Sikora Inc.

Sikora Inc., doing business as Red Wing Shoe Store, supplies safety and hard-toe shoes to the federal government as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders, with no set-aside designations across its award footprint. The company is a for-profit small disadvantaged business headquartered in Anniston, Alabama.

Sikora Inc. operates as a footwear supplier, delivering Red Wing brand protective footwear and related safety shoes to Army personnel. The vendor's recent work centers on recurring annual purchase orders from the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for safety and steel-toe shoes, typically supporting approximately 500 pairs of protective footwear annually. Representative awards include a $231.5 million firm fixed-price purchase order from TACOM awarded February 5, 2024, for safety and hard-toe shoes (ultimate completion September 30, 2024); a $111.3 million purchase order awarded January 6, 2025, for safety and steel-toe shoes under BPA GS-21F-0086U (ultimate completion September 30, 2025); and a $25.1 million purchase order awarded October 1, 2025, for safety and hard-toe shoes (ultimate completion September 30, 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme: TACOM Life Cycle Management Command accounts for all but approximately $5,000 of the vendor's $2.9 million combined potential value across 11 total awards, representing 10 of 11 prime contracts. A single Bureau of Prisons purchase rounded out the portfolio at $5,000. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurement and holds no position on government-wide vehicles, BPAs, or IDIQs. Sikora Inc. operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Activity has remained sporadic — two awards in 2020, one in 2021, one in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2025 — with only one award (valued at $25,000) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.