Gale Construction Company Of Illinois

Gale Construction Company Of Illinois 100 Division, doing business as Gale Construction Company, is an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) certified contractor that delivers heavy civil engineering, flood recovery, and facility rehabilitation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor. The company is headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, and holds concurrent SBA certifications as an 8(a) Business Development Program participant and HUBZone firm. Gale competes predominantly under small-business set-asides—8(a) Sole Source, Total Small Business, HUBZone, and Woman-Owned Small Business designations dominate the footprint—with recent activity showing growth in full-and-open competition as ceiling values on large GSA and Army Corps IDVs have increased.

Gale's capability portfolio centers on heavy civil construction and infrastructure repair: levee stabilization and scour remediation, lock and dam rehabilitation, facility loading-dock and structural repairs, interior renovations, parking-lot and roadway paving, trail and grounds maintenance, and hazardous-materials abatement including lead-based paint remediation. Representative recent work includes a $3.75 million Coast Guard contract awarded May 2026 for comprehensive interior and exterior rehabilitation of the Multi-Mission Building at Eatons Neck Station in New York (window, door, siding, roofing, HVAC, lead and asbestos removal); a $4.4 million Army Corps of Engineers contract for R-613 follow-on repairs in Bellevue, Nebraska, awarded February 2026 under Total Small Business set-aside; and a $2.65 million General Services Administration 8(a) Sole Source delivery order for loading-dock rehabilitation and lead-based-paint abatement at the Joseph F. Weis Jr. Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, awarded June 2024.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for 50 awards worth $321.8 million combined potential value—54% of the total award count and 54% of the combined potential value across all 137 prime awards. The next tier—GSA Public Buildings Service Region 6 and Region 3—adds 13 awards worth $90.1 million. Together, these three customer buckets (Army Corps general, GSA Region 6, and GSA Region 3) represent 69 awards (50% of the footprint) and $421.9 million in potential value (71% of total). This concentration reflects Gale's embedded position on large Army Corps IDVs and newly awarded GSA regional construction vehicles.

Gale holds five active indefinite-delivery vehicles as a prime: a $95 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Army Corps St. Louis District for civil works and flood recovery (awarded November 2025, running through November 2030); a $75 million multiple-award IDIQ with GSA Public Buildings Service for general construction with design-build capabilities across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware (awarded May 2026, through April 2027); a $25 million GSA Region 6 multiple-award IDIQ for construction services in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas (awarded February 2024, through January 2029); a $24.9 million single-award IDC with Army Corps for civil works services at Coralville and Lake Red Rock locations (awarded August 2023, through August 2026); and a $23 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Army Corps for purchase and hauling of concrete, stone, sand, and dirt (awarded July 2024, through July 2029). A $4.5 million single-award IDC with Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base for noncomplex construction projects expired September 2025. Task-order activity under these vehicles shows Gale competing for work valued between $28 thousand and $740 thousand per order.

Activity trajectory shows volatility with downward pressure. Awards per year ran at 18 in 2022 and 2023, declined to 12 in 2024, fell further to 11 in 2025, and stand at only 4 thus far in 2026. Combined potential value across all 137 awards totals $591.5 million; combined obligated dollars across all awards are $93.7 million (16% of potential value), indicating the bulk of the award ceiling remains uncommitted. Over the next twenty-four months, only 4 awards (combined potential value $8.9 million) reach ultimate completion, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure but also limited pipeline visibility given the sharp year-over-year decline in new awards.

Service Contract Inventory data, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods and products, shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $6.4 million across FY2022–FY2024 (a strict subset of Gale's total federal revenue). The SCI dataset shows roughly 2.9 FTEs delivered to the federal government in FY2024 on service-contract work, growing from 0.2 FTEs in FY2022. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts run with a median around $267.67/hr, ranging from $0.00/hr at the tenth percentile to approximately $779.97/hr at the ninety-percentile, reflecting a mix of site-management and equipment-supply labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average 12% share of total contractor hours; Gale reported three named subcontractors on SCI records. Gale operates predominantly as a prime contractor building its own delivery teams rather than as a subcontractor to larger primes, consistent with the 100% prime / 0% sub split in the award portfolio.

Gale Construction's federal footprint is anchored to Army Corps of Engineers civil works and flood recovery, with growing GSA Real Property Services exposure following the May 2026 award of a $75 million GSA regional IDIQ. The vendor's small-business certifications—particularly EDWOSB and HUBZone status—position it for set-aside competitions; recent awards show movement toward larger, full-and-open competing vehicles as GSA and Corps IDVs have expanded ceiling values. Declining award velocity in 2024–2026 suggests either tightening federal capital spending in construction or increased focus on task-order execution on existing vehicles rather than new prime awards.

Gale Construction Company is a general contractor performing both vertical and horizontal construction projects. Work history includes design-build projects. GCC self-performs concrete construction and heavy civil work, excavation, levees, building installations, marine work and earth work. GCC has 25 years of experience with federal, local and state municipalities. Additionally, Gale Construction performs commercial work for Norfolk Southern Railway, Standard Parking, Waste Management and EcoLabs. GCC has a diverse performance record.