Gans & Pugh Associates, Inc.

Gans & Pugh Associates, Inc., a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American small business based in Herndon, Virginia, supplies specialized surveillance and investigative equipment to federal law enforcement and defense agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of its awards, with a smaller footprint as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, Atlantic Diving Supply, and Peraton on surveillance-systems integration work. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation competing predominantly in full-and-open procurement rather than set-aside categories, though it qualifies for Total Small Business set-asides when agencies elect them.

Gans & Pugh's capability portfolio centers on covert surveillance systems, intrusion detection equipment, video recording devices, GPS tracking hardware, and audio-visual gear for criminal investigations, protective services, and border security operations. Representative prime work includes a $2.67 million delivery order from the Drug Enforcement Administration for night-vision surveillance contract purchases (ultimate completion January 2027); a $913,215 purchase order from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for video and audio equipment supporting law enforcement operations (ultimate completion December 2024); a $614,000 definitive contract from U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command for Red Marmot kits (ultimate completion March 2025); and a $383,120 definitive contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for mission-critical equipment supporting Homeland Security Investigations (ultimate completion November 2023). Equipment SKUs include PANTHER intrusion detection systems, OCULUS video recorders, HALOW wireless camera systems, COVIDENCE technical surveillance suites, CLARESYS camera systems, and related accessories.

Customer concentration runs deep across federal law enforcement. The top five customer agencies by award count represent 39% of recent awards, led by the Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer (93 awards, $6.4 million combined potential value), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (53 awards, $8.7 million), Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (47 awards, $29.6 million), Department of the Army (31 awards, $470 thousand), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division (29 awards, $4.7 million). The rankings by potential value reveal DEA dominance—the top five funders account for only 13% of combined potential value, reflecting Gans & Pugh's broad distribution across 90 distinct customer agencies and a portfolio of smaller equipment orders rather than large system integrations.

Gans & Pugh holds a critical position on the Drug Enforcement Administration's single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract HSHQDC05D00007 (ceiling $25 million, awarded April 2026, running through April 2031), which has generated 178 task orders carrying $28.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor also operates under a Department of Justice delivery-order vehicle (DJA17AHDQV0907, 9 task orders, $1 million combined value) and holds two Other Transaction IDVs with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service—the Flexible Surveillance System (FSS) IDV with a $1.984 million ceiling (awarded February 2023, running through October 2025) and the ULPT Development vehicle (ceiling $755,000, awarded December 2022, extended through October 2025)—providing flexible task-order access for surveillance equipment and logistics-planning services across DFAS programs.

Activity has modulated in recent years—10 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 18 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 6 so far in 2026—suggesting a recent slowdown in new award velocity, though the DEA's $25 million single-award IDIQ (the most recent major contract) establishes a substantial platform for continued task-order work through 2031. Only 6 awards (combined potential value $3.6 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating limited recompete exposure in the near term. Combined potential value across all 652 awards totals $429.9 million, though only $86 million has been obligated to date (20% of ceiling), indicating substantial unexercised capacity across the vendor's vehicle portfolio.

In its subcontractor role, Gans & Pugh delivers surveillance equipment components and repair-and-return support to Lockheed Martin on technical collection and communications (TCC) work, audio-visual modifications, and digital video recorder (DVR) maintenance; supplies OCULUS and camera components to Atlantic Diving Supply; and provides FlashBack 5G digital video recorder hardware and software support to Peraton Enterprise Solutions. The vendor's top NAICS categories reflect its equipment focus: Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing (180 awards), Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing (129 awards), and Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (32 awards). PSC coding aligns with the product mix: Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Components (120 awards), Communications Security Equipment and Components (116 awards), and Video Recording and Reproducing Equipment (71 awards).

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