PDS Consultants, Inc.

PDS Consultants, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, manufactures and delivers prescription eyeglasses, optical lenses, and on-site optician services to the Department of Veterans Affairs across multiple regional service networks as a prime contractor, with 100% of its federal awards structured as prime contracts carrying no subcontract activity. The company holds SBA certifications as both a veteran-owned small business and service-disabled veteran-owned small business through November 18, 2027, and operates as a Subchapter S Corporation specializing in ophthalmic goods manufacturing and medical equipment supply.

PDS Consultants competes predominantly under SDVOSB sole-source and set-aside designations across its VA footprint, though recent activity shows growing non-set-aside full-and-open competition. The company manufactures prescription eyeglasses including high-index, polycarbonate, bifocal, trifocal, and aspheric lens variants, and coordinates patient fitting and on-site optician support services. Representative work includes a $5 million SDVOSB sole-source indefinite-delivery contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 Downstate awarded August 1, 2026, for prescription eyeglasses and optician services through January 31, 2027; a $2 billion multiple-award SDVOSB set-aside IDIQ with VISN 4 for national prescription eyeglasses manufacturing awarded September 30, 2026, covering a ten-year period; and a $4.99 million single-award IDIQ with VISN 8 awarded September 1, 2026, for eyeglass manufacturing and optician support through December 31, 2026. The company also holds numerous monthly delivery orders from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical for individual optical lens components valued between hundreds and tens of thousands of dollars.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Veterans Affairs. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 92% of recent awards, led by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical (2,270 awards, $18.4 million combined potential value), followed by VISN 22 (210 awards, $44.2 million), VISN 17 (186 awards, $84.5 million), VISN 5 (132 awards, $60.9 million), and VISN 23 (91 awards, $102.2 million). The dollar rankings diverge significantly: by potential value, VISN 4 dominates with $2.02 billion combined potential across only two awards (reflecting the recent national eyeglasses manufacturing IDIQ ceiling), followed by VISN 8 ($599 million across 18 awards), VISN 1 ($174.6 million across 40 awards), VISN 9 ($142.5 million across 21 awards), and VISN 16 ($123.2 million across 22 awards). Combined potential value across all awards is $3.79 billion, though only 9% has been obligated ($342.5 million). The award footprint spans 21 distinct federal agencies but is functionally concentrated within VA regional service networks and the Defense Medical Supply Chain.

PDS Consultants holds parent indefinite-delivery contracts across ten Veterans Integrated Service Networks plus the Defense Logistics Agency. The largest vehicles by combined potential value are the VISN 4 national prescription eyeglasses manufacturing IDIQ ($2 billion, multiple-award set-aside, through September 2036), VISN 8 eyeglass IDIQ ($4.99 million, single-award, through December 31, 2026), VISN 2 Downstate prescription eyeglasses and optician services ($5 million, single-award sole-source SDVOSB, through January 31, 2027), VISN 1 interim eyeglass IDIQ ($4.21 million, single-award, through January 31, 2027), and VISN 16 eyeglass manufacturing ($2.82 million, single-award sole-source SDVOSB, through December 31, 2026). The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical vehicle SPE2DE21D0006 carries 2,269 task orders with $3.4 million combined potential value. These vehicles position PDS Consultants as a recurring, on-demand supplier across the VA vision care procurement network.

Activity has decelerated sharply in 2026. Award volume peaked at 655 in 2024, contracted to 331 in 2025, and dropped to 56 in the first ten months of 2026. The decline reflects maturation of the large VISN 4 national IDIQ awarded in September 2026—with a $2 billion ceiling spanning ten years, this single vehicle will likely anchor the company's forward pipeline. Within the next twenty-four months, 23 awards with combined potential value of $17.5 million face ultimate completion dates and are candidates for recompete activity, primarily smaller VISN-specific delivery orders and monthly DLA Medical Supply Chain lens purchases with near-term expirations.

The corporate structure includes a named subsidiary, Allan Baker, Inc., a for-profit veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business manufacturer. The subsidiary's role and capability contribution to the parent are not detailed in the source material. PDS Consultants operates as a 100% prime contractor across its entire federal portfolio—no subcontract activity is noted or recorded in the award history, positioning the company as vertically integrated for optical manufacturing and direct service delivery rather than as a teaming partner or pass-through vendor.