The Kendall Group, Inc.

The Kendall Group, Inc., operating through its Kendall Electric Division and doing business as Great Lakes Automation Supply, is a 100% employee-owned, for-profit subchapter S corporation based in Portage, Michigan that supplies Rockwell Automation software licenses, industrial control system hardware, electrical equipment, and related technical support services to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The vendor competes exclusively on full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Kendall Group's capability portfolio centers on Rockwell Automation products and services, including software licenses (RSLogix, Studio 5000, FactoryTalk, and TechConnect support), programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and controllers, industrial automation training, and electrical components. Representative prime work includes a $1.768 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the Air Force for a Building 65 thermal power upgrade at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (awarded September 2021, completed September 2023); a $135.027 thousand purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support for Rockwell Software Studio licenses (awarded July 2024, completing July 2027); a $75.557 thousand sole-source purchase order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Rockwell Automation software licenses supporting hydropower facility operations in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (awarded September 2021); and recurring annual Rockwell TechConnect hardware and software support renewals with the United States Mint at Philadelphia and Washington, DC field sites, each in the $16,000 to $18,700 range. Recent activity in 2025–2026 reflects smaller purchase orders for Rockwell software, PLC training, and specialized hardware such as check valves and HVAC components, with individual award values ranging from $2,150 to $32,469.

Customer concentration splits between defense and civilian agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 55% of recent awards, led by TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (28 awards, $263 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Energy Office of Science (17 awards, $39 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command (15 awards, $330 thousand), the United States Mint (8 awards, $87 thousand), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (6 awards, $89 thousand). By dollar value, the Department of the Air Force anchors 90% of combined potential value (2 awards, $1.8 million), driven by the single thermal upgrade contract; Naval Sea Systems Command and TACOM follow with $330 thousand and $263 thousand respectively. The vendor operates across 14 distinct customer agencies, with no single agency account dominating the award profile outside the Air Force's large thermal project.

Kendall Group places most work on Defense Logistics Agency BPAs (DESC vehicles), with five individual BPAs named in the source carrying single task orders of $1 thousand to $6 thousand each, reflecting typical purchase-order-level transactions rather than sustained contract vehicles. The vendor's subcontract footprint is minimal—only 2 sub-awards (1% of total) appear in the recent window, including a July 2025 engineering and technical services software sub-award under Delphinus Engineering, Inc. and a February 2025 hot-water-heater provision under Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC.

Activity has been uneven across the past five years: four awards in 2022, surging to fourteen in 2023, declining to five in 2024, recovering to eight in 2025, and one award through mid-2026. Three awards (combined potential value $166 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete exposure. The vendor's primary NAICS classification is electrical apparatus and equipment merchant wholesale (24 awards), with secondary exposure in software publishing (11 awards) and custom computer programming services (6 awards). PSC concentration mirrors this split: miscellaneous items (31 awards), electrical hardware and supplies (22 awards), and information technology software (10 awards).