PDS Consultants, Inc.

PDS Consultants, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, manufactures and delivers prescription eyeglasses, optical lenses, and on-site optician support services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor across ten Veterans Integrated Service Networks, with recent work split between full-and-open delivery orders under indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) and SDVOSB sole-source awards. The company is a Subchapter S corporation certified as both a veteran-owned small business and SDVOSB through November 18, 2027, and operates a named subsidiary, Allan Baker, Inc., also carrying SDVOSB and veteran-owned designations.

PDS Consultants' federal footprint centers on vision care products and services. Recent representative work includes a $3.9 million delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 for interim prescription eyeglasses and optical services (June through September 2026), a $4.87 million SDVOSB sole-source IDC with VISN 9 for prescription eyeglasses including high-index and polycarbonate variants with patient fitting and optician support (April through September 2026), and a $4.3 million sole-source interim IDC with VISN 1 for eyeglass and optician services across New England VA Medical Centers (June through September 2026). Work under the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical Supply Chain carries smaller per-order values—typically hundreds to low thousands of dollars—for specialized optical lens components including single-vision far, bifocal, aspheric, and high-index 1.60 lenses in varying diameters and specifications. A subsidiary vehicle, the VISN 17 single-award IDC ceiling of $2.22 million, issued seven delivery orders totaling $2.47 million on May 28, 2026, for eyeglasses and optician services across El Paso, Amarillo, Memphis, Louisville, and other regional locations.

Customer concentration is dominated by Department of Veterans Affairs regional service networks, which account for more than 92% of awards by count. The top-five funding agencies—Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical (2,270 awards, $18.4 million combined potential value), VISN 22 (210 awards, $44.2 million), VISN 17 (185 awards, $84.2 million), VISN 5 (132 awards, $58.4 million), and VISN 23 (91 awards, $102.2 million)—represent the bulk of recent activity. However, a sharp divergence appears between award count and dollar concentration: by potential value, VISN 8 leads at $594 million across only 17 awards, followed by VISN 1 ($166.2 million in 38 awards), VISN 9 ($141.5 million in 20 awards), VISN 16 ($121.7 million in 22 awards), and VISN 23 ($102.2 million in 91 awards). This pattern reflects the company's role as holder of large indefinite delivery contract vehicles with individual VISNs, each anchoring substantial procurement authority.

PDS Consultants holds five primary parent vehicles: Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE2DE21D0006 (2,269 task orders, $3.4 million combined potential value)—the highest-volume vehicle, consisting of small discrete optical lens procurements; IDC 36C26219D0006 with 49 task orders and $6 million combined potential value; IDC 36C26220D0027 with 49 task orders and $4.7 million; IDC 36C26219D0080 with 40 task orders and $2 million; and IDC 36C25722D0036 with 39 task orders and $3.3 million. The company also operates single-award firm fixed-price IDC vehicles with individual VISNs (including VISN 1, VISN 5, VISN 8, VISN 9, VISN 16, and VISN 17) ranging from approximately $255 thousand to $4.99 million in ceiling, collectively representing the bulk of the company's $1.76 billion combined potential value across 3,137 awards.

Award activity shows moderate trajectory from 475 awards in 2022 to a peak of 655 in 2024, with a sharp decline to only 44 awards in 2026 year-to-date as of mid-July. This pattern reflects calendar and contract-year dynamics; the source's 2026 count is bounded to awards through July 1 and may not yet capture Q3 and Q4 activity typical of VA procurement cycles. Forty-one awards totaling $29.2 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

PDS Consultants operates as a 100% prime contractor across its federal footprint with no subcontract activity in the source data. The company's primary NAICS categories are Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (2,273 awards) and Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing (843 awards). The primary PSC coding is Laboratory Equipment And Supplies (2,150 awards) and Medical And Surgical Instruments, Equipment, And Supplies (441 awards). Nearly all awards carry full-and-open or SDVOSB sole-source designations; the company does not compete under traditional set-asides such as 8(a) or HUBZone, instead leveraging its veteran-owned and SDVOSB certifications to access VA-reserved procurements and compete in unrestricted federal healthcare supply categories. The company is not a holder of government-wide contract vehicles such as GWACs, BPAs, or GSA Schedules in the source material.