Hess Contracting LLC

Hess Contracting LLC, doing business as Hess Construction, is a Preston, Idaho–based small-business construction and facilities contractor that operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering commercial and institutional building construction, heavy civil engineering, and specialty trade services to western civilian federal agencies under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The vendor is a for-profit limited liability company and a sole proprietorship structure that has held federal contractor status since at least 2011.

Hess Contracting's customer base concentrates heavily on two agencies. The Indian Health Service accounts for 81 awards (47% of the portfolio) with $83.3 million in combined potential value, driven by delivery orders for medical facility renovations, infrastructure upgrades, mold remediation, fire alarm replacements, and roof work across tribal healthcare campuses in the Southwest and Northern Plains. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (Oregon-Washington and Idaho regions) accounts for 36 awards with $64.2 million combined potential value, anchored by large design-build and renovation projects including a $2.56 million Burns Junction Fire Guard Station renovation, a $7.09 million National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center sustainability upgrade, and an $8.84 million fire station and crew quarters complex in Orovada, Nevada. The National Park Service Intermountain Region represents 12 awards carrying $42.9 million combined potential value under a multiple-award task order contract (MATOC). Together, these three customers account for 96% of combined potential value. The portfolio also includes work with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDA) across two regions, and smaller volumes with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Hess Contracting operates primarily under three large parent vehicles. The BLM Vertical Repair and Construction Services MATOC (a $45 million IDIQ) carries 20 task orders worth $16 million combined potential value. An IHS-held single-award delivery contract (Indefinite Delivery Contract 75H70120D00002) supports 26 task orders valued at $14.1 million. The USDA Forest Service Job Corps awarded a $5 million single-award IDC in June 2024 for facilities construction and maintenance at Job Corps centers in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Utah, running through June 2029. A National Park Service Intermountain Region MATOC (2021–2026) and two IHS construction MATOCs (Phoenix-Tucson and Albuquerque-Navajo, both 2014–2016 vintage) round out the active vehicle set. Task orders under these vehicles span new building construction, renovations, facility repairs, and specialized infrastructure work including vault toilet construction, boardwalk replacement, electrical system upgrades, and ABA accessibility improvements.

Award volume has remained modest but steady, averaging roughly eight awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with a slight spike to sixteen awards in 2024 before dropping to six awards each in 2025 and 2026. Only seven awards totaling $3.9 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, Hess Contracting invoiced $24.9 million from FY2022 through FY2025 across prime delivery, with FY2025 showing $6.9 million invoiced against 8.8 FTEs — a 65% year-over-year FTE increase. SCI median hourly rate for government-paid work sits around $482 per hour, with senior labor pricing extending through $4,678 per hour, reflecting a mix of laborer, craftsperson, and supervisory roles on construction sites. The vendor self-performs all contracted hours reported in SCI (0% subcontractor engagement), positioning it as an in-house delivery firm rather than a sub-reliant prime. The portfolio concentrates in Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (81 awards) and Industrial Building Construction (41 awards) by NAICS, with service delivery split across hospital and infirmary maintenance and construction, administrative facility work, and miscellaneous building and infrastructure projects by PSC.