Federal contractor · BREA, CA

BECKMAN COULTER, INC.

BECKMAN COULTER, INC. received $4.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 88 awards (+3.6% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $64M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($1.6M).

Obligations · FY2026: $4.3M
New awards: 88
Sole-source: 30%
Single offer: 15%

UEI: Z4DRFM3LMJB8
Parent company: DANAHER CORP

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the CEPHEID company family: 26 registered entities, $181.1M in FY2026 together. See the family

CEPHEIDSUNNYVALE, CA · Family page
Reported parent$71.2M
BECKMAN COULTER, INCBREA, CA
AI name match · 100%$66.1M
LEICA MICROSYSTEMS INC.DEERFIELD, IL
Reported parent$13.1M
AB SCIEX LLCREDWOOD CITY, CA
Reported parent$8.5M
PALL AEROPOWER CORPORATIONNEW PORT RICHEY, FL
Reported parent$6.4M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

9.5MFY2017
8MFY2018
4.8MFY2019
8.4MFY2020
9.2MFY2021
6.7MFY2022
5.3MFY2023
3.6MFY2024
4.2MFY2025
4.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of Veterans Affairs$1.6M36%
21 awards
National Institutes of Health$1.4M33%
34 awards
Department of the Army$341.8K7.9%
4 awards
Indian Health Service$207.8K4.8%
4 awards
Defense Health Agency$207.4K4.8%
1 awards
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$142.2K3.3%
2 awards
Environmental Protection Agency$110.4K2.5%
3 awards
U.S. Secret Service$93.4K2.2%
1 awards
National Institute of Standards and Technology$91.5K2.1%
2 awards
U.S. Geological Survey$51.6K1.2%
3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$1.4M31%
Equipment maintenance$1.2M28%
Health & medical$986.7K23%
Professional services$742.6K17%
IT & telecom$35.8K0.8%
Research & development$3,5000.1%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition45%
US 39% · $2M
Sole-source awards30%
US 30% · $1.3M
Single-offer competitions15%
US 8.7% · $649.4K
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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Department of Veterans Affairs$348.5K
Department of Veterans Affairs · 3 awards
National Institutes of Health$190.1K
Department of Health and Human Services · 5 awards
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$142.4K
Department of Agriculture · 1 awards
Department of the Navy$49.3K
Department of Defense · 2 awards
Environmental Protection Agency$38.3K
Environmental Protection Agency · 1 awards

Largest awards

REAGENTS AND SUPPLIES FOR ANALYZER AT VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.$740.4K
Department of Veterans Affairs· San Diego County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 23, 2020 – Mar 3, 2026· 36C26220C0123
PROCUREMENT OF ANALYTICAL ULTRACENTRIFUGE INSTRUMENT$566.6K
National Institute of Standards and Technology· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 20, 2023 – Jul 27, 2026· 1333ND23PNB640648
SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT FOR BECKMAN COULTER FOR BECKMAN COULTER BRAND INSTRUMENTS$458.8K
National Institutes of Health· Marion County, IN· Professional services· May 1, 2026 – May 1, 2026· 75N98026F00005
FLOW CYTOMETRY REAGENTS/SUPPLIES - ORDERING PERIOD 3$418.8K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 3, 2026 – Feb 3, 2026· 36C25626N0286
MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (MIS)$415.6K
Department of the Army· Orange County, CA· Health & medical· Sep 11, 2025 – Nov 17, 2025· W911QY25CA064
CHEMISTRY ANALYZER LEASE - PAWNEE$399.6K
Indian Health Service· Pawnee County, OK· Equipment maintenance· Feb 2, 2023 – Mar 6, 2026· 75H71123C00006
NEW FLOW CYTOMETRY REPLACEMENT OF PURCHASE ORDER W81K00-23-P-0054$344.3K
Department of the Army· Bexar County, TX· Health & medical· Sep 25, 2025 – May 13, 2026· W81K0025FA234
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICE ON THE BECKMAN COULTER FLOW CYTOMETRY EQUIPMENT LOCATED AT 2002 HOLCOMBE BLVD, HOUSTON, TX 77030.$342.2K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Harris County, TX· Equipment maintenance· Mar 28, 2023 – Jul 7, 2026· 36C25623P0690

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

Sub-contracts: $305.1K (3 subawards)

2 primes

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$223.9K73%
BALTIMORE, MD · 2 subawards
TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$81.2K27%
COLUMBUS, OH · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.6M received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $848.1K received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.5M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $305.1K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

8 companies · $1.1M reported

FINGER LAKES AMBULANCE EMS INC$554.4K
CLIFTON SPRINGS, NY · 3 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
INTREPID MACHINE, INC$211.5K
BROOKSVILLE, FL · 3 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
GERARD DANIEL WORLDWIDE, INC.$59.2K
HANOVER, PA · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

Primes that pay it

46 companies · $82.6M reported

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$25.7M
FORT WORTH, TX · 93 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
THE BOEING COMPANY$5.9M
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 24 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
LEIDOS, INC.$5.9M
RESTON, VA · 35 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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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 193 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

ABBOTT RAPID DX NORTH AMERICA LLC$378.9M−0.1% in FY2026
LAKE MARY, FL · 30 entities · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers+8 more
OTICON, INC$238.4M−74% in FY2026
SOMERSET, NJ · 2 entities · 39% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC$692.1M−3.9% in FY2026
WAUKESHA, WI · 9 entities · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingOffice of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Logistics Agency · Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers+3 more

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of CEPHEID (26 recipients).

Matched organizations

CepheidAI match · 94%

Lobbying · 2023: $790K; 11 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2024: $1.2M; $1.2M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$790K
11 reports
2024$410K
9 reports

Top issues

Health issues20 reports
Medicare and Medicaid7 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES20 reports
U.S. SENATE20 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)9 reports
Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)2 reports
White House Office2 reports
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)1 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP$390K
7 reports
Todd Strategy Group$270K
6 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 3795 · To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the development of a diagnostic testing preparedness plan to be used during public health emergencies, and for other purposes.4 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 4421 · Preparing for All Hazards and Pathogens Reauthorization Act1 report
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023
S. 2333 · Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act1 report
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023

5 of 20 reports (2023–2024) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.