Keating Dental Arts, Inc.

Keating Dental Arts, Inc., operating its Keating Dental Lab division, manufactures custom dental prosthetics and laboratory services for federal healthcare agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards), competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service. The company is a small-business dental laboratory headquartered in Irvine, California, structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, with NAICS classification centered on Dental Laboratories (339116).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Veterans Affairs. The top five funding agencies account for 92% of recent awards by count. VA Headquarters anchors the potential-value ranking with three awards worth $148 million combined, driven entirely by the $80.9 million VA National Dental Laboratory Products & Services multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded in November 2023 through November 2028 — a nationwide vehicle spanning multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks. VISN 22 (San Diego and Loma Linda) follows as the second-ranking customer by potential value at $57.1 million across 32 awards, while VISN 20 (Puget Sound, Roseburg, Spokane, Boise, Anchorage) carries $9.5 million across 9 awards. The Indian Health Service ranks third by count (55 awards) but fourth by potential value ($2.3 million), reflecting smaller individual task orders. VISN 6 (Richmond, Virginia) and VISN 15 (Kansas, California) round out the active customer set. The divergence between count and dollars reveals two distinct VA customer profiles: IHS and smaller VISN contracts generate high transaction volume with low individual values, while the VA Headquarters $80.9 million IDIQ anchors the dollars.

Keating's vehicle portfolio centers on single- and multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts. The company holds the $80.9 million VA National Dental Laboratory Products & Services IDIQ with VA Headquarters (completion November 2028), which generates numerous task orders across VISNs 6, 15, 20, and 22. At the VISN level, Keating holds additional significant IDIQs: a $17.8 million multiple-award vehicle with VISN 22 (completion September 2026); a $3.1 million multiple-award IDIQ with VISN 22 for San Diego and Loma Linda (completion September 2026); a $1.74 million multiple-award IDIQ with VISN 22 (completion September 2024); a single-award $1.43 million contract with VISN 20 for Anchorage dental services (completion February 2027); a $1.03 million single-award contract with VISN 6 for fixed denture services in Richmond (completion January 2027); and a $449 thousand single-award contract with VISN 15 for dental manufacturing (completion June 2027). Keating also holds a $495 thousand single-award IHS contract with the Mid-Atlantic Tribal Health Center and Monacan Health Center (completion April 2027). Across IHS, the vendor sits on multiple blanket purchase agreements: BPA HHSI242201300018B has generated 22 task orders ($114 thousand combined), and BPA HHSI242201500085B carries 14 task orders ($249 thousand combined).

Recent capability work spans fixed and removable dental prosthetics, crowns, bridges, dentures, dental implants, nightguards, and maxillofacial devices. Representative awards include a $2.19 million fixed dental prosthetics purchase order from VISN 20 (Roseburg Healthcare System) awarded May 2026 through April 2031 with a 5% remake rate requirement and fourteen-business-day turnaround; a $2.115 million Puget Sound Healthcare System contract from VISN 20 awarded February 2025 through February 2030 covering prosthetics to Seattle and Tacoma VA clinics; a $900 thousand Spokane VA Medical Center dental prosthetics contract from VISN 20 (June 2023, completion June 2028); and a $816 thousand removable dental prosthetics order from VISN 20 (Roseburg) awarded July 2024 through July 2029. All work is performed at the contractor's Irvine, California facility, with some regional performance locations such as Richmond, Virginia (VISN 6) and Loma Linda/San Diego, California (VISN 22).

Activity has declined year over year — 14 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 10 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 — reflecting a shift in transaction profile toward the large VA Headquarters IDIQ vehicle (which anchors potential value but generates fewer individual awards once issued). Combined potential value sits at $220.1 million, though only $12.7 million (6%) is obligated to date, typical for indefinite-delivery frameworks. Ten awards reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $4.2 million, representing modest recompete exposure. The source data spans from October 2012 to June 2026.

Keating operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractor relationships disclosed across the federal award footprint. Service Contract Inventory data shows limited SCI-reportable activity — $652 thousand invoiced in FY2023 and $939 thousand in FY2024 across a small federal services workforce (3.6 FTEs in FY2023, 4.5 FTEs in FY2024). This reflects Keating's primary revenue model: goods manufacturing (dental prosthetics) rather than billable federal services labor, which falls outside or below SCI thresholds. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable service work tracked at a median of $93.74 per hour, with rates ranging from $87.47 to $100 per hour (10th to 90th percentile), consistent with technical dental laboratory labor.

Keating Dental Arts (KDA) was established in 2002 as a Family Run, Full-Service Dental Laboratory. Our mission at KDA is to provide our clients with five-star customer service and superior restorations delivered in a timely fashion with minimal adjustments. Our 7-step quality assurance protocol ensures your cases arrive on-time and with little to no adjustments. A multitude of details need to be correct for your restorations to provide you outstanding fit, form and function that we all expect from a quality dental laboratory. KDA delivers at the highest level.