John Beckett

John Beckett, doing business as Custom Design Fabricators, a sole proprietorship based in Livermore, Colorado, holds a specialized prime contracting footprint in Forest Service road and bridge construction and maintenance, winning federal awards exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under small business set-asides across USDA Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region).

Custom Design Fabricators operates from two significant IDIQ vehicles held as a prime contractor. The first is a $50 million multiple-award MATOC (Multiple Award Task Order Contract) for road and bridge construction services, awarded July 14, 2025, running through July 13, 2030, under NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) with firm fixed pricing on individual task orders ranging from $2,000 to $3 million. The second is a $50 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract for road maintenance and reconstruction services across Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, Pawnee National Grassland, and neighboring Forest Service lands, awarded November 6, 2023, running through November 5, 2028, with individual task orders capped at $5 million and a minimum of $2,500. Both vehicles are total small business set-asides. Recent representative work includes a $811.7 thousand definitive contract awarded August 30, 2022, for the Michigan River Bridge Replacement project in Walden, Colorado, involving removal of a temporary bridge and installation of a new single-span steel beam superstructure with timber planking and micropile foundation; a $262.9 thousand road maintenance and construction definitive contract awarded September 15, 2022; and delivery orders totaling approximately $185.5 thousand (September 28, 2026) and $149.3 thousand (September 25, 2026) for road maintenance and surfacing on Clear Creek, Sulphur, Boulder, and Canyon Lakes Ranger Districts.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 2–Rocky Mountain Region accounts for 86 awards and $107.9 million combined potential value, representing approximately 90% of all awards and effectively 100% of decision-relevant dollars in the portfolio. A secondary USDA Forest Service line carries 9 awards and $193 thousand, with a fire-center account and an agricultural research service account each representing single sub-six-figure awards. Work is performed across Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Kansas on national forest system roads and related infrastructure. The vendor's five most active parent vehicles are older IDIQ contracts (IDC 1282AT18D0001 with 13 task orders, $728 thousand combined value; IDC AG82ATC170008 with 12 task orders, $377 thousand; IDC AG82X9C110103 with 12 task orders, $116 thousand; IDC AG82X9C110108 with 11 task orders, $471 thousand; and IDC AG82X9C080155 with 7 task orders, $132 thousand), reflecting a steady flow of delivery orders against long-standing framework agreements.

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years — four awards each in 2022 and 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 — despite holding prime positions on two $50 million vehicles, indicating task-order velocity remains modest even under the newer MATOC and maintenance IDIQs. Combined potential value across all 108 awards is $108.7 million, but combined obligated dollars is only $5.4 million (5% of potential), a sign that many task orders remain unfunded or that work is being released in smaller tranches. Only two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $335 thousand), creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The portfolio is dominated by NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) across 97 awards, with secondary categories in forestry support and other resource-management services. Primary PSC codes center on highway and road construction, maintenance, and repair (40 awards in PSC Y1LB for Highway/Road/Street/Bridge/Railway construction, 22 in maintenance, 6 in repair or alteration).