Taconic Biosciences, Inc.

Taconic Biosciences, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer based in Germantown, New York, supplies genetically engineered rodent models, laboratory animals, and specialized breeding facility services to the National Institutes of Health ecosystem and other federal health research agencies as a prime contractor on 756 awards worth a combined potential value of $465.8 million. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Taconic's capability portfolio centers on production and delivery of disease-specific transgenic and knockout mouse models, barrier-reared rodents, genetically defined mice for toxicology studies, and operation and maintenance of pathogen-free breeding facilities supporting immunology, infectious disease, neurology, and genetic research. Representative work includes a $5.7 million delivery order from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded in June 2026 for operation and maintenance of a murine pathogen-free mouse breeding facility in North Bethesda, Maryland, with AAALAC accreditation and housing capacity for up to 3,400 cages of transgenic and genetically engineered lines; a $7.39 million sole-source purchase order from NIAID issued in June 2023 for the same facility scope, generating government-invoiced labor of $456 thousand in FY2023 and $3.5 million in FY2024, with all work self-performed; a $180,748 purchase order from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in August 2026 for supply of laboratory animals supporting intramural research; and a $147,877 contract from the National Human Genome Research Institute awarded in August 2022 for transgenic mouse model generation targeting propionic acidemia and methylmalonic acidemia research through August 2025.

Customer concentration sits entirely within the federal health research ecosystem. The top five customers by potential value — all divisions within the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health — account for 63% of combined potential value across 141 awards. The NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations dominates the portfolio: 41 awards totaling $162.7 million in combined potential value stem from an underlying $99 million indefinite delivery contract for laboratory animal procurement, which allows individual NIH institutes and centers to issue task orders. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ranks second by potential value with 55 awards ($59.5 million), followed by NIAID with 19 awards ($46.1 million). The vendor also serves the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (14 awards, $13.2 million), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (23 awards, $649 thousand), and the Department of Veterans Affairs through VISN 7 and VISN 12. Taconic works across 45 distinct federal agencies, but the concentration by dollars remains tight within the NIH ecosystem.

Top parent vehicles include the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations' Indefinite Delivery Contract HHSN273200800009I (37 task orders, $4.1 million combined potential value), Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Indefinite Delivery Contract N6264518D5064 (20 task orders, $59 thousand), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Indefinite Delivery Contract 75N96019D00004 (10 task orders, $1.4 million). The source also references a $99 million indefinite delivery contract with NIH's Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations as a strategic anchor enabling wide distribution of task orders across institutes and centers.

Award activity has contracted sharply in recent years. The vendor placed six awards in 2022, seven in 2023, but only one in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026 (as of late September). Only four awards with combined potential value of $6 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a limited near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing reflects the facility-services work: the vendor recorded $1.4 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue in FY2023 across 3.6 FTEs and $3.5 million in FY2024, with government-paid hourly rates running consistently at $120.44 per hour. SCI records show zero sub-hours share across prime contracts, indicating Taconic self-performs the facility-operation and animal-care labor on its major contracts rather than relying on subcontractor teaming. The vendor operates 100% as a prime, with no recorded sub-award activity in the source data.

Taconic holds a named subsidiary, Taconic Biosciences Corporation, and operates under several business names including SAS Supply in some federal transactions. The vendor's federal contracting footprint spans 1988 to present, with SAM.gov registration dating to 2002. The category concentration shows 301 awards under NAICS "All Other Animal Production" and 399 awards under PSC "Live Animals, Not Raised For Food," with secondary NAICS and PSC codes reflecting testing services and R&D support across the portfolio.