Kisters North America, Inc.

Kisters North America, Inc., a foreign-owned small business subsidiary of German-based Kisters AG, supplies specialized hydrologic monitoring equipment, environmental data management software, and related field services to federal natural resource agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing on full-and-open awards with no set-aside posture. Headquartered in Lake Worth, Florida, Kisters North America operates across NAICS 334513 (instruments and related products manufacturing for measuring, displaying, and controlling industrial process variables) and NAICS 541511 (software publishers), with a primary PSC footprint in combination and miscellaneous instruments, information technology software, and annual software maintenance service plans.

The vendor's federal customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of the Interior. The U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants dominates both award count and potential value, accounting for 38 awards worth $7 million combined potential value and anchoring approximately 57% of all dollars across the vendor's recent federal work. The Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Western Region ranks second with 10 awards valued at $3 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters follows with 6 awards worth $668 thousand combined potential value. These three customers account for approximately 90% of the vendor's combined potential value across 143 total awards. The concentration reflects Kisters North America's established position as the primary vendor for hydrologic instrumentation to water resource and conservation agencies.

Kisters North America's principal vehicle is a single-award indefinite-delivery contract (140G0121D0018) with USGS, valued at $2.5 million over five years, originally awarded September 13, 2021, and renewed on September 11, 2026 with a new $2.5 million ceiling running through September 12, 2029. Task orders under this IDC have generated 23 orders worth $1.2 million combined potential value, providing streamlined procurement for specialized hydrologic equipment replenishment at the USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility. A new five-year IDC award to Kisters North America on September 11, 2026 extends the relationship with a $2.5 million ceiling covering stream gauging and cableway equipment, rainfall measurement instruments, snow measurement systems, surface velocity and discharge measurement radars, and handheld radar systems for level and velocity measurement. All equipment must operate across outdoor field temperature ranges of -35°C to +60°C, incorporate corrosion-resistant materials with integrated lightning protection, and run on 12 VDC external power sources.

Kisters North America's concrete capability footprint spans streamgaging instrumentation (cableway gaging systems, ADCP cable towing systems), snow measurement devices (Sommer USH-9 and USH-10 snow depth sensors, fluid snow scales, snow pillows, snow melt analyzers), water level and discharge measurement sensors (non-contact discharge measurement systems, Tracer discharge measurement systems, NICO nitrate sensors for tile drainage monitoring), and environmental data management software platforms (WISKI and KiWIS water information systems serving EPA and FWS regions for time series water resources data). Representative recent work includes a $1.75 million purchase order from USDA NRCS in August 2024 for Sommer USH-9 snow depth sensors with cables and USB interface, a $165.6 thousand purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 in July 2024 for operations and maintenance of WISKI and KiWIS software platforms (exercising option year 2 through June 2027), a $183.3 thousand purchase order from USGS Midwest Area in September 2023 for continuous nitrogen monitoring in tile drainage using NICO nitrate sensors, and a $152.3 thousand delivery order from USGS in March 2025 for specialized hydrologic monitoring equipment to support water data collection and natural hazards monitoring.

Activity trajectory shows volatility with recent year-over-year decline. The vendor averaged 12 to 16 awards per year from 2022 through 2024, dropping to 4 awards in 2025 and 7 awards in 2026. Four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $423 thousand — a modest near-term recompete exposure relative to the vendor's installed base, reflecting the long-tail nature of the USGS IDC and its multiple renewal cycles. The vendor holds 99% prime awards, with a single noted subcontract under Booz Allen Hamilton in August 2026 for hydrological and meteorological hardware and software delivery under a modernization analysis service contract. Kisters North America operates as a child entity of Kisters AG, a German limited-liability company specializing in water management systems, instrumentation, and IT solutions; the subsidiary structure provides access to parent-company product lines (Sommer Messtechnik sensors, WISKI environmental data platforms) that differentiate Kisters North America's federal offering. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designation across its prime footprint, positioning it as a niche supplier for specialized federal water monitoring and environmental data management rather than a set-aside-dependent contractor.