Federal contractor · SUNNYVALE, CA

CEPHEID

CEPHEID received $71.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1,712 awards (−15% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.5B. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($44.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$71.2M
New awards
1,712
Sole-source
51%
Single offer
26%
UEI
W6HQTMWB9Q28
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.

26 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $180.7M in FY2026 together.

  1. CEPHEIDSUNNYVALE, CA · Family page
    $71.2M
  2. BECKMAN COULTER, INCBREA, CA
    $66.1M
  3. LEICA MICROSYSTEMS INC.DEERFIELD, IL
    $12.9M
  4. AB SCIEX LLCREDWOOD CITY, CA
    $8.5M
  5. PALL AEROPOWER CORPORATIONNEW PORT RICHEY, FL
    $6.4M
  6. BECKMAN COULTER, INC.BREA, CA
    $4.3M
  7. SEA-BIRD ELECTRONICS, INCBELLEVUE, WA
    $3.4M
  8. BECKMAN COULTER GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNGKREFELD, DEU
    $2.3M
  9. HACH COMPANYLOVELAND, CO
    $1.9M
  10. MOLECULAR DEVICES LLCSAN JOSE, CA
    $895.1K
  11. GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLCMARLBOROUGH, MA
    $726.9K
  12. RADIOMETER AMERICA, INC.BREA, CA
    $678.4K
  13. KAVO DENTAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCCHARLOTTE, NC
    $555.5K
  14. BECKMAN COULTER K.K.KOTO-KU, JPN
    $447.9K
  15. X-RAY OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.EAST GREENBUSH, NY
    $180K
  16. INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.CORALVILLE, IA
    $133.6K
  17. ESKO-GRAPHICS INC.MIAMISBURG, OH
    $84K
  18. BECKMAN COULTER INCMIAMI, FL
    $45.5K
  19. PHENOMENEX, INC.TORRANCE, CA
    $10.4K
  20. BECKMAN COULTER, INC.PORTERVILLE, CA
    $0
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  1. INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES INCCORALVILLE, IA
    $0
  2. INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.SKOKIE, IL
    $0
  3. LEICA MICROSYSTEMS S.R.L.BUCCINASCO, ITA
    $0
  4. TROJAN TECHNOLOGIES GROUP ULCLONDON, CAN
    $0
  5. PHENOVA INCARVADA, CO
    -$200
  6. DEVICOR MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.CINCINNATI, OH
    -$138.4K

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

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 22.9MFY2017
  2. 28.8MFY2018
  3. 30.2MFY2019
  4. 162.2MFY2020
  5. 319.1MFY2021
  6. 516.9MFY2022
  7. 164.5MFY2023
  8. 97.3MFY2024
  9. 83.5MFY2025
  10. 71.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$44.4M62%
    296 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$9.3M13%
    1,275 awards
  3. Indian Health Service$5.4M7.6%
    78 awards
  4. Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$5.2M7.3%
    1 awards
  5. Department of the Army$3.5M5.0%
    20 awards
  6. Defense Health Agency$2.9M4.0%
    25 awards
  7. Department of the Air Force$203.7K0.3%
    5 awards
  8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$121.2K0.2%
    5 awards
  9. National Institutes of Health$111.8K0.2%
    3 awards
  10. U.S. Coast Guard$48.8K0.1%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$34.6M49%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$24.5M34%
  3. Equipment maintenance$6.7M9.4%
  4. Research & development$5.2M7.3%
  5. Professional services$123.8K0.2%
  6. Construction & real property$18.1K0.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Santa Clara County, CA$52.2M73%
  2. South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT$2.4M3.4%
  3. Maricopa County, AZ$2M2.8%
  4. Dallas County, TX$1M1.4%
  5. Hillsborough County, FL$1M1.4%
  6. Fairfax County, VA$971.8K1.4%
  7. Bell County, TX$953.7K1.3%
  8. Cumberland County, NC$773K1.1%
  9. Bexar County, TX$745.7K1.0%
  10. Montgomery County, MD$693.8K1.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition77%
    US 39% · $54.8M
  • Sole-source awards51%
    US 30% · $36M
  • Single-offer competitions26%
    US 8.8% · $18.7M
  • Urgency justifications0.2%
    US 5.1% · $110.7K

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

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$28.9M
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 103 awards
  2. Department of the Army$2.5M
    Department of Defense · 2 awards
  3. Defense Health Agency$2.3M
    Department of Defense · 3 awards
  4. Indian Health Service$1.9M
    Department of Health and Human Services · 23 awards
  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$121.2K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. OTA - PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE: ESTABLISHING A PLATFORM FOR DIAGNOSIS AND SURVEILLANCE OF EMERGING THREATS$80.2M
    Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response· Santa Clara County, CA· Research & development· Jul 22, 2021 – Sep 10, 2026· 75A50121C00024
  2. MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR SARS-COV-2$9.3M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Health & medical· Mar 20, 2024 – Jul 29, 2026· 36C26224P1029
  3. COST PER TEST$3.8M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 1, 2022 – Jun 2, 2026· 36C24823P0007
  4. REGENTS$3.3M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Health & medical· Jan 24, 2023 – Aug 25, 2026· 36C25723C0045
  5. POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) DIAGNOSTIC TESTING FOR VISN 2 DOWNSTATE$3.2M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 11, 2025 – Aug 14, 2026· 36C24225P0795
  6. NEW - STD PATHOGENS MOLECULAR TESTING REAGEANTS$3.1M
    Department of the Army· Cumberland County, NC· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 17, 2021 – Feb 10, 2026· W91YTZ21C0012
  7. IN-VITRO REAGENTS - VISN 15, ORDERING PERIOD ONE$3M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Health & medical· Jul 10, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· 36C25525N0329
  8. REAGENTS$2.9M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 28, 2023 – May 19, 2026· 36C24723F0518

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-grants: $1.9M (4 subawards)

2 primes

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1.5M80%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 3 subawards
  2. RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$390K20%
    NEWARK, NJ · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $795.8K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $855.9K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $378.3K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.9M 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

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

Primes that pay it

46 companies · $82.6M reported

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

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC$691M−3.5% 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

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

  1. 2023$790K
    11 reports
  2. 2024$410K
    9 reports

Top issues

  1. Health issues20 reports
  2. Medicare and Medicaid7 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES20 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE20 reports
  3. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)9 reports
  4. Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)2 reports
  5. White House Office2 reports
  6. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)1 reports
  7. 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

  1. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP$390K
    7 reports
  2. 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

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

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.