Relm Communications, Inc.

Relm Communications, Inc., doing business as BK Technologies, operates as a subsidiary of BK Technologies Inc. and manufactures land mobile radio (LMR) equipment and accessories for federal agencies as a prime contractor under full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida and competes across both set-aside and unrestricted federal procurements, with recurring small business set-aside wins alongside full-and-open task orders.

BK Technologies supplies portable and mobile radios, base stations, repeaters, batteries, chargers, cloning cables, antennas, microphones, and associated maintenance and repair services to wildland firefighting, law enforcement, natural resource management, and emergency response operations. Representative work includes a $1.86 billion delivery order from Defense Logistics Agency for maintenance and repair services on BK Technologies portable, mobile, and base station radios (June 2026); a $12.6 million delivery order from a civilian federal agency for VHF P25 portable subscriber units and LMR base stations and repeaters (July 2025); and a $2.54 million delivery order for BKR9000 and BKR5000 handheld radios under a Multiple Award Schedule vehicle (September 2025). The company holds a $49.9 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service established in May 2021 for land mobile radio subscriber units and accessories, and participates in the General Services Administration's Second Generation Information Technology (2GIT) multiple-award BPA program.

Customer concentration tracks heavily to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (756 awards, $205.5 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Interior's National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management operations (581 awards combined, $64.2 million potential value). The top five customer organizations account for roughly 30% of recent awards by count. The Forest Service dominates both award volume and dollar concentration; Interior customer agencies place numerous smaller task orders that collectively anchor the second-tier spend.

BK Technologies anchors its vehicle position on the GSA Information Technology Schedule 70 (2,719 task orders, $683.1 million potential value), the Tactical Communications II IDIQ (548 task orders, $62 million potential value), and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (365 task orders, $201 million potential value). These vehicles enable rapid procurement of radio equipment across federal civilian agencies. The company also participates in several field communications and network communications IDIQs carrying lower task-order counts but supporting specific agency mission requirements.

Activity remains steady in the recent period. The vendor recorded 98 awards in 2022, 113 in 2023, 91 in 2024, and 66 in 2025, with 39 awards recorded through August 2026, suggesting continued contract pipeline demand. The combined potential value of all recorded awards stands at $10.94 billion across roughly 4,867 prime contracts since 1981; obligated dollars across the portfolio total $377.9 million (3% of potential value), indicating that most awards remain unexercised or partially obligated task orders. The recompete cliff window shows 12 awards with completion in the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $987 thousand—a minimal near-term recompete exposure relative to the overall portfolio.

Relm Communications operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source contains no subcontract work. The company's competition posture mixes set-aside and full-and-open categories, with set-aside designations appearing on roughly 40–50% of recent awards, indicating balanced pursuit across both tracks. The vendor is a small business manufacturer competing primarily under the unrestricted NAICS 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) designation, supplemented by lower-volume awards under wholesaler and equipment-repair NAICS categories.

BK Technologies (BK) subscriber radios are interoperable with Motorola P25 trunking systems, Harris P25 trunking systems and 100% interoperable with the P25 standard adopted by the US Government. BK radios are CAP tested per the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). BK radios are manufactured in the USA as an American Made P25 radio following the highest standards for First Responders and the Department of Defense (DOD) for Federal, State & Local. Features include AES encryption FIPS 140-2 Level 3, Over The Air Rekeying (OTAR), Over The Air Programming (OTAP), GPS, 5 Year warranty on the BKR 9000 Multi-band portable radio, Link Layer Authentication (LLA), P25 trunking FDMA Phase 1 & TDMA Phase II. BK provides LMR equipment, installation and after sales support.

Software as a Service (SAAS) allows for cellphones to talk to Land Mobile Radios (LMR), similar to LTE.

BK has been in business for over 72+ years and is publicly traded under the symbol BKTI.