Ashcroft Inc.

Ashcroft Inc., doing business as Heise, is a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of precision pressure measurement instruments that competes as a prime contractor (99% of awards) in full and open competition with the Department of the Navy, supplying dial pressure gauges, digital calibrators, pressure transducers, and related instrumentation from its Stratford, Connecticut manufacturing facility. The vendor does not hold SBA set-aside certifications and pursues no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Ashcroft's customer base is heavily concentrated in naval operations. The Department of the Navy accounts for 173 of 190 total awards (91% of all awards) and $2.8 million of the $3 million combined potential value across its prime portfolio. Naval Supply Systems Command places 44 awards valued at $1.5 million combined potential value, while Naval Sea Systems Command leads by award count with 126 orders totaling $1.3 million. Naval Air Systems Command contributes 3 awards worth $75 thousand. The remaining 17 awards span the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security. Concentration by dollar value and award count track closely, signaling steady transactional demand rather than anchor contracts.

Recent representative prime work illustrates the product portfolio. In March 2026, Naval Supply Systems Command awarded Ashcroft a $18,617.36 purchase order for digital calibrators with completion by September 8, 2026. In February 2026, the same command placed a $41,685.36 order for dial pressure gauges due September 14, 2026. In January 2026, Naval Supply Systems Command awarded Ashcroft $52,395.28 for pressure dial gauges scheduled for July 29, 2026. All awards carry firm fixed-price terms and no set-aside designations. Work spans pressure ranges of 0-50 PSIG through 0-3000 PSI, with product lines including Heise-branded gauges, digital indicators, calibrators, transducers (particularly PT-01 models), and carrying cases. Government solicitations specify compliance with Buy American requirements, cybersecurity maturity model certification, Class Deviation 2026-O0025 security prohibitions, and veteran and disability employment opportunity provisions.

Activity has declined year over year. Ashcroft recorded 15 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 through March. Four awards with combined potential value of $119 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in that window. The vendor's sub footprint is minimal — one sub-award documented as of the source date, a March 2024 design and manufacturing sub with General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. for G&C section kit goods and services. Ashcroft's federal footprint is predominantly built on direct purchase orders from Navy supply and systems commands for replacement and maintenance stock of precision measurement instruments, with no parent vehicle participation, BPAs, or GWACs evident in the award stream.