L&S Optical, Inc.

L&S Optical, Inc. (doing business as L & S Optical Inc.), a woman-owned small business and for-profit subchapter S corporation headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, provides optical dispensing services exclusively to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor. The vendor operates 100% on VA contracts with no subcontract work, competing on full-and-open procurements carrying no set-aside designations.

L&S Optical's capability footprint is narrowly specialized: eyeglass fitting and dispensing, contact lens services, prescription management, remote order entry through VA systems, minor adjustments and repairs, and patient education for veterans at VA medical centers and community-based outpatient clinics. Representative work includes a $6.5 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract covering optical dispensing services across Ohio and surrounding states (awarded March 27, 2023, with base performance through September 2026 and four one-year option periods), a $2.45 million single-award IDC for Indiana dispensing services (awarded November 1, 2023, ultimately completing July 31, 2025), and a $2.995 million purchase order for optician dispensing awarded April 27, 2026 by Veterans Integrated Service Network 10, with performance in Cleveland, Ohio through November 26, 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme: Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 accounts for 51 awards and $25.3 million in combined potential value (97.7% of the vendor's total footprint by dollars), with VISN 12 representing 22 awards and $454 thousand. The top two VA networks comprise 100% of combined potential value across all awards. The vendor has served VA continuously since 2007. Recent activity shows three awards in 2025 and three in 2026, but this masks a volatile trajectory — the vendor averaged roughly three awards per year over the past five years, with single awards in 2022 and 2023. Within the next twenty-four months, one award with combined potential value of approximately $3 million faces ultimate completion and recompete exposure. NAICS concentration reflects the optical services specialization: Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (25 awards); Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (14 awards); Optical Goods Stores and Offices of Optometrists (10 each). PSC coding emphasizes Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies (55 awards). Combined potential value across the entire portfolio is $25.9 million, but obligated dollars stand at only $582 thousand (2% of potential value), indicating most contracts remain unfunded or lightly funded as indefinite-delivery vehicles.