Bunnell, Incorporated

Bunnell, Incorporated, a North Salt Lake, Utah-based for-profit medical equipment manufacturer, supplies high-frequency jet ventilators and related respiratory equipment to the Department of Defense and military medical facilities as a prime contractor on sole-source, full-and-open purchase orders with no set-aside designation. The company competes exclusively outside federal set-aside categories and operates across 100% prime awards (64 total) with zero subcontract engagement.

Bunnell's federal capability portfolio centers on neonatal and pediatric intensive-care ventilation equipment under its LifePulse High-Frequency Jet Ventilation product line, including equipment sales, maintenance services, and short-term rentals. Representative work includes a $186,373 sole-source purchase order from the Defense Health Agency (September 2026) for one LifePulse Model 204 ventilator, patient box, cart, service agreement, and extended warranty for Naval Medical Center San Diego's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; a $252,580 firm-fixed-price order from the Defense Health Agency (June 2024) for 204-A LifePulse HFJV units for Brooke Army Medical Center's Intensive Care Neonatal/Pediatric unit in Texas; and a $66,442 repair and maintenance order (September 2024 to September 2026) covering three Bunnell ventilators and eight patient boxes at Naval Medical Readiness and Training Center San Diego. Bunnell qualifies consistently as a sole source as the original equipment manufacturer with factory-based training capability for biomedical equipment technicians and established multi-year service contracts at military medical centers.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, which accounts for 40 awards and $1 million combined potential value (62% of awards by count, 38% by dollars), followed by the Defense Health Agency (10 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value, representing 16% by count and 46% by dollars). The Army Medical Command (7 awards, $337 thousand) and the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command round out the active federal customer base. All six customer agencies are military medical or health-related bodies; there is no civilian federal exposure in the source portfolio.

Activity trajectory over the past five years reflects light volume: one award in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026. The company has worked in federal contracts since at least 1989, but recent purchase orders are sporadic and individually small (ranging from approximately $4,475 to $252,580 per order). Combined potential value across all 64 awards stands at $2.6 million, with $2.7 million already obligated. Primary NAICS classification is Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (34 awards), with secondary activity in equipment rental and repair services. Bunnell operates no parent contract vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs) and does not place task orders under government-wide vehicles; each award is a standalone purchase order. The vendor maintains no subcontractor relationships and subcontracts to no primes in the federal footprint.