J.e. Mcamis, Inc.

J.e. Mcamis, Inc., a small business marine construction and dredging contractor based in Chico, California, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) providing navigation channel maintenance, jetty repair, and sediment-removal services to the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard under full-and-open federal procurement. The vendor competes exclusively without set-aside designation across its prime footprint, with the exception of one Total Small Business set-aside award (Tillamook North Jetty, $9 million, 2021).

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for 45 awards and $286 million in combined potential value — 99% of the vendor's total federal award portfolio by dollar magnitude. Within USACE, the Engineering District Portland dominates with 20 awards valued at $83.1 million, while the Engineering Districts in Seattle, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, and Alaska distribute the remainder. The Department of the Army (37 awards) and the Coast Guard (single award valued at $1.4 million) round out the customer set. Concentration by award count and potential value track nearly identically; USACE funds all material volume.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on dredging, jetty maintenance, and civil-works construction. Representative work includes a $9.3 million definitive contract from USACE's Alaska District for Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) Channels dredging and navigation channel restoration (awarded July 2024, completion September 2025), a $9 million Total Small Business award for Tillamook North Jetty stone placement and structural repair in Oregon (October 2021), and a $6.3 million USACE Seattle District contract for FY26 Willapa Bay maintenance dredging (awarded February 2026). Additional work spans stilling-basin sediment removal at Lower Monumental and Lower Granite Dams ($1.98 million) and Coast Guard maintenance dredging at Station Cape Disappointment in Washington ($1.4 million).

The vendor places task orders under five USACE Indefinite Delivery Contract vehicles: DACW6885C0012 (9 task orders), DACW5785C0134 (6 task orders), DACW0783C0037 (4 task orders), DACW5782C0106 (4 task orders), and DACW5788C0032 (2 task orders). These vehicles anchor the vendor's recurring work pipeline.

Award activity has been episodic over the past five years — two awards in 2021, one each in 2022 and 2023, two in 2024, and one in early 2026 — suggesting a project-based rather than continuous-revenue model aligned with congressionally funded civil-works cycles. The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award (the Willapa Bay contract, $6.3 million) completes within the next twenty-four months.

The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime; a single sub-award (March 2023) under Gwwh A Joint Venture for FRC Homeport Astoria dredge and sand-fill services represents 1% of the portfolio. Service Contract Inventory data captures only two sub-engagement records across FY2024–FY2025, with negligible SCI-reportable prime invoicing, indicating that most of the vendor's federal work flows through goods and construction contracts outside the SCI reporting threshold rather than through labor-intensive service contracts.

Heavy Construction, Marine Construction, Dredging, Excavation, Levee Construction, Levee Repair, Bank Stabilization, Environmental Dredging.