Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS
Justice (all) · FBI-JEH
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation PR-002205 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
- Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.
What the notice says
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Procurement Section, is issuing this Request for Quotation (RFQ) to solicit interested vendors for the purpose of establishing a firm-fixed price, one-time, Purchase Order (PO), to acquire a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (EDS) for the Laboratory Division (LD). All questions concerning this RFQ shall be submitted via e-mail only to the attention of Lily Calvert at lrcalvert@fbi.gov, no later than Monday, July 7th, 2025, at 12:00pm EST. Please see attached RFQ for required products and procedures.
Who won similar work
4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (FBI-JEH), same product/service code (PSC) 6640 and NAICS 334516.
Single-winner award sizes (4): middle half $34K to $1.1M, median $479K; range $26K to $1.7M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAGEN, LLC | 2 | $2.6M | Jul 30, 2025 |
| TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC. | 1 | $37K | Mar 25, 2026 |
| GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC | 1 | $26K | Jul 2, 2026 |
Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.
- Jul 2, 2026GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC$26KLaboratory Liquid Sampling ContainersNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Mar 25, 2026TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC.$37KAgilent PlateLoc SealersNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jul 30, 2025QIAGEN, LLC$921KQiagen Master Service AgreementNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jul 30, 2025QIAGEN, LLC$1.7MQiagen Reagents and ConsumablesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Competitive landscape
For the 3 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.
- 0 of these past winners lobbied Justice, Dept of (DOJ) since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Justice, Dept of (DOJ) job
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
Policy around it
Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.
- 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 125 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
Market
For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 0 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.
Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.