Federal contractor · SANTA BARBARA, CA

PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP.

PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP. received $53.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−92% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $2.7M. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($53.1K). It also received $1.3M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$53.1K
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
EAKGDLLRU254
Small businessMinority-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 231.8KFY2019
  2. 1MFY2023
  3. 722.5KFY2024
  4. 637.3KFY2025
  5. 53.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food and Drug Administration$53.1K100%
    1 awards
  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$53.1K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Prince George's County, MD$53.1K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $53.1K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $53.1K
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. PURCHASE OF MIRAGE O-PTIR MICROSCOPE$722.5K
    National Institute of Standards and Technology· Santa Barbara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 9, 2024 – Jul 22, 2026· 1333ND24PNB030336
  2. IR SYSTEM ADD-ONS (MICROPLASTICS)$53.1K
    Food and Drug Administration· Prince George's County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 10, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026· 75F40126P00332

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP. received $1.3M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions (2 new awards), +39% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.113 · Environmental Health ($1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$1.3M
New awards
2
Actions
3
Since FY2021
$7.4M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.2MFY2021
  2. 865.4KFY2022
  3. 861.5KFY2023
  4. 1.3MFY2024
  5. 959.3KFY2025
  6. 1.3MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$1.3M100%

Top programs

  1. 93.113 · Environmental Health$1M77%
  2. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$306.8K23%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$1.3M100%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. VIDEO RATE PHOTOTHERMAL INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (VR-PTIR) - PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT THIS PHASE II PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP AND COMMERCIALIZE…$1.9M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 3, 2024 – Apr 8, 2026· R44GM154516
  2. HIGH-SPEED AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF SUB-20 ΜM MICROPLASTICS BY PHOTOTHERMAL INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT MICROPLASTICS…$1M
    93.113 · Environmental Health· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· R44ES035665
  3. HIGH-SPEED, HIGH-CONTENT, LABEL-FREE LIVE-CELL CHEMICAL IMAGING IN MULTIWELL PLATES USING PHOTOTHERMAL STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING (PT-SRS)…$306.8K
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Aug 27, 2026 – Aug 27, 2026· R43GM165235

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

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 FY2021.

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 · $89.5K reported

  1. THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES$89.5K
    ORLANDO, FL · 1 subaward

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

  1. RGS SCIENTIFIC CORP$674.6K+2,389% in FY2026
    DALLAS, TX · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. SPECS-TII INC$862.9K
    MANSFIELD, MA · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. ATTOCUBE SYSTEMS GMBH$878.9K+101% in FY2026
    HAAR, DEU · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institute of Standards and Technology · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments 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 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.