Labcon, North America

Labcon, North America, a division of Helena Laboratories Corporation, manufactures disposable laboratory consumables — principally polypropylene centrifuge tubes in 15-milliliter and 50-milliliter sizes — and supplies them to federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders and fixed-price purchase orders. The vendor operates manufacturing facilities in Petaluma, California and St. Louis, Missouri, with headquarters in Petaluma. Labcon competes on an unrestricted basis and does not hold any SBA designations; all forty-five recent prime awards carry no set-aside notation.

Labcon's federal customer base is narrow and heavily concentrated by dollar value. The top four agencies by combined potential value account for 100% of awards in the portfolio, with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center anchoring the set at $59.3 million (one award — a COVID-19 industrial base expansion contract transitioned to HHS's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, which carries an ultimate completion date of October 12, 2025). The Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch represents the largest active operational customer by award count (ten awards, $422 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (three awards, $102 thousand combined potential value, primarily BioWatch inventory support). The divergence between award count and dollar rankings reflects a high-volume, low-value operational relationship with FSIS and smaller transactional awards with HHS administrative programs, offset by a single large pandemic-response contract with Air Force/HHS.

Labcon holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract (123A9423D0004) with USDA FSIS valued at $375,000, running through February 26, 2027, from which nine delivery orders have been exercised. Recent delivery orders under this IDC range from $1,289 to $12,030 and cover quarterly and seasonal procurements of polypropylene conical tubes for food inspection and testing operations. Typical work includes delivery orders for 15-milliliter and 50-milliliter polypropylene centrifuge tubes issued by FSIS and HHS in firm fixed-price structure with performance locations at Athens, Georgia and Petaluma, California. Beyond the routine consumables business, Labcon supplied $23.3 thousand and $26.5 thousand BioWatch inventory purchase orders to HHS in December 2023 and July 2023 respectively. The largest contract on record is the $59.3 million COVID-19 industrial base expansion definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force in October 2021 (ultimately transitioning to HHS/ASPR) to support domestic manufacturing capacity expansion for personal protective equipment and medical supplies for Strategic National Stockpile replenishment, with an ultimate completion date of October 12, 2025.

Award activity is flat to declining: one award in 2022, four in 2023, four in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months (valued at $8 thousand), minimizing near-term recompete exposure. Labcon operates as a wholly owned division of Helena Laboratories Corporation, an established federal contractor supplying clinical laboratory instruments, reagents, and services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other agencies. The vendor is a registered SAM.gov contractor since 2007 and competes exclusively on full-and-open solicitations, with no subcontracting footprint in the federal portfolio.

Labcon is the world wide leader in Earth Friendly disposable laboratory plastics. Since 1959 we have supplied Centrifuge

tubes, Culture Tubes, Aerosol Pipette Tips, Cryo Vials, Automation Pipet Tips, Microcentrifuge Tubes, and PCR disposables to

laboratories throughout the world. Our focus is on sustainable solutions in laboratory disposables.