Lab Products, LLC

Lab Products, LLC, doing business as Metal Systems DIV, manufactures and supplies specialized laboratory animal research equipment — caging systems, racks, watering systems, ventilation units, and related consumables — as a prime contractor (100% of awards) to federal biomedical research agencies, predominantly under the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule and GSA Federal Supply Schedules. The vendor is a subsidiary of Avidity Science, LLC, headquartered in Waterford, Wisconsin, and operates manufacturing facilities in Havre de Grace and Seaford, Maryland. Lab Products competes full-and-open across its entire award footprint; no set-asides appear in the recent record.

The vendor's customer concentration is sharply weighted toward the National Institutes of Health and its constituent institutes. The top five funding entities — NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (50 awards, $14.4 million combined potential value), NIH Office of the Director (60 awards, $6.9 million), NIDA (33 awards, $4.1 million), the National Eye Institute (32 awards, $2.6 million), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (48 awards, $2.2 million) — represent 15% of combined potential value but cluster within the HHS/NIH ecosystem. The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Army round out the active customer set. Recent representative work includes a $397,352.87 purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 for an individually ventilated cage system (August 2026), a $99,550.25 order from VISN 4 for swine cages with mobile transport equipment (September 2026), and a $511,469 NIAID purchase order for filter-top animal cages with plastic shields and air-grommet variants (February 2022). Lab Products also holds a $10 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, running through May 31, 2027, for animal feed, bedding, and cage supplies — the vendor's largest named vehicle.

The vendor places task orders against three primary vehicle families: Federal Supply Schedule GS25F5045C (352 task orders, $15.3 million combined potential value), the Multiple Award Schedule (155 task orders, $9.2 million), and Federal Supply Schedule GS00F4740A (86 task orders). Ordering spans the Multiple Award Schedule as well as GSA's commodity-specific schedules for laboratory supplies and animal furnishings, which enable ordering by NIH institutes and VA facilities without competitive re-solicitation. The award portfolio spans 1,027 prime awards with $201.9 million combined potential value and $61.9 million obligated. Award volume declined from 24 orders in 2022 to only 3 in 2026 year-to-date, though the most recent award occurred in September 2026. Only 3 awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $560 thousand), indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. Lab Products' NAICS footprint centers on Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (410 awards) and miscellaneous general-purpose machinery manufacturing (176 awards), with a secondary stream in textile and fabricated-metal categories reflecting cage-accessory supply. PSC coding is dominated by Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (606 awards) and animal furnishings (133 awards). SCI-reported invoiced revenue in FY2023 totaled $403 thousand across 0.5 FTEs, with no reportable SCI activity in FY2024; this reflects Lab Products' primary business in goods procurement and equipment sales rather than reportable federal services contracts. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no named subcontract footprint in the source data, indicating it manufactures and sources animal research equipment for direct sale to federal customers rather than functioning as a supply-chain sub. Across its SCI-reportable service activity, the vendor applied a flat government-paid rate of $365.06 per hour.