Thermo Electron North America LLC

Thermo Electron North America LLC, a West Palm Beach, Florida-based limited liability company and subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., supplies analytical laboratory instrumentation and maintenance services to federal agencies as both a prime contractor (99% of awards) and occasional subcontractor. The vendor competes in full-and-open federal procurement without set-aside designations, holding seat on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and several single-award indefinite delivery and blanket purchase agreements with civilian and defense agencies.

The vendor's federal footprint centers on concrete analytical equipment and field service delivery. Representative prime work includes a $2.47 billion maintenance and repair services contract with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (March 2026, through March 2029) covering preventive maintenance, parts, and support for Thermo Fisher Scientific equipment at Gaithersburg, Maryland; a $1.19 million delivery of an Orbitrap Astral Zoom mass spectrometer with Evosep liquid chromatography system to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (September 2026, sole-source, Madison, Wisconsin); and a $897 million multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer procurement for the U.S. Geological Survey Mercury Research Laboratory (September 2025, Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable evaluation, Madison, Wisconsin). The vendor also delivers field service and parts support under single-award maintenance agreements with the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development (multiple contracts ranging from $14 thousand to $98 thousand for service agreements on Thermo Scientific instruments including Orbitrap mass spectrometers, TSQ systems, and ion chromatography equipment), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (recurring maintenance orders on mass spectrometers and analytical systems), and the Naval Sea Systems Command (purchase orders for ion chromatography systems and field service on spectroscopy equipment).

Customer concentration is moderate across the federal research and regulatory base. The top five agencies by award count—the Food and Drug Administration (373 awards, $77.3 million), the EPA Office of Research and Development (278 awards, $21.2 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (257 awards, $9.8 million), the USDA Agricultural Research Service (201 awards, $8.2 million), and the FBI Headquarters Division (191 awards, $16.1 million)—account for 22% of recent awards. By potential value, the top five diverge markedly: the Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer leads with 70 awards and $1 billion combined potential value (likely reflecting large CDC and enterprise procurements), followed by CDC Pittsburgh (151 awards, $121.8 million), FDA (373 awards, $77.3 million), CDC Office of Acquisition Services (99 awards, $29 million), and EPA ORD (278 awards, $21.2 million). This concentration reflects the vendor's core mission serving health, safety, and environmental research agencies that operate sophisticated analytical laboratories.

The vendor places work predominantly under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which accounts for 1,579 task orders and $1.32 billion in combined potential value. Secondary vehicles include an Indefinite Delivery Contract W91ZLK18D0002 (11 task orders, $2.1 million, Defense Health Agency), a single-award BPA with USDA Wildlife Services (57 thousand ceiling through March 2027), and a Defense Health Agency IDIQ for biomedical maintenance services (350 thousand ceiling through March 2031). The MAS seat is the primary vehicle for delivery orders across EPA, CDC, FDA, USDA, DOI, and other civilian agencies.

The vendor's portfolio shows flat-to-declining activity over the past five years (203 awards in 2022 declining to 138 in 2026 year-to-date). One hundred eighty-seven awards with combined potential value of $47.3 million complete within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated in maintenance service agreements and equipment delivery orders across EPA, CDC, FDA, and USDA programs.

Thermo Electron North America LLC acts as a subcontractor to prime management contractors at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Triad National Security, LLC—service agreements for spectrometry and mass spectrometry equipment, three sub-awards June-October 2026), the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC—gas chromatography equipment, March 2026), Johnson Space Center engineering (unspecified prime, December 2025—annual mass spectrometer service), and the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (Battelle National Biodefense Institute—service agreement for quadrupole-orbitrap mass spectrometry, October 2025).

The vendor's capability portfolio rests on original equipment manufacturer status and field service depth. Concrete NAICS posture centers on Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (3,415 awards) and Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (1,562 awards under "Other" and 296 under the primary code). PSC concentration tracks equipment supply (Laboratory Equipment And Supplies, 2,125 awards) and maintenance (Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Instruments and Laboratory Equipment, 1,573 awards). Representative equipment spans mass spectrometers (Orbitrap lines, Q Exactive, TSQ platforms), liquid chromatography systems (Vanquish, Ultimate 3000, Integrion), Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometers (Nicolet IS50, Apex, Summit), ion chromatography systems (Dionex ICS-6000, Integrion), and inductively coupled plasma optical emission and mass spectrometry (iCAP, Element). Maintenance service agreements deliver field engineer labor with targeted response times (three to five business days standard), preventive maintenance visits, spare parts at certified OEM quality, software updates, and priority technical support. The vendor justifies sole-source awards across federal agencies by asserting exclusive access to proprietary diagnostic tools, firmware, replacement parts, and control software as original equipment manufacturer.

Thermo Electron North America LLC's federal profile reflects a highly specialized, equipment-centric supplier with deep roots in EPA, CDC, FDA, USDA, and NIH laboratories. The vendor does not compete under SBA set-asides, does not hold large contract vehicles outside the MAS, and faces a moderately active recompete schedule driven by three-year maintenance agreement cycles. Competitive positioning centers on OEM designation and field service capacity rather than cost or schedule agility; pricing tends full-and-open across agencies with sole-source awards justified by equipment specialization. The parent company, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., is a multi-billion-dollar diversified life sciences and instrumentation conglomerate; this subsidiary operates as a dedicated federal commercial-item equipment and services delivery channel.