Kardex Remstar, LLC

Kardex Remstar, LLC, a foreign-owned manufacturer of automated storage and retrieval systems headquartered in Westbrook, Maine, operates as a prime contractor on federal supply and installation contracts, competing full-and-open across military and civilian agencies with no set-aside designations. The company manufactures vertical carousels, vertical lift modules (VLMs), Lektriever filing systems, shuttle systems, and very low maintenance (VLM) equipment, along with associated software licenses, maintenance services, and installation support. Kardex Remstar does not compete under SBA set-asides and pursues business exclusively through unrestricted federal vehicles and open market awards.

Across its federal customer base, Kardex Remstar serves 176 distinct agencies with 792 prime awards and 4 subcontract engagements, generating combined potential value of $63.4 million with $58.1 million obligated. The top five customers by award count account for 28% of awards: the Department of the Army leads with 93 awards ($504 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Air Force (51 awards, $1.3 million), Air National Guard (31 awards, $2.2 million), Marine Corps (26 awards, $1.8 million), and Air Education and Training Command (22 awards, $547 thousand). Dollar concentration runs differently — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation anchors the top-dollar rank with 10 awards worth $6.2 million combined, followed by Air National Guard ($2.2 million), Marine Corps ($1.8 million), Air Combat Command ($1.7 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command ($1.7 million) together accounting for 21% of combined potential value. The disparity reflects Kardex Remstar's transactional model: high volume of smaller equipment and maintenance orders across Army and Air Force bases, offset by larger capital procurements from DLA and specialized platform awards.

Kardex Remstar places the vast majority of work through two parent GSA vehicles: the Federal Supply Schedule GS25F0038M (321 task orders, $8.2 million combined potential value) and the Multiple Award Schedule (249 task orders, $25.1 million combined potential value). These represent delivery-order vehicles through which civilian and defense agencies rapidly acquire Kardex Remstar's core products — vertical carousels, filing systems, and lift modules — with pre-negotiated pricing. Recent representative awards include a $2.84 million Defense Logistics Agency Aviation delivery order for supply and installation of new material storage and distribution equipment at Hill Air Force Base, Utah (September 2025); a $403.6 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command sole-source purchase order for preventative maintenance and repair services on carousel units at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine (September 2025, extending through 2030); a $598.7 thousand Army Training and Doctrine Command definitive contract for maintenance and services on 23 vertical lift shop machines at Fort Moore, Georgia (August 2022–July 2027); and a $282.2 thousand U.S. Mint purchase order for four automated vertical storage systems at West Point, New York (September 2026).

Activity has remained relatively flat, averaging 9–10 awards per year from 2022–2024 before climbing to 18 in 2025 and settling to 10 year-to-date in 2026. Eleven awards with combined potential value of $1.7 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. Kardex Remstar's NAICS footprint centers on Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing (344 awards) and All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (223 awards), with PSC concentration in Cabinets, Lockers, Bins, and Shelving (311 awards) and Office Furniture (72 awards). These categories reflect its core business: the company manufactures and delivers physical automated storage equipment and supplies maintenance labor at federal installations. Service Contract Inventory captures one record (FY2025) as a named subcontractor with 0.3 reported FTEs, indicating minimal SCI-reportable service activity; Kardex Remstar's revenue model is predominantly goods-based and therefore falls outside the SCI reporting threshold.

As a subcontractor, Kardex Remstar has supplied equipment and services under four named primes: Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics LLC (two task orders, February 2025 and May 2024, for Kardex shuttle and vertical lift module supply under prime facilities management contracts), Atlantic Diving Supply Inc. (one award, November 2024, for Lektriever vertical carousel supply), and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (one award, October 2024, for management and operations support at the National Security Campus). These sub engagements are minimal relative to the company's prime footprint (1% of awards) and represent specialized logistics equipment integration into larger prime facility and operations contracts rather than development of core engineering capability.

Kardex Remstar maintains a parent-subsidiary structure with five named international subsidiaries: Kardex Italia SPA, Kardex Systems Inc., AHT Services Group LLC, Kardex Systems (UK) LTD, and Kardex Deutschland GMBH. The company's federal contract history extends back to 1984, with registered SAM presence since 2002 and continuous activity across defense and civilian logistics operations. Its competitive posture is capital equipment and maintenance services oriented — the company competes on GSA vehicles, supplies physical carousels and filing systems, and supports equipment maintenance across dispersed military installations and civilian agencies, with no presence in software development, IT services, or strategic consulting.