Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's Laboratory Products Division supplies laboratory instruments, equipment, reagents, consumables, and preventative maintenance and repair services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, drawing on a portfolio of 5,490 awards across 213 customer agencies with combined potential value of $255.3 million. The vendor is a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global scientific equipment manufacturer headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, and operates from Asheville and Woodfin, North Carolina, with work performed at customer sites nationwide and overseas. Thermo Fisher (Asheville) competes predominantly full-and-open across federal agencies without SBA set-aside designations, reflecting its scale and established position as a preferred supplier of analytical and laboratory infrastructure.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on analytical laboratory instrumentation, centrifuges, incubators, freezers and cryogenic equipment, electrodes and sensing devices, water purification systems, and manufacturer-authorized preventative maintenance and emergency repair services for its own equipment lines. Representative prime work includes a $340.4 million purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 for a Genexus Sequencer system with installation and validation support for genomic sequencing; $899.6 thousand and $897.8 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command purchase orders for chloride ion-selective electrodes and pH electrodes respectively; preventative maintenance agreements with the NIH Clinical Center valued at $76.3 thousand for 48 Thermo Scientific HERAcell incubators and $84.2 thousand for seven centrifuge models supporting cell-based therapy manufacturing; and a $96.4 thousand Defense Health Agency contract running through September 2028 for maintenance on refrigerated blood centrifuges and blood storage freezers. The vendor holds a $10 million single-award BPA with the HHS Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (awarded January 31, 2024, through February 28, 2027) for medical and scientific equipment, instruments, service parts, and laboratory repair and maintenance services, demonstrating its role as an incumbent vendor for recurring federal needs across health and research agencies.

Customer concentration clusters around defense health and civilian research agencies. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery leads both by award count (247 awards, $11.6 million combined potential value) and dollars, followed by the Department of the Army Medical Command (236 awards, $4.6 million), the CDC Office of Acquisition Services (220 awards, $3.9 million), the FDA (194 awards, $3.2 million), and the NIH Office of the Director (313 awards, though lower dollar value at $345 thousand). This concentration reflects Thermo Fisher (Asheville)'s specialization in laboratory infrastructure supporting federal health, research, and defense operations. The top five customer agencies account for approximately 22 percent of recent awards and 10 percent of combined potential value, indicating broad customer diversification across agencies despite significant concentration in DoD health and HHS civilian research.

The vendor's vehicle footprint is anchored to the Federal Supply Schedule (GSA Contract GS24F1289C), which carries 3,210 task orders worth $35.6 million combined potential value and serves as the primary government-wide mechanism for procuring Thermo Fisher laboratory products. Additional BPAs with NIH and HHS entities, including HHSN263199800049250B (296 task orders, $1.6 million), GS24F1289C-HHSN263199800049247B (279 task orders, $76 thousand), and HHSN263200800018B (217 task orders, $1.8 million), anchor recurring procurement across the health and research enterprise. These vehicles enable federal agencies to place task orders without individual competitive solicitations, supporting efficient replenishment of laboratory consumables and maintenance services.

Activity has remained relatively steady across the past five years, averaging 18 awards annually (17 in 2022, 23 in 2023, 21 in 2024, 20 in 2025, 9 year-to-date in 2026). Recent awards represent predominantly purchase orders and BPA calls at relatively modest dollar magnitudes, typical of consumables and maintenance service work. Only three awards face completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $180 thousand), indicating minimal recompete cliff risk in the near term and a stable installed base across federal agencies. The vendor's awards span NAICS 334517 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, 3,522 awards) and related repair and maintenance categories, with PSC concentration in Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (2,588 awards) and Medical and Surgical Instruments (909 awards), reflecting its core positioning as a supplies and equipment vendor rather than systems integrator.

Thermo Fisher (Asheville) maintains a limited subcontractor footprint; the source identifies only seven sub-awards spanning 2024–2026, primarily as a supplier of laboratory instruments and electrodes to primes including Southwest Research Institute (recirculating water chiller for the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation), Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC (gas chromatography instruments and electrodes for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program support), and Atlantic Diving Supply Inc. (detection and diagnostic equipment), reflecting its role as an embedded supplier of specialized laboratory goods on larger defense and R&D programs rather than as a full-service subcontractor.