Brainlab Inc.

Brainlab Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit medical technology company headquartered in Westchester, Illinois, supplies specialized surgical navigation systems, radiation therapy equipment, medical imaging platforms, and clinical consultation services to federal healthcare agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). Brainlab competes exclusively full-and-open, with no small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Brainlab's federal customer base concentrates heavily in the Department of Veterans Affairs ecosystem and the Defense Health Agency. The top five funding agencies account for 42% of recent awards by count but 65% of combined potential value, driven by a single high-value driver: VA National Acquisition Center Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 holds 14 awards worth $33.3 million in combined potential value, anchoring the vendor's federal dollar exposure. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery places the most frequent orders (55 awards, $5.6 million combined potential value), followed by the Defense Health Agency (41 awards, $4.8 million), VA VISN 6 (40 awards, $2.9 million), and VA VISN 22 (28 awards, $5.5 million). This split between volume-based and value-based customers reflects Brainlab's role as the original equipment manufacturer for proprietary systems, where frequent small maintenance and software renewal orders sit alongside larger radiation therapy and surgical navigation platform procurements.

Brainlab's capability portfolio centers on four product and service categories spanning medical device hardware, software licensing, maintenance, and on-site clinical support. Recent representative work includes a $311,018 five-year software subscription for Brainlab Elements/ODM services at VA San Francisco (awarded February 2026, base plus four optional one-year extensions, covering neurosurgery workflows for deep brain stimulation and epilepsy procedures with 99% uptime and 4-hour support response); a $1.29 million delivery order from VA National Acquisition Center for a linear accelerator station upgrade at the VA Medical Center in Bronx, New York (March 2025); a $620,000 purchase order from the Defense Health Agency for image-guided surgery consultation services using the Brainlab Curve Navigation System at Naval Medical Center San Diego (May 2025, covering intraoperative neuro-navigation for scheduled and emergency surgical procedures); and a $6 million indefinite delivery contract from VA National Acquisition Center for radiation therapy equipment, systems, and related services nationwide (renewed September 2024, with recent delivery orders for LINAC upgrades, Varian TrueBeam system maintenance, and software licenses). The vendor also holds named IDVs for BRAINS simulation server packages, surgical navigation equipment rental, and medical capital equipment across multiple VA networks.

Brainlab's vehicle position is anchored to VA and DoD schedules and IDVs. The Federal Supply Schedule V797P4802A carries 51 task orders worth $9.6 million in combined potential value, representing Brainlab's primary GSA ordering vehicle. On the VA side, Brainlab places work under single-award indefinite delivery contracts including VA IDC V797P6075B (10 task orders, $3.7 million), VA IDC VA797H14D0006 (11 task orders, $2.5 million), and the VA NAC Radiation Therapy Next Gen Program (7 task orders, $1.9 million). These vehicles enable recurring procurement of software renewals, maintenance services, and equipment upgrades across VA medical centers nationwide.

Activity has remained flat to declining in recent years, with 19 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, and 18 in 2024, dropping to 6 in 2025 and 1 in 2026 year-to-date. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only 2 awards (combined potential value $669 thousand) face ultimate completion dates within that window. Combined potential value across all 427 prime awards totals $89.5 million, with $41 million obligated to date (46% of potential).

Brainlab operates at scale as a medical device manufacturer and service provider but shows minimal presence in the Service Contract Inventory dataset — SCI captures only $400 thousand in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (approximately $202 thousand in FY2023, $198 thousand in FY2024) with zero full-time-equivalent employees reported on SCI-covered service contracts. This reflects the vendor's business model: Brainlab's federal revenue consists overwhelmingly of product sales (equipment, software licenses, subscriptions) and maintenance services on government-furnished or government-procured equipment, categories outside the SCI reporting threshold. The SCI data that does appear shows government-paid rates ranging from a 10th percentile of $3,715 per hour to a median of $5,788 per hour and a 90th percentile of $27,397 per hour, representing clinical consultation and on-site technical support labor; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 0% of total contractor hours, indicating Brainlab self-performs all federal service work captured in the dataset.

Brainlab holds one named subsidiary, Level Ex Inc., which is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business. The subsidiary does not appear in the award footprint under review; the parent company Brainlab Inc. is foreign-owned and competes exclusively as an unrestricted prime. Across the 30 distinct federal agencies served, Brainlab's strategic position is built on OEM exclusivity — recurring maintenance and software renewal task orders under established IDVs and schedules with VA regional networks and the Defense Health Agency's medical treatment facilities, with minimal subcontract engagement and no set-aside activity.