Rapiscan Systems Inc.

Rapiscan Systems Inc. manufactures and sells advanced security screening equipment—x-ray machines, explosive and narcotics detection systems, trace detectors, metal detectors, and related maintenance services—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on contracts valued at five billion dollars combined potential value and as a subcontractor on select international security and supply-chain roles. The vendor competes on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis across all work; no SBA set-asides characterize the prime footprint.

Rapiscan is a for-profit manufacturer of goods and services headquartered in Torrance, California. The vendor holds primary NAICS classifications in Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (767 awards) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (456 awards). The top-tier PSC codes are Hazard-Detecting Instruments and Apparatus (492 awards) and Miscellaneous Alarm, Signal, and Security Detection Systems (349 awards). Across the recent award footprint spanning 1,862 federal contract actions, 95 percent are prime awards and five percent are subcontract work. The vendor operates as a prime contractor supplying equipment and services directly to federal agencies and as a subcontractor providing equipment, components, and maintenance on global security programs.

Rapiscan's customer concentration is sharply weighted toward two homeland-security-facing agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 30 percent of awards; by potential value, the top five account for 73 percent of combined dollars. Customs and Border Protection leads by magnitude—54 awards across $2.92 billion combined potential value—driven by major vehicle and portal scanner IDIQs and delivery orders for non-intrusive inspection systems, mobile x-ray vehicles, low-energy portal systems, and multi-energy portal systems. The Transportation Security Administration follows at 58 awards, $579 million combined potential value, mostly task orders under the Federal Supply Schedule GS07F9429G (550 task orders, $148.7 million). The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts places 270 awards valued at $37 million through a mix of single-award IDVs and delivery orders for x-ray maintenance and annual service. The Department of Justice (US Attorney's Offices, Bureau of Prisons) collectively accounts for over 200 awards across repair, maintenance, and equipment procurement. The Department of State and Department of Defense round out the major customer set through targeted equipment acquisitions and maintenance support, including international security assistance work in Morocco, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, and East Africa.

Rapiscan holds several named parent vehicles anchoring its federal delivery model. The GSA OASIS+ Unrestricted Multiple Award IDIQ, awarded April 15, 2025, carries a ceiling exceeding one trillion dollars (placeholder notation; no dollar cap specified in the source) and runs through April 14, 2030, enabling task order issuance across all federal agencies for security screening equipment, installation, maintenance, training, and technical support. CBP awarded two single-award IDIQs on July 30, 2026—one for large-scale non-intrusive inspection relocatable passenger vehicle scanning systems ($200 million ceiling, through July 2031) and one for mobile x-ray inspection vehicles ($85 million ceiling, through July 2031)—both supporting border security operations at domestic and overseas ports of entry. The vendor also holds a $22.5 million blanket purchase agreement with CBP for x-ray baggage, parcel, and pallet scanning equipment (expires January 31, 2028) and single-award IDVs with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons totaling approximately $1.53 million across base and option periods running through September 2027. The Federal Supply Schedule GS07F9429G (550 task orders) and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (165 task orders) represent the highest-volume vehicle platforms, collectively accounting for $165.8 million in combined potential value and serving as the contracting mechanism for dispersed orders across civilian agencies, federal law enforcement, and correctional facilities.

Award activity grew from 41 awards in 2022 to 84 in 2024, then moderated to 55 in 2025 and 36 in 2026 year-to-date through mid-November. Forty-four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $279.2 million and face recompete or renewal, representing significant pipeline for the vendor and recompete exposure. Recent representative prime awards include the July 2026 delivery order to CBP for low-energy portal systems ($10.6 million, July 2028 completion), the July 2026 delivery order to CBP for mobile x-ray inspection vehicles ($21.2 million, July 2027 completion), the September 2024 CBP maintenance and repair contract for non-intrusive inspection detection equipment ($153 million, August 2027 completion), the April 2025 Department of State delivery order to Peru for drive-through inspection systems ($6.5 million obligated, July 2026 completion), and the October 2024 Air Mobility Command contract for Z-Portal x-ray and backscatter van extended warranty ($1.43 million, September 2027 completion).

Rapiscan's subcontractor role centers on equipment and components supplied to major prime integrators. Named primes include General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (dozens of orders across global security engineering and supply-chain services programs), PAE Government Services, Inc. (international capacity improvement (ICI) programs in South Asia, Morocco, Panama, and Central America), Leidos, Inc. (automated installation entry base entry systems and checkpoint maintenance), Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. (Z-Portal lease, maintenance, and equipment bundles), BL Harbert International LLC (embassy compound design and construction), Science Applications International Corporation (IT services and biometric solutions), and KBR Services, LLC (backscatter van maintenance in Djibouti). Rapiscan typically supplies equipment, components, accessories, training, and maintenance services to these primes rather than providing labor-based services; the subcontract portfolio reflects the vendor's role as an original equipment manufacturer and product supplier embedded in larger security and construction programs.

Service Contract Inventory (SCI) data, capturing federal service contracts above $150 thousand and excluding goods and products, shows Rapiscan invoiced $50.9 million across SCI-reportable prime records in FY2022–FY2025, with marked growth in FY2025 ($45.1 million across 21.9 FTEs). The FY2024 profile reported $3.5 million across 1.4 FTEs; FY2023 and FY2022 were substantially smaller. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran around a median of $1,027.23 per hour, with rates spanning from a 10th percentile of $269.24 per hour to a 90th percentile of $1,838.46 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Rapiscan performed zero percent of hours through subcontractors, indicating self-performance and internal delivery of service labor. SCI is a strict subset excluding goods, products, and classified work; it does not represent the vendor's total federal services activity or enterprise revenue. The CBP maintenance and repair contract alone ($153 million, with FY2024 invoicing of $1.9 million and FY2025 invoicing of $43.2 million) exemplifies the large equipment-and-service integration work that dominates Rapiscan's federal footprint.

Rapiscan's footprint reflects a manufacturer-plus-integrator model: the vendor designs, manufactures, and delivers specialized security screening equipment (x-ray systems, trace detectors, narcotics/explosives detection gear, metal detectors) and pairs product delivery with installation, training, preventive and corrective maintenance, warranty extension, technical documentation, and on-demand engineering support across border security, transportation security, federal corrections, and international security assistance missions. The vendor's equipment serves TSA checkpoint screening, CBP port-of-entry cargo and vehicle inspection, Bureau of Prisons contraband detection, Secret Service facility security, State Department embassy security, and defense installation security operations domestically and overseas.