Animal Specialties And Provisions South, LLC

Animal Specialties And Provisions South, LLC Animal Specialties And Provisions, LLC Division operates as a woman-owned small disadvantaged business supplying specialized laboratory animal feed, bedding, produce, enrichment items, and related provisions to federal biomedical research institutions as a prime contractor, with 100% of recent awards placed under its own contracting authority and no subcontract footprint. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation, though two awards carry Total Small Business set-aside framing; the woman-owned and small disadvantaged business designations are self-certified rather than formally acquired.

Animal Specialties And Provisions South operates from Hanover, Maryland, with subordinate performance locations at Bethesda, Elkridge, Arlington, and Quakertown. The vendor's product and service portfolio centers on research-grade animal nutrition and housing materials: PMI-certified irradiated rodent chows, specialty nonhuman primate diets, rabbit and agricultural species feeds, precision bedding formulations (Alpha-Dri, AlphaDri Irradiated), fresh produce, and enrichment feed items, all meeting regulated research quality and traceability standards. Representative prime work includes a $9 million purchase order from NIH's Office of the Director (May 2026, through April 2031) for laboratory animal feed, bedding, produce, enrichment, and related dry goods across multiple NIH facilities; a $2.74 million purchase order from the National Eye Institute (September 2026, through September 2031) for feed, bedding, produce, enrichment, and offsite emergency disaster reserve support for Building 49 Central Animal Facility; and a $1.66 million purchase order from the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (May 2024, through May 2029) for annual supplies of animal feed and bedding.

Customer concentration is extreme and static. The top five NIH-affiliated funding entities (organized by operational office rather than consolidated agency) account for 89% of award volume and 92% of combined potential value. The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations alone drives 77 awards valued at $23.9 million; the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Eye Institute, and Office of the Director follow with 28, 25, and 63 awards respectively, totaling $27 million combined. All fifteen distinct customer agencies identified are within HHS—NIH institutes, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Defense Health Agency—with no work from other cabinet departments or defense agencies. This concentration reflects the vendor's positioning as a captive supplier to federal animal research vivaria.

The vendor holds a $4.02 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (awarded March 2022, through November 2026) for animal feed and bedding tailored to rodent colony research protocols; a $10 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the HHS Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (awarded June 2024, through June 2026) for animal feed, bedding, cage supplies, and enrichment across multiple HHS agencies; a $600 thousand single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Defense Health Agency (April 2022, through March 2027) set aside for Total Small Business for research animal feed and bedding supported by government purchase card purchases; and a $200 thousand single-award BPA with the Smithsonian Institution (awarded March 2025, through March 2026) for animal feed and bedding supporting the institution's living animal collection. The top five parent vehicles—driven by a 66-task-order BPA (HHSN263201500178B) carrying $1.4 million combined potential value and a 49-task-order IDIQ (NIH Animal Feed and Bedding 2014–2016) valued at $444 thousand—account for the majority of recurring obligating authority. The vendor's contract footprint across NAICS is concentrated in Other Animal Food Manufacturing (209 awards) with a long tail of technology and laboratory equipment awards (23 under Laboratory Equipment and Supplies PSC), suggesting minor scope creep or data entry errors in the federal contracting system.

Award trajectory shows significant decline: 21 awards in 2022, dropping to 7 in 2024 and 3 by late 2026. Three awards valued at $4.1 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The oldest award in the portfolio dates to May 2005, indicating two decades of incumbent supplier status at NIH and FDA facilities. Combined potential value stands at $61.8 million across 232 awards, with $26.1 million obligated (42% of potential). The vendor's position reflects a specialized, deep-moat market: federal animal research logistics are driven by regulatory compliance, established supplier relationships, and facility-specific animal husbandry protocols that create strong switching costs and favor long-term incumbency over price competition.