Northern Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc.

Northern Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc., a veteran-owned and small disadvantaged business based in Baraga, Michigan, manufactures and supplies customized prosthetic limbs and orthotic devices to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor, competing on full-and-open basis across purchase order awards with no set-aside designations. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of 114 recent awards) on individual firm fixed-price purchase orders rather than through government-wide vehicles or blanket purchasing agreements.

Northern Orthotics & Prosthetics delivers a focused product portfolio: above-knee prostheses, below-knee prostheses, running prostheses, articulating orthotic components, and other specialized prosthetic and orthotic devices tailored to individual veterans' medical requirements. Representative recent work includes a $58,623.59 purchase order from VISN 10 awarded November 20, 2025, a $56,663.94 order from VISN 10 awarded July 21, 2025, and a $89,608.68 contract from VISN 12 covering the full fiscal year 2024 (October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024). All work is performed at the company's manufacturing facility in Baraga, Michigan, with delivery to multiple VA medical facilities across service networks.

Customer concentration is acute and single-agency. The Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for 100% of the award footprint, with 86% of awards split between two service networks: Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 holds 57 awards valued at $826 thousand combined potential value, and Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 holds 38 awards valued at $709 thousand. VISN 23 accounts for 2 awards worth $30 thousand. The two rankings align perfectly — both by award count and by dollar value, VISN 12 dominates at roughly 49% of potential value, followed by VISN 10 at roughly 42%.

Northern Orthotics & Prosthetics places work under three VA indefinite delivery contracts: VA69DP1677 (9 task orders, $68 thousand), VA69DP0097 (8 task orders, $168 thousand), and V69DP2928 (1 task order). Individual purchase order awards range from approximately $10,000 to $89,600 in ceiling value, with the vast majority concentrated in the $10,000–$60,000 range. The company has been registered in the System for Award Management since February 2002.

Activity grew sharply from 2024 to 2025 — six awards in 2023 and 2021 each, ten awards in 2024, to sixteen awards in 2025 — with only two awards in 2026 to date. The combined potential value across all 114 awards totals $1.7 million, with combined obligated dollars at $1.8 million (103% of potential value), indicating consistent contract performance and close tracking between ceiling and actual spend. No subcontracting footprint is present; Northern Orthotics & Prosthetics executes all work as the sole prime.

NAICS category concentration reflects the product focus: 103 awards fall under Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (NAICS 339113), with 7 awards in Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers and 2 in Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing. The primary PSC code is Medical And Surgical Instruments, Equipment, And Supplies (99 awards), with 13 awards in the maintenance, repair, and rebuild category for medical equipment.