Vaisala Inc.

Vaisala Inc., a Finland-headquartered, foreign-owned manufacturer of weather and environmental monitoring instrumentation, operates as a prime contractor selling specialized sensors, probes, radiosondes, and repair services to federal agencies through full-and-open competition without set-aside designation. The company has received 617 awards (616 prime, 1 sub) totaling $189.3 million in combined potential value since 2005, with $86.6 million obligated as of the source date. Vaisala competes across the full federal market without pursuing SBA certifications; all recent awards reflect unrestricted competition.

Vaisala's federal footprint concentrates heavily in atmospheric and environmental measurement. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dominates the customer base, accounting for 236 awards and $148.4 million in combined potential value — roughly 78% of all potential value across the vendor's federal work. NOAA procures radiosondes, ice-free wind sensors, transmitter boards, humidity probes, ceilometer instruments, and lightning detection systems from Vaisala, primarily for weather forecasting and environmental observation. The Federal Aviation Administration (both Headquarters and Aeronautical Center combined) represents the second-tier customer with 130 awards and $15.6 million in combined potential value, purchasing assets in support of the National Airspace System — typically unspecified meteorological instrumentation and sensor components. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command round out the active set, collectively representing roughly 12% of remaining potential value. Recent representative work includes a $172,017.92 NOAA purchase order for radiosondes (June 2026), a $266,915 delivery order for two Vaisala RVP10 Intermediate Frequency Digital Receivers (September 2025), a $122,610 Office of Naval Research purchase order for mini dropsondes (September 2025), and multiple FAA purchase orders for NAS assets ranging from $11,986 to $119,712 (scattered across 2023–2026).

Vaisala holds a five-year single-award indefinite delivery contract with NOAA valued at $1,637,790, awarded in September 2022 and running through September 2027, for sensor repair and maintenance services. This vehicle anchors much of Vaisala's NOAA work, with 10 delivery orders against it totaling $9.7 million in combined potential value. Additional parent vehicles include an FAA IDC (DTFAAC15D00008) carrying 74 task orders at $1.8 million combined value, an Army Communications Electronics Command IDC (W15P7T06DM003) with 30 task orders at $3.8 million, and a NOAA oceanographic IDC (DOCWC133M09CQ0020) with 10 task orders at $9.7 million. The awards concentrate under repair and maintenance PSC codes (199 awards for maint/repair/rebuild of instruments and lab equipment) and meteorological instruments (112 awards), reflecting Vaisala's core business of sensor supply and equipment sustainment.

Activity trended downward in recent years — 15 awards in 2024 declined to 12 in 2025 and 3 through September 2026 — but this reflects the source data window rather than terminal decline; the vendor's 617-award, 21-year footprint and $1.6 million NOAA single-award IDC running through 2027 indicate stable, recurring customer relationships. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: four awards with completion dates inside that window carry only $203 thousand in combined potential value. Vaisala has one named federal sub-award as of the source date — a July 2025 sub task for dew point and humidity probes supporting NASA Johnson Space Center engineering directorates — indicating minimal subcontract reliance; the vendor operates almost entirely as a prime supplier of manufactured goods and repair services.

Vaisala's corporate structure includes ten subsidiaries per SAM.gov, among them Nu-Metrics Inc., Surface Systems Inc., Highway Information Systems Incorporated, and Veriteq Instruments Inc., though the source does not detail their operational roles or capability contributions. The vendor's U.S. operations center in Burlington, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Woburn and North Las Vegas, supports the majority of delivery orders. Vaisala faces no near-term recompete cliff and holds no GWACs or government-wide vehicles; its federal business runs through agency-specific IDCs and transactional purchase orders, creating low switching costs for competitors but also limited incumbent leverage on multi-agency platforms.