Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX

VALCO INSTRUMENTS CO INC

VALCO INSTRUMENTS CO INC received $66.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+218% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $230K. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($78.6K).

Obligations · FY2026
$66.1K
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
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. -19.9KFY2017
  2. 8.6KFY2018
  3. 14.3KFY2019
  4. 5.1KFY2020
  5. 24.2KFY2021
  6. 9.6KFY2022
  7. 57.5KFY2023
  8. 43.6KFY2024
  9. 20.8KFY2025
  10. 66.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$78.6K100%
    1 awards
  2. National Institutes of Health-$12.5K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$78.6K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Harris County, TX$66.1K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $66.1K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $78.6K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · -$12.5K
  • 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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$78.6K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. VICI TRAS GAS ANALYZER$78.6K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Harris County, TX· IT & telecom· Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 80NSSC26P1497
  2. VALCO INSTRUMENTS COMPANY, INC.:1237038 [21-001074]$0
    National Institutes of Health· Harris County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 30, 2020 – May 12, 2026· 75N95B21P00014

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

  1. MACHINE CONTROL SPECIALISTS INC$77.8K−100% in FY2026
    ROSELLE, IL · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. CURTISS-WRIGHT DS, INC.$77.4K−100% in FY2026
    NEWTOWN, PA · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. ARETE ASSOCIATES$81.2K−100% in FY2026
    NIWOT, CO · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.