Etcon Inc.

Etcon Inc., doing business as JHL Construction, operates as a prime contractor delivering horizontal infrastructure maintenance, repair, and construction services exclusively to the Army, with a dominant concentration on Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) and Army installations across the Southwest Region in Texas under total small business set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders. The company is a for-profit Gatesville, Texas-based construction services firm registered in SAM since January 2002, with a footprint of 1,302 federal awards totaling $775.6 million in combined potential value.

Etcon's customer concentration is extreme and strategic: the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region accounts for 772 awards ($689.6 million, or 89% of combined potential value), with secondary work from the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth (160 awards, $19.9 million) and the Army Materiel Command's Mission and Installation Contracting Command Fort Hood (40 awards, $8.3 million). The vendor serves no civilian agencies and no defense primes as a subcontractor — the portfolio is 100% prime work, 100% Army-driven, and 100% performed without subcontractors.

Etcon's work consists almost entirely of highway and street construction and maintenance. The top NAICS category is 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), spanning 859 of 1,302 awards. Representative delivery orders illustrate the scope: a $3.29 million combined FY23 micro-surfacing order at Fort Hood (August 2023), a $2.86 million Turkey Run Road repair (April 2024), a $2.27 million full-depth road repair and overlay (April 2026), a $1.6 million FY25 Roadway Stop Gap project (July 2025), a $1.53 million fence removal and motor pool extension (September 2024), and numerous parking lot reconstruction, sidewalk installation, drainage repair, and concrete work orders ranging from under $1,000 to $1.8 million. All work is performed at Fort Cavazos and subordinate Army installations across the Southwest Region.

The vendor holds a dominant position on the Fort Hood Paving IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery Contract W9115123D0007), a $200 million multiple-award total small business set-aside contract awarded April 17, 2023, with performance through April 16, 2028. Etcon also holds a Blanket Purchase Agreement ($8 million ceiling, awarded May 18, 2026, expiring May 18, 2029) established against the parent Fort Hood Paving IDIQ. Additional IDVs include Indefinite Delivery Contract W9115116D0017 (210 task orders, $80.9 million) and W9115111D0004 (164 task orders, $40.4 million), both supporting paving and horizontal infrastructure work at Fort Hood and related installations.

Activity has declined significantly in recent years. The vendor received 29 awards in 2022, 12 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 8 in 2025, and 6 through mid-2026 — a pattern consistent with recompeting cycles on large IDIQ vehicles. The recompete cliff is minimal: only 3 awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2.9 million, meaning most of Etcon's revenue base remains on active task orders with extended performance periods through 2028 and beyond. This posture suggests Etcon is positioned to absorb any near-term task order flow churn but faces material risk on IDIQ re-competitions post-2027, particularly the Fort Hood Paving IDIQ renewal decision, which will determine vendor continuity across the portfolio's largest revenue anchor.

Typically a sitework contractor with ability to also perform site concrete on large commercial projects. Also a TXDOT contractor.