Bert W. Salas Inc.

Bert W. Salas Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and Hispanic American–owned minority contractor headquartered in Lakeside, California, performs excavation and heavy civil construction services for federal agencies as a subcontractor (37% of recent awards) and prime contractor (63%). The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and holds a DOT certified DBE designation; it competes under small disadvantaged business and minority set-asides rather than full-and-open.

The source covers a sparse recent footprint dominated by a single subcontract engagement. Nine sub-awards under the prime Manson Construction Co — all dated January 3, 2022, and all labeled "P443 DB Construction Pier 6 Replacement NBSD" excavation work — constitute the entirety of reported activity in the past four years. These appear to represent multiple change orders, task assignments, or invoice line items on a single underlying project rather than distinct procurements. Prior to 2022, the source records sporadic prime and sub activity spanning four decades (first award September 15, 1981), with only fifteen prime awards and nine sub-awards across the full visible history.

Customer concentration is narrow and Navy-heavy. The Department of the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command accounts for 9 of 21 awards in the coverage set (88% of recent awards), and the Navy generally (prime and command level) accounts for 17 of 21. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management carries the remaining 4 awards. Vehicle posture centers on the Waterfront MACC IV, which carries 9 task orders and appears to anchor the Manson subcontract work; three other Navy indefinite delivery contracts carry single task orders each. The combined dollars obligated across all 24 awards (prime and sub, full history) total $2.3 million, signaling either sub-million project scale or incomplete reporting of invoiced or obligated value.

The source does not provide dollar magnitudes per award, set-aside category detail on the prime work, named funding agencies beyond Navy and DOI, or detail on the fifteen prime awards. Activity appears dormant; the most recent award is January 3, 2022 — four years six months prior to the source snapshot date of 2026-07-15. Excavation services (other heavy and civil engineering construction, NAICS 238210 or related) constitute the reported capability, with no other service lines visible in the source.

Contractor that does minor grading, earthwork, wet utility installation and storm channel work.