Am Excavating LLC

Am Excavating LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Cle Elum, Washington, operates as a prime contractor delivering road construction, maintenance, and infrastructure repair services exclusively to the federal government, with all 142 awards held as prime contracts and zero subcontract work. The company is a for-profit partnership competing predominantly under small-business set-asides (total small business designations appear across roughly 70% of its recent award count), with particular concentration in disaster supplemental and Great American Outdoors Act-funded work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on highway and heavy civil engineering construction. Representative work includes a $1.847 million firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (awarded September 10, 2026) for road repairs across 11.04 miles of burn-scar recovery on the Wenatchee River Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, encompassing culvert removal and installation, drainage excavation, asphalt patching, stream diversions, and temporary traffic control under Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements through October 2029; a $3.038 million delivery order (March 29, 2023) for the Great American Outdoors Act-funded Denny Creek Franklin Falls parking expansion project in Algona, Washington; a $927 thousand disaster relief delivery order (August 1, 2025) for Little Rattlesnake Bridge replacement on the Naches District as part of Schneider Springs Wildfire recovery; and multiple BPA calls ranging from $43 thousand to $115 thousand for road maintenance on specific Forest Service roads and trails across Oregon and Washington national forests. Work scope across the portfolio includes culvert replacement, stream simulation, clearing and grubbing, aggregate base grading, drainage system upgrades, asphalt concrete patching, parking lot expansion, and seeding.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for 108 of 142 awards (87% by count) and $92.2 million of the $100.8 million combined potential value (92% of total dollars). The Department of Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Seattle holds 9 awards for $3 million, and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Economic Recovery Operations Center Northwest carries 4 awards for $2.9 million. The top three customers account for 97% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects Am Excavating's position as a standing contractor for Forest Service infrastructure work across the Pacific Northwest, particularly for disaster recovery and recreation-site improvement projects.

The vendor holds a seat on the FPO Northwest Road Maintenance Blanket Purchase Agreement, a $49 million multiple-award vehicle awarded July 10, 2023 and running through June 30, 2033, from which multiple task orders have been issued. The vendor also receives delivery orders under the Forest Service R6 Road Construction indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle, with ten task orders carrying $12.9 million in combined potential value. Older parent vehicles including WANF Road Construction (2016–2021) and several indefinite-delivery contracts account for 18 and 12 task orders respectively at lower dollar scales. The vendor's NAICS concentration (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction at 88 awards; Support Activities for Forestry at 21 awards) and PSC concentration (Construction of Highways, Roads, Streets, Bridges, and Railways at 59 awards; Maintenance at 26 awards) reflect pure-play heavy civil work.

Activity has remained flat over the past five fiscal years (four awards in 2022, five in 2023, three in 2024, five in 2025, and two in 2026 year-to-date), averaging roughly four awards annually. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months is light, with only three awards totaling $1.4 million reaching ultimate completion dates within that window. Combined potential value of $100.8 million contrasts with $31 million in obligated dollars (31% obligation rate), indicating substantial task-order upside across BPA and IDIQ vehicles still available for execution.

Service Contract Inventory data captures only $1.1 million in invoiced SCI-reportable amounts across FY2022–FY2025 (all concentrated in FY2024), reflecting 0.6 FTEs in that fiscal year. SCI-reported hourly rates on prime service contracts ran a median of $1,103.92/hr, with rates spanning $784.58/hr at the tenth percentile to $1,423.27/hr at the ninety-fifth percentile. The vendor operates no named subcontractor relationships and performs 100% of delivery in-house. SCI captures only contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods and small-purchase activity; the vast majority of Am Excavating's federal revenue flows through construction purchase orders and BPA task orders below or at the SCI reporting boundary, meaning the $1.1 million SCI figure substantially understates total federal invoicing and FTE utilization.

Road construction, bridge construction, site preperation