Cook & Sons Construction, LLC

Cook & Sons Construction, LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Grangeville, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering road and bridge construction, culvert installation, facilities maintenance, and emergency repair services to federal land management agencies, predominantly through total small business set-asides. The company has generated $361.4 million in combined potential value across 357 prime awards since 1995, with activity averaging 10–17 awards per year over the past five years and concentrated delivery to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management across western national forests.

Customer concentration is extreme and region-aligned. The U.S. Forest Service accounts for 225 of the 254 named awards (88%) and $335.3 million of combined potential value: Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) anchors the portfolio with 107 awards worth $143.9 million, Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) follows with 56 awards and $94.6 million, and Region 4 (Intermountain Region) carries 62 awards worth $14.8 million. The Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region adds 15 awards ($6.8 million), and the National Interagency Fire Center holds 14 awards ($4 million). Five customer agencies account for 71% of award count. Forest Service Region 1 dominates both volume and dollars; Region 6's share of combined potential value ($94.6 million) exceeds its award count share because it anchors three large Blanket Purchase Agreements (a $49 million vehicle and two $5 million facilities-maintenance BPAs). The portfolio skews toward established relationships: Cook & Sons has held an Indefinite Delivery Contract with Region 1 since at least 2022 and placed 37 task orders against a single Region 1 vehicle alone.

Cook & Sons sits on seven principal parent vehicles, all Forest Service or National Interagency Fire Center IDIQs and BPAs. The Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction MATOC ($50 million ceiling, extended through December 2029) carries the highest task-order density with 37 orders; a Region 6 vehicle (Indefinite Delivery Contract AG03R6C090033) holds 19 orders worth $3.7 million; and a Region 4 MATOC ($50 million ceiling through April 2030) anchors that region's work. Two $5 million Alaska and Northwest Zone facilities-maintenance BPAs and a $25 million Central and Eastern Oregon Road Construction IDIQ (Region 6, through April 2028) round out the prime footprint. Seven recent awards are fire-suppression or equipment-support IDIQs ($250,000 to $500,000 ceilings each) issued by the National Interagency Fire Center between February and August 2026 for mechanic services, heavy equipment, and vehicle-with-driver support across East Zone regions.

Work categorization reflects heavy infrastructure focus. The top three NAICS codes are 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction; 131 awards), 237300 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; 87 awards), and 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry; 61 awards). PSC codes cluster around road and bridge maintenance (71 awards), construction (54 awards), and forest-fire suppression and presuppression (44 and 32 awards respectively). Representative 2025–2026 delivery orders include a $878.4 thousand award for replacement of three timber bridges on the Madison Ranger District (Region 1, September 2026), a $653.5 thousand Blonde Timber Road Reconstruction project in Grangeville (Region 1, October 2025), and a $348.2 thousand BLM Coeur d'Alene site-furnishings contract (September 2025). A $2.62 million delivery order funded under the Great American Outdoors Act improved road drainage and replaced surfacing on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (2023), and a $2.45 million Rock Creek Road reconstruction (Region 1, 2023) funded under GAOA as well.

Activity shows volatility but sustained engagement. Awards per year fluctuated between 7 and 17 over 2022–2026, with 2023 peak at 17 orders and 2025 low at 7, then a rebound to 11 in 2026 (year to date). Only two awards ($32,000 combined potential value) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure. SCI-reportable federal invoicing captured $6.6 million across 2024–2025 (FY2024: $5 million; FY2025: $1.6 million), representing a partial and subset view of the company's federal services footprint. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable service contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $132.19/hr to a 90th percentile of $1,353.43/hr, with a median around $423.62/hr, reflecting the mix of labor-intensive field construction and specialized engineering oversight. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed roughly 11% of hours; Cook & Sons named nine subcontractors but operates predominantly as a self-delivery prime, with in-house crews executing the majority of road, bridge, and emergency repair work.

Cook & Sons competes solely through set-asides and does not pursue full-and-open federal work. HUBZone certification is the entry mechanism into all active parent vehicles. Set-aside posture across the portfolio is stable: all recent IDIQs and task orders are designated total small business set-asides or leverage Cook & Sons' small-business status without additional set-aside flags. The company has not diversified into other customer agencies (Navy, DoD, civilian IT, etc.) and maintains geographic continuity in western forest service regions where it has operated since at least 1995. This concentration, combined with the age of the portfolio and multi-year parent contract ceilings extending through 2029–2033, positions Cook & Sons as an embedded, regionally dominant regional prime for Forest Service and BLM road, bridge, and emergency infrastructure work rather than as a growth-stage or multi-customer federal prime.

General excavation including utilities, concrete, septic systems. Installation of culverts, arch pipes, bridges and new roads. Hauling capabilities of equipment and aggregate. Stream restoration and channel/bank stabilization, erosion control implementation, dewatering and responsible stewardship practices.