Dean Kurtz Construction Company

Dean Kurtz Construction Company, doing business as Kurtz Dean Construction, is a South Dakota-based general contractor and construction management firm that performs design-bid-build and renovation work for the Department of Defense and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota, and has built a portfolio of 161 prime awards since 1980 across military construction, facility renovation, and heavy civil engineering projects, with no subcontract footprint.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense infrastructure. The top five funding entities account for 76% of recent awards by count, dominated by the Department of the Army (47 awards) and the Department of the Air Force (35 awards), followed by the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service (15 awards), the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command (13 awards), and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha (12 awards, $58.1 million combined potential value). The potential-value rankings diverge significantly — the Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha anchors the entire portfolio at $58.1 million combined potential value across 12 awards, while Army and Air Force volume orders carry substantially lower individual award values. Recent capability examples include a $8.3 million design-bid-build contract awarded July 3, 2026 by the Corps of Engineers to construct a wet well, intake, and pumphouse on Lake Sharpe in Fort Thompson, South Dakota (ultimate completion July 2, 2027); a $3.07 million firm fixed-price renovation of building B7918 at Ellsworth Air Force Base awarded March 7, 2026 (completion June 30, 2027); and a $2.08 million battery storage construction contract at Ellsworth AFB awarded March 13, 2026 (completion June 30, 2027).

Kurtz Dean Construction operates under five primary indefinite delivery vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract F3960102DK103 (25 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract DACA4599D0014 (24 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract DACA4585C0092 (7 task orders), with two additional IDIQ vehicles carrying lighter task-order volume. The company's NAICS footprint centers on Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (14 awards), Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (5 awards), and Industrial Building Construction (3 awards), with primary PSC coding in Maint-Rep-Alt/Misc Bldgs. Activity across the past five years shows sporadic volume — one award in 2011, three in 2016, one in 2018, one in 2020, and three in 2026 — suggesting either portfolio maturation or episodic large-project capture. Three awards worth $13.4 million combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will enter recompete cycle; the vendor carries $140.9 million in total obligated dollars against $58.2 million in combined potential value, indicating prior awards have been extended or re-obligated beyond initial ceiling.

GENERAL CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING INCLUDING HEAVY CONSTRUCTION. CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION.WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT.DESIGN-BUILD. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT.