Tecniplast Usa, Inc.

Tecniplast Usa, Inc., doing business as Tecniplast, manufactures and supplies specialized laboratory animal housing equipment — individually ventilated caging systems, automated cage washers, bedding dispensers, and aquatic housing systems — primarily to federal biomedical research agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders and delivery orders, with minimal subcontracting activity. The company is based in West Chester, Pennsylvania and operates predominantly in the full-and-open competitive space, though multiple recent awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations.

Tecniplast's customer base concentrates heavily in federal research infrastructure. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 36% of recent awards. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences leads by significant margin at 44 awards worth $21.4 million combined potential value — the vendor holds or has held multiple indefinite delivery contracts with NIEHS anchoring that relationship. Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (VA) follows with 41 awards worth $5.6 million. The Army Medical Command, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and National Institute on Drug Abuse round out the top tier. When ranked by potential value rather than award count, the concentration strengthens: these same five agencies account for 58% of all dollars across the portfolio. NIEHS and VISN 21 dominate both measures, indicating sustained, high-value relationships rather than one-off transactional buys. The vendor has also worked with the CDC, FDA, USDA Agricultural Research Service, the EPA, and the Department of Defense, along with 53 other federal agencies.

The award portfolio spans two decades (earliest award April 2002, most recent September 2026) with recent activity tracking at 13–25 awards per fiscal year across 2022–2025, signaling a steady customer base. Twenty awards totaling $4.9 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months — a meaningful recompete cliff concentrated in maintenance agreements and equipment replacement cycles typical of this sector. Tecniplast operates almost entirely as a prime (473 of 474 awards, 100%); a single sub-award appears in the portfolio (April 2025 sub to Battelle National Biodefense Institute for IVC cage equipment under an NBACC scope).

Representative capability work includes a $989 thousand 8(a) sole-source award from NIH's Office of the Director (August 2026) for Digital Ventilated Cage mouse rack expansion with smart tops, control panels, and software licensing; a $578 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (September 2026) for a 10-rack Individually Ventilated Caging system housing 900 rats with air handling units and four optional one-year warranty periods; a $1.1 billion-plus aggregate upgrade to the Augusta Animal Lab at VISN 4 (October 2023) valued at $1.11 million for animal housing infrastructure; a $1.33 million Total Small Business award from NIAID (February 2022) for 20 mouse IVC racks, cage components, and water handling systems at the Vaccine Research Center; and a $383 thousand five-year preventive maintenance contract from NIH (May 2023) covering three Platinum-level rack washers at NIH facilities in Bethesda and Poolesville. The vendor's contract portfolio emphasizes NAICS classifications tied to manufacturing (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, 79 awards; Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, 64 awards) and the Laboratory Equipment and Supplies PSC (279 of 474 awards).

SCI-reported invoicing captures only a small slice of Tecniplast's federal activity — six records across FY2022–FY2025 totaling $277 thousand in invoiced revenue, with median government-paid hourly rates around $1,057/hr (range $588–$1,526/hr) and roughly 0.2 FTEs delivered on service contracts in FY2023. This narrow SCI footprint reflects the vendor's predominant business model: equipment procurement, installation, and maintenance rather than hourly labor contracting. The vendor does not engage subcontractors on SCI-reportable service work.

Tecniplast's vehicle position includes indefinite delivery contracts with NIEHS (HHSN273201400011I, 10 task orders, $6.4 million combined potential value), placement on the Federal Supply Schedule for Laboratory and Scientific Equipment (GS07F145DA), and numerous single-award BPAs and IDIQs with individual VA Medical Centers, NIH institutes, and other agencies. The vendor also holds standing offers under FAR Part 13 simplified acquisition procedures, positioning it to respond quickly to routine animal-research supply needs across the federal research ecosystem.