Ika-Works, Inc.

Ika-Works, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of scientific laboratory equipment and bioreactor systems based in Wilmington, North Carolina, operates as a prime contractor on small-business purchase orders and GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery orders, delivering specialized lab instruments and equipment to federal research and law enforcement agencies with no consistent set-aside pattern across its footprint.

Ika-Works manufactures and supplies benchtop bioreactor systems, rotary evaporators, grinding chambers, tube mills, calorimeters, hotplates with stirrers, and colloid mills — narrow-gauge laboratory instrumentation and sample-preparation equipment. The company has held federal contracting relationships since at least 2005, with recent representative work including a $79.9 thousand total small business purchase order from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (August 2023) for six rotary evaporator systems with installation and maintenance; a $49.2 thousand full-and-open purchase order from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (April 2024) for an IKA Magic Lab with colloid mill module delivered to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; a $94.6 thousand total small business purchase order from the FDA (September 2025) for a benchtop microbial bioreactor system; and a $42.8 thousand total small business purchase order from Army RDECOM (September 2025) for a ten-liter air-lift bench-top bioreactor system supporting fungal production research.

Customer concentration is diffuse across twenty-three agencies, with the top five accounting for 47% of recent award count. The Drug Enforcement Administration leads on frequency (5 awards, $129 thousand combined potential value) and dominates for narrow use cases — grinding chambers and supplies for forensic laboratory sample preparation. The FDA follows at five awards and $157 thousand combined potential value. Army RDECOM and Navy NAVSEA each hold four awards. A single GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery order carries the largest dollar value at $615 thousand and anchors the bottom-line potential-value ranking — Ika-Works maintains an MAS contract vehicle (GS-07F-120DA) through which it supplies specialized lab consumables to federal customers. The top five customer agencies account for 78% of combined potential value when the GSA aggregation is factored in.

Activity has remained flat year over year — three to four awards annually since 2022, with only one award recorded in 2026 to date (the July 1 DEA purchase order). Two awards with combined potential value of $118 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's award portfolio spans NAICS codes anchored in Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (15 awards), Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (12 awards), and Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (9 awards), with primary PSC coding in Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (31 awards). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no recorded sub-award footprint.

Global market leader for laboratory equipment, and process tech.Magnetic Stirrers,shakers,mills,rotary evaporators,calorimeters,lab reactors,incubation shakers.The process tech offers solutions for production scale stirring,mixing and dispersing.