Vigor Technologies (USA) Inc.

Vigor Technologies (USA) Inc., a foreign-owned small business based in Houston, Texas, manufactures inert-gas gloveboxes and specialized laboratory equipment for federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor (80% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense research programs. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on direct procurement; recent prime awards carry Total Small Business designations across purchases from NASA and the Navy, with one Navy award under simplified acquisition procedures without set-aside restriction.

Vigor's customer base splits evenly between civilian research and defense. The NASA Shared Services Center and the Office of Naval Research each anchor two awards (combined potential value $66 thousand and $64 thousand, respectively), with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory contributing one sub-award. The vendor's recent prime work centers on specialized glovebox systems: a $23 thousand stainless-steel glovebox configured for sodium handling in heat pipes (NASA Shared Services, September 2026, place of performance Cleveland, Ohio), a $43 thousand four-workstation inert-gas glovebox (NASA Shared Services, August 2026, place of performance Houston, Texas), a $32 thousand two-port glovebox system with accessories (Office of Naval Research, August 2024, delivery to Washington DC, Monterey CA, and Stennis Space Center MS), and a $31.6 thousand standard Scilab glovebox (Office of Naval Research, July 2023). In its subcontractor role, Vigor supplies optoelectronic technology research materials to KBR Wyle Services under an Air Force Research Laboratory contract (January 2025). Award activity has been sparse but steady — one award per year from 2023 through 2025, two awards in 2026 — with two awards (combined potential value $66 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The vendor's capability portfolio, coded to analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing and laboratory equipment supply NAICS categories, emphasizes inert-atmosphere work stations and specialized research instrumentation for thermal and materials research applications.