Laboratory Growth & Productivity Consulting Inc.

Laboratory Growth & Productivity Consulting Inc., doing business as LGP Consulting, manufactures specialized medical laboratory equipment and automation systems for the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor on a full-and-open and total small business set-aside basis, with no subcontract footprint. LGP Consulting is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Wood River, Illinois, classified under NAICS 334517 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing), with a focus on supplying automated sample-handling and tube-processing equipment to VA medical facilities.

The vendor's customer base is almost entirely concentrated within the VA health system. The top five customer entities by award count account for 38% of recent awards, dominated by VA Veterans Integrated Service Networks 8, 20, 1, and 23, which collectively represent $552 thousand of the $1.3 million combined potential value across all awards. By dollar volume, the concentration pattern shifts: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors $250 thousand of combined potential value through a single large award, followed by VISN 8 ($225 thousand across eight awards), VISN 23 ($143 thousand), VISN 20 ($98 thousand), and VISN 10 ($94 thousand), representing 61% of total dollars across seventeen distinct customer agencies. Across both rankings, VISN 8 is the primary recurring customer by count and dollars.

LGP Consulting places all work (79 awards, 100% prime) through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle, which carries 51 task orders valued at $701 thousand in combined potential value. Recent representative awards include a $25,611 firm fixed-price purchase order from VISN 1 for a Cytiva NanoAssemblr Spark system (awarded June 2026, completion June 2027), a $43,247 total small business set-aside purchase order from VISN 23 for decapper and recapper equipment (awarded May 2024), and a $17,812 delivery order through GSA MAS from VISN 8 for automated benchtop recappers and pluggo decappers (awarded April 2024). The product portfolio centers on automated tube-capping and decapping systems, sample-handling accessories, and laboratory workflow automation equipment designed to improve efficiency in VA phlebotomy and specimen-processing operations.

Activity has remained flat over the past five years, averaging roughly one award per year from 2022 through 2026, with combined potential value of $1.3 million and $1.1 million in obligated dollars (81% burn rate). The vendor faces minimal near-term recompete pressure, with only one award carrying an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months ($26 thousand combined potential value). The vendor's 79-award footprint spans two decades of VA engagement, reflecting sustained position as a specialized supplier of laboratory automation equipment to the VA health system.

Manufacture, sell and support the Pluggo Decapper & KapSafe Recapper systems