Richard-Allan Scientific LLC

Richard-Allan Scientific LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer and service provider headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, delivers specialized histology, pathology, and laboratory equipment maintenance, repair, and direct supply to federal health agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The company operates as a sole-source provider across the Department of Veterans Affairs and other civilian health agencies, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations and leveraging its position as the original equipment manufacturer and authorized service provider for Epredia laboratory instruments — tissue processors, cryostats, microtomes, autostainers, slide printers, and related supplies.

Richard-Allan Scientific's customer base concentrates heavily within the VA system. By award count, the top three customers are the Department of the Army Medical Command (31 awards, $407 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (30 awards, $342 thousand), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 (25 awards, $682 thousand). By dollar value, VA VISNs dominate: VISN 19 (20 awards, $925 thousand), VISN 17 (25 awards, $682 thousand), VISN 22 (11 awards, $618 thousand), VISN 7 (21 awards, $613 thousand), and VISN 9 (20 awards, $578 thousand) together represent $3.4 million, or roughly 37% of combined potential value. The VA's 54 distinct VISNs and regional networks account for the majority of Richard-Allan's federal footprint; the company has also worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Defense Health Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Work concentrates on maintenance and repair services under sole-source purchase orders and indefinite-delivery contracts. Recent representative prime awards include a $405,684 firm-fixed-price purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (January 1, 2026) for preventive maintenance and repair of seventeen Epredia Cryostar NX50 cryostat instruments across seven VA healthcare campuses in California, Arizona, and New Mexico with 24/7 phone support and 24-hour on-site response; a $201,058 purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 (November 1, 2025) for maintenance and technical support of Thermo Fisher Scientific histopathology equipment at the Iowa City VA Healthcare System through October 2029; and a $187,889 five-year firm-fixed-price contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (August 5, 2024) for Epredia Autostainer equipment maintenance through July 2029 with four one-year option periods. The company also supplies direct equipment: a $77,500 purchase order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (August 25, 2025) for an Epredia Pannoramic MIDI II digital slide scanner for the Lamar Fish Health Center, and a $129,769 contract from the Defense Health Agency (June 15, 2023) for glucose testing strips extending through June 2028.

Activity has been steady with 13 to 19 awards annually over the past five years, trending downward in 2024 (12 awards) and recovering slightly in 2025 (16 awards); 2026 year-to-date shows 4 awards. The company faces a recompete cliff of fourteen awards (combined potential value $821 thousand) with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months. The portfolio spans NAICS codes emphasizing electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance (162 awards) and analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (105 awards), with PSC concentration in laboratory equipment and supplies (430 awards), in vitro diagnostic substances and test kits (258 awards), and equipment maintenance and repair (184 awards).

As a subcontractor, Richard-Allan Scientific supplies medical and surgical equipment to Cardinal Health 200, LLC across ten sub-awards since 2021, performing surgical packs, diagnostic test kits, and hospital equipment delivery to military treatment facilities and Army medical centers. Richard-Allan holds seats on indefinite-delivery contracts issued by Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 (SPE2DM20D9007, 4 task orders) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (AG3A94C120003, 2 task orders valued at $23 thousand). The company's federal contracting footprint spans over $2.7 million in cumulative prime awards across more than fifty contracts since 2021, with the VA representing its dominant customer and OEM-incumbent status insulating most awards from competitive pressure.