Scientific Specialties Service Inc.

Scientific Specialties Service Inc., doing business as Scientific Specialties Services, manufactures and supplies high-density polyethylene and glass bottles with associated caps to federal agencies as a small business prime contractor, competing on full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, operating under NAICS 327212 (Glass Container Manufacturing) and related plastics bottle manufacturing classifications, with primary PSC categories in Bottles and Jars (193 awards) and Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (100 awards).

Scientific Specialties Services holds a concentrated prime footprint dominated by the Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey. The Defense Logistics Agency Construction and Equipment division accounts for 135 awards ($1.3 million combined potential value), driven by recurring purchase orders for screw-cap bottles ranging from approximately $2,100 to $26,000 each. The Department of the Interior's USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants generates 64 awards with $4.7 million in combined potential value, anchored by two single-award indefinite delivery contracts: a $450,000 IDC (awarded September 1, 2022, performance through February 28, 2028) for high-density polyethylene bottles and caps supporting the National Water Quality Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado, and a $150,000 IDC (awarded July 24, 2024, performance through July 25, 2029) for clear and amber glass bottles with Melamine/Phenolic resin caps. Recent delivery orders under these IDCs include a $59,316.15 order awarded March 20, 2026, and a $44,931.75 order awarded June 9, 2025. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical division and other DLA subdivisions account for an additional 26 awards ($225 thousand combined potential value). Together, these top customers cover 79% of the vendor's award count and 65% of its combined potential value.

Scientific Specialties Services places task orders through five named indefinite delivery contracts with DLA and USGS. The highest-volume vehicles are Indefinite Delivery Contract ING08PC90060 (12 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract 02ERCN0010 (10 task orders, $183 thousand), and Indefinite Delivery Contract ING17PC00070 (10 task orders, $157 thousand). Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—11 awards in 2022, peaking at 14 in 2023, then settling to 9–13 annually through 2026. Only four awards ($112 thousand combined potential value) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure in that window. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract activity appears in the source. All work is performed at the company's Hanover, Maryland manufacturing facility or at customer sites in Denver, Colorado (USGS National Water Quality Laboratory). Over the full source-data window since 1993, Scientific Specialties Services has earned $3.8 million in obligated dollars across $9.5 million in combined potential value (40% obligation rate), reflecting the routine execution of firm fixed-price supply contracts at the tactical purchase-order level alongside longer-duration IDC vehicles.

MANUFACTURE LAB SUPPLIES INCLUDING GLASS AND PLASTIC VIALS, BOTTLES, JARS AND TEFLON/PTFE PRODUCTS. CONTAINERS FOR ANALYTICAL LABORATORY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH SAMPLING, PRECLEANED AND PRESERVED. SILANIZED, SURFACE TREATED, AND SAFETY COATED GLASS CONTAINERS.