Optronic Laboratories, LLC

Optronic Laboratories, LLC, a for-profit small business based in Orlando, Florida, manufactures and calibrates specialized optical and electro-optics scientific instruments for federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open without set-aside designation on the majority of orders. The company supplies spectroradiometers, monochromators, thermal detectors, integrating spheres, and related calibration and maintenance services across Navy, Air Force, FDA, NASA, and other customers; nearly all of its recent awards are purchase orders for equipment and field calibration work rather than services contracts or IDIQs.

Optronic Laboratories' customer base is dispersed across thirteen distinct federal agencies with no dominant anchor customer, though concentration aligns tightly around optical and electro-optics research missions. The Food and Drug Administration leads by both award count and dollar value (4 awards, $303 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command (3 awards, $177 thousand), the Naval Air Warfare Center (4 awards, $152 thousand), and the Office of Naval Research (3 awards, $144 thousand). The top five customers account for 72% of combined potential value. Activity has remained episodic but stable — three to five awards per year from 2021 through 2024, with only one award visible in 2026 to date. A single award valued at $58 thousand is scheduled for completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure. Recent representative work includes a $177 thousand automated spectroradiometer system to FDA (September 2022), a $102 thousand Optronic Laboratories Spectroradiometer Workstation to the Office of Naval Research (September 2023), a $98 thousand delivery of two subtractive double monochromators to the Air Force Materiel Command (July 2024), and a $14,990 recalibration of a thermal detector module to the Office of Naval Research (April 2026). The combined obligated amount across all awards ($1.4 million) slightly exceeds the combined potential value ($1.2 million), indicating that most work has executed to completion or been repriced upward.

Optronic Laboratories holds positions on two larger parent vehicles — an Indefinite Delivery Contract (HQ014718D0004) and SeaPort I — each carrying one task order. The vendor operates predominantly as a prime (93% of awards) with a minimal subcontract footprint; one sub-award was placed under Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for ABG labor and materials in 2024. Award clustering by NAICS code centers on instruments and related products manufacturing for measuring industrial process variables (14 awards) and analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (4 awards), with secondary concentration in electrical signal measurement instruments and equipment repair and maintenance. The vendor does not appear in any 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB set-aside awards across the source data, competing instead as a general small business on full-and-open or sole-source procurements where it is the original equipment manufacturer or an authorized distributor.