GEO Gradel Co

GEO Gradel Co, a for-profit small business based in Toledo, Ohio, provides marine construction and dredging services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor exclusively, with all 75 recent awards designated under small-business set-asides (Total Small Business or Partial Small Business) or full-and-open competition. The vendor operates under primary NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and holds two significant indefinite delivery contracts for Great Lakes maintenance dredging and design-build marine construction work.

GEO Gradel Co's customer concentration is singular and pronounced. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for 89% of awards by count and 100% of combined potential value across six distinct customer agencies. Within that concentration, the Army Corps of Engineers proper carries 39 awards valued at $266.4 million combined potential value, while the Engineering District Detroit and Engineering District Buffalo commands 7 and 10 awards respectively—Detroit carrying $205.4 million in potential value. The vendor's sole non-Corps customer is the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard, represented by a single award.

GEO Gradel Co holds two parent contract vehicles driving task-order activity. The Great Lakes Dredging Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC), a $180 million Total Small Business set-aside multiple-award IDIQ running through December 29, 2030, has generated six task orders totaling $4.4 million in combined potential value. A second MATOC for design-bid-build marine construction within the Buffalo, Chicago, and Detroit districts carries a $260 million ceiling and generated a $5,000 minimum-guarantee task order with an ordering period extending through January 31, 2028. Older IDIQs including the Buffalo District National Guard Construction IDIQ (2014–2019) continue to surface task orders, representing legacy vehicle activity.

Representative named work spans maintenance dredging operations across the Great Lakes region: a $1.58 million definitive contract awarded May 19, 2025 for the Ashtabula Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project (federal channel dredging on Lake Erie, completion September 14, 2025); a $903,102.64 FY23 Vermilion Dredge delivery order under MATOC (awarded June 15, 2024, completed August 2, 2024); and a $1.35 million Ashtabula Dredge Outer Harbor operations and maintenance delivery order (awarded June 30, 2023, completed September 8, 2023). A January 22, 2026 delivery order under the 2025–2030 MATOC carries a $5,000 firm fixed price with ultimate completion December 29, 2030 and performance in Detroit, Michigan. Scope across all awards includes furnishing labor, materials, and equipment for dredging; mobilization and demobilization; placement of dredged materials; Confined Disposal Facility and Dredged Materials Disposal Facility site work; surveys; and environmental compliance activities supporting commercial and recreational marine traffic.

Activity has been cyclical over five years—three awards each in 2022 and 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 through mid-January—with combined potential value across all 75 awards reaching $703 million. Only $32 million (5% of potential value) has been obligated to date, indicating substantial future ordering authority under the MATOC vehicles. The recompete cliff within the next twenty-four months is minimal: one award valued at $5 thousand reaches ultimate completion in that window. GEO Gradel Co operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no sub-award activity appears in the source.

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