Hunt Optics & Imaging Inc.

Hunt Optics & Imaging Inc., a Pittsburgh-based for-profit subchapter S corporation, supplies specialized scientific and medical imaging equipment—primarily microscopes and associated optical instrumentation—to federal research facilities, health service networks, and diagnostic laboratories as a prime contractor under full-and-open and small-business set-aside procurements. The company competes across both unrestricted and Total Small Business set-aside purchase orders, with small-business designations appearing in recent awards though not consistently across the historical footprint.

Hunt Optics & Imaging operates exclusively as a prime vendor (100% of awards) with no documented subcontract activity, delivering equipment through firm fixed-price purchase orders—the predominant contracting vehicle across its federal portfolio. Representative recent work includes a $125.8 thousand Evident Scientific microscope delivery to VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 (February 2026), a $62.3 thousand Total Small Business Olympus BX53 microscope delivery to Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4's Warm Springs Fish Hatchery Complex (August 2025), a $49.8 thousand microscope for Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5's Pennsylvania facility (September 2025), and a $17.9 thousand Total Small Business inverted fluorescent microscope for the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, funded by the Defense Health Agency (September 2025). An earlier $93.4 thousand BX53-P microscope delivery to CDC Pittsburgh (August 2024) and a $32.9 thousand Olympus BX53 upright microscope with phase contrast and fluorescent capability to USDA Agricultural Research Service's Houma Sugarcane Research Center (September 2026) exemplify the equipment scope.

Customer concentration spans 29 federal agencies with heavy reliance on a narrow customer base. The top five agencies account for 44% of awards by count and 56% of combined potential value. USDA Agricultural Research Service leads with 20 awards worth $533 thousand combined potential value, followed by CDC Pittsburgh (12 awards, $433 thousand) and multiple VA Veterans Integrated Service Networks—VISN 7 (10 awards, $287 thousand), VISN 9 (7 awards, $256 thousand), and VISN 8 (14 awards, $200 thousand). The portfolio spans 142 total awards since 2004 with combined potential value of $3.2 million and $3.1 million obligated (98% fill rate), indicating consistent execution on small-ticket equipment procurements. Primary NAICS categories are Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (51 awards) and Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (39 awards); PSC coding centers on Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (66 awards) and Optical Instruments and Test Equipment (28 awards).

Activity has accelerated in the past two years—one award in 2024 rising to six in 2025 and four as of late September 2026—but remains episodic and low-dollar. Only two awards worth $75 thousand combined potential value face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete pressure. The company holds no parent vehicle positions (GWAC, IDIQ, or agency-wide BPA) and operates entirely on spot purchase-order basis across customer agencies, making its revenue stream dependent on facility-level equipment refresh cycles and research project needs rather than on sustained task-order flow under standing contract vehicles.