Federal contractor · OCALA, FL

COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT CO LLC

COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT CO LLC received $2.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+107% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.8M. Its largest customer was Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management ($2.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.9M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
99%
UEI
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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.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $3M in FY2026 together.

  1. COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT CO LLCOCALA, FL · Family page
    $2.9M
  2. COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT COMPANY, LLCVERNON HILLS, IL
    $189.9K
  3. SPEX SAMPLE PREP LLCMETUCHEN, NJ
    $0

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

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 189.5KFY2017
  2. 759.3KFY2018
  3. 1.1MFY2019
  4. 883.1KFY2020
  5. 1.5MFY2021
  6. 1.2MFY2022
  7. 988.9KFY2023
  8. -11.7KFY2024
  9. 1.4MFY2025
  10. 2.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management$2.8M99%
    4 awards
  2. Forest Service$19.5K0.7%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$2.9M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Marion County, FL$2.8M99%
  2. Prince George's County, MD$19.5K0.7%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition99%
    US 39% · $2.8M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions99%
    US 8.7% · $2.8M
  • 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. TO PURCHASE COLE PARMER PRODUCTS FROM BPA 1605C4-25-A-0001.$1.3M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· Marion County, FL· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 12, 2025 – Dec 12, 2025· 1605C426F00001
  2. TO PURCHASE COLE PARMER PRODUCTS FROM BPA 1605C4-25-A-0001$1.1M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· Marion County, FL· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 19, 2024 – Jul 28, 2026· 1605C425F00002
  3. TO PURCHASE COLE PARMER PRODUCTS FROM BPA 1605C4-25-A-0001.$859.3K
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· Marion County, FL· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· 1605C426F00018
  4. TO PURCHASE COLE PARMER PRODUCTS FROM BPA 1605C4-25-A-0001.$672.3K
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management· Marion County, FL· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026· 1605C426F00020
  5. PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF A CRITICAL FREEZE DRYER AND ACCESSORIES$19.5K
    Forest Service· Prince George's County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026· 12444026P0207

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $34.8K reported

  1. APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$34.8K
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 8 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. LABWARE HOLDINGS, INC.$4.1M−12% in FY2026
    WILMINGTON, DE · 71% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. TSI INCORPORATED$8.2M+54% in FY2026
    SHOREVIEW, MN · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingFood and Drug Administration · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. SKC-WEST, INC.$1.2M+4,022% in FY2026
    FULLERTON, CA · 23% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.