Ashcroft Inc.

Ashcroft Inc., doing business as Heise, Weksler, manufactures precision measurement instruments—primarily pressure gauges, pressure transducers, and depth gage system assemblies—for the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor operating without set-aside designation. The company is a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut, with performance and manufacturing capability at that location and a secondary facility in Hanahan, South Carolina.

The vendor's federal footprint is narrow and recent. Six awards across the portfolio span from 2014 to March 2026, concentrated entirely within the Navy (Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Naval Supply Systems Command) and a single Department of the Army Medical Command purchase. The Navy accounts for five of six awards and $2.031 million of the $2.1 million combined potential value. The largest single award is a $1.935 million firm fixed-price purchase order issued by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command on March 24, 2026, for depth gage system assemblies with completion in February 2028 and performance in Hanahan, South Carolina. A second substantial award is a $113,272.78 purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command in May 2022 for pressure transducers, completed in January 2024. Three awards from Naval Sea Systems Command total $18,608 and include a September 2025 sole-source purchase order for Ashcroft pressure gauges (30 PSI range) valued at $12,608 under FAR Part 13 for commercial items with government source approval for flight-critical application.

Activity is episodic—one award in 2022, one in 2025, one in 2026—with no consistent year-over-year trajectory. The March 2026 depth gage award with February 2028 completion represents the only recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.9 million). The vendor operates entirely as a prime (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Ashcroft competes full-and-open rather than under set-asides, positioning itself as a commercial-off-the-shelf manufacturer with existing product lines (Heise-branded gauges and transducers are industry-standard precision instruments) sold to naval engineering and maintenance programs.