Brayco Engineering, Inc.

Brayco Engineering, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Alpine, California, delivers road construction, maintenance, and emergency infrastructure repair services to the federal government exclusively as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides. The company operates across NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and related specialties, competing almost entirely within Total Small Business set-aside vehicles rather than full-and-open competition.

Brayco's customer concentration is extreme and deliberate. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) accounts for 73 of 83 awards (88% of total) worth $205.3 million in combined potential value — a near-total dependency that reflects Brayco's specialized fit for Forest Service infrastructure needs. The Federal Highway Administration places three awards valued at $5.7 million, the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) one award at $1.6 million, and the Bureau of Land Management Arizona Region three awards at $262 thousand. This concentration exceeds decision-threshold risk: Region 5 renewal, recompete, or shifts in procurement strategy directly threaten the company's pipeline.

Brayco's concrete capability footprint centers on road blading, drainage restoration, culvert installation, road reconditioning, and emergency repair across federal forests and grasslands damaged by wildfire, weather, or suppression activities. Representative work includes a $4.1 million definitive contract from Federal Highway Administration for Black Mountain Road reconstruction near Paso Robles (awarded December 2025, completion June 2026); a $1.8 million purchase order from Forest Service Region 5 for Cone Peak Road storm-damage repair in Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur (awarded September 2026, completion July 2027); and a $597.8 thousand purchase order for FY 2023 Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads repairs at Sequoia National Forest (awarded September 2026, completion March 2027). Brayco also performs trailhead and campground improvements, retaining wall construction, and OHV facility work under the Great American Outdoors Act and similar federal programs.

Brayco holds two significant parent vehicles with Forest Service Region 5: a $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement for California Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance running through March 2033 (awarded April 2023) and a $45 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for road construction and maintenance across the Southern Sierra Zone national forests (Inyo, Sequoia, Sierra, Stanislaus) running through August 2027 (awarded August 2022, with option year four exercised through August 2027). Task orders issued against these two vehicles amount to approximately 40 awards. Brayco also executes work under older Forest Service IDIQs and smaller BPA call orders.

Activity has been volatile. Brayco recorded 11 awards in 2022, dropped to 4 in 2023, recovered to 7 in 2024, then fell to 2 in 2025 and 4 in 2026 year-to-date. The recompete cliff is shallow: only three awards (combined potential value $2.8 million) complete in the next twenty-four months, suggesting the two major parent vehicles are insulating Brayco from near-term recompete urgency. However, the $45 million IDIQ begins option-year wind-down in 2027, and the $50 million BPA enters its final renewal window in 2033 — both represent material strategic renewal points.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts (a subset capturing engineering, inspection, and administrative labor above the $150,000 threshold) reached $9.1 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $2 million in FY2022, zero in FY2023, $7.2 million in FY2024, and zero in FY2025. This reflects lumpy project-based cash flow rather than baseline service staffing. Brayco maintained 1.7 FTEs in FY2022, none in FY2023, 7.3 FTEs in FY2024 (driven by larger road-construction task orders), and none in FY2025, underscoring that SCI-captured labor is project-specific rather than standing overhead. Government-paid hourly rates across SCI records ran a median of $497.28/hr, with rates spanning $312.79/hr (10th percentile) through $747.85/hr (90th percentile), consistent with field supervision and equipment-operator labor on civil-construction work. Brayco performs 100% of SCI-reportable work through its own delivery teams with zero subcontractor engagement on those contracts.

Brayco operates as a pure prime with no subcontractor role in the source data — all 83 awards name Brayco as prime contractor. The company builds integrated crews for each project rather than relying on established subcontractor networks, which limits its ability to scale beyond its own equipment and labor capacity but aligns with the small-business set-aside mandate and the repeat-work model Forest Service Region 5 operates.