Cepheid

City-funded organization

Cepheid, a Sunnyvale, CA molecular-diagnostics company that makes the GeneXpert testing platform, supplied laboratory testing systems and cartridges to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; it holds a $7m active contract as of August 2026, part of $136.1m awarded since 2011, almost entirely without a fresh bid.

Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts (active)
$7,000,000 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$136,147,448 · 9 since 2011, incl. expired
Paid to date
$39,400,010
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $136,054,792 · 7 contracts
Based in
Sunnyvale, CA (out of state)
Chairman / CEO
Warren Kocmond

Holds contracts at

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

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