Vald Group Inc.

Vald Group Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit small business based in Charlotte, North Carolina, sells force plate systems, human performance assessment software, and biomechanical analysis equipment to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on sole-source and small-business-set-aside purchase orders. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime on direct-award instruments—no sub-contracts, no IDIQs, no vehicles—and delivers specialized force measurement and performance testing equipment sourced internationally and rebranded for U.S. defense applications.

Vald Group's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Army, which accounts for ten of the vendor's twenty total federal awards and $633 thousand of the $1.1 million combined potential value across the portfolio. The Department of Defense broadly dominates Vald Group's customer set: the top five customers by award count (Army, Air Force Air Combat Command, Special Operations Command, Naval Special Warfare Command, and Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery) cover 80% of awards and 91% of dollars. Sole-source awards recur across the footprint—the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery designated Vald as the sole responsible source under FAR 6.302-1(b)(1)(ii) for ForceDecks Dual Force Plate Systems and related biomechanical analysis platforms; Special Operations Command has awarded sole-source software license renewals and modifications to Vald on multiple occasions. Small-business set-asides appear on three awards: the Department of the Army issued a $50.9 thousand Total Small Business purchase order in April 2024 for force plates and digital inclinometer; Air Mobility Command awarded a $25.9 thousand 100% small-business set-aside for force plates and licenses destined for USSOCOM in September 2024; and the Department of the Army issued a $30.7 thousand Total Small Business purchase order in June 2026 for a subscription to Vald Hub, Vald Group's human performance assessment platform. One full-and-open award (Air Combat Command, $44.2 thousand, May 2026) carried no set-aside.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on ForceDecks dual force plate systems, ForceFrame Max Strength Testing Systems, DynaMo Plus units, Human Performance Platform (HPP) software licenses, Nordbord systems, and related software renewals. Representative awards include a $72 thousand firm-fixed-price order from Naval Special Warfare Command in February 2025 for ForceDecks and HPP software; a $53.2 thousand sole-source order from the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in September 2025 for force plate and strength testing systems supporting research at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego; a $68.4 thousand software license modification from Special Operations Command in November 2024 for Vald Performance Licenses and related platforms; and a $96.9 thousand purchase order from the Department of the Army in April 2022 for a force plate system. Activity has been sparse and episodic—two awards in 2021, two in 2022, a gap in 2023, three awards in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026—with only one award ($68 thousand from Special Operations Command, completion date November 2026) facing recompete exposure within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.1 million, representing 94% of combined potential value, indicating that nearly the entire portfolio has moved to execution or completion.