Adams Contracting Co

Adams Contracting Co Inc. Division, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Robbinsville, North Carolina, delivers road maintenance, construction, and emergency repair services to the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Transportation as a prime contractor across total-small-business and HUBZone set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) with no subcontractor leverage, delivering civil engineering construction and heavy equipment rental work across the southeastern United States.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region accounts for 71 of 87 recent awards and $169 million of $180.8 million in combined potential value — 94% of the portfolio. Three awards from the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration contribute $6.9 million (4% of potential value), the National Resources Conservation Service Southeast Region adds $2.7 million across three awards, and a minor presence in Forest Service Research and Forest Service general accounts rounds out a 95%-of-awards concentration in the top five customers. Dollar rankings align exactly: Forest Service R8 dominates both volume and value by a substantial margin.

Adams Contracting's vehicle position anchors to two recently awarded IDIQs with the USDA Forest Service R8. A $49.999 million single-award Indefinite Delivery contract issued September 30, 2024, with a five-year performance period running through September 30, 2029, provides the primary vehicle for task orders. A second $49.999 million single-award IDIQ, awarded October 1, 2024, for North Carolina MATOC road maintenance and construction, expires October 1, 2029. These two vehicles seat the vendor as the exclusive Forest Service R8 contractor for civil engineering construction and road work across the region. Against the USDA Civil Construction MATOC (a government vehicle, not Adams's own), the vendor has delivered 23 task orders valued at $9.6 million combined. Secondary IDIQs (12455018D0004, 12467018D0009, 12445224D0030, 12445224D0062) carry fewer task orders and smaller dollar values and appear to be older or pre-expiration vehicles. Representative recent task-order work includes a $5.632 million HUBZone set-aside delivery order from the Federal Highway Administration for road repair and resurfacing work on McFarland Road at Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee (ultimate completion November 28, 2028), a $1.607 million total-small-business order from Forest Service R8 for post-Hurricane Helene road repairs and drainage infrastructure work on Forest Service roads in Asheville, North Carolina (completion January 28, 2027), and a $5.677 million total-small-business order for the Cheoah and Tusquitee Road Rehabilitation Project in Robbinsville, North Carolina (completion October 19, 2026).

Activity shows volatility across the available record. Awards peaked at 12 in 2022, contracted to 4 in 2023, recovered to 9 in 2024, dropped to 2 in 2025, and rebounded to 7 in 2026 year to date. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $8.2 million and face recompete exposure; these near-term-completion orders represent a modest recompete cliff relative to the vendor's $49.999 million IDIQ ceiling but do signal a window of contestable work in the 2027–2028 period.

Service Contract Inventory data, which covers federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and equipment rentals, shows $2.4 million in invoiced revenue across ten prime records spanning FY2022 through FY2025. The bulk of SCI-captured work occurred in FY2023 ($1.8 million) and FY2024 ($507 thousand), with 1.8 FTEs and 1.2 FTEs respectively. Government-paid hourly rates on service work ran a median of $630.90 per hour, with a range from roughly $120 per hour at the 10th percentile to $893 per hour at the 90th percentile. SCI records are a partial view and exclude the vendor's substantial goods, equipment rental, and fixed-price construction work; the $2.4 million SCI total does not represent total federal revenue or annual revenue but rather a narrow subset of service-contract invoicing above the reporting threshold.

The vendor does not engage subcontractors on its federal work. SCI data shows zero subcontractor hours across prime contracts, and the portfolio narrative confirms the vendor self-performs all work and brings no named subcontractor primes or partnerships. This posture limits the vendor's ability to scale or team on larger, multi-capability efforts but positions it as a direct labor provider with full control over execution in its narrowly focused domain.

Adams Contracting's capability portfolio is centered and specialized: road and highway maintenance, construction, and emergency repair on National Forest System lands; culvert replacement and drainage infrastructure; trail construction and restoration; equipment rental (mowers, excavators, dump trucks); and post-disaster recovery work. The portfolio is exclusively tied to southeastern national forests and federal lands, with work concentrated in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina. The vendor does not appear in defense work, IT services, or federal civilian agency portfolios beyond USDA and minor NRCS and FHWA exposure. The two recently awarded $50 million IDIQs represent the vendor's largest vehicles on record and position it as the sole-source contractor for Forest Service R8's civil construction needs through 2029, absent recompete.