Howe Inc.

Howe Inc., a small-business construction and HVAC contracting firm based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) for federal facility maintenance, repair, and construction work across military and civilian agencies, with occasional subcontract delivery on larger building projects. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with no SBA set-aside certifications; it competes predominantly full-and-open on small-business reserved procurements and commercial contracting vehicles.

Howe Inc.'s capability footprint centers on commercial and institutional building construction, plumbing and HVAC contracting, and equipment installation and repair. Work is characterized by facility maintenance and alteration projects rather than new construction. Representative prime awards include a $422,348 total small-business-set-aside contract from the U.S. Geological Survey (awarded March 2024) for replacement of a 300-ton water chiller at the EROS Center in Sioux Falls with ultimate completion in June 2025; a $3,580 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (awarded April 2025) for urgent HVAC repair at the Madison, South Dakota facility; and prior HVAC system replacements for the U.S. Air National Guard. Category concentration reflects this profile: the top two NAICS categories split evenly at 14 awards each between Commercial and Institutional Building Construction and Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors, with PSC codes clustered around building maintenance and repair (7 awards under "Maint-Rep-Alt/Misc Bldgs," 5 under "Repair Or Alteration Of Office Buildings").

The top-three customer agencies by award count are the Department of the Army (14 awards), the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard (13 awards, $20.3 million combined potential value), and GSA Public Buildings Service Region 8 (6 awards, $84 thousand combined potential value), which together account for 70% of awards. The Air National Guard dominates the potential-value ranking at $20.3 million across 13 awards — a significant concentration relative to the company's combined potential value of $21 million across all 57 awards. Howe Inc. places work under multiple Army and Air Force indefinite-delivery contracts, including DAHA3901D0007 (10 task orders), W912MM07D0005 (5 task orders, $130 thousand combined potential value), and W912MM12D0006 (3 task orders, $81 thousand combined potential value).

Activity has been sparse in recent years — one award in each of 2023, 2024, and 2025 after three awards in 2020 — with only 18% of the combined potential value ($3.8 million of $21 million) obligated to date. The single subcontract award on record (June 2023) was plumbing and HVAC work performed as a sub to RJS Construction, Inc. on a South Dakota facility construction project. SCI data shows Howe Inc. reported 202 FTEs across five subcontract records in FY2024, indicating that federal service-contract activity as a named subcontractor is a small portion of the company's overall federal footprint; the SCI dataset does not capture goods, micro-purchases, or prime-contract invoicing below the $150,000 threshold, both of which likely represent material portions of Howe Inc.'s federal revenue stream.