Mesa Laboratories Inc.

Mesa Laboratories Inc. is a Lakewood, Colorado-based manufacturer of environmental monitoring, calibration, and quality assurance equipment that operates primarily as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across federal civilian and defense agencies on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. The company manufactures temperature and humidity monitoring systems, gas analyzer calibrators, flow meters, and laboratory sensors under proprietary brands including ViewPoint Cloud, AmegaView, and Defender product lines, alongside calibration and maintenance services for those systems.

Mesa Laboratories' customer base spans 43 federal agencies with significant concentration in three departments. The Department of the Army Medical Command anchors the portfolio with 43 awards worth $2.8 million in combined potential value, followed by the CDC Pittsburgh with 22 awards worth $2.7 million and the FDA with 33 awards worth $1.6 million — together these three agencies account for 35% of recent awards but 74% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects Mesa's position as the incumbent equipment vendor and service provider for environmental monitoring infrastructure at major federal laboratories and medical facilities, including CDC vaccine storage facilities, Army field hospitals, and FDA regional laboratories. Awards tend to be smaller purchase orders (median range $15,000–$30,000) but recurring across multiple locations and fiscal years.

Recent representative prime work includes a $135,114 definitive contract with the CDC Pittsburgh for ViewPoint Cloud sensors and software licenses with 24/7 technical support (awarded January 2025), a $230,116 five-year calibration and maintenance agreement with the FDA for VPX and DataTrace temperature sensors at the Northeast Food and Feed Laboratory (May 2025), a $199,065 small-business-set-aside pump calibrator order from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (September 2025), a $168,558 CDC contract for expansion of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases' temperature monitoring system (September 2024), and a $147,049 five-year CDC maintenance agreement for automated temperature and humidity monitoring supporting the Division of Laboratory Sciences (September 2023). Calibration services dominate the work (NAICS 334513 Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing, PSC 6685 Pressure/Temperature/Humidity Measuring Instruments); secondary capability includes repair and maintenance services (PSC 4933, NAICS 811219 Other Electronic Equipment Repair).

Activity has remained steady at 10–14 awards per year across the past five fiscal years (2022–2026), with eight awards worth $533 thousand reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. Mesa Laboratories places a small portion of work under indefinite delivery contracts — an 12-task-order IDC (AG6395C170066) carries $73 thousand in combined potential value — but the vast majority flows through direct purchase orders issued by using agencies rather than through GWACs or government-wide vehicles.

The corporate structure includes three named subsidiaries: Raven Biological Laboratories Inc., Amega Scientific Corp, and Mesa Laboratories Inc. proper. The source indicates Amega Scientific and Raven Biological likely carry specialized product and service lines, but award details do not distinguish between subsidiary roles. Mesa Labs operates two primary performance locations — its Lakewood headquarters (where most calibration, repair, and maintenance services originate) and a secondary facility in Bothell, Washington (FDA sensor calibration work) — with subordinate field locations for installation and on-site maintenance at customer facilities nationwide. The company registered with SAM.gov in March 1999 and maintains a stable federal contracting footprint with minimal subcontract exposure (2 sub-awards in the source portfolio, both as a specialized sub under primes Alcyon Technical Services and ASRC Federal Field Services on NASA and government services support contracts). Mesa's competitive posture is consistently full-and-open, non-set-aside, reflecting its scale, established brand position with federal laboratory operators, and status as original equipment manufacturer for systems already deployed across federal facilities — a lock-in that translates to recurring sole-source maintenance, calibration, and expansion awards.