Kell Systems Inc.

Kell Systems Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Berea, Ohio, supplies law enforcement and security equipment—particularly undervehicle inspection systems, personal protective equipment, and communications security devices—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The vendor operates 100% as a prime, with no subcontract footprint, and competes predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside vehicles, though recent awards show both Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open designations used interchangeably.

Kell Systems' capability portfolio centers on physical security screening and protective equipment. The top named work includes a $143.6 thousand delivery order from the Air Force in September 2023 for an embedded undervehicle inspection system (performance in Berea, Ohio, set aside for total small business), a $98.9 thousand delivery order from the Air Force in July 2023 for a UVIS system to support the 47th Security Forces Squadron at Del Rio, Texas (ultimate completion August 2041, total small business set-aside), a $96.1 thousand delivery order from Air Combat Command in September 2022 for UVIS vehicle inspection area equipment, and a $61.1 thousand delivery order from Air Force Materiel Command in August 2024 for undervehicle inspection system enhancements. Smaller orders include a $36 thousand delivery order from Naval Education and Training Command for gas masks and carriers (July 2023), an $18.9 thousand delivery order from FEMA for 90 NH15 escape hoods (June 2023), and a $6.4 thousand delivery order for voice projection units and SCBA accessories (June 2023).

Customer concentration is highly dispersed across 94 distinct federal agencies, but the Department of the Air Force anchors the relationship—20 awards capturing $640 thousand in combined potential value, with Air Education and Training Command, Air Mobility Command, and Air Combat Command as named subordinate customers. GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates the potential-value ranking, however: six awards carry $9.7 million in combined potential value, substantially above the Air Force total. Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Army, and the Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration represent secondary customers by award count.

Kell Systems sits exclusively on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which accounts for 180 task orders and $7.7 million in combined potential value. The underlying GSA MAS contract covers law enforcement and security equipment including body armor, night vision devices, perimeter security systems, and detection equipment and carries an $8.3 million potential value. Activity has been sporadic—six awards in 2021, one in 2022, seven in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026—suggesting intermittent task-order placement rather than sustained pipeline growth. The vendor's award footprint spans 214 prime awards dating to 2001, with $18.2 million in combined potential value and $9.3 million obligated (51% of potential). Primary NAICS concentration is 541512 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, 174 awards), with secondary coding in communications equipment manufacturing and security systems services, though the actual work rendered is physical security hardware and PPE supply rather than broadcast equipment.

SUPPLIER AND INTEGRATOR OF ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT AND RELATED PRODUCTS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY AGENCIES.