Paroscientific, Inc.

Paroscientific, Inc., based in Redmond, Washington, manufactures precision pressure instrumentation and scientific sensors for federal agencies as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price purchase orders, with no set-aside certifications and no participation on government-wide contract vehicles or large IDIQs. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation operating predominantly full-and-open across its federal customer base; recent prime awards split between total small business set-asides (NOAA oceanographic equipment) and unrestricted full-and-open procurements (Navy and non-DoD defense industrial work).

Paroscientific's capability footprint centers on proprietary pressure measurement products: DigiQuartz intelligent gauge transmitters, pressure transducers, barometric pressure standards, and meteorological sensors (MET-4A all-in-one weather sensors measuring air temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure). Recent representative prime contracts include a $168.9 million firm-fixed-price award from NOAA for Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) pressure sensors to the National Data Buoy Center at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi (March 2022), a $152 thousand sole-source purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for twelve DigiQuartz pressure transducers (October 2022), and a $165 thousand total small business set-aside from NOAA for MET-4A meteorological sensors and power adapter kits (September 2024).

NOAA dominates customer concentration by both volume and dollar share. The top five customers account for 52% of awards, led by NOAA at 87 awards and $3.3 million combined potential value, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command (30 awards, $555 thousand), the Department of the Navy broadly (20 awards), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (17 awards, $172 thousand), and the U.S. Geological Survey (16 awards). When ranked by combined potential value, NOAA represents 71% of the dollars Paroscientific has pursued across its recent footprint; Navy Sea Systems and Air Force Materiel Command Test Center round out the top three by dollars. NOAA work skews toward oceanographic and meteorological instrumentation (barometer sensors, water level observation equipment, weather monitoring stations), while Navy work concentrates on pressure transducers for shipboard and submarine systems.

Paroscientific does not sit on federal supply schedules or GWACs; its federal supply schedule presence is minimal (GSA Schedule GS00F6241A carries six task orders, the only vehicle with material volume). Recent activity has accelerated from five awards in 2022 to twenty-four in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 awards to date remain light (six and one awards respectively). The vendor subcontracts as a pressure-sensor and instrumentation supplier to Electric Boat Corporation on submarine construction and repair (SSN 804 construction, servo valve qualification testing, weapon cradle fasteners), to Lockheed Martin on towed array production sensors, to Science Applications International Corporation on NOAA's DART system recapitalization (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funded), and to Leidos on naval array technical support and towed array parts. These subcontract roles consistently center on pressure transducers and barometric pressure equipment for undersea, naval, or oceanographic platforms. Paroscientific's award history spans back to 1980; the combined obligated dollars across all historical awards ($16.4 million) exceed the combined potential-value ceiling ($6.2 million), indicating full obligation of prior-year awards and active delivery performance.

MANUFACTURER OF HIGH ACCURACY DIGITAL PRESSURE SENSORS. PRODUCTS INCLUDE: BAROMETERS, TRANSDUCERS, TRANSMITTERS, DEPTH SENSORS, PORTABLE STANDARDS, FIBER-OPTIC SYSTEMS, PRESSURE COMPUTERS & WATER STAGE SENSORS. FEATURES .01% ACCURACY, 1 PART PER MILLION R