Sciaps, Inc.

Sciaps, Inc., a small business manufacturer of portable analytical instrumentation based in Andover and Woburn, Massachusetts, sells handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) analyzers to federal agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service valued at $1,998,350 through August 2029.

Sciaps competes in full-and-open procurement; roughly 40% of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-asides, but the vendor does not hold 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB designations and wins the majority of its work on unrestricted small business competition. The company manufactures and delivers field-portable spectrometers and soil, lead-paint, and geological analyzers across NAICS 541712 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing) and PSC codes spanning Laboratory Equipment and Supplies and Chemical Analysis Instruments. Recent representative work includes a $212,688 purchase order from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for portable XRF equipment for lead-based paint testing (awarded August 2023, completion September 2025); a $548,400 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Consumer Product Safety Commission for up to 12 handheld XRF analyzers (awarded September 2023, completed December 2024); and a $114,100 delivery order from USDA Forest Service for two Z-903 Geochem Pro LIBS analyzers delivered to the Wood Identification and Screening Center in Ashland, Oregon (awarded September 2024, completion October 2025).

Customer concentration tracks heavily to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which anchors the portfolio with $2.2 million across three awards (38% of combined potential value across all 64 awards). The top five customers by potential value—USDA Forest Service, Naval Sea Systems Command ($376 thousand across five awards), FBI Headquarters Division ($245 thousand across six awards), USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants ($215 thousand across five awards), and CDC Pittsburgh ($177 thousand across two awards)—account for 58% of combined potential value. Award velocity has tracked at eight awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, ten in 2024, four in 2025, and eight in 2026 (year-to-date); six awards with combined potential value of $411 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure.

Sciaps holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract (IDC 12318724D0006, Department of Agriculture, awarded August 2024) that has generated two delivery orders totaling $218 thousand in combined potential value. The IDIQ procures LIBS Z-903 analyzers for elemental wood analysis and identification across USDA shipment sites, with place of performance in Woburn and delivery to Forest Service locations nationwide. Sciaps subcontracts to defense primes on Department of Energy and Department of the Navy programs: it supplied analyzer packages under a Consolidated Nuclear Security management-and-operating contract at Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant (awarded July 2024) and provided equipment repair services on an ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics task order (awarded December 2024). The combined sub footprint represents $0 in disclosed value on the two named awards.

Total recent awards reached 64 (61 prime, three sub) with combined potential value of $5.4 million and combined obligated dollars of $3.5 million (64% of potential). Most recent award: October 1, 2026 (USGS purchase order, $25,880, for Malvern FieldSpec 4 service contract support through September 2027). Sciaps operates across 38 distinct customer agencies, concentrated in civilian science, environmental, and regulatory missions rather than DoD primary demand.

SciAps designs, manufactures, and sells durable, field tested handheld Raman and LIBS analyzers that analyze alloys, environmental contaminates, explosives and precursors including IEDs and HME's, illegal narcotics and hazardous materials.

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