Gilbane Federal

Gilbane Federal, the federal contracting division of Gilbane Building Company (Providence, Rhode Island), is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Concord, California that delivers commercial and institutional building construction, facilities management, environmental remediation, and specialized military infrastructure services to the federal government exclusively as a prime contractor—100% of its 1,253 recent awards are prime vehicles. The vendor competes on full-and-open basis across all award tiers with no set-aside designations.

Gilbane Federal's footprint is concentrated in defense construction and facilities engineering. Its top five customer agencies by award count represent 50% of recent awards and include the Department of the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency (159 awards, $353.1 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (130 awards, $17.57 billion), the Defense Logistics Agency Energy (119 awards, $1.73 billion), the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (116 awards, $186.5 million), and the Department of the Air Force (103 awards, $29.9 million). By dollar value, the top five agencies account for 63% of combined potential value: Navy NAVFAC ($17.57 billion across 130 awards) anchors the portfolio, followed by the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command ($8.67 billion, 25 awards), the Air Force Civil Engineer Center ($5.48 billion, 26 awards), the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville ($2.61 billion, 38 awards), and DLA Energy ($1.73 billion, 119 awards). The dollar concentration versus volume divergence signals that Navy NAVFAC places fewer high-value construction task orders while DLA Energy uses many smaller energy-facility task orders.

Capability portfolio centers on building construction (397 awards), remediation services (562 awards), oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction (91 awards), and environmental consulting. Representative named work includes a $149.4 million delivery order from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (March 2023) for construction of a 130,000-square-foot multi-bay aircraft hangar at Beale Air Force Base, California, under the USAF Worldwide Engineering and Construction 2017-2022 (WE&C) IDIQ, with named subcontractors including Sunsteel LLC (structural steel), Michael Baker International (design), Kone Inc. (elevators), and Bergelectric Corp (electrical); a $131.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Coast Guard (September 2023) for design and construction of the Kodiak Operations Port Complex Facility Renewal Center Phase II in Kodiak, Alaska, under the Coast Guard's $4 billion National Multiple Award Construction Contract III (NMACC III); a $123.4 million definitive contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (December 2022) for Tactical Mobile Over-the-Horizon Radar (TACMOR) utilities and infrastructure in Palau; and a $98.1 million delivery order from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (October 2024) for construction of secure tactical communications and controlled assets storage facilities at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia, also under WE&C.

Gilbane Federal holds seats on seven significant parent vehicles generating the bulk of task-order activity. The USAF Worldwide Engineering and Construction 2017-2022 (WE&C) IDIQ and related Air Force Construction Services IDIQ 2008-2018 (138 task orders, $998.3 million) anchor Air Force work; the Navy General Construction Southeast Area of Responsibility vehicle (newly awarded June 2025, $1.999 billion ceiling through June 2030) and the Southeast Area of Responsibility Multiple Award Construction Contract (MACC, $1.105 billion, 5-year term) funnel Navy construction. The $5 billion Global Contingency Construction Multiple Award Contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (awarded September 2024, extending through September 2032) provides Gilbane Federal with worldwide contingency construction authority. The $4 billion Coast Guard NMACC III (awarded September 2023 through September 2033) supports Department of Homeland Security construction. The $900 million Defense Health Agency Little Rock Medical Sustainment Restoration and Modernization Mission IDIQ (awarded February 2023, running through February 2029) procures design-build and medical facility renovation work. The $250 million Army Corps of Engineers North Carolina MATOC (awarded July 2024, five years) covers general and design-build construction in the Carolinas and adjacent states. The $97 million USACE Europe Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) Construction MATOC (awarded September 2021, five-year base through September 2026) covers secure facilities and force-protection work in Europe. The $495 million Army Corps of Engineers Initial Outfitting and Transition Facility Support Services IDIQ (awarded July 2021, through February 2026) provides medical enterprise facility outfitting across CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas locations including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Activity has declined from 10 awards in 2021 to 3 in 2025, reflecting consolidation of delivery-order pipeline under larger IDIQs rather than new prime vehicle awards. Gilbane Federal faces $482.4 million in combined potential value from ten awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months—material recompete exposure across Air Force, Navy, and Army programs.

Service Contract Inventory data shows federal service-contract invoicing of $75.2 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $30.4 million, FY2023: $23.8 million, FY2024: $21.1 million), with FTE trajectory declining from 15.1 (FY2022) to 12.4 (FY2024) on SCI-reported prime contracts. Government-paid hourly rates across SCI records ran from $16.60/hr (10th percentile) to a median of $179.85/hr, with senior labor priced to $363.07/hr (90th percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, 62% of contractor hours were performed by subcontractors; the source names 87 total subcontractors, including Ruppert Landscape (landscaping), Inland Construction & Engineering (roofing and floating dock), MCS Of Tampa (telecommunications), RESA Power (electrical testing), and dozens of trade and specialty firms.

Gilbane Federal is the federal division of a larger enterprise. The corporate structure includes parent Gilbane Building Company (for-profit corporation based in Providence, Rhode Island) and named subsidiaries Gilbane Smcc ECC LLC, Gilbane Japan GK, and Gilbane Yuksel JV, the latter two reflecting international construction operations in Japan and a joint venture with a Turkish partner—consistent with Gilbane Federal's track record executing projects at overseas military installations in Saudi Arabia, Japan, Palau, and Germany.