Highland Construction Services LLC

Highland Construction Services LLC, a Montana-based limited liability company, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering heavy civil construction and road and bridge infrastructure services to the USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management under total small business set-asides. The company competes entirely within federal small business set-aside categories and has not pursued full-and-open competition; across its 25 prime awards since 2017, 22 carry either total small business or competitive 8(a) set-aside designations, with only three full-and-open task orders. Highland Construction Services is headquartered in Belgrade, Montana, and works exclusively on federal land management projects in Montana's Northern Region across NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and related civil engineering categories.

Highland's customer concentration is extreme and non-diversified. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1-Northern Region represents 18 of 25 awards (72% of total awards and $80.5 million of the $83.1 million combined potential value — 97% of the total portfolio). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas region accounts for 6 awards ($2.4 million), and a single Forest Service award outside Region 1 comprises the remainder. This geographic and agency concentration on Montana federal land management reflects the vendor's core capability footprint: road surfacing and reconstruction, bridge replacement and rehabilitation, culvert installation, trail work, recreation site improvements, and flood disaster recovery. Recent representative contracts include a $3.8 million Fairy Lake Phase 2 road and recreation improvements delivery order on the Custer Gallatin National Forest (October 2026, completion October 2027), a $2.1 million Hyalite Canyon Road improvements delivery order with modifications (July 2022 award, completion July 2024), a $914,659 Jerry Creek and Divide Day-Use recreation site renovation for BLM (August 2022 award, completion July 2023), and a $815,600 bridge replacement delivery order covering Wicked Creek and Bear Creek crossing work (June 2023 award, completion September 2024).

Highland holds a position on the Forest Service Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction Services multiple award indefinite delivery contract, a $50 million, five-year vehicle set aside for total small business awarded December 16, 2024 (completion December 15, 2029). Since the IDIQ's inception, Forest Service Region 1 has issued three task orders to Highland: the Selway-Saginaw road improvements order ($765,172.50, June 2026), the Burnt Mountain pre-road engineering order ($498,524, April 2026), and the Cooper TS Road Reconditioning order ($33,633, February 2026). An older indefinite delivery contract (12034319D0024) generated 9 task orders valued at $5.1 million combined, representing the bulk of Highland's historical pipeline under vehicles. Four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing $5.1 million in combined potential value facing recompete.

Activity has been volatile and recently declining. Highland received two awards in 2021, six in 2022, four in 2023, one in 2024, and four in 2026 — a pattern reflecting task order issuance under the older MATOC, completion of legacy work, and recent awards under the newly established December 2024 IDIQ. Of the $83.1 million in combined potential value across the portfolio, only $13.1 million has been obligated (16% — a reflection of the recency of the larger awards and the fixed-price, firm-ceiling structure typical of Forest Service construction contracts). Service Contract Inventory-reportable activity, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, shows $3.6 million in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2023 peak at $1.9 million, declining to $1.7 million in FY2024), with FTE delivery ranging from 0.2 to 4.3 FTEs depending on year. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $346/hr, with senior labor pricing through roughly $2,129/hr. Highland operates without subcontractors across both its contract awards and SCI-reportable service records — 100% of hours are self-delivered, indicating the company builds its own delivery workforce rather than leaning on sub-tier engagement. The vendor operates entirely as a prime and has no sub-award footprint in the source data.