steady, with 13 to 18 awards annually from 2022 through 2024, declining to 11 in 2025 and 3 through mid-2026, likely reflecting the truncation of the current source window. Seven awards (combined potential value $604 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure.

In its subcontractor role, Nanoscience Instruments delivers Phenom XL G2 desktop SEM systems and analytical instrumentation support to Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC under the Naval Nuclear Laboratory and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (January 2026 award) and provides technical analytical and logistics research services to Leidos Inc. supporting the Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center across multiple task orders (most recent September 2025). The vendor also subcontracts under University of Dayton on the Classical-Quantum Hybrid Constructs to Advance Weapon Systems (CLAWS) program (July 2024) and under Atlantic Diving Supply Inc. (June 2024 Phenom XL G2 SEM delivery). The company operates under a handful of parent contract vehicles, including the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract (3 task orders) and Indefinite Delivery Contract FA865120D0003 (2 task orders), with limited IDV concentration overall—the vast majority of its work flows through direct purchase orders rather than standing master vehicles.

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