Labconco Corp

Labconco Corp, a Kansas City, Missouri-based manufacturer of specialized laboratory equipment headquartered at 8811 Prospect Ave, operates as a for-profit corporate entity and competes primarily as a full-and-open prime contractor supplying laboratory containment, ventilation, and analytical instrumentation to federal agencies. The company serves as the parent entity for two subsidiaries: Circuit Spring, LLC and Lucent Additive LLC. Labconco competes under NAICS 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing) and holds positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and Federal Supply Schedules (GS25F5110C, GS26F4771A, and GS25F5109C), with recent awards spanning fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Labconco's federal portfolio centers on manufacturing and delivery of laboratory equipment: freeze dryers (benchtop and console configurations), biosafety cabinets (Class II Type A2 and related variants), chemical and acid-digestion fume hoods, glassware washers (undercounter and freestanding), animal transfer stations, glove boxes, vacuum pumps and concentrators, and related containment solutions. Recent representative prime awards include a $250.5 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Army Corps of Engineers (awarded June 2023) for delivery and installation of twelve chemical fume hoods at the Engineer Research and Development Center in Hanover, New Hampshire; a $1.2 million total-small-business delivery order from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (awarded March 2023) for Purifier filtered enclosures and work surfaces under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $134.1 thousand small-business purchase order from the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (awarded May 2023) for a Labconco Class II A2 biosafety cabinet; and a $12.98 thousand small-business purchase order from the U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces (awarded September 2025) for a laboratory glassware washer. All named awards carry firm-fixed-price or delivery-order structures under set-aside (Total Small Business) or no-set-aside designations.

Labconco's 1,803 total awards in the source data span 230 distinct customer agencies with a combined potential value of $171.6 million. Award concentration is broad by agency but shallow by individual award: the top five customer agencies by count (Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration, 63 awards; Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 62 awards; USDA Agricultural Research Service regional areas including Pacific West, 55 awards; Plains, 51 awards; and general ARS, 48 awards) account for only 15% of the total award count. By potential value, concentration is even lower: the top five customers including Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (17 awards, $1.2 million), FDA (63 awards, $876 thousand), and USDA ARS regional divisions represent only 2% of combined potential value. This dispersed customer base reflects Labconco's position as a transactional supplier of equipment to dozens of research and clinical laboratories across the federal enterprise.

The GSA Multiple Award Schedule dominates Labconco's contracting vehicles: 605 task orders totaling $12.8 million in combined potential value. However, the vendor's largest vehicle footprint sits on Federal Supply Schedule GS25F5110C with 433 task orders carrying $103.7 million in combined potential value, representing 60% of all awards and 60% of potential-value concentration. Federal Supply Schedule GS26F4771A accounts for 271 task orders and $2.8 million. These GSA and Federal Supply Schedule vehicles are the vendor's primary contracting posture; all named recent awards are either delivery orders or purchase orders under these vehicles or direct GSA MAS contracts.

Activity declined sharply over the observation period: 50 awards in 2022, 42 in 2023, and only one award each in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The source data spans nearly five decades of award history (first award dated December 1978), and the most recent award is dated June 29, 2026. The collapse in award volume after 2023 may reflect data-collection or reporting lag; the summary reflects the source as presented and does not infer causation or forward trajectory.

Labconco operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor: 1,799 of 1,803 awards (100%) are prime awards, with only four sub-awards recorded in the source data — all facility design and construction services sub-awards to PTSI Managed Services Inc. for the Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA), dated December 2022. This profile indicates minimal teaming or subcontracting posture; the vendor is a direct supplier of goods rather than a system integrator or services prime.

The vendor does not carry SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other set-aside certifications in the source record. A minority of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations (the $250.5 thousand Corps of Engineers fume hood award and the $134.1 thousand Army biosafety cabinet award, for example), but these set-asides appear to reflect the customer agency's procurement strategy rather than a Labconco certification status; the majority of awards carry no set-aside designation and compete full-and-open. The vendor's business model is rooted in equipment manufacturing and GSA Schedule positioning rather than small-business reserve access.

MANUFACTURER OF SCIENTIFIC AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT, SPECIFICALLY FUME HOODS, FREEZE DRYERS, WATER PURIFICATION EQUIPMENT, LABORATORY CARTS, BLOOD DRAWING CHAIRS, LAMINAR FLOW CABINETS, GLOVE BOXES, EXHAUST BLOWERS, KJELDAHL APPARATUS, GLASSWARE WASHERS