Handicare USA LLC

Handicare USA LLC, a foreign-owned manufacturer of patient mobility and handling equipment headquartered in Maryland Heights, Missouri, supplies ceiling lifts, stairlifts, patient transfer systems, and related medical equipment to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards). The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations across its prime portfolio, though two notable definitive contracts (valued at $2.01 million and $2.16 million) carried Total Small Business set-aside designations.

Handicare's federal footprint centers entirely on the VA healthcare system across multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks. The top five VISNs account for 48% of award count and 72% of combined potential value. VISN 5 anchors the portfolio by dollars (14 awards, $5.3 million combined potential value), followed by VISN 7 (11 awards, $3.9 million), VISN 19 (6 awards, $1.3 million), VISN 4 (25 awards, $1.2 million), and VISN 16 (6 awards, $1.1 million). The concentration by count versus dollars reflects a mix of large facility-upgrade contracts and smaller delivery orders — VISN 4 places the most task orders but smaller individual awards, while VISN 5 combines higher-value definitive contracts with sustained delivery-order activity.

Handicare operates almost exclusively under two GSA vehicles: the Medical Equipment and Supplies Federal Supply Schedule (FSS-65-II-A), which carries 28 task orders worth $6.4 million in combined potential value, and a second GSA Schedule vehicle (Federal Supply Schedule V797P4119B) with 40 task orders worth $1.5 million. Representative prime work includes a $1.58 million delivery order from VISN 5 (July 2025) for purchase and installation of 76 patient lifts (46 standard A-Series and 30 bariatric C-Series units) at Clarksburg, West Virginia; a $1.28 million delivery order from VISN 19 (September 2024) for ceiling patient lifts, installation, and training at Tulsa and Oklahoma City VA facilities; a $2.16 million definitive contract from VISN 5 (September 2023) for overhead ceiling lift procurement and installation across three Maryland VA facilities; and a $2.01 million Total Small Business definitive contract from VISN 7 (April 2024) for replacement of 125 ceiling lifts at the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center.

Activity has grown unevenly, averaging 12 awards per year from 2022 through 2024, then accelerating to 17 awards in 2025; one award is recorded for 2026. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $5.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor subcontracts minimally — only 3% of the 155-award portfolio — with documented sub work routed through American Vet Industries (patient lift components for renovation and build-out projects, October 2025) and Emeritus Clinical Solutions (lift preventative maintenance for a multi-year base-plus-option contract, March 2022). Place of performance spans multiple VA medical centers nationwide, with primary operational support from Maryland Heights, Missouri. Capability scope includes equipment supply, design, professional installation, preventative maintenance, inspections, repairs, staff training, and warranty support for ceiling lift systems, stairlifts, bariatric lifts, patient transfer equipment, and associated components such as motors, carry bars, slings, and track systems across the VA healthcare infrastructure.