Kessler-Heasley Artificial Limb Company

Kessler-Heasley Artificial Limb Company, doing business as Ozark Prosthetics & Orthotics, manufactures and delivers custom prosthetic limbs, orthotic devices, and related replacement components to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a veteran-owned small business prime contractor operating exclusively in full-and-open competition. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, with a veteran-owned business designation that recurs across its federal prime footprint but does not anchor set-aside competition — all 157 recent awards carry no set-aside designation.

Kessler-Heasley's customer base is functionally monolithic. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration accounts for 96% of recent awards across three Veterans Integrated Service Networks. VISN 16 dominates both volume and dollars, representing 126 awards with $1.9 million in combined potential value, followed by VISN 15 with 24 awards and $302 thousand combined potential value, and VISN 6 with a single $16 thousand award. This concentration reflects a stable, long-term supplier relationship with VA prosthetics procurement — the company's historical footprint extends back to at least 2006, with recent purchase orders spanning below-knee and above-knee prosthetics, replacement sockets, liners, knee braces, and advanced microprocessor knees. Representative recent work includes a $58.3 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from VISN 16 (March 2024) for prosthetic limbs, a $37.6 thousand order (August 2024) for prosthetics and limb devices, and a $31.4 thousand order (September 2023) for artificial limbs performed in Springfield, Missouri.

Activity has been episodic over the past five years — eight awards in 2022, four in 2023, eight in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only one award ($19 thousand) carrying an ultimate completion date inside the next twenty-four months. The company operates as a 100% prime contractor with no documented subcontract footprint. NAICS coding places the company primarily under Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (130 awards), with secondary exposure to Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (14 awards), reflecting its core capability as a prosthetic and orthotic devices manufacturer rather than a service provider or integrator.