Brayco Engineering, Inc.

Brayco Engineering, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Alpine, California, delivers road construction, maintenance, and emergency infrastructure repair services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The company competes entirely under small business set-asides, with the majority of work designated as total small business, and operates predominantly on its own delivery teams with minimal subcontractor engagement.

Brayco's customer base is heavily concentrated in the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (USFS R5), which accounts for 70 of 80 total awards and $202.5 million of the $210.1 million combined potential value across the portfolio—96% of awards and 96% of dollars. The remaining footprint spans three other federal land management customers: the Federal Highway Administration (3 awards, $5.3 million), USFS Pacific Northwest Region (1 award, $1.6 million), Bureau of Land Management Arizona Region (3 awards, $262 thousand), and USFS Southwestern Region (1 award, $172 thousand). The concentration on USFS R5 disaster recovery and deferred-maintenance work is the dominant signal; Brayco's capability portfolio centers on road reconstruction, blading, drainage installation and restoration, asphalt paving, culvert cleaning, and post-fire and post-flood emergency repairs across California national forests.

Recent contract work exemplifies this focus. A $3.7 million Federal Highway Administration definitive contract awarded in December 2025 covers full-depth reclamation and asphalt overlay on the Black Mountain Road (approximately 6.9 miles) at the Paso Robles Long Range Radar site in Maricopa, California, with completion extended to June 26, 2026. A $277,777 USFS R5 purchase order from April 2026 addresses disaster road repairs in the Los Padres National Forest following the Thomas Fire, involving blading operations, drainage restoration, and overside drain installation across 32 miles of roadway in the Santa Barbara and Ojai Ranger Districts, with completion by September 30, 2026. A $3.5 million USFS R5 contract from September 2024 called for comprehensive resurfacing, pulverization, and safety improvements on Pine Creek Road in the Cleveland National Forest. A $262,778 USFS R5 definitive contract from August 2025 covered pulverizing, compacting, and repaving work on the Santa Clara Divide Road in the Angeles National Forest, with completion by January 31, 2026.

Brayco's vehicle position centers on two large indefinite delivery contracts with USFS R5. A $50 million blanket purchase agreement awarded April 2023 (running through March 2033) provides on-demand road maintenance and construction services across California's federal forests and grasslands; this vehicle has generated the bulk of task orders. A $45 million single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded August 2022 (through August 2027) covers road construction and maintenance for the Southern Sierra Zone national forests (Inyo, Sequoia, Sierra, Stanislaus). Together, these two IDVs account for the majority of Brayco's recent delivery order activity. Brayco also holds positions on smaller USFS task-order vehicles and has earned spot awards from the Federal Highway Administration.

Activity has contracted in recent years—11 awards in 2022 declining to 2 in 2025 and 1 in 2026 (through April)—though this reflects the nature of the customer's emergency funding cycles (Disaster Supplemental Funding, BAER, IIJA) rather than loss of customer favor. Only one award (valued at $278 thousand) is scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The SCI dataset shows Brayco invoiced $9.1 million in federal services across fourteen contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold during FY2022–FY2024, with $2 million in FY2022, $0 in FY2023, and $7.2 million in FY2024; FTE delivery on SCI-reportable contracts ran 1.7 in FY2022, zero in FY2023, and 7.3 in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ranged from approximately $313/hr at the 10th percentile to $748/hr at the 90th percentile, with a median around $497/hr. Across these prime contracts, Brayco performed zero percent of hours through named subcontractors, indicating a fully integrated delivery model.