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Contracts for Instruments and laboratory equipment
(FY 2008)

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Summary


Fiscal Year: 2008
Total dollars: $2,799,780,771
The amount for this search is 0.5% of all awarded dollars for the fiscal year.
Total number of contractors: 8,312
Total number of transactions: 107,130
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Extent of Competition Competition categories help link

Pie chart: in table form below
Available for everyone for competition$503,710,468
Everyone could compete, but only one bid or offer was received$456,408,161
Competition within a limited pool$589,794,312
Actions necessary to continue existing competitive contracts for continuity (until the next one could be competed)$12,689,005
Available only for groups such as disabled persons, prisoners, and regulated utilities$36,146,424
Not competed for an allowable reason$1,032,789,088
Not identified, soon to be addressed$168,243,314

Top 5 Known Congressional Districts where Work is Performed Known congressional district help link

New Jersey 8 (Bill Pascrell Jr.)$112,378,303
Maryland 2 (C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger)$111,557,938
Alabama 5 (Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.)$95,755,771
Florida 10 (C. W. Bill Young)$91,661,552
Georgia 5 (John Lewis)$73,963,760

Top 5 Products or Services Sold

 Laboratory Equipment and Supplies$645,453,215
 Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments$540,192,426
 Navigational Instruments$315,164,644
 Hazard-Detecting Instruments and Apparatus$286,732,466
 Optical Instruments, Test Equipment, Components and Accessories$211,317,971

Top 5 Contracting Agencies Purchasing from Contractor(s)

ARMY, Department of the (except Corps of Engineers Civil Program Financing)$889,751,039
NAVY, Department of the$493,109,168
AIR FORCE, Department of the (Headquarters, USAF)$326,412,419
Defense Logistics Agency$233,049,229
VETERANS AFFAIRS, Department of$170,698,275

Top 10 Contractors

 Honeywell International Inc.$131,299,126
 Smiths Group PLC$105,031,768
 Northrop Grumman Corporation$96,494,820
 Science and Engineering Services, Inc. Done$87,239,944
 General Dynamics Corporation$77,304,915
 The Boeing Company$74,689,269
 ITT Corporation$74,270,244
 Raytheon Company$71,956,532
 Agilent Technologies, Inc.$71,419,515
 Roche Holding AG$54,705,976

Trend

Bar chart: in table form below

2000$1,220,154,665
2001$1,504,545,010
2002$2,045,408,435
2003$1,938,437,332
2004$2,099,334,925
2005$2,292,478,136
2006$3,184,641,783
2007$3,224,159,423
2008$2,799,780,771
2009Agencies started sending Recovery data$677,561,132


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This search was done on May 13, 2009.

The contracts database is compiled from the FPDS-NG system. For timeliness details, please see the Data Quality tab.

Note: The numbers in this table can change after each data load. Transactions included in a data load can impact numbers for the current and previous fiscal years.

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