Erdogan Kara

Erdogan Kara, doing business as Elektro-Kara, is a German for-profit maintenance and repair contractor operating as a prime contractor (100% of awards) delivering facility infrastructure maintenance and electrical support services to U.S. military installations across Germany, with all work performed in the European theater. The vendor competes full-and-open with no SBA set-aside certifications, consistently winning competitive awards for maintenance of doors, hoists, barriers, cranes, and electrical infrastructure at Department of Defense bases.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. The Department of the Air Force's United States Air Forces in Europe and Africa accounts for 365 of 375 total awards (97%) and $16.5 million of the $18.4 million combined potential value (90%). The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Europe Region provides the only material secondary relationship with five awards valued at $1.7 million. This concentration leaves the vendor heavily dependent on USAFE-AFAFRICA's continued patronage and procurement strategy in the European theater.

Elektro-Kara's capability portfolio centers on maintenance, repair, and inspection of automatic opening doors, overhead doors, fire doors, hoists, hangar doors, barriers, cranes, and electrical infrastructure support at Kaiserslautern Military Community, Ramstein Air Base, and U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden. Representative prime work includes a $601,900 firm fixed-price purchase order from USAFE-AFAFRICA awarded December 2022 for maintenance and repair of eight hangar doors at Ramstein Air Base running through November 2027; a $734,610 time-and-materials purchase order from U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden awarded August 2025 for maintenance and repair of doors, gates, and barriers across Wiesbaden installations through July 2028; a $290,154 purchase order from USAFE-AFAFRICA awarded November 2025 for hoist maintenance, repair, and inspection services at Kaiserslautern running through November 2030; and recurring blanket purchase agreement calls for electrical support at military events, including a $48,371 BPA call from USAFE-AFAFRICA in June 2026 for the 4th of July Freedom Fest event.

The vendor holds five significant parent indefinite delivery vehicles, all with USAFE-AFAFRICA. The primary vehicle is an indefinite delivery contract (FA561313D0004) with 91 task orders valued at $676 thousand combined, followed by FA561318D0003 with 42 task orders at $1.6 million, FA561313D0010 with 40 task orders at $375 thousand, FA561317D0001 with 36 task orders at $322 thousand, and FA561317D0002 with 32 task orders at $632 thousand. A single-award IDV awarded January 2024 (ceiling $1.5 million through December 2028) specifically covers maintenance and repair of automatic opening doors, overhead doors, and fire doors at Kaiserslautern; a multiple-award BPA from May 2022 provides electrical support services across German military facilities; and a $3 million IDV cited in earlier awards ran maintenance and repair services through 2028 at Kaiserslautern.

Award activity has been flat to volatile. The vendor recorded 13 awards in 2022, dropped to two in 2023, recovered to 15 in 2024, declined to 12 in 2025, and has received one award in 2026 to date. Seven awards with combined potential value of $2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete risk concentrated on USAFE-AFAFRICA door and hoist maintenance vehicles. The vendor's SAM registration dates to 2005, indicating two decades of federal contracting experience; combined dollars obligated total $10.1 million against a $18.4 million combined potential value, suggesting roughly half of ceiling amounts have been drawn to date across the portfolio. Elektro-Kara's NAICS concentration is overwhelming: 342 of 375 awards fall under NAICS 811310 (Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance), with electrical and specialized machinery repair rounding out the secondary codes. The vendor operates exclusively in Germany with no domestic U.S. presence and no identified subcontractors across the entire award footprint.