Hightower Construction Co Inc.

Hightower Construction Co Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering facility construction, renovation, and infrastructure repair services to federal agencies, particularly military installations and civilian training facilities in the Southeast. The vendor competes across both HUBZone set-asides and full-and-open procurements, with HUBZone designations anchoring its largest delivery vehicle and a substantial share of individual task orders.

Hightower's capability portfolio centers on commercial and institutional building construction (100 of 244 awards), with concrete work spanning hangar repairs, aircraft maintenance facility reconstruction, chiller and boiler system replacements, electrical system upgrades, parking ramp milling and overlay, fire suppression infrastructure, and specialized facility renovations at law enforcement training centers and military bases. Representative prime work includes a $9.94 million definitive contract with Air Mobility Command (AMC) for repair and renovation of Hangar Building 700 at Joint Base Charleston (completed 2023), a $6.8 million AMC delivery order for aircraft maintenance facility Building 570 reconstruction (completed 2023), a $6.51 million munitions facilities construction delivery order under the Joint Base Charleston MACC (completed 2025), a $4.4 million overhead electrical system repair delivery order at the Foster Creek Feeder facility for AMC (completed 2025), and a $1.985 million Building NS7 renovation for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) (completed 2023). Smaller but recurring work includes chiller replacements, boiler replacements, water and sewer infrastructure, fire alarm panel replacements, and parking lot resurfacing across FLETC facilities, with individual delivery orders ranging from under $20,000 to over $2.5 million.

Customer concentration sits with Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security facilities in the Southeast. The top five customer agencies account for 68% of awards by count: the Department of the Navy (76 awards), FLETC (41 awards, $39.2 million combined potential value), the Department of the Air Force (22 awards, $6.9 million), the United States Marine Corps (14 awards, $41.6 million), and AMC (14 awards, $142.3 million combined potential value). The potential-value ranking diverges sharply — AMC alone represents $142.3 million (33% of combined portfolio value), followed by the Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District ($51 million across 3 awards) and the Marine Corps ($41.6 million). FLETC drives award volume but accounts for only 9% of combined potential value, reflecting smaller individual task orders for routine facility maintenance. The Navy's 76 awards skew toward smaller contracts and do not rank in the top five by dollars.

Hightower positions itself on two significant HUBZone-designated indefinite delivery contracts serving as primary procurement frameworks: the Joint Base Charleston Multiple Award Construction Contract (MACC) with Air Mobility Command ($96 million ceiling, running through May 2028, HUBZone set-aside), which has generated 39 task orders under the source's top parent-vehicle vehicle analysis, and the Southeast Design-Bid-Build Construction Multiple Award Task Order Contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District ($49.5 million ceiling, running through July 2026, HUBZone set-aside). The MACC at Joint Base Charleston has been the primary vehicle for Hightower's largest projects, including the hangar and munitions facility work noted above. The source also references a $15 million FLETC indefinite delivery contract held by Hightower, though it does not appear as a top parent vehicle in the structured data. Activity per year has averaged 8.6 awards annually over the past five years, with 244 total awards and $425.3 million combined potential value. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest — six awards with $5.9 million combined potential value reaching ultimate completion.

Hightower operates as a pure prime contractor; all 244 awards in the source are prime awards, and the vendor reports zero subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable service contracts (average sub-hours share of 0% across prime contracts). The vendor does not appear as a subcontractor to other federal primes in the source data. SCI reporting captures limited scope — nine SCI records spanning FY2022 through FY2024 with combined invoiced revenue of $6.2 million (FY2022: $2.6 million across 6.2 FTEs; FY2023: $2.5 million across 3.0 FTEs; FY2024: $1.1 million across 1.5 FTEs). On those service contracts, government-paid hourly rates median around $256.94/hr, with a 10th percentile of $203.08/hr and a 90th percentile of $900.20/hr, reflecting a mix of field labor and specialized technical positions. SCI represents a narrow slice of Hightower's federal portfolio — the vast majority of the vendor's $425.3 million combined potential value derives from construction delivery orders and definitive contracts rather than labor-hour service contracts. The contractor's footprint is geographically concentrated in the Southeast, with place of performance consistently at Joint Base Charleston, FLETC Charleston, Goose Creek South Carolina, and subordinate military installations and federal facilities across the region.

General Contractor specializing in renovations, new buildings, concrete and steel construction.