Federal contractor · LAWRENCE, MA

CHARM SCIENCES INC

CHARM SCIENCES INC received $718.9K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 29 awards (+10% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.5M. Its largest customer was Food Safety and Inspection Service ($546.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$718.9K
New awards
29
Sole-source
78%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 938.3KFY2017
  2. 903.2KFY2018
  3. 778.3KFY2019
  4. 3.3MFY2020
  5. 962.5KFY2021
  6. 702.8KFY2022
  7. 694.1KFY2023
  8. 868.6KFY2024
  9. 650.8KFY2025
  10. 718.9KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food Safety and Inspection Service$546.8K76%
    3 awards
  2. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$162.7K23%
    2 awards
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$9,4141.3%
    24 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$674.4K94%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$44.5K6.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. Essex County, MA$731.9K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition75%
    US 39% · $539.4K
  • Sole-source awards78%
    US 30% · $559.5K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · -$20.1K
  • 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

  1. Food Safety and Inspection Service$546.8K
    Department of Agriculture · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. CHARM KIS TEST KITS$302.2K
    Food Safety and Inspection Service· Essex County, MA· Health & medical· Dec 31, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025· 123A9426F0021
  2. CHARM KIS TEST KIT$260.6K
    Food Safety and Inspection Service· St. Louis city, MO· Health & medical· Mar 13, 2024 – Apr 20, 2026· 123A9424F0049
  3. KIS TEST KITS Q4 DELIVERY ORDER$257.6K
    Food Safety and Inspection Service· Essex County, MA· Health & medical· Jun 26, 2026 – Jun 26, 2026· 123A9426F0078
  4. THE CONTRACT WILL PROVIDE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE QUANTITATIVE LATERAL FLOW MYCOTOXIN TEST KITS, EXTRACTION MATERIALS, CONTROLS, AND GENERAL LABORATORY CONSUMABLES NECESSARY TO PERFORM AFLATOXIN, DON, FUMONISIN, AND ZEARALENONE TESTING ON GRAIN SAMPLE$150K
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Essex County, MA· Health & medical· Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· 12639526F0607
  5. MYCOTOXIN CONTRACT TO INCLUDE: AFLATOXIN, DEOXYNIVALENOL (DON), FUMONISIN, AND ZEARALENONE TEST KITS.$37.7K
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 29, 2025 – Mar 31, 2026· 12639525P0358
  6. 8511702627!LUMINOMETER$29.5K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 15, 2025 – Oct 15, 2025· SPE2DH26V0157
  7. 8512018543!SWAB TEST,SANITATIO$1,333
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 9, 2026 – Apr 9, 2026· SPE2DH26P0664
  8. 8511979947!TEST KIT,BACTERIA D$1,080
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Health & medical· Mar 16, 2026 – Mar 16, 2026· SPE2DS26V3716

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. NEOGEN CORP$2.1M−30% in FY2026
    LANSING, MI · 13% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood Safety and Inspection Service · Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
  2. PRESCIENT INTERNATIONAL LLC$381.9K−70% in FY2026
    MOORESVILLE, NC · 7.0% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
  3. B2B SOLUTIONS LLC$144.6K+10% in FY2026
    ELIZABETH, CO · 5.5% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing

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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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.