Ika-Works, Inc.

Ika-Works, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of specialized laboratory instrumentation and bioreactor systems based in Wilmington, North Carolina, operates exclusively as a prime contractor on small purchase orders (PSCs in Laboratory Equipment and Supplies) to federal research and enforcement agencies. The company competes predominantly under total small-business set-asides and full-and-open competitions without set-aside designations, with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

Ika-Works manufactures benchtop bioreactor systems, rotary evaporators, grinding chambers, hotplates with stirrers, colloid mills, and related laboratory instrumentation. Representative work includes a $152,060 total-small-business purchase order from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2026 for a habitat bioreactor system; a $79,857 total-small-business award from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences in August 2023 for six rotary evaporator systems with installation; a $49,169 purchase order from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in April 2024 for an IKA Magic Lab with colloid mill module; a $42,832 total-small-business Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) order in September 2025 for a 10-liter air-lift benchtop bioreactor system for fungal production research; and multiple Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) purchases for grinding chambers and narcotics-analysis supplies totaling roughly $129 thousand across five awards. Most awards carry firm-fixed pricing and completion horizons of three to twelve months from award date.

The FDA leads customer concentration, placing seven awards (combined potential value $328 thousand, representing 21% of total portfolio value across 49% of awards), driven primarily by purchases of bioreactor systems and heating equipment. The DEA ranks second with five awards ($129 thousand). The Army RDECOM and Naval Sea Systems Command each maintain four awards. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service holds one award ($615 thousand in combined potential value) under the Multiple Award Schedule, placing Ika-Works on an 11-task-order MAS vehicle carrying $135 thousand in combined potential value — the company's only named parent vehicle in the source. The combined portfolio spans 23 customer agencies, reflecting broad but diffuse federal research and laboratory infrastructure demand.

Activity remained stable at three to four awards annually across 2022–2026, with 45 total prime awards and $1.6 million combined potential value over the visible history. Three awards (combined potential value $266 thousand) reach completion within twenty-four months. The company has maintained federal registration since 2002 and competes on small-dollar instrumentation purchases across civilian research missions with no indicated defense prime presence or significant teaming relationships.

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