Neu-Ion, Inc.

Neu-Ion, Inc., doing business as NEU Ion Inc., is a minority-owned, women-owned small business headquartered in Windsor Mill, Maryland, that manufactures and maintains water purification systems, reverse osmosis equipment, deionization systems, and laboratory equipment for federal biomedical research facilities, civilian agencies, and military installations as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The company holds SBA certifications as a small disadvantaged business and is classified under NAICS codes emphasizing electronic and precision equipment repair (64 awards), chemical product manufacturing (57 awards), and water supply systems (28 awards), competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside vehicles, though a handful of recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations.

Neu-Ion's footprint is heavily weighted toward the National Institutes of Health ecosystem and Department of Veterans Affairs. The top five customers by award count account for 44% of all awards, led by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (43 awards, $923 thousand combined potential value), the National Cancer Institute (35 awards, $252 thousand), the NIH Office of the Director (31 awards, $150 thousand), the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (31 awards, $778 thousand), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (18 awards, $160 thousand). When ranked by potential value, the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Northeast Area rises to the top tier ($1.9 million across 14 awards), followed by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 ($1.6 million across 11 awards). Neu-Ion operates under a portfolio of blanket purchase agreements as the primary vehicle architecture: HHSN263199800049235B carries 52 task orders ($314 thousand combined potential value), HHSN263201500055B carries 41 task orders ($529 thousand), and 75N98021A00042 carries 8 task orders ($127 thousand). The company is known as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for certain reverse osmosis and deionization systems, which has anchored sole-source awards at NIH institutes including NICHD's aquatics facilities and NIMH's Building 49 animal research facility.

Recent representative work spans maintenance and installation contracts across federal research infrastructure. A $231.6 thousand contract with NICHD awarded in January 2024 covers bi-monthly preventative maintenance of reverse osmosis systems supporting over 15,000 zebrafish in the NICHD aquatics facilities through December 2028, including parts replacement, membrane and filtration changes, and 24/7 emergency support. A $105.8 thousand contract with the National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded in October 2023 covers maintenance of 11 deionized water systems through September 2028. A $95.9 thousand Defense Health Agency contract awarded in August 2023 covers installation and maintenance of a water purification system at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, running through September 2028. A $464.2 thousand total small business set-aside contract with the Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, awarded in February 2022, provides reverse osmosis system water service, maintenance, and water softener modifications through October 2026. A $76.4 thousand NIMH contract awarded in April 2024 includes a 12-month base period with two optional one-year extensions for preventative maintenance, repair, and emergency services on the central reverse osmosis and animal water distribution systems at Building 49. A $62.3 thousand April 2026 purchase order from NIMH covers design, installation, and delivery of a central reverse osmosis system providing purified water to the Central Animal Facility and multi-investigator laboratories throughout Building 49.

Activity has remained modest in recent years — seven awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, eleven in 2024, declining to four in 2025 and two in 2026 — reflecting the maintenance-heavy, task-order-based nature of Neu-Ion's federal footprint. Combined potential value across all 360 awards (prime and sub) is $30.6 million, with $9.7 million obligated (32% of ceiling). Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $904 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Neu-Ion performs water treatment work under HII Technical Solutions Corporation (quarterly preventive maintenance for deionized water systems on a pulsed power systems research effort) and under Ettm JV LLC (RODI system replacements at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center). The vendor's capability portfolio is tightly focused on federal laboratory and biomedical research water infrastructure — reverse osmosis system installation and maintenance, deionization equipment servicing, laboratory water treatment systems, preventative maintenance agreements, and emergency response — with geographic concentration at NIH facilities in Bethesda, Maryland and Department of Veterans Affairs and Army medical facilities across the Washington-Baltimore corridor.

Neu-Ion will design, furnish, install and maintain high purity water systems. These are used in research and development. Used also in manufacturing drugs. Neu-Ion provides solutions to the following industries: pharmaceutical, education, biotechnology, industrial, data center, and healthcare.