GCS LLC

GCS LLC, doing business as Government Contracting Service LLC, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in Ottawa, Illinois, that delivers federal infrastructure and construction services as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides, with recent work concentrated on road, bridge, and campground infrastructure projects for the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior.

GCS LLC holds SBA certification as both a Veteran-Owned Small Business and an SDVOSB through May 30, 2027. The vendor's award portfolio spans 159 prime and sub awards with combined potential value of $99 million, of which $26.4 million has been obligated. The top NAICS codes are Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (34 awards), Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (25 awards), and Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (19 awards), with primary PSC activity in forest and range improvements, highway and road construction, and repair or alteration of transportation infrastructure.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (38 awards, $84 million combined potential value), which accounts for approximately 85% of the vendor's potential dollar value across its entire portfolio. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 represents the second-largest customer by award count (46 awards, $6.6 million combined potential value), though at substantially lower per-award magnitude. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region places a distant third (13 awards, $3 million combined potential value). These three customers represent 67% of recent award count and 96% of combined potential value.

GCS LLC holds or has held four active indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service Region 2: a $50 million multiple-award IDC for road and bridge construction across Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, and Wyoming (awarded July 2025, performing through July 2030); a $20 million single-award IDC for road maintenance and forest support services in the same five-state region (awarded July 2025, performing through June 2030); a $5 million White River National Forest road and bridge IDIQ (awarded August 2021, expiring August 2026); and a now-expired single-award IDC with a $2.5 million reported ceiling (awarded August 2021). Representative prime work includes a $2.948 million firm fixed-price contract for Little Bear Campground reconstruction near Delta, Colorado (awarded December 2024, due September 2026), a $2.402 million contract for West Muddy Creek Bridges #4 and #5 replacement in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests (awarded January 2026, due January 2027), a $643 thousand delivery order for difficult campground asphalt paving in the White River National Forest under the Great American Outdoors Act (awarded June 2022, completed November 2022), and a $314 thousand BLM contract for Two Bridges Expansion RV campground infrastructure near Silt, Colorado (awarded July 2025, due July 2026). The vendor also subcontracts on construction work to RJS Construction, Inc., providing concrete work and pond-liner removal on federal projects.

Activity has been uneven in recent years: 12 awards in 2022, declining to 1 in 2023 and 1 in 2024, then recovering to 5 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 (through early July). Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $6 million and face recompete. The Service Contract Inventory dataset reports minimal federal service-contract activity above the $150,000 threshold — $0 invoiced revenue across prime records in FY2022–FY2024, with 0.3 FTEs in FY2022, 0.0 in FY2023, and 2.5 in FY2024 — indicating that GCS LLC's federal work is predominantly goods and construction rather than labor-hour service contracts subject to SCI reporting.

A CVE certified SDVOSB, design/build, heavy/civil engineering, CM/GC. Clients are VA Medical Center, Bureau of Rec and SM Stoller Corp. Authorized Varco Pruden steel building distributor, supplier and builder.