Kep Technologies Inc.

Kep Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned technical services provider based in Austin, Texas, supplies repair, maintenance, calibration, and training services for precision scientific instrumentation—primarily thermal analysis and calorimeter equipment—to federal research agencies as a prime contractor on small-value purchase orders, with minimal subcontract footprint.

Kep operates entirely outside set-aside categories across a 66-award federal footprint spanning from 2002 to August 2026. The company's recent activity has flattened: two awards in both 2025 and 2026 following three awards in 2023 and single awards in 2024, with combined potential value across all awards of $3 million (combined dollars obligated, $3.2 million). The vendor competes full-and-open on every named award; no set-aside designations appear in the recent portfolio except a Total Small Business set-aside on a $177.5 thousand NIST calorimeter procurement in April 2023.

Customer concentration sits heavily with NASA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The top five customer agencies account for 50% of recent awards by count and 66% by combined potential value, led by NASA's Shared Services Center (14 awards, $729 thousand combined potential value), NASA Glenn Research Center (5 awards, $548 thousand), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (3 awards, $270 thousand). The Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command anchors five awards worth $268 thousand. Activity spans 20 distinct federal agencies, but concentration is acute: NASA accounts for most of the volume.

Kep's capability portfolio centers on preventative maintenance, repair, and calibration of thermal analysis instruments—Setaram equipment, LabSys Evo analyzers, and Calvet Pro calorimeters—and on-site technical training and equipment installation at federal research centers. Representative recent work includes a $27 thousand NASA award in August 2025 for five days of on-site technical training and equipment calibration for Thermomechanical Analysis systems at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, a $32.1 thousand August 2023 NASA Glenn award for calorimeter service and repair, a $177.5 thousand NIST award in April 2023 for procurement of a high-temperature, high-pressure Calvet Pro calorimeter, and a $51.9 thousand May 2026 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for technical services and equipment solutions. NAICS concentration reflects this specialization: 49 of 66 awards sit under Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, with the remainder split among industrial machinery wholesale and instruments manufacturing. Kep's only identified subcontract relationship is a laboratory equipment sub to Valkyrie Enterprises, LLC supporting MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development in April 2024.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: one award (combined potential value $18 thousand) reaches ultimate completion before October 2027.