Krätz GMBH

Kratz GMBH, a Germany-registered family-owned environmental and sanitation services company, is the prime contractor delivering waste management, portable facility rental, and facility support services to U.S. Army installations across Germany exclusively on a full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside designations. The vendor operates through its Kratz GMBH Division and competes without small business certifications, securing 1,912 prime awards totaling $135 million in combined potential value since 2004.

Kratz GMBH's capability portfolio centers on refuse collection, recycling, food waste removal, and portable latrine and handwashing station rental and maintenance. Representative recent work includes a $749.4 million delivery order from the U.S. Army European Region for refuse collection and recycling services with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025; a $535.3 million delivery order for wash rack sludge collection, transportation, and disposal at multiple Army installations through August 31, 2026; a $461.6 million delivery order for refuse collection and dumpster rental at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria Hohenfels from July 1 through October 31, 2025; and a $350 million delivery order for high-contaminated sludge management services through August 31, 2025. Smaller routine awards span grease separator services, water and sludge analysis, portable latrine rentals, and food waste disposal across training exercises.

Customer concentration is highly skewed toward the Army. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Europe Region (76% of award count) anchors the portfolio with 1,459 awards carrying $102.1 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Army Training and Doctrine Command follows with 160 awards worth $23.8 million, and the Department of the Army European Command accounts for 259 awards worth $8 million. Together, these three Army commands represent all awards in the recent portfolio. Place of performance is exclusively Germany, primarily at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, Grafenwoehr Training Area, Hohenfels Army Base, and the Joint Multinational Readiness Center.

Kratz GMBH holds five active indefinite-delivery contracts (IDCs) totaling at least $24 million in ceiling value. The largest is a single-award IDC (W912PB18D3001) with 912 task orders and $10.6 million in combined potential value. A more recent $9.9 million single-award IDC (W912PB23D3012) awarded to Training and Doctrine Command for portable latrines and handwash stations carries 219 task orders. Other significant vehicles include W912PB18D3019 (114 task orders, $10.4 million), W912PB11D0012 (92 task orders, $1.5 million), and W912PB17D3001 (92 task orders, $1.3 million). These IDCs span portable facility rental, refuse collection, recycling, environmental services, and sludge management across multiple Army installations in Germany.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years. The vendor secured 274 awards in 2022, 220 in 2023, 114 in 2024, 63 in 2025, and only 48 through August 2026. Only five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $689 thousand, indicating minimal recompete exposure relative to the vendor's historical footprint. This trajectory suggests either contract consolidation, reduced Army environmental services requirements at German installations, or loss of share to competitors.

Kratz GMBH operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint; all 1,912 awards are prime awards. The vendor's capability footprint is tightly focused on the NAICS codes that define its customer base: Sewage Treatment Facilities (915 awards), Septic Tank and Related Services (221 awards), Solid Waste Collection (219 awards), and Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (182 awards). PSC alignment mirrors this concentration, with the majority of work classified under Lease or Rental of Equipment–Plumbing, Heating, and Waste Disposal Equipment (879 awards) and Housekeeping–Trash/Garbage Collection (473 awards). The vendor does not pursue supply contracts, IT services, professional services, or other federal market segments; its entire posture is Germany-based Army installation logistics support.