Aspen Surgical Products Inc.

Aspen Surgical Products Inc., headquartered in Caledonia, Michigan, manufactures and supplies surgical instruments, sterilization containers, and medical equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards), competing full-and-open across all federal customers without SBA set-aside designations. The company operates The Ruhof Corporation as a subsidiary, also a for-profit manufacturer of goods. Aspen is a for-profit corporate entity with no tax-exempt status.

Aspen's federal footprint concentrates heavily on surgical and medical instrument manufacturing and distribution. The company holds 2,249 total awards across prime and sub work over the past five years, with recent activity accelerating: 29 awards in 2022 rising to 44 in 2026. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $8.1 million, though only $847 thousand (10% of potential) has been obligated, indicating the source reflects largely unfulfilled delivery orders and call-down task orders rather than invoiced revenue. Representative prime work includes a $133.6 thousand purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 in March 2025 for Riley Container Micropaks bases, lids, and mats; a $12.1 thousand Small Business set-aside purchase order from the Indian Health Service in August 2021 for dental instrument tips and sterilization supplies at Pine Ridge Hospital in South Dakota; and dozens of small-value delivery orders from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical in February–April 2026 for surgical blades, sterilization containers, and surgical kits ranging from $25 to $2,130 each.

Customer concentration sits with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical (124 awards, $3.8 million combined potential value) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (which accounts for $3.4 million across two awards to Veterans Integrated Service Network 12, the largest single award in the footprint). The two rankings diverge markedly: Troop Support Medical dominates award count and produces a substantial dollar total, but a single VA award to VISN 12 represents 42% of all combined potential value in the portfolio, signaling that Aspen's high-volume business model feeds DLA's delivery-order structure while a one-off VA procurement anchors the dollar metrics. DLA, VA, the Indian Health Service, and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration together cover 92% of combined potential value across 192 named awards.

Aspen places 906 task orders under the Federal Supply Schedule V797P4194A (General Services Administration), carrying $92 thousand in combined potential value and representing the dominant parent vehicle by order count. The company also uses five indefinite delivery contracts under DLA (SPE2D020D0021 with 47 task orders, SPE2DV17D7031, SPE2DM20D2004, and SPE2DV17D9289, collectively accounting for the remainder of parent-vehicle work). Category concentration aligns with the surgical-instrument focus: 919 awards fall under NAICS 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing), 167 under medical and dental equipment wholesale, and 15 under surgical appliance manufacturing. PSC codes reinforce the mix, with 1,768 awards for medical and surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies; 142 for hospital furniture and equipment; and 108 for surgical dressing materials.

In its subcontractor role, Aspen supplies medical and surgical equipment to Cardinal Health 200 LLC across dozens of sub-awards spanning 2021 through 2026, providing specific items such as electrosurgical instruments, laparoscopic equipment, surgical dressings, tourniquets, intravenous supplies, and diagnostic kits under Cardinal's federal health-supply contracting. Aspen's sub-footprint represents 5% of total awards but flows through a single prime (Cardinal), indicating a deep vendor-to-distributor relationship rather than diversified teaming. The company has been registered in SAM.gov since October 2001, establishing two decades of federal health-supply market presence. No recompete cliff is present in the source data; the portfolio consists primarily of short-cycle task orders and purchase orders with completion dates clustered within one to two months of award, reflecting the just-in-time nature of medical supply contracting.