O & P Research Lab Inc.

O & P Research Lab Inc., doing business as Fikes Brace & Limb, designs, fabricates, and delivers custom prosthetic devices and artificial limbs to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a full-and-open prime contractor with no set-aside participation. The company, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Mesa, Arizona, has maintained an exclusive procurement relationship with VISN 22 (Veterans Integrated Service Network 22) since at least 2020, holding all fifty-eight of its recent federal awards from that single customer.

Fikes Brace & Limb's capability portfolio centers on custom prosthetic fabrication across the full spectrum of lower and upper extremity solutions. Representative recent awards include a $81,931.01 firm fixed-price purchase order from VISN 22 in February 2024 for an upper extremity prosthetic limb with microprocessor hand; a $90,108.25 order in October 2025 for prosthetic devices and artificial limbs; and a $87,791.87 order in December 2025 for transfemoral prostheses. The vendor delivers specialized components including transfemoral and transtibial prostheses (above-knee and below-knee), microprocessor-controlled hands, socket replacements, and Symes prostheses. All work is performed at the contractor's Mesa, Arizona facility with firm fixed-price purchase orders carrying no set-aside designations, reflecting VISN 22's direct confidence in the vendor's specialized capability.

Customer concentration is absolute: the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 accounts for 100 percent of recent awards (fifty-eight contracts) and 100 percent of combined potential value ($1.3 million). The vendor does not subcontract and does not hold parent vehicle positions; all awards are direct purchase orders issued by VISN 22. Activity has remained consistent across the past five years (eight to ten orders annually), with 100 percent of combined potential value obligated. One award was issued in the first quarter of 2026 ($19,954.78 in March), with a completion date of June 2026. The vendor's federal registration dates to May 2011, and the source describes over forty years of operational experience in prosthetic and orthotic device manufacturing. Award values typically range from approximately $7,000 to $90,000 per order, with the vendor categorized under NAICS 334517 (Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing) for forty-six of fifty-eight awards and NAICS 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing) for the remainder.

Fikes Brace and Limb provides the very best Orthotic and Prosthetic care to the individuals that we come into contact with through our daily practice.