Manfred Göbel E. Kfm., Inh. Steffen Stein

Manfred Göbel E. Kfm., Inh. Steffen Stein, doing business as Kaercher Center, supplies specialized cleaning equipment and water treatment machinery to U.S. military installations in Europe as a prime contractor on small firm fixed-price purchase orders, with no subcontracting footprint and no set-aside participation.

Kaercher Center is a for-profit sole proprietorship headquartered in St. Ingbert, Germany, operating as a foreign-based vendor without SBA certifications. The company's federal work consists of four purchase orders totaling $173 thousand across a four-year span from 2021 to 2026, all full-and-open competition with no set-asides applied. Work centers on floor maintenance and water treatment equipment supply and short-term leasing: a $60.2 thousand purchase order from Air Forces Europe and Africa in April 2026 for water dispensers and filters (with a July 31, 2026 completion date), a $45.9 thousand order in May 2022 for a Zamboni floor scrubber and accounting update, a $17.1 thousand order in July 2023 for a three-month vacuum sweeper lease, and a $50 thousand order from the Defense Commissary Agency in September 2021 for cleaning equipment. All performance occurs in Germany.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Department of the Air Force United States Air Forces in Europe and Africa, which accounts for three awards and $123 thousand (71% of combined potential value), with the Defense Commissary Agency covering the remainder. The vendor has maintained a flat award pace—one award per year in 2021, 2022, and 2023, then one additional award in 2026—with one award ($60 thousand) scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposed to recompete. The vendor's federal footprint is small, narrow in scope, and geographically constrained to support military base operations at European locations.