Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc.

Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc., a Massachusetts-based subsidiary of Ametek Inc., manufactures advanced analytical instrumentation and delivers equipment sales, maintenance, repair, calibration, and technical support services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The vendor competes exclusively on full-and-open competitive basis with no set-aside footprint; all recent awards carry no set-aside designation.

Spectro Analytical Instruments specializes in inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers (ICP-OES), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) systems, and related analytical laboratory equipment. The company's federal work splits between equipment procurement—including a $995 thousand Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS) system for NIST with performance in the United Kingdom, a $481 thousand high-resolution ICP-MS instrument for EPA's Office of Research and Development, and a $420 thousand upgrade of an existing Nu Plasma multi-collector ICP-MS for NIST—and recurring preventative maintenance, calibration, and repair contracts on instruments already deployed across federal laboratories. Representative maintenance examples include a $232 thousand service maintenance agreement for a high-resolution ICP-MS (AttoM system) at EPA covering repair and calibration through October 2026, preventative maintenance and calibration services for a SPECTRO MAXX optical emission spectrograph at Army Aviation and Missile Command (Corpus Christi Army Depot) valued at $36 thousand through March 2028, and a three-year full-service maintenance contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for a Spectro Lab M12 spectrometer at Portsmouth, Virginia totaling $69 thousand across the base year and two option years.

Navy dominates Spectro Analytical's customer concentration. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 80 awards (23% of the total 339) with combined potential value of $2.1 million and anchors the vendor's top-customer ranking by both award count and dollars. The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology ranks second by potential value ($1.7 million across 12 awards), with the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey ($967 thousand across 9 awards), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex ($446 thousand across 16 awards), and the Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($411 thousand across 10 awards) rounding out the top five. The top five customers account for 42% of combined potential value across all awards. Activity has declined in recent years—17 awards in 2022 to 6 awards in 2026 (first five months)—with 11 awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure.

Spectro Analytical operates under named parent vehicles including Indefinite Delivery Contracts TCI00012 and TCI00013 (two task orders each), though the majority of recent awards appear as standalone purchase orders rather than task orders under umbrella vehicles. The vendor's subcontract footprint is minimal (1% of recent awards). Spectro Analytical subcontracts to Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC on Naval Nuclear Laboratory management and operations work involving Spectro ARCOS preventive maintenance, to Gryphon Technologies LLC on Air Force Technical Applications Center environmental sample analysis and laboratory instrumentation support, and to Booz Allen Hamilton on Army Rapid Equipping Force bridge mission support involving elemental analyzer deployment.

The 339-award portfolio encompasses 58 distinct federal customer agencies, with work concentrated in NAICS codes for Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (125 awards) and Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (123 awards), and PSC codes dominated by Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Instruments and Laboratory Equipment (141 awards). Combined potential value across all awards stands at $13.5 million with combined dollars obligated at $17.2 million, reflecting multi-year option-year contracts and prior funding cycles. Work is performed across domestic locations including Wilmington, Massachusetts (company headquarters), Hill Air Force Base (Utah), Tinker Air Force Base (Oklahoma), Corpus Christi Army Depot (Texas), Naval Station Norfolk area (Portsmouth, Virginia), and others, with at least one award specifying place of performance in Great Britain.