Great West Engineering Inc.

Great West Engineering Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Helena, Montana, delivers architectural, engineering, and technical services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor, with a portfolio heavily concentrated in infrastructure design, bridge inspection, road and culvert design, and aquatic organism passage structures. The firm competes across a mix of total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders; roughly one-third of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, while two-thirds compete without set-asides, indicating a balanced posture between set-aside and open competition.

Great West's customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates 81% of recent award volume (295 awards, $58.3 million combined potential value), with the Northern Region (R1) alone accounting for 241 awards worth $37.3 million. By dollar value, the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions drives $51.6 million (three awards), anchored by a $24.999 million multiple-award IDIQ for Architect-Engineer services across Regions 6 and 10 awarded September 2025. The Department of the Interior National Park Service (11 awards, $13.3 million) and regional Forest Service offices in the Pacific Northwest (R6, 25 awards, $19.9 million) and Alaska (R10, two awards, $26.1 million) round out the active set. This customer concentration is decision-relevant: the vendor's revenue footprint is almost entirely dependent on Forest Service volume.

The firm holds four named parent IDVs providing ongoing task-order authority. The largest is a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service for Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR), awarded March 2023, running through March 2033, which has generated 98 task orders worth $9 million. A $50 million multiple-award MATOC with the Department of the Interior for Architecture and Engineering Services (awarded September 2022, through September 2027) carries 29 task orders worth $5.9 million. A $24.999 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded September 2025 for Architect-Engineer services in Forest Service Regions 6 and 10 was recently added. Additionally, the firm sits on multiple Forest Service regional IDIQs (12034320D0038, AG0343C090003, AG0343C150002, 53034340012) generating hundreds of cumulative task orders totaling $16 million.

Recent representative work includes a $1.108 million delivery order from Forest Service Alaska Region (July 2026) for road bridge inspections and load ratings in Anchorage; a $830.563 million firm fixed-price order from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Office (August 2025) for Death Valley Darwin Falls infrastructure work; a $813.541 million task order under the DOI MATOC (May 2023) for Cle Elum and Naches aquatic organism passage design in Helena; a $428.778 million delivery order for John Day Basin Area of Production designs in Pendleton, Oregon (March 2024); a $364.247 million order for aquatic organism passage design in Baker City, Oregon (September 2024); and a $298.694 million firm fixed-price delivery order for routine bridge inspections and monitoring on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest (March 2026). Work spans transportation infrastructure design, bridge and culvert replacement, facility rehabilitation, utility system upgrades, survey and design services, construction inspection, and historic structures documentation.

Activity has contracted modestly from 30 awards in 2022 to 16 year-to-date in 2026, with 22 awards per year in 2025 and 26 in 2024, suggesting a flattening trend rather than growth. Within the next twenty-four months, 26 awards (combined potential value $8.4 million) reach completion, triggering recompete exposure across Forest Service R1 delivery orders, DOI MATOC task orders, and regional VA engineering contracts. SCI-reported invoiced revenue across prime service contracts topped $2.8 million cumulatively (FY2022–FY2025), with peak annual invoicing of $1.9 million in FY2024 across 3.0 FTEs, though this figure is a strict subset of federal work and excludes goods, micro-purchases, and classified activity. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $175.67/hr to a 90th percentile of $1,460/hr (median $258.92/hr), reflecting a mix of engineering and senior technical labor. The firm operates as a 100% prime contractor with no sub-award footprint in recent data and carries zero named subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts, indicating the vendor builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on subs for execution.

Great West Engineering is a small business enterprise that provides comprehensive engineering services to cities, towns, counties, state and federal agencies. We are a 61-person firm with offices in Helena and Billings, Montana, and Boise, Idaho. Great West Engineering has been serving the Rocky Mountain Region for over 34 years. Our focus is on civil engineering, infrastructure, project design, and construction management services. The firm's professional staff includes experienced engineers in the civil, structural, water and wastewater (sanitary) engineering disciplines.