Stoelting Co

Stoelting Co, doing business as Stoelting, manufactures specialized neuroscience and behavioral research instrumentation — including stereotaxic apparatus, fear conditioning systems, gait analysis platforms, video tracking software, and polygraph equipment — and competes as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal purchase orders across the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Homeland Security. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois, with no SBA set-aside certifications; it competes predominantly in full-and-open solicitations, though two of its recent awards carry total small business designations.

Stoelting's customer base is highly concentrated in civilian biomedical research. The top five funding agencies account for 42% of combined potential value and 27% of award volume, led by the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement ($696 thousand across six awards), the Department of the Army Medical Command ($370 thousand across fourteen awards), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse ($357 thousand across twenty-seven awards). The rankings reveal distinct concentration patterns: NIDA places the most frequent orders but State carries the highest dollar value, while Army Medical Command anchors steady volume across multiple neuroscience research programs. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 contributes $203 thousand across eight awards, and Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 adds $107 thousand across six awards, primarily for stereotaxic and surgical instruments supporting research at VA medical centers.

Stoelting operates as a pure prime — 100% of its 248 recent awards are prime contracts, with no subcontract work in the source. The firm competes on individual purchase orders rather than through government-wide vehicles; the source lists five Army IDIQs but shows only one task order per vehicle, indicating Stoelting picks up work through direct Navy and Army medical research solicitations rather than as a scheduled vendor under standing IDVs. Recent representative work includes a $124,292 polygraph equipment purchase order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (September 2026), a $69,630 firm fixed-price award from Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 for Ugo Basile fear conditioning and behavioral testing systems (September 2025), a $39,500 sole-source gait analysis system from Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 for traumatic brain injury research (May 2026), and multiple $10,000–$25,000 purchase orders from NIDA for Any-Maze video tracking software and animal stimulation equipment (July 2025). Award volume has been modest but stable — five to eight awards per year over the past five years — with $4.1 million combined potential value across all 248 recent awards. Five awards with a combined potential value of $211 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

The company's product footprint splits across Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (69 awards) and Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (64 awards) at the NAICS level, with Laboratory Equipment and Supplies and Medical and Surgical Instruments accounting for 96 and 49 purchase orders respectively by PSC code. Stoelting supplies off-the-shelf and custom-configured research instrumentation directly to federal scientists and clinicians; performance locations span Wood Dale (company headquarters and manufacturing), Baltimore (NIDA facilities), Madison (VA research centers), and other VA medical centers nationwide. The company has maintained federal contractor registration since 2002 and operates with no subcontractor relationships in the visible award record, suggesting a pure product-manufacture and direct-sale posture with no teaming or sub footprint.