Cooley & Sons Excavating, Inc.

Cooley & Sons Excavating, Inc., a small-business contractor based in Mosca, Colorado, delivers heavy excavation, equipment services, and civil infrastructure construction to federal land management and transportation agencies as a prime contractor exclusively, competing under small-business set-asides on the majority of its work. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, appearing in recent federal awards under Total Small Business Set-Aside designations on most contracts.

Cooley & Sons' customer base is concentrated within the Department of the Interior's regional offices and the Federal Highway Administration. The Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region dominates the award footprint — 26 awards (64% of the vendor's portfolio by count) worth $3.6 million combined potential value — followed by the Federal Highway Administration with a single $2.8 million Federal Lands Access Program road construction contract awarded in May 2024 for Browns Canyon National Monument access road widening in Chaffee County, Colorado. The Fish and Wildlife Service and Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region round out the active customer set with smaller recreation and land stewardship projects. This concentration reflects Cooley & Sons' operational focus on the San Luis Valley region of Colorado; work is performed in and around Monte Vista, Alamosa, and Mosca.

Concrete capability framing derives from the work: the company executes site preparation, excavation, and heavy equipment deployment for federal recreation site development, road construction, and infrastructure maintenance. Representative prime awards include a $283.5 thousand definitive contract with BLM for Zapata Falls campground improvements (excavation, earthen material placement, rock retention wall construction, infrastructure installation) awarded August 2025 with performance through May 2026; a $2.76 million Federal Lands Access Program definitive contract with the Federal Highway Administration for the Browns Canyon access road construction project awarded May 2024; a $100 thousand BPA call for heavy equipment services with BLM awarded August 2023; and multiple task orders under the $470 thousand BLM Travel Management and Locations BPA covering installation of gates, signage, kiosks, and travel management items. The company holds a single active parent vehicle — the BLM Blanket Purchase Agreement 140L1721A0009, carrying nine task orders worth $412 thousand combined potential value.

Activity has declined materially: four awards in 2022 and 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025, and one to date in 2026. Only one award (worth $49 thousand, a BPA call for travel management installations) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling minimal recompete cliff exposure in that window. The vendor carries no federal subcontract footprint; all 53 awards in the source data are prime contracts. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $6.9 million against a $7.3 million combined potential value ceiling, indicating 94% drawdown and mature contract execution across the portfolio.

ALL PHASES OF EARTHMOVING INCLUDING DEMOLITION, SITE PREP, DELIVERY OF GRAVEL PRODUCTS, ROADS, DITCHES, SEPTIC INSTALL, LAND LEVELING, FIRE PREVENTION