Deshotel, Luke

Deshotel, Luke, doing business as Luke Deshotel's Construction, is a sole proprietorship based in Mamou, Louisiana, that provides grease trap pumping, sewage removal, facility vacuum services, and related sanitation infrastructure maintenance to the Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and has maintained federal contractor status since 2008, operating in a specialized niche of facility maintenance and waste management for correctional institutions.

Luke Deshotel's Construction operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's customer concentration is extremely narrow: 89% of its 53 awards in the source data are split among three Bureau of Prisons locations — Federal Correctional Complex Oakdale (22 awards, $213 thousand combined potential value), Federal Correctional Institution Oakdale (13 awards, $149 thousand), and Federal Correctional Complex Pollock (12 awards, $115 thousand). The top-customers-by-award-count and top-customers-by-potential-value rankings are identical, indicating no tension between order frequency and dollar magnitude across the three facilities. Combined potential value across all awards is $565 thousand with $474 thousand (84%) obligated.

Capability work is repetitive and highly specialized. Representative awards include a $14,720 firm fixed-price purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Pollock (September 2026) for grease trap pumping and haul services; a $22,060 grease trap cleaning and maintenance contract from the same facility (November 2025); and a $14,416 grease trap pumping and facilities vacuum contract from Federal Correctional Complex Oakdale (September 2023) performed prior to scheduled water outages. Contract values range from $1,616 to $22,060. The vendor sits on two Indefinite Delivery contracts under the Bureau of Prisons umbrella: DJBP051800000050 (5 task orders, $35 thousand combined potential value) and DJBP0519KP140001 (2 task orders, $15 thousand).

Activity has been flat to declining. Recent award counts show three awards in 2022, two each in 2023 and 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026, with only one award (combined potential value $15 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. The primary NAICS footprint is 4952 (Sewage Treatment Facilities) with secondary categories in miscellaneous waste management services, reflecting the vendor's specialized role in correctional-facility sanitation operations. PSC coding is dominated by housekeeping waste treatment and storage maintenance categories.