QA Group LLC

QA Group LLC, doing business as Quantum Analytics, procures and installs specialized analytical laboratory instruments and provides equipment maintenance services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards), competing predominantly under small business set-asides. The Spring, Texas-based for-profit partnership or limited liability partnership operates as a value-added distributor of gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, pyrolyzers, and thermal desorption systems, with a secondary capability in preventive and corrective maintenance services for complex analytical equipment.

Quantum Analytics' award footprint centers on environmental and health-agency customers. The Environmental Protection Agency dominates both award count and potential value — EPA components account for approximately 49% of the vendor's combined potential value across a 1.2-million-dollar portfolio, anchored by a $391,710 purchase order from EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management (Jan 2023) for procurement, delivery, and installation of a TD-GC-QQQ 1G LS217 mass spectrometer in Shenandoah, Texas. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the second-largest customer by potential value ($348 thousand across two awards), including a $339,968 June 2026 CDC Pittsburgh purchase order for a TVB pyrolysis system and customer information technology support under Executive Order 14398, with performance through June 2027. The Department of the Treasury (Internal Revenue Service), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives round out the top-five customer set. The vendor works across 11 distinct federal agencies, with the top five accounting for 88% of combined potential value.

Activity has grown from one award in 2020 to a recent peak of five awards in 2024, with four awards in 2025 and one in 2026. One award worth $340 thousand reaches completion within the next twenty-four months and faces recompete exposure. Quantum Analytics' capability mix is heavily weighted toward analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (nine of thirteen awards under NAICS 334516), with secondary work in equipment repair and maintenance (two awards under NAICS 811310). Representative equipment procurements include a $129,418 EPA Office of Air and Radiation purchase of a gas chromatograph analyzer (Jan 2025, set-aside total small business), a $117,292 IRS purchase order for a multi-shot pyrolyzer with EGA and TD capabilities (Aug 2024, sole source), and a $103,602 EPA Region 8 purchase of an Agilent GC 5977C MS 8890 lab system for Denver operations (Sep 2024, total small business set-aside). Maintenance contracts include a $40,000 ATF definitive contract for preventive and corrective maintenance on a Frontier multi-shot Pyrolyzer at the ATF Forensic Science Laboratory in the Woodlands, Texas (Feb 2025, total small business set-aside, extending through Feb 2030 with option periods), and an $8,138 CDC service agreement on Markes thermal desorption instrumentation at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health facility in Cincinnati (Mar 2023, total small business set-aside).

Quantum Analytics subcontracts minimally — one federal grant sub-award appears in the source, a sub-recipient role under the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (Feb 2025) for continuation of thermal desorption unit maintenance and support at EPA Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Program stations. The vendor's small business posture is mixed: roughly 62% of recent awards carry total small business set-asides, while the remainder compete full-and-open (no set-aside). Place of performance spans multiple states — Spring, Texas (administrative headquarters), Atlanta, Georgia, Shenandoah, Texas, Washington DC, Denver, Colorado, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Woodlands, Texas, among others — reflecting the geographic distribution of federal analytical laboratory operations.