Belair Instrument Company, LLC

Belair Instrument Company, LLC, doing business as Avantik, operates as a self-certified small disadvantaged business providing medical laboratory equipment sales, maintenance, repair, and related support services to federal healthcare and research agencies as a prime contractor. Based in Pine Brook, New Jersey, Avantik is a for-profit limited liability partnership that competes full-and-open (no set-aside usage) across its federal footprint, despite carrying SDB certification.

Avantik's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The top five customers account for 41% of awards by count and 70% of combined potential value. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 leads by potential value at $905 thousand across 15 awards; VISN 2 follows with 20 awards valued at $614 thousand combined; VISN 5 holds $304 thousand across 9 awards; and VISN 4 contributes $172 thousand across 6 awards. The Defense Health Agency rounds out the top five with 5 awards valued at $266 thousand. The vendor has worked with 19 distinct federal agencies across the VA health networks, Defense Health Agency, National Cancer Institute, National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Department of Agriculture Veterinary Services, and Smithsonian Institution. Representative recent work includes a $130 thousand definitive contract with USDA Veterinary Services for histology equipment maintenance and services (ultimate completion August 2028); an $81.7 thousand purchase order from VA VISN 5 for preventative maintenance of laboratory cassette and slide printers (August 2026–July 2031); a $102.8 thousand purchase order from VA VISN 2 for Sakura equipment service maintenance (July 2025–June 2029); and a $61.7 thousand purchase order from Defense Health Agency for cryostat services with options for four additional years (September 2021–September 2026).

Avantik's capability portfolio centers on equipment provision and maintenance—cryostats, microtomes, tissue processors, slide stainers, slide printers (Leica, Sakura, ESPO, Printmate, and Avantik-branded models), coverslippers, histology and pathology equipment, and reagents. The vendor also supplied COVID-19 test kits and viral transport medium to VA networks during the pandemic, holding a $203.6 thousand purchase order from VA VISN 10 for Medschenker STM test kits (July 2021) and a $98 thousand purchase order from VA VISN 10 for COVID test kits (January 2022). Activity has declined sharply: six awards in 2022, two in 2023, four in 2024, four in 2025, and three in 2026 year-to-date. The combined potential value across all 158 prime awards totals $3.2 million, with $2.9 million obligated (90% realization rate). Four awards totaling $191 thousand face completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure.

Avantik is an integrated medical products and services company, delivering superior quality equipment, consumables and service to histology, Mohs and on-site pathology laboratories nationwide.The company is headquartered in Springfield, New Jersey.