James Dean Construction Inc.

James Dean Construction Inc., a veteran-owned, SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in White Salmon, Washington, delivers road and bridge construction, reconstruction, and maintenance services to the U.S. Forest Service and related federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest as a prime contractor on a 100% basis. The company operates exclusively as a prime, holding three significant indefinite delivery vehicles totaling $89 million in combined ceiling value with the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region, and competes across both set-aside (Total Small Business) and full-and-open delivery orders.

James Dean Construction specializes in transportation infrastructure work within national forests: road construction and reconstruction, bridge replacements (including full bridge replacement on a disaster-recovery basis), culvert replacements, road repairs, hazard tree mitigation, road decommissioning, snow plowing, and materials procurement for forest roads. Representative recent work includes a $5.3 million Total Small Business delivery order for the GAOA Huffaker Bridge Replacement project in Gifford Pinchot and Olympic National Forests (completion June 2026), a $1.3 million delivery order for deep patch repairs and culvert replacements on Forest Road 90 (completion October 2024), a $1.2 million Total Small Business delivery order for Swift Creek Bridge embankment repair and FR 90 roadway improvement (completion November 2026), and a $764,170 delivery order for the Ramsey Creek Area of Concern project in Dufur, Oregon (completion October 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 34 awards valued at $107.1 million combined potential value across 78 percent of the recent award footprint. The next-largest customer, the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, contributes only $18.2 million across five awards. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission appears in 16 awards but carries no published potential-value data; these are likely low-dollar administrative or hearing-related matters. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District anchors one $5.7 million award; the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs contributes $2.3 million across two awards. Combined, the top five customers account for 98 percent of combined potential value, with Forest Service Region 6 accounting for 78 percent.

James Dean Construction holds three parent vehicles with the Forest Service: a $15 million multiple-award Road Construction IDIQ for Gifford Pinchot and Olympic National Forests (awarded September 2023, completion September 2028); a $25 million single-award Western Oregon Road Construction IDIQ (awarded August 2024, completion April 2028); and a $49 million multiple-award FPO Northwest Road Maintenance Blanket Purchase Agreement (awarded July 2023, completion June 2033). Task order activity flows heavily through the two Road Construction IDIQs, particularly the $15 million Gifford Pinchot–Olympic vehicle, under which the company has received multiple orders for bridge replacements, road repairs, and culvert work. The $49 million BPA supports smaller maintenance-oriented task orders (hazard tree mitigation, road decommissioning, materials procurement, and snow plowing services). One additional IDIQ vehicle designated 1240BH23D0030 carries five task orders valued at $9.8 million combined potential value and appears to be a separate road-construction IDIQ under the same Forest Service Region 6 umbrella.

Activity has been volatile and recently sparse. The company recorded two awards in 2020, six in 2023, six in 2024, five in 2025, and two year-to-date in 2026. Over a longer time horizon (source coverage extends to 1990), James Dean Construction has received 77 prime awards with $136.8 million combined potential value and $49.7 million in combined dollars obligated (36 percent drawdown). Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months totals five awards with $3.1 million combined potential value—all under the Road Construction IDIQs, with ultimate completion dates between September 2025 and October 2026.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a strict subset capturing contracts above $150,000 threshold), the company invoiced $1.6 million in FY2024 with 2.3 FTEs delivered, compared to $0 in FY2023. Government-paid hourly rates on these contracts ran $343.95 per hour uniformly across all percentiles, indicating a limited set of identical or near-identical labor categories. The company brought no named subcontractors into SCI-reportable contracts. The SCI dataset is a narrow view: it excludes the majority of James Dean Construction's Forest Service work, which is delivered as fixed-price delivery orders under IDIQs and BPAs rather than time-and-materials service contracts, and does not capture the company's construction-goods operations or total enterprise revenue.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION, SITE DEVELOPMENT, LAND CLEARING AND UNDERGROUND UTILITIES.