Barnard Spencer Joint Venture

Barnard Spencer Joint Venture is a for-profit partnership registered in the System for Award Management with its principal place of business located at 701 Gold Ave, Bozeman, Montana. The entity specializes in large-scale infrastructure construction services for the federal government, with a particular focus on border security infrastructure and heavy civil construction projects. As an established federal contractor, Barnard Spencer Joint Venture has positioned itself as a primary vehicle for the Department of Homeland Security's border modernization initiatives while also maintaining significant contractual relationships with other federal agencies.

Barnard Spencer Joint Venture's federal contract portfolio demonstrates substantial experience in border infrastructure construction and related heavy civil work. The joint venture has received multiple delivery orders under its master border infrastructure contract from the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection, totaling approximately $778.4 million in active awards as of September 2025, including a $199.5 million delivery order for construction and installation of approximately 60 miles of border detection, lighting, cabling, and related system infrastructure in Bard, California, scheduled for completion by March 3, 2031, and a $578.9 million delivery order for construction of 23 miles of border wall system and 81 miles of system attributes in Weslaco, Texas, with completion targeted for April 7, 2028. Additionally, the joint venture has been awarded delivery orders that were subsequently terminated in March 2024 pursuant to court injunctions, including a $234.84 million project in Tucson, Arizona, a $45.96 million project in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, and a $13.28 million project in Naco, Arizona. These terminations were executed under the Federal Acquisition Regulation's termination for convenience clause. The joint venture's subsidiary, Barnard Construction Company, Incorporated, has also received direct prime contract awards from other federal agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a $199.8 million definitive contract for the Pipestem Spillway Modification Project in Jamestown, North Dakota, the Western Area Power Administration for a $45.04 million firm-fixed-price contract for the Estes-Flatiron 115-KV Double Circuit Rebuild project, and the Bureau of Reclamation for a $1.94 million definitive contract for the EC-Pole Hill Afterbay Repair project in Loveland, Colorado. All of these awards were procured on a firm-fixed-price basis without set-aside designations, reflecting full and open competition for these contracts.

Barnard Spencer Joint Venture holds a $4.1 billion multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity master contract with the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection for border infrastructure construction services, awarded July 18, 2023, with a performance period extending through July 17, 2028. This IDIQ serves as the parent vehicle for the delivery orders issued by CBP for border infrastructure projects across multiple southwestern locations, providing CBP with a strategic procurement mechanism to modernize border barriers and related security infrastructure over the five-year performance window. The contract was awarded on a competitive basis without set-aside designations, and the multiple-award structure demonstrates CBP's reliance on Barnard Spencer Joint Venture as a primary contractor for executing complex border security infrastructure initiatives across the nation.