Barnard Construction Company, Incorporated

Barnard Construction Company, Incorporated, doing business as Barnard Construction Co Inc., is a large, for-profit heavy civil construction firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. The company has been registered in SAM.gov since March 2002 and specializes in the design, engineering, and construction of complex federal infrastructure projects. Barnard Construction provides comprehensive construction services to multiple federal agencies, including design-build, design-bid-build, and integrated design and construction delivery methods for civil works, water resource management, disaster recovery, border security infrastructure, and military construction projects. The firm's expertise spans heavy horizontal construction, dam modifications, spillway projects, transmission line rebuilds, hydraulic containment structures, and critical infrastructure rehabilitation across the western United States and select regions nationwide.

Barnard Construction Company has executed a substantial portfolio of prime federal contracts valued at over $2.3 billion in recent years, demonstrating its capacity to manage large-scale, complex infrastructure initiatives. Recent definitive contracts include the $1.135 billion Prado Dam Spillway Modification Project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for implementing dam safety modifications in Riverside County, California; the $777.3 billion Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Modification Project, also with the USACE Tulsa District, addressing internal erosion and overtopping failure risks in Pico Rivera, California; and the $103.8 million Three Rivers Phase 2 Hydraulic Containment Structure project with the USACE for construction of a 2.3-mile soil-cement containment structure and culvert modifications in Arkansas. The company has also been awarded the $500,000 Hurricane Helene Virginia Creeper National Recreation Trail disaster recovery and design-build reconstruction contract by the USDA Forest Service; the $199.8 million Pipestem Spillway Modification Project with the USACE for constructing a stepped reinforced concrete spillway chute structure in North Dakota; the $45 million Estes-Flatiron 115-KV Double Circuit Rebuild transmission line project with the Western Area Power Administration; the $1.9 million EC-Pole Hill Afterbay Repair project with the Bureau of Reclamation; and the $299,494 motion monitoring system installation services contract with the Western Area Power Administration. All these contracts were awarded through full and open competition without set-aside designations, reflecting the company's competitive position among large construction firms. Additionally, Barnard Construction holds task orders under the Naval Facilities Engineering Command's multiple award construction contract for new construction, renovation, and repair of heavy horizontal and civil engineering projects in the western United States.

Barnard Construction Company currently holds three multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts representing over $11.3 billion in ceiling value. The most recent award is a $3.364 billion, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, awarded October 31, 2025, for comprehensive construction services supporting Southwest Border infrastructure projects under the DHS CBP Southwest Border Construction 2025-2030 parent vehicle. The company also holds a $7 billion indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District and Southwestern Division, awarded April 8, 2025, for design-build and design-bid-build horizontal construction services in support of civil works, operations, military construction, and interagency projects, with an initial minimum guarantee task order of $2,500 and a performance period extending to April 2033. This contract is part of the SEED PROJECT Horizontal Construction MATOC parent vehicle and encompasses levees, floodwalls, drainage structures, pump stations, channel work, bridges, and related infrastructure throughout the Galveston District and Southwestern Division's geographic boundaries. The third IDV is a $1 billion, eight-year multiple award construction contract with the U.S. Department of the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command, awarded February 27, 2023, for new construction, renovation, and repair of heavy horizontal and civil engineering projects at government installations across California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, under the New Construction, Renovation, and Repair of Various Heavy Horizontal and Civil Engineering Construction Projects parent vehicle. All three IDVs were awarded on an unrestricted, full and open competition basis without set-aside designations, positioning Barnard Construction as a primary vehicle for federal agencies executing substantial heavy civil construction and infrastructure modernization initiatives.