Howard W. Pence, Inc.

Howard W. Pence, Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, delivers general construction, design-build, facilities maintenance, and repair services to the federal government almost exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under HUBZone and total small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit corporate entity with a self-certified HUBZone joint venture subsidiary (P & R JV) and operates across domestic military installations and federal civil works projects nationwide.

Pence's customer base is heavily concentrated in Army installations and Army Corps of Engineers operations. The top five customers account for 76% of award count across recent work, led by the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region (186 awards, $803.7 million combined potential value) and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Louisville (52 awards, $1 billion combined potential value). When ranked by dollar value, the concentration shifts slightly — the Louisville District leads at $1 billion, followed by the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District ($910.1 million across 8 awards), the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region ($845.1 million across 60 awards), the Southeast Region ($803.7 million), and Naval Facilities Engineering Command ($498.6 million). This split reflects a mix of high-value indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring the dollar rankings against consistent, high-volume task order flow from Army installation commands.

Pence holds a substantial portfolio of active indefinite delivery vehicles across Army, Navy, and GSA customers. Major parent vehicles include the Fort Campbell Construction Services MATOC 2023-2028 ($495 million, 19 task orders), the USACE Lower Mississippi Valley Division Regional Construction contract ($250 million, multiple awards), the Fort Knox Kentucky Consolidated Construction MATOC 2020-2025, the Design Build Northeast Multiple Award Task Order Contract 2021-2031 ($250 million), the Design Bid Build General Construction Florida IDIQ ($99 million), the Naval Support Activity Crane DBB ($95 million), the Small Projects MACC at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort ($120 million), the USACE Mobile District design-build MATOC ($200 million), two $165 million Department of Defense Northeast Region IDIQs for Fort Knox and Fort Lee (both awarded April 2026), an $80 million USACE Jacksonville District design-build MATOC (awarded September 2024), the Land Management Integrated Resources BPA with the Forest Service ($50 million, awarded December 2025), and two $50 million GSA Public Buildings Service IDIQs for Tennessee and Kentucky construction (awarded October 2021). These vehicles total more than $1.6 billion in combined ceiling value and position Pence for sustained task order competition across Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, GSA, and Forest Service customers through 2031.

Pence's recent work spans facilities maintenance, infrastructure repair, barracks and administrative facility construction, design-build projects, and specialized military construction. Representative recent examples include a $14.5 million delivery order from Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District for an indoor arms range and electrical infrastructure at Fort Knox (awarded April 2027, under the Design Build Northeast MATOC), a $6.13 million HUBZone-set-aside definitive contract from the Federal Highway Administration for road repair and reconstruction on Cherokee National Forest roads in Tennessee (awarded July 2026), a $20.4 million Total Small Business set-aside delivery order from Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region for design-build Volar Barracks B-3750 at Fort Campbell (awarded October 2023), a $15.7 million Total Small Business set-aside definitive contract from Air Combat Command for renovation of the LeMay Gate at Whiteman Air Force Base (awarded August 2021), a $14.1 million Total Small Business set-aside delivery order from Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District for renovation of the Child Development Center at Fort Campbell (awarded September 2023), and a $7.53 million delivery order from Army Corps of Engineers for spillway gate repairs and replacement at Carthage, Tennessee (awarded October 2024).

Award activity contracted significantly from 2023 (24 awards) to 2027 (1 award in the window to date), suggesting either a narrowing of visible federal procurement at the prime level or a shift in ordering patterns across its large portfolio of parent vehicles. Ten awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $33.2 million, presenting recompete exposure for the vendor. Pence competes almost entirely under set-asides — HUBZone and total small business designations recur across the prime footprint, and the company has not pursued or won unrestricted full-and-open opportunities in material volume, positioning it primarily as a set-aside vendor.