BL Harbert International LLC

BL Harbert International LLC, the U.S. Operations Division of a Birmingham, Alabama-based design-build and construction management firm, competes as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) in full-and-open federal construction procurement, delivering military facility construction, embassy compounds, and aerospace infrastructure projects to the Department of Defense, Department of State, and civilian agencies without reliance on set-aside categories.

BL Harbert is a for-profit limited liability company and a subsidiary of B.L. Harbert Holdings, LLC, with related subsidiaries including Hasp Holdings, LLC and Jones Valley Fabrication LLC. The vendor operates under primary NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), representing 202 of 240 awards in the source data. The company holds over two decades of federal contracting tenure since 2002 SAM.gov registration and competes exclusively in unrestricted procurement.

The customer portfolio is concentrated by dollar value but diversified by agency count. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command anchors 91% of combined potential value across 20 awards ($23.22 billion), followed by the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (72 awards, $12.12 billion combined potential value across 57% of award count) and the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (2 awards, $10 billion combined potential value from a single $10 billion IDIQ). The Army Corps of Engineers Mobile and Savannah Districts contribute $3.98 billion and $1.69 billion respectively across 20 and 14 awards. The gap between the two rankings reflects the NAVFAC concentration in high-value indefinite-delivery vehicles versus State's larger share of discrete definitive contracts.

BL Harbert holds significant indefinite-delivery vehicle positions. The $1.999 billion NAVFAC Southeast general construction contract (June 2025–June 2030, design-build and design-bid-build) and the $1.105 billion Southeast Area of Responsibility Multiple Award Construction Contract (through September 2026) anchor defense capacity. The $950 million Tyndall Air Force Base Reconstruction MATOC remains active through multiple task orders, with seven orders totaling $389.3 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds the $10 billion Customs and Border Protection design-build IDIQ (May 2026–May 2031), the $15 billion NAVFAC Guam Design-Build Multiple Award Construction Contract (September 2025–September 2033), and a $150.008 million Department of State Worldwide Design-Build Construction contract (through June 2027). A $245 million Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District unrestricted MATOC (August 2025–August 2030) and a $249 million Savannah District general and design-build vehicle (July 2024–July 2029) round out the portfolio. Tyndall Air Force Base Reconstruction and related Navy Southeast area contracts represent the deepest task-order activity, with multiple orders issued annually.

Recent representative prime work reflects the scale and geographic spread: a $124.75 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District (April 2026) for Unaccompanied Enlisted Personnel Housing barracks construction at Fort Stewart, Georgia, running through April 2029; a $337.3 million Air Force definitive contract (October 2025) for B9201 Software Integration Lab renovation at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, with completion in June 2028; a $210.7 million Department of State design-build contract (October 2025) for a Controlled Access Area at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, performed in Kenya through September 2029; a $204.2 million Naval Facilities Engineering Command contract (November 2024) for electrical power plants at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti; a $194.9 million Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District contract (January 2026) for MDA VBIV Ground Test Facility Infrastructure in Huntsville, Alabama; and a $162.1 million Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District contract (October 2024) for Fort Jackson reception complex Phase 2, with subcontracts awarded to Lloyd Roofing Inc., Schnabel Engineering LLC, API Group Life Safety USA LLC, and Patriot Purveyors Inc. (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business). The vendor also delivered a $818.67 million Department of State construction-manager-as-constructor contract for the Hanoi New Embassy Compound (January 2022–November 2029), with FY2024 SCI reporting of $15.4 million invoiced across 184 FTEs and 383,551 contractor hours.

Activity has been volatile year over year: 11 awards in 2022, declining to 7 in 2023, rebounding to 14 in 2024, then 13 in 2025, and 7 recorded through May 2026. The combined potential value of awards completing in the next twenty-four months stands at $3.29 billion across 23 awards, representing moderate recompete exposure.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows BL Harbert's federal services footprint grew substantially: $15.8 million invoiced in FY2022 across 7.4 FTEs, $334.6 million in FY2023 across 4,438 FTEs, and $526.4 million in FY2024 across 9,237 FTEs. This trajectory reflects the ramp-up of large-scale embassy and military facility projects. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work range from a 10th percentile of $19.95/hr to a median of $47.56/hr and a 90th percentile of $1,059.52/hr, reflecting a mix of skilled trades labor, project management, and engineering support. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 3% of total contractor hours, with 38 named subcontractors. This posture indicates BL Harbert builds its own delivery teams for the majority of work, drawing on a deep trade-partner ecosystem for specialized disciplines rather than relying on prime subcontractors for execution.

Subcontractor relationships named across awards include Lloyd Roofing Inc., Bergelectric Corp, Standard Testing & Engineering LLC, Total Demolition Services LLC, United Mechanical Inc., Southwest Microwave Inc., Point Security Inc., Landscaping Worx LLC (women-owned small business), Innerspaice Architectural Interiors LLC, Wilson Kitchens Inc., Stoa International / Florida Inc. (minority-owned small business), King Business Interiors Inc. (woman-owned small business), and specialized engineering firms such as AECOM Technical Services, Hardy Corp, Wayne J Griffin Electric Inc., and Otis Elevator Company. For the Hanoi embassy project, named subs include Interior-Exterior Construction Services LLC, Trane U.S. Inc., SPX Cooling Tech LLC, and Siemens Industry Inc. In FY2024 SCI reporting, the FBI Academy Health, Wellness and Resiliency Center project (March 2023 award, $44.99 million) showed $14.5 million invoiced across 13.6 FTEs and 28,330 contractor hours with 54% subcontracted hours — an exception to the vendor's typical low-sub-share posture.

Sub-award engagement is minimal: four sub-awards across the 240-award portfolio, all to Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, or as named subcontractor roles. These represent construction and engineering support on larger defense primes rather than a subcontracting business line.

Place of performance spans the continental United States, Europe, and overseas: primary sites include Tyndall Air Force Base (Florida), Fort Stewart (Georgia), Camp Lemonnier (Djibouti), Hanoi (Vietnam), Nairobi (Kenya), Lilongwe (Malawi), Port Louis (Mauritius), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), and Ebbing Field (Arkansas), alongside domestic military installations and federal facilities. The vendor's consolidated 31% of combined potential value across $17.35 billion obligated demonstrates execution maturity on large-scale, multi-year projects with extended completion horizons extending to 2029–2033.