Inc.. A Close Corporation Carter's Contracting Services

Inc.. A Close Corporation Carter's Contracting Services is a Native American-owned and women-owned small business headquartered in Andalusia, Alabama, that operates as a prime contractor on federal construction, repair, and dredging projects across the Southeastern United States, holding SBA HUBZone and women-owned small business certifications and competing under total small business and woman-owned small business set-asides on most prime work. The company has accumulated $1.02 billion in combined potential value across 315 prime contract awards since 1990, with recent activity concentrated in heavy civil engineering, levee and waterway infrastructure maintenance, wetland restoration, and construction equipment rental.

Carter's Contracting Services' customer base is heavily concentrated with the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers and its regional districts. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Mobile leads both by award count and dollar value, holding 71 awards worth $469.1 million in combined potential value — representing the single largest customer relationship. The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service contributes one transformational award, the Great American Outdoors Act MATOC valued at $250 million with ultimate completion in June 2027. The Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District adds 17 awards worth $68 million. Together, these three customers account for 94% of the vendor's combined potential value across 106 awards (33% of total awards), while the Department of Agriculture (98 awards) represents the highest award count but lower dollar magnitude. The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard has placed 44 awards worth $55.2 million. This concentration reflects Carter's niche dominance in water-resources and coastal-infrastructure work for federal agencies managing navigable waterways, dams, levees, and national wildlife refuges in the Southeast.

Carter's prime contract portfolio rests on three principal IDIQ vehicles. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District awarded a $49 million single-award IDIQ (GIWW Equipment Rental SATOC) for construction equipment rental with operators supporting disposal area management and levee maintenance along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System, and related corridors in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, with ultimate completion in May 2027. The same district also awarded a more recent $49 million multiple-award MATOC in June 2025 for design, repair, and construction support for civil works facilities and systems across the Mobile District's South Region, set aside for total small business with completion through June 2030. The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 holds a $250 million multiple-award MATOC covering construction, maintenance, repair, and alteration services across continental U.S. and Hawaiian federal lands, with base period through June 2026 and a six-month extension executed via modification. Delivery orders under the Fish and Wildlife MATOC include $2.6 million for wetland restoration at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in Vero Beach, Florida; $2.5 million for NRCS wetland restoration easement along Fish Eating Creek in Vero Beach; $675,581 for rice trunk structure replacement at Ace Basin National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina; and $2.4 million for wetland restoration easement at Carlton North and Dark Hammock in Florida. The vendor also holds positions on the Great American Outdoors Act MATOC managed by the U.S. Forest Service for construction and maintenance across federal properties, placing orders such as a $2.89 million delivery order for heavy road maintenance at Tuskegee National Forest in Alabama (October 2026) and a $581,934 HUBZone set-aside definitive contract from NOAA for construction of 23 low-water crossings in Gulf County, Florida.

Recent activity has remained steady at three to five awards annually over 2023–2026, down from nine awards in 2022. Five awards with combined potential value of $13.8 million carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to moderate recompete risk but not a concentrated cliff event. The Service Contract Inventory dataset shows minimal SCI-reportable activity — 11 total records across FY2022–FY2025, with zero invoiced revenue captured and 6.9 FTEs reported only in FY2022 — reflecting that Carter's federal work is predominantly goods-and-services construction delivery rather than time-and-materials service contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold. Carter's Contracting Services operates 100% as a prime, with no recorded sub-award footprint in the source data. The company holds one named subsidiary, Carters Contracting Services Incorporated, though no structural or operational distinction is documented in the award record.

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