Hanger Institute For Clinical Research And Education LLC

Hanger Institute For Clinical Research And Education LLC, a for-profit subsidiary of Hanger, Inc. based in Austin, Texas, provides clinical research, prosthetics education, and orthotic services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense as a prime contractor on small delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts (41% of recent awards) and as a clinical research sub-recipient under federal grants administered by universities (59% of recent awards). The vendor competes on full-and-open, non-set-aside procurements.

The institute's customer footprint centers on VA medical facilities. Of seventeen recent awards covering $192 thousand in combined potential value, the Defense Health Agency accounts for seven awards; the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 holds six awards valued at $28 thousand combined potential value; and VISN 4 holds one award valued at $164 thousand. The dollar-value concentration signal is inverted from award count: VISN 4's single purchase-order award ($163,981.84) for prosthetist and orthotist services in Salt Lake City, running through June 2027, anchors most of the combined potential value, while VISN 1's volume (six awards) carries modest unit values ($869 to $4,628.70 each) for refinement education delivered from the Austin headquarters.

On the prime side, Hanger Institute holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with VISN 1 (IDV 36C24124D0062, $16,741 ceiling, through December 2028) that was sole-sourced under FAR 6.302-1 based on unique capabilities in specialized clinical research development and implementation for prosthetics and orthotics. Five task orders have been issued against this IDV with $12 thousand combined potential value. A second VISN 4 purchase order (June 2022, $163,981.84) for prosthetist and orthotist services completes the prime contract footprint.

On the grant side, Hanger Institute acts as a clinical research sub-recipient under prime grants from the University of Washington, University of Texas at Austin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Liberating Technologies Inc., and the University of California San Francisco. Ten sub-awards document participation in funded studies on transfemoral prosthetic socket evaluation, robotic leg personalization, post-stroke ankle-foot orthosis prescription guidelines, myoelectric prosthetic control outcomes, powered prosthetic knee efficacy in low-mobility populations, and upper extremity prosthetic patient-preference tool development and implementation. The vendor's clinical role includes site investigator responsibilities, trial preparation and conduct, data gathering, and multi-site implementation and feasibility testing across Hanger Clinics nationwide.

Two awards reach completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $166 thousand), creating recompete exposure. Recent activity has been relatively flat — two to five awards per year from 2022 through 2026 — with obligated dollars ($3.1 million across all awards) substantially exceeding combined potential value, indicating that contract ceilings on the delivery-order stack are conservative against actual performance draw-downs. The institute operates under NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and PSC Health R&D Services, reflecting its focus on prosthetics and orthotics clinical investigation supporting VA veteran rehabilitation outcomes.