Brannon Contracting & Maintenance Services, LLC

Brannon Contracting & Maintenance Services, LLC, a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in Zanesville, Ohio, delivers grounds maintenance, civil infrastructure repair, and small construction services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations.

Brannon is structured as a sole proprietorship and self-certified small disadvantaged business. The company's federal footprint centers almost entirely on the Army Corps of Engineers, with 192 awards totaling $222.4 million in combined potential value across 381 recent awards. The company operates across the Midwest and Ohio River Valley, with administrative oversight and primary customer concentration at the Corps of Engineers Huntington District (164 awards, $9.7 million combined potential value). Work is performed at multiple water resource management facilities across Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, including recurring operations at Dillon Lake, Tom Jenkins Dam, Delaware Lake, Deer Creek Lake, Alum Creek Lake, and Lower Tuscarawas projects.

Capability concentration is narrow and deep. Brannon's portfolio breaks down into 242 landscaping-services awards, 39 heavy civil engineering construction awards, 21 specialty trade contractor awards, and 19 janitorial-services awards, with the vast majority classified under PSC Housekeeping-Landscaping/Groundskeeping (225 awards). Concrete work includes routine grounds maintenance—mowing, cleaning, herbicide spraying, drift removal—but also spans dredging, rip rap placement, erosion control, concrete spalling repair, site preparation, fencing installation, and infrastructure rehabilitation. Representative prime contracts illustrate scope: a $4.78 million Cordell Hull Bluff Phase 2 Construction project in Carthage, Tennessee (Department of the Army, no set-aside, completion September 2026); a $1.64 million toe drain replacement at Haysi, Virginia (Corps, no set-aside, completion March 2027); a $1.09 million Deer Creek Lake concrete spalling repair (Corps, total small business set-aside, completion September 2024); a $893 thousand East Lynn Lake access road paving contract in West Virginia (no set-aside, completion May 2023); and continuous task orders for recurring mowing, cleaning, and herbicide services at single-award IDIQs ranging from $430,000 to $2.4 million ceiling.

Brannon holds six active Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts with the Army Corps of Engineers totaling over $154 million in combined ceiling value. The largest vehicles are a $98 million design-bid-build land construction IDIQ for Rivers Districts work (no set-aside, through December 2027, with six task orders issued totaling $12.2 million) and a $90 million multiple-award small construction IDIQ across the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (total small business set-aside, through July 2027). Single-award vehicles include a $2.4 million Lower Tuscarawas mowing and maintenance IDIQ (total small business, through December 2030); a $1.35 million Dillon Lake and Tom Jenkins Dam mowing and cleaning IDIQ (total small business, through December 2028); an $865 thousand Deer Creek Lake mowing and cleaning IDIQ (total small business, through December 2027); a $550 thousand Alum Creek Lake mowing and maintenance IDIQ (total small business, through December 2031); and a $430 thousand Delaware Lake mowing and cleaning IDIQ (total small business, through December 2030). Task order activity under these vehicles has ranged from $1,500 to $232 thousand per order, with 58 task orders under one vehicle and 41 under another reflecting substantial utilization.

Activity has remained steady over the past five years, averaging roughly 23 to 33 awards annually (2022–2026), though year-to-date 2026 shows only 9 awards in the first three months. Combined potential value stands at $239.6 million across the 381 awards; combined obligated dollars are $30.9 million (13% utilization), indicating substantial ceiling capacity. Eight awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $7.5 million, exposing Brannon to moderate recompete activity in the near term.

Brannon operates as a pure prime contractor—the source contains no subcontract footprint. The company does not appear as a sub-recipient on federal grants or as a subcontractor to other primes; all 381 awards are direct awards to Brannon as prime. The contractor competes across both total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations; roughly half of recent awards carry set-aside language, and half do not, reflecting both the Corps' use of socioeconomic set-asides for maintenance work and Brannon's qualification to compete in unrestricted procurements where size qualifications are met.