Kathryn Baumgratz

Kathryn Baumgratz, operating as Kateco Electronics, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Fairview, Texas, supplies specialized electrical and electronic components to the federal government as a prime contractor, with the vast majority of her business concentrated in Defense Logistics Agency procurements. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open; while several recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations (reflecting her woman-owned small business status), most recent purchase orders and delivery orders are undesignated.

Kateco Electronics' core capability is the supply of standardized electrical and electronic components classified under Federal Supply Group 8511 and related categories — connectors (plug and receptacle), switches (rotary, push, sensitive, toggle), circuit breakers, electrical contacts, power supplies, resistors, fuses, relays, dummy loads, adapters, light-emitting diodes, and associated hardware. Work is performed entirely at the vendor's Fairview, Texas facility. Representative recent awards include a $84.9 million total small business set-aside purchase order for 494 plug-in electrical sockets placed June 23, 2025, a $27.2 million total small business set-aside purchase order for flow switches placed July 7, 2025, a $23.9 million total small business set-aside purchase order for electrical contacts placed November 17, 2025, and a $21.4 million total small business set-aside purchase order for electromagnetic relays placed July 9, 2025. The vendor also holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency's Land and Maritime division, each valued at $250,000, covering electrical connectors, circuit breakers, electrical contacts, connector plugs, and power supplies; the most recent IDC awards (March 2026, November 2025, October 2025) establish one-year performance periods with guaranteed minimums and anticipated delivery orders of three to twelve annually.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 3,904 of 5,065 recent awards and $24.4 million of $31.7 million combined potential value (77% of total by dollars). The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation division places 805 awards valued at $2.3 million. All other agencies — DLA Troop Support Hardware, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, and DLA unspecified — account for fewer than 300 awards and less than $1 million combined. Activity has been steady — averaging 231 awards per year over 2022–2025 — with 41 awards in the first four months of 2026. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months stands at 22 awards (combined potential value $107 thousand), a modest cliff.

Kateco Electronics competes on five active indefinite delivery contracts serving as parent vehicles for task orders; the top vehicle by order count is an Indefinite Delivery Contract SPM93005D0107 with 15 task orders. The vendor sources 100% of awards as prime; there is no recorded subcontract footprint in the source data. Award-per-year trajectory shows a decline from 318 in 2023 to 229 in 2024 and 233 in 2025, though the small sample size in 2026 (41 awards in approximately 100 days) suggests activity may track toward prior-year volume if the pattern holds.

Kateco's entire portfolio reflects a single, tightly integrated operational posture: component supply to a single customer (DLA) across a narrow set of standardized Federal Supply Group 8511 categories, with performance in a single location and contract values typically ranging from under $1,000 to approximately $90,000 per award. The vendor's registered status with the System for Award Management and woman-owned small business designation enable participation in set-aside vehicles; most awards are firm fixed-price, with delivery timelines of 71 to 154 days typical of DLA's military supply chain operations.