Ahlstrom USA Inc.

Ahlstrom USA Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of medical diagnostic and specimen collection supplies, operates as a prime contractor delivering blood stain cards and DNA reference specimen collection materials to the Defense Health Agency and the Department of the Army Medical Command on full-and-open delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts. The company is headquartered in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and competes across all work without set-aside designation.

Ahlstrom USA Inc.'s federal footprint is heavily concentrated in a single customer and a narrow product line. The Defense Health Agency accounts for 18 of 21 prime awards, representing $14.7 million of the $15.1 million combined potential value; the Department of the Army Medical Command holds the remaining 3 awards, valued at $467 thousand. All work centers on blood stain cards used for blood sample collection and transportation to support military medical readiness and health monitoring, with recent awards expanding to DNA reference specimen collection materials.

The vendor's core contract vehicle is a single-award indefinite-delivery contract (IDC W81XWH18D0014) with the Defense Health Agency, valued at $8.259 million and running through December 13, 2027. This IDIQ has generated twelve delivery orders totaling $1.8 million in combined potential value since award on December 14, 2022. A second indefinite-delivery contract (HT942523D0003) with Army Medical Command has generated seven delivery orders valued at $1.3 million combined. Representative delivery orders under the DHA IDIQ include a $316 thousand order for blood stain cards (July 2023), a $260.6 thousand order for blood stain cards reagents (March 2024), a $206 thousand order (March 2025), a $118.16 thousand order (June 2025), and a $82.6 thousand order for DNA reference specimen collection and supplies (January 2026). All work is performed at Windsor Locks, Connecticut on a firm fixed price basis.

Award activity has declined from four orders in 2022 to one in 2026, though the underlying IDIQ structure remains active through 2027. No subcontract footprint exists in the source data; Ahlstrom operates exclusively as a prime. The vendor's competitive posture is specialized and vendor-locked — the DHA has maintained continuous ordering across five years against a single supplier relationship for a category of product with limited substitutability in military medical operations.