Larry Kranz

Larry Kranz, doing business as Straight Creek Water & Sewer, delivers water and wastewater infrastructure construction and rehabilitation services to the Indian Health Service as a prime contractor under 100% small business set-asides. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a sole proprietorship and based in Whiting, Kansas, competing exclusively under Total Small Business set-aside authority on firm-fixed-price purchase orders ranging from $2,293 to $28,150 in contract value.

Straight Creek Water & Sewer operates with singular customer concentration. The Indian Health Service accounts for all 34 of the vendor's tracked awards and the full $306 thousand in combined potential value across the portfolio — a concentration that reflects IHS's recurring use of the vendor for rural water and wastewater infrastructure serving Native American communities. Award frequency has been sparse and episodic: two awards in 2019, one in 2020, two in 2023, four in 2025, and one in early 2026. The vendor holds no seat on government-wide vehicles, regional IDIQs, or BPAs; all work flows through individual competitive solicitations under the small business set-aside program.

Capability work centers on water and sewer line construction and rehabilitation under primary NAICS 237110 (Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction). Representative recent awards include a $16,945 firm-fixed-price purchase order from IHS awarded April 23, 2026, for furnishing and installing a septic tank, drain field, and water service line at a residential property in Mayetta, Kansas, with 60-day performance and one-year warranty; a $19,159 Total Small Business set-aside for water and wastewater rehabilitation services in Holton, Kansas, awarded May 12, 2025, encompassing a new pump station, well upgrade, well house construction, and lagoon fencing with 90-day performance and Davis-Bacon wage compliance; and a $14,147 sewer line, septic tank, and lagoon rehabilitation contract in Mayetta, Kansas, awarded June 27, 2025. The vendor performs excavation, pipe installation, pressure testing, disinfection, site restoration, and well abandonment work. All recent awards carry Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements and require Kansas plumbing licenses for field personnel.

The vendor has no subcontract activity and does not operate as a subcontractor to larger primes. Total combined potential value across the entire 51-award portfolio is $371 thousand, with 100% of that value obligated and realized across purchase orders closed or nearing completion. This profile indicates a small, regionally concentrated operator serving a single federal customer through recurring, modest-value rural infrastructure contracts with no apparent pursuit of vehicle-based or multi-agency expansion.