Kay And Associates, Inc.

Kay And Associates, Inc., a Buffalo Grove, Illinois-based small business subchapter S corporation, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering organizational, intermediate, and depot-level aviation maintenance, corrosion control, logistics support, and contract field team augmentation to the Department of Defense across multiple military branches and installations. The vendor competes under partial and total small business set-asides on the majority of its prime footprint, with a significant minority of full-and-open awards on larger IDIQs and fixed-price delivery orders.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on military aircraft sustainment. Recent representative work includes a $749.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by Naval Air Warfare Center on December 23, 2021, for comprehensive mission support services—aircraft maintenance, supply chain management, and facility operations—in Kuwait, with FY2024 invoicing of $73.1 million across 336 FTEs; a $53.1 million delivery order from Air Combat Command (June 2023) for B-1 organizational, intermediate, and depot-level maintenance at Dyess Air Force Base and Ellsworth Air Force Base under the AFSC Contract Field Teams Program Support IDIQ; and a $19.3 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Marine Corps (April 2025) for light attack aircraft flight-line operations, corrosion control, and organizational-level maintenance at Camp Pendleton North. The vendor also holds a $7.01 billion multiple-award IDIQ from the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (awarded February 1, 2026, through January 31, 2036) for Contract Field Teams Labor Augmentation Support Requirement services and a $751.8 million multiple-award IDIQ from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (awarded June 24, 2025, through June 23, 2035) under the Depot On-Site Contract Augmentee Teams Fifth Generation (DOCAT5) program for depot-level maintenance.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward naval and air force aviation maintenance. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of combined potential value: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex ($25.43 billion across 8 awards), Naval Air Systems Command ($20.68 billion across 85 awards), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command broadly ($7.92 billion across 6 awards), Naval Air Warfare Center ($1.27 billion across 10 awards), and NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center ($159.1 million across 7 awards). By award count, the Department of the Navy dominates with 998 awards carrying $13.7 million combined potential value, though this reflects high-volume small task orders; Naval Air Systems Command's 85 awards anchor the dollars. The award-count ranking diverges markedly from the dollar ranking—the Navy volume is concentrated in low-value CFT support delivery orders, while the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex IDIQ alone represents 44.7% of the vendor's total combined potential value.

The vendor places the vast majority of its work under the AFSC Contract Field Teams Program Support IDIQ (55 task orders, $682.6 million combined potential value), two other large IDIQs tracked as Indefinite Delivery Contracts FA810809D0008 (67 task orders, $269.9 million combined potential value) and N0014083D6740 and N0014086D9566 (47 task orders each), and a Basic Ordering Agreement F2560688D0003 (72 task orders). These vehicles establish Kay And Associates as a recurring prime for defense aviation maintenance and logistics across Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force missions.

Activity has grown materially year over year, from 9 awards in 2022 to 15 in 2025 and 14 through May 2026, driven by increasing task-order volume under large standing IDIQs. Nineteen awards reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $1.03 billion—a significant recompete exposure concentrated in established CFT and IDIQ positions. On the subcontractor side, Kay And Associates delivers P-3 aircraft maintenance and logistics support (including integrated logistics support and fleet repairs) to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on a recurring basis, with sub-awards spanning February 2026 through March 2026 and backward through at least 2025; sub work accounts for only 2% of the vendor's recent prime-vs-sub split.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above $150,000 shows strong growth from $62.1 million (521 FTEs, FY2022) to $130.5 million (941 FTEs, FY2024), driven by ramp-up on large indefinite-delivery vehicles and the Kuwait comprehensive mission support services contract. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performs all reported hours with zero subcontractor engagement, indicating a fully internal delivery model. Government-paid hourly rates span a median of $52.22/hr, ranging from a 10th percentile of $45.98/hr to a 90th percentile of $75.40/hr, reflecting blended labor on field-level maintenance and technical representative work. The vendor registered in SAM.gov since 2002 and brings demonstrated depth in supporting naval, Marine Corps, and Air Force aviation operations across multiple aircraft platforms including CH-53 helicopters, T-6A trainers, C-130 cargo aircraft, B-1 bombers, F-15 fighters, and maritime strike helicopters.