Struers Inc.

Struers Inc., doing business as Struers, a division of Roper Technologies, manufactures and supplies metallographic laboratory equipment and precision scientific instruments to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) with no recurring small business set-aside posture. Headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, and structured as a limited liability partnership, Struers operates as an established federal contractor since 2001 supplying hardness testers, grinding and polishing systems, precision cutting machines, sample preparation equipment, and related consumables and maintenance services.

Struers holds a dominant position on the GSA Federal Supply Schedule Multiple Award contract ($39.8 million ceiling through October 2028), where 202 task orders across 55 federal agencies account for $6.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor also maintains a $7.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Naval Sea Systems Command (effective through October 2029) and a $250 thousand single-award BPA with NAVSEA for annual equipment maintenance (through June 2027). Recent representative prime work includes a $120.9 million hardness tester delivery order from the Office of Naval Research under the GSA Schedule (August 2025), an $83.3 million order for two Secotom-60 cutting saws from Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex under the GSA Schedule (February 2025), and a $68.2 million BPA call for Struers equipment from NAVSEA (September 2025). The vendor also received a $114 thousand preventative maintenance contract from the Army Materiel Command for Tegramin-30 grinding systems at Corpus Christi Army Depot, extending through January 2028.

Customer concentration centers on Navy entities. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates both award count and dollar value (51 awards, $9.1 million potential value), followed by Naval Air Systems Command/Naval Air Warfare Center (14 awards, $1.9 million), the Army Materiel Command's Research Development and Engineering Command (38 awards, $1.3 million), NASA Shared Services Center (31 awards, $1.3 million), and the Office of Naval Research (23 awards, $492 thousand). The top five customers by potential value account for 23 percent of combined potential value, with NAVSEA alone representing 14 percent.

Activity has remained stable year over year, with 15 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 21 in 2025, and 3 recorded to date in 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal; only nine awards (combined potential value $674 thousand) complete in the next twenty-four months. Struers subcontracts to Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC on Naval Nuclear Laboratory management and operations work, including procurement of Tegramin-30 grinder-polishers and Tenupol-5 electropolishers for metallographic analysis at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (modifications awarded June 2024, July 2024, November 2024, and February 2026). The vendor also subs to Astrion Group on equipment component procurement for Axitom-5 cutting systems (October 2023).

Struers competes predominantly full-and-open across its prime footprint; approximately seven percent of recent awards carry small business set-asides (both total small business and small business competitive designations), but the vendor does not hold certified small business status and does not compete exclusively under set-aside vehicles. The firm's capability portfolio centers narrowly on metallographic sample preparation, materials testing instrumentation, hardness and microstructure analysis, and field maintenance and repair — a specialized niche with high customer stickiness and recurring consumable and maintenance revenue streams. Purchase orders and delivery orders dominate the award mix, with minimal complexity procurement. Across the 486 awards in the source, 481 are prime contracts or IDVs and only 5 are sub-awards, reflecting Struers' position as an equipment vendor and maintainer rather than a systems integrator or service provider.