Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

ALBA BIOSCIENCE, INC.

ALBA BIOSCIENCE, INC. received $498.6K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 178 awards (−13% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.6M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($225.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$498.6K
New awards
178
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
24%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 634.8KFY2017
  2. 600KFY2018
  3. 626KFY2019
  4. 575.5KFY2020
  5. 499.4KFY2021
  6. 499.8KFY2022
  7. 558.2KFY2023
  8. 527.9KFY2024
  9. 575.7KFY2025
  10. 498.6KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$225.7K45%
    18 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$151K30%
    155 awards
  3. Department of the Army$95.6K19%
    2 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$15.4K3.1%
    1 awards
  5. Defense Health Agency$11K2.2%
    1 awards
  6. National Institutes of Health-$40.000.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$329K66%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$169.5K34%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$348.4K70%
  2. Bexar County, TX$86.5K17%
  3. Okaloosa County, FL$15.4K3.1%
  4. San Francisco County, CA$15.1K3.0%
  5. Duval County, FL$11K2.2%
  6. Vernon Parish, LA$9,1211.8%
  7. Bucks County, PA$7,6341.5%
  8. Montgomery County, AL$5,5931.1%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition24%
    US 39% · $119.8K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions24%
    US 8.8% · $119.8K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. QC KIT (4X10ML) - IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY REAGENTS$163.2K
    Department of the Army· Bexar County, TX· Health & medical· Aug 7, 2024 – Mar 2, 2026· W81K0024P0152
  2. BLOOD BANK REAGENTS$108.9K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Health & medical· Nov 1, 2022 – Dec 16, 2025· 36C25623F0067
  3. BLOOD TUBE TESTING REAGENTS$76.7K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· San Francisco County, CA· Health & medical· Oct 1, 2021 – Feb 12, 2026· 36C26122F0032
  4. QUOTIENTBD BLOOD BANK TRANSFUSION REAGENTS OPTION YEAR 2$64.1K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Health & medical· May 8, 2026 – May 8, 2026· 36C25926N0280
  5. RED BLOOD CELL REAGENTS$62.6K
    Department of the Air Force· Okaloosa County, FL· Health & medical· Dec 2, 2022 – Jun 8, 2026· FA282323F0022
  6. BLOOD BANK REAGENTS ORDERING PERIOD 2$40.9K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Health & medical· Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· 36C25526N0306
  7. BLOOD BANK REAGENTS$35K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Health & medical· Jun 23, 2025 – Sep 28, 2026· 36C25525N0333
  8. BLOOD BANK REAGENTS OY3$34.9K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Health & medical· May 14, 2024 – Mar 26, 2026· 36C25524N0268

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 7 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SOLMETEX LLC$722.4K−28% in FY2026
    PALMER LAKE, CO · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
  2. HENRY SCHEIN, INC.$859.1K
    MELVILLE, NY · 3 entities · 45% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalersDefense Health Agency · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
  3. HORIZON THERAPEUTICS USA, INC.$618.5K−100% in FY2026
    LAKE FOREST, IL · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.