Leco Corp

Leco Corp, doing business as Tem-Press Division, manufactures and sells analytical laboratory instrumentation—elemental analyzers, gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, thermogravimetric analyzers, and associated maintenance services—to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards) on full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in St. Joseph, Michigan, with continuous federal contracting registration since 2001 and a footprint spanning 111 distinct federal customer agencies across the past several years.

Leco's capability portfolio centers on equipment procurement and preventive maintenance, repair, and calibration services for sophisticated analytical instruments supporting federal research, testing, materials analysis, and quality assurance operations. Recent representative awards include a $535.6 million delivery of a LECO GC-HRT+ 4D High Resolution Time-of-Flight GCxGC Mass Spectrometry System to the Naval Air Warfare Center (September 2024); a $466.4 thousand purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for LECO chemical analyzers with four years of maintenance (August 2025); a $413.4 million sole-source award from the USDA Agricultural Research Service for a LECO GC-HRT+ 4D system with accessories to replace aging equipment for metabolite profiling research (September 2021); and a $210.4 thousand Army Research, Development and Engineering Command annual service plan for laboratory equipment, instruments, and software at Aberdeen Proving Ground (September 2025). A $109.3 thousand NASA maintenance plan for a LECO Pegasus HRT4D-Platinum gas chromatography-mass spectrometry instrument supporting astrobiology research at Goddard Space Flight Center (June 2026) exemplifies Leco's standing as original equipment manufacturer for specialized analytical systems where sole-source awards are routine.

Customer concentration is extreme but distributed across two distinct patterns. By award count, the top five agencies account for 23% of recent awards, led by Naval Sea Systems Command (91 awards, $2.4 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army, the Navy broadly, USDA Agricultural Research Service, and the Air Force. By potential value, concentration is far higher: the Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer alone anchors 86% of combined potential value with $600.2 million across 13 awards—a signal of a major government-wide vehicle or consolidation in Leco's portfolio. The FDA, Naval Sea Systems Command, Army Materiel Command, and USDA ARS round out the value-based top five. The divergence between count and value rankings reflects numerous small-dollar maintenance and repair orders alongside multi-hundred-million-dollar equipment procurements.

Leco holds significant positions on two federal supply schedules. The Federal Supply Schedule GS24F7549D (158 task orders, $610 million combined potential value) and the Federal Supply Schedule GS00F7549A (5 task orders) generate the vast majority of Leco's task-order activity. The company also places orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (72 task orders, $4.6 million combined potential value) and holds a $45.8 thousand blanket purchase agreement with the Air Force Materiel Command Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex for maintenance, repair, and rebuild services running through September 2027.

Activity has remained stable year over year, ranging from 16 to 28 awards per year over the past five years (25 in 2022, 16 in 2023, 28 in 2024, 24 in 2025, 8 in 2026 through early July). The source data span awards from 1981 through July 2, 2026, reflecting decades of federal presence. Only 12 awards (combined potential value $1 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure for the vendor.

Leco's subcontract footprint is negligible—only 1% of awards are sub-awards, representing niche engagement as a component supplier on larger federal programs. Recent sub-award work includes laboratory equipment and elemental analyzer services under Joint Technical Solutions LLC (Army Redstone Test and Engineering Support Services, November 2024), Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC (Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant management operations, May–June 2024), Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC (Naval Nuclear Laboratory operations, January 2024), and Astrion Group LLC (elemental analyzer and carbon-sulfur analyzer service contract renewal, November 2023). These engagements reflect Leco's role as the original equipment manufacturer providing specialized maintenance and consumables within larger operating-contractor frameworks.

Award categorization shows Leco's specialization: 436 awards fall under Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334516), with secondary concentrations in equipment repair and maintenance (90 awards) and other instrument manufacturing categories (160 awards in totalizing fluid meter manufacturing, reflecting gas chromatograph and spectrometer components). The primary PSC is Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (328 awards), followed by maintenance/repair/rebuild codes (170 awards) and chemical analysis instruments (147 awards). This categorization precision underscores Leco's positioning as a capital equipment and consumables supplier rather than a broader systems integrator or service contractor.