Koester Associates Inc.

Koester Associates Inc., a for-profit corporate entity based in Canastota, New York, operates as a prime contractor selling water and wastewater equipment repair, replacement, and maintenance services to federal agencies. The vendor competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across a highly fragmented customer base, with no subcontracting footprint and no participation in government-wide vehicles or agency IDIQs.

Koester's customer concentration is dominated by the Department of the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, which accounts for 12 awards (57% of all recent awards) and $164 thousand in combined potential value — approximately 55% of the vendor's total portfolio. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Ray Brook, the Department of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 round out the active customer set, each placing single awards. The top five customers account for 76% of awards by count and 94% of combined potential value, reflecting significant customer concentration risk offset only by the small absolute dollar magnitude of individual awards.

Koester's capability portfolio centers on water and wastewater infrastructure — water purification equipment, sewage treatment equipment, plumbing fixtures, waste disposal equipment, and hose assemblies, per the top NAICS and PSC categories. Recent representative work includes a $57,635 purchase order from Federal Correctional Institution Ray Brook (July 2026) to replace lift station pumps, a $44,883 firm fixed price order from Air Force Research Laboratory (January 2024) for septic pump replacement, and a $7,271 purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (July 2026) to repair a chiller pump. Activity is episodic — two awards in 2026, one in 2024, two in 2016, one in 2015, and one in 2019 — across a portfolio of 21 total awards spanning from 2003. One award (the Federal Correctional Institution Ray Brook lift-station contract, $58 thousand potential value) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represents the only near-term recompete exposure.