Big River Construction Inc.

Big River Construction Inc., doing business as Big River Excavating, Inc., is a small-business prime contractor (95% of recent awards) based in Astoria, Oregon, that delivers heavy civil construction, jetty maintenance, and emergency marine infrastructure repair to federal agencies, predominantly under total small business set-asides.

The company operates as a single-focused regional contractor with a narrow but valuable customer footprint. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Seattle dominates both award count and dollar value—four awards totaling $61 million combined potential value, including the flagship $50.66 million North Jetty Major Maintenance contract awarded March 5, 2026 (firm fixed price, completion November 1, 2029). That contract requires repair of 6,500 feet of jetty trunk and root, placement of 111,100 tons of armor stone across two work seasons, and land-based equipment operations exclusively, with work staged at Ocean Shores, Washington and procurement beginning in late 2025. The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard follows with seven awards totaling $39 thousand combined potential value, spanning emergent buoy recovery and retrieval services ($6,835 in October 2025, $6,000 in November 2021). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service account for three awards ($1.7 million combined), including a $1.5 million April 2022 total small business set-aside for 32-culvert replacement on Bible Creek Road in Oregon (NAICS 237110, completed October 2022). Across the awards portfolio, 68% of recent activity concentrates on three customer agencies; the remaining 32% scatters across the Department of Transportation and ancillary Interior and Homeland Security task orders.

The company's NAICS footprint centers on other heavy and civil engineering construction (11 awards) and water/sewer line structures (2 awards). Across the past five years, Big River has averaged one award per year with a recent upward signal—one award in each of 2021, 2022, and 2023, then one in 2025 and one in 2026. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime (one sub-award recorded: soil-testing work under Gwwh A Joint Venture on the Astoria FRC Homeport design-construct effort in June 2023). SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $1.5 million in FY2022 (1.8 FTEs) with no invoicing recorded in FY2023; these figures represent a partial view of the vendor's federal services activity and do not reflect goods-based revenue, projects completed below SCI thresholds, or non-federal work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime records held steady at $387.02 per hour across the percentile range. Only one award (a $7 thousand Coast Guard buoy recovery purchase order) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in that window.