Federal contractor · MILFORD, MA

WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION received $13.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 163 awards (+48% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $117.4M. Its largest customer was Environmental Protection Agency ($2.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$13.8M
New awards
163
Sole-source
12%
Single offer
61%
UEI
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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.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $13.8M in FY2026 together.

  1. WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONMILFORD, MA · Family page
    $13.8M
  2. VICAM, A WATERS BUSINESSMILFORD, MA
    $0
  3. WATERS CORPORATIONMILFORD, MA
    -$6,000

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-29

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 10.2MFY2017
  2. 10.5MFY2018
  3. 13.1MFY2019
  4. 11.4MFY2020
  5. 11.2MFY2021
  6. 13.3MFY2022
  7. 14.5MFY2023
  8. 9.9MFY2024
  9. 9.3MFY2025
  10. 13.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Environmental Protection Agency$2.4M17%
    19 awards
  2. National Institutes of Health$2.4M17%
    35 awards
  3. Food and Drug Administration$2.1M15%
    39 awards
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs$1M7.6%
    7 awards
  5. Agricultural Research Service$873.7K6.3%
    13 awards
  6. Food Safety and Inspection Service$826.8K6.0%
    5 awards
  7. Department of the Army$771.4K5.6%
    4 awards
  8. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$661.6K4.8%
    4 awards
  9. Department of the Navy$650.6K4.7%
    5 awards
  10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$575.1K4.2%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$6.8M49%
  2. Equipment maintenance$6.1M45%
  3. IT & telecom$627.9K4.6%
  4. Professional services$114.7K0.8%
  5. Research & development$94.8K0.7%

Where the work was performed

  1. Worcester County, MA$3.7M27%
  2. Montgomery County, MD$2.1M15%
  3. Benton County, OR$1.1M8.1%
  4. Harford County, MD$702K5.1%
  5. Hamilton County, OH$574.9K4.2%
  6. District of Columbia, DC$555.9K4.0%
  7. DeKalb County, GA$525.2K3.8%
  8. Prince George's County, MD$393.7K2.9%
  9. Johnson County, IA$381.3K2.8%
  10. Middlesex County, MA$366.2K2.7%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition73%
    US 39% · $10.1M
  • Sole-source awards12%
    US 30% · $1.7M
  • Single-offer competitions61%
    US 8.7% · $8.4M
  • 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. Department of the Navy$500.1K
    Department of Defense · 3 awards
  2. Environmental Protection Agency$404.1K
    Environmental Protection Agency · 3 awards
  3. National Institutes of Health$171.8K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
  4. Food and Drug Administration$87.6K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 2 awards
  5. Agricultural Research Service$67.8K
    Department of Agriculture · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. WATERS LAB EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT$2.7M
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· DeKalb County, GA· Equipment maintenance· Jul 1, 2022 – Jul 9, 2026· 75D30122F14083
  2. PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE FOR THE WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH SUPPORTING WATERS CORPORATION EQUIPMENT.$2.6M
    Defense Health Agency· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Dec 8, 2020 – Dec 9, 2025· W81XWH21F0026
  3. CHROMATOGRAPHY DATA SYSTEM FOR OMPSLO SLEP (VARIOUS SITES)$2.1M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Aug 23, 2021 – Jan 30, 2026· 75F40121F80337
  4. EPA REGION 9: LC-QQQ AND LC-QTOF$1.1M
    Environmental Protection Agency· Benton County, OR· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 24, 2026 – Aug 24, 2026· 68HE0926F0100
  5. SERVICE MAINTENANCE$1M
    Food and Drug Administration· Prince George's County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Aug 29, 2017 – Apr 2, 2026· HHSF223201610004P
  6. TO SUPPLY ONE (1) UNIT XEVO G2-XS QTOF MASS SPECTROMETER BY WATERS INSTRUMENT WITH FOUR (4) OPTION YEARS MAINTENANCE$786.1K
    Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 14, 2020 – Jan 21, 2026· 75F40120F80144
  7. OU63-25-NEW-007, SIZE-EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH TRIPLE-DETECTION.$638.7K
    National Institute of Standards and Technology· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 2, 2025 – Aug 24, 2026· 1333ND25PNB640424
  8. NEW MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT - ACQUITY-ULTRA PERFORMANCE LC/MS/MS ILN:7366, XEVO TQD LC/MS/MS ILN:7541, XEVO TQS-MICRO LC/MS/MS ILN:8350, & COMPONENTS BASE + OPTION YEARS$607.1K
    Food Safety and Inspection Service· Clarke County, GA· Equipment maintenance· Dec 21, 2021 – Dec 12, 2025· 123A9422C0002

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-contracts: $56K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC.$56K100%
    TULLAHOMA, TN · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $794.7K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $287.6K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $56K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

11 companies · $5.5M reported

  1. CONSOLIDATED NUCLEAR SECURITY, LLC$2.3M
    FREDERICK, MD · 11 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$1.1M
    RESTON, VA · 5 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. PANTEXAS DETERRENCE, LLC$754.2K
    LYNCHBURG, VA · 1 subaward · Facilities support services

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 44 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED$56.5M−25% in FY2026
    UPLAND, CA · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingEnvironmental Protection Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingAgricultural Research Service · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+10 more
  2. AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC$129.4M+3.6% in FY2026
    WILMINGTON, DE · 20 entities · 93% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingFood and Drug Administration · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingEnvironmental Protection Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+18 more
  3. SAMYAK SOLUTIONS, INC.$36.3M+82% in FY2026
    CENTREVILLE, VA · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Research Service · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingFood and Drug Administration · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNational Institutes of Health · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+8 more

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.