Städtereinigung Rudolf Ernst GMBH & CO. KG

Städtereinigung Rudolf Ernst GMBH & CO. KG, doing business as Rudolf Ernst GMBH & CO. KG, is a German for-profit facilities maintenance and waste management company that operates as a prime contractor providing refuse collection, recyclables collection, street sweeping, and airfield maintenance services to U.S. Army installations in Germany. The vendor competes exclusively on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis with no set-aside participation.

Based in Gunzenhausen, Germany, and registered in the System for Award Management since 2006, Rudolf Ernst GMBH & CO. KG delivers concrete environmental services: refuse and recyclables collection at U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach and Illesheim; street sweeping at airfields and Army installation grounds; emptying, cleaning, and hauling sludge from vehicle wash racks; and related custodial and grounds maintenance. Representative work includes a $3.823 million single-award indefinite delivery contract (W912PB22D3012) awarded September 29, 2022, for refuse and recyclables collection services through October 31, 2025, against which the Army has issued 24 delivery orders ranging from approximately $11,186 to $301,821; a $680,658.45 single-award IDC (awarded July 2, 2025) for wash-rack sludge emptying and hauling services at USAG Ansbach through June 30, 2028; and a $289,475.66 street sweeping contract (awarded April 1, 2025) for airfield maintenance at Illesheim through March 31, 2026. The vendor also holds five active IDCs carrying smaller ceiling values for ongoing street sweeping, airfield sweeping, and refuse collection work.

Customer concentration is extreme and non-diversified. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Europe Region accounts for 230 of 337 awards (68% of total count) with a combined potential value of $25.3 million (83% of total portfolio value). The Department of the Army Materiel Command Expeditionary Contracting Command Regional Contracting Office Bamberg 409th CSB places 78 awards valued at $2 million, and the Department of the Army proper accounts for 24 awards. The vendor's entire federal footprint is Army-Europe focused; no DoD or civilian agency exposure appears in the recent award record. The portfolio concentrates in NAICS 561720 (Solid Waste Collection) with 145 awards and NAICS 531930 (Other Waste Collection) with 103 awards, reflecting pure waste-management positioning; PSC coding reinforces this concentration, with 246 awards under Housekeeping–Trash/Garbage Collection.

The vendor holds positions on five parent IDC vehicles. The two largest are W912PB22D3012 (71 task orders, $2.5 million combined potential value) for refuse and recyclables collection and W912PB22D3012 (29 task orders, $2.8 million combined potential value); both fund refuse and recyclables work at Ansbach. Smaller vehicles DABN0603D0020 (38 task orders, $1.1 million), W912PG07D0009 (32 task orders, $845 thousand), and W912PG06D0013 (30 task orders, $490 thousand) support street sweeping and airfield maintenance work. All awards are issued as firm fixed-price delivery orders under single-award IDCs without competition or set-aside designation.

Activity has declined materially. The vendor received 27 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 11 in 2025, and 5 through early 2026. The combined recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest—only four awards with combined potential value of $435 thousand reach ultimate completion within that window. However, the vendor's largest IDC (W912PB22D3012, $3.823 million ceiling) terminates October 31, 2025, and the newer wash-rack sludge contract extends through June 2028 and the April 2025 street sweeping vehicle through March 2026, exposing the vendor to recompete activity across its primary account within the next twelve to eighteen months. All 337 awards are prime contractor delivery orders; the vendor does not engage in federal subcontracting and reports zero sub-award activity. The portfolio represents $30.4 million in combined potential value, with $14.7 million obligated (48% burn rate), and is entirely concentrated on one customer region, one agency, and three waste-management and facilities-maintenance service lines delivered at two German military installations.