Highland Construction Services LLC

Highland Construction Services LLC, a Montana-based small business operating as a limited liability company, delivers heavy civil construction and road and bridge infrastructure services exclusively to federal land management agencies as a 100% prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company self-performs all work without subcontractors and operates only on federal land management projects in the Northern Region.

Highland's customer concentration is extreme and stable. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1-Northern Region accounts for 18 of 25 awards (72% of the total) and $80.6 million of the $83.2 million combined potential value across all prime work. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas Region holds six awards valued at $2.4 million. A single Forest Service award outside Region 1 (flood disaster recovery on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in October 2023, $226,720) accounts for the remaining activity. The top two customers together represent 100% of award count and dollar value; concentration by both volume and potential value are aligned and singular.

Highland's primary parent vehicle is the Forest Service Northern Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction Services indefinite-delivery, multiple-award contract (IDIQ), a $50 million, five-year vehicle set aside for total small business, awarded December 16, 2024, and running through December 15, 2029. Three task orders have been issued since award: Selway-Saginaw road improvements ($807,692.73, June 2026, completion September 30, 2027), Burnt Mountain pre-road engineering ($498,524, April 2026, completion September 30, 2026), and Cooper TS Road Reconditioning ($33,633, February 2026, completion September 30, 2026). An older IDIQ (contract number 12034319D0024) carried nine task orders valued at $5.1 million in combined potential value. Recent representative definitive contracts include the $3.82 million Fairy Lake Phase 2 road and recreation improvements on the Custer Gallatin National Forest (October 2026, completion October 30, 2027), a $915,000 BLM contract for Jerry Creek and Divide Day-Use recreation site renovation (August 2022, completion July 2023), and a $428,890 BLM road surfacing and realignment project at Axolotl Lakes (July 2022, completion October 2022).

Scope focuses on road surfacing and reconstruction, bridge replacement and rehabilitation, culvert installation, full-depth reclamation, trail construction and restoration, recreation site enhancements including parking area expansion and vault toilet installation, and associated maintenance and repair. NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) dominates the award portfolio (20 of 25 awards), with secondary work in other heavy and civil engineering construction. Work is performed across Montana's northern federal forests, including the Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Custer Gallatin, Lolo, and other Region 1 national forests, as well as BLM lands in the Montana-Dakotas region.

Activity has been volatile. Awards peaked at six in 2022, fell to four in 2023, contracted to one in 2024, and rebounded to four in 2026. Three awards (combined potential value $5.2 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. The source data span from May 2017 to October 2026.

Service Contract Inventory data, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, shows Highland reported $3.6 million in invoiced revenue across 11 prime records spanning fiscal years 2022–2024 (FY2025 carried zero invoicing). FY2023 was the peak year at $1.9 million across 4.3 full-time equivalents; FY2024 dropped to $1.7 million across 0.9 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $86.19 per hour to a median of $346.09 per hour to a 90th percentile of $2,129.32 per hour. SCI records carry zero sub-hours share — Highland performed 100% of reported service-contract work with internal labor. The SCI dataset represents only a narrow slice of Highland's total federal revenue and does not capture goods contracts, construction definitives, or non-federal activity.