David E Knight

David E Knight, doing business as Knights Construction, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Orleans, Indiana, delivers road maintenance, trail construction, facility renovation, and dam infrastructure services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively—all 153 recent awards are prime work, with no subcontractor footprint. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on regional Forest Service BPAs and task orders.

Knights Construction operates almost entirely within a single customer agency. The USDA Forest Service accounts for 98 of 113 awards (74% of the portfolio by count) issued by the Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region), with a combined potential value of $5.3 million. A single outlier—the Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded March 30, 2026 by the USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions—carries a $50 million ceiling and represents 86% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards, although that BPA is newly awarded and dollars obligated remain minimal ($2.7 million, or 5% of combined potential value, across the entire portfolio). The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission accounts for seven awards with modest individual values. This concentration—96% of combined potential value from the Forest Service, with 86% of that from a single multi-year regional BPA—creates significant recompete and revenue dependency risk; only $274 thousand in combined potential value reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

Knights Construction holds four regional USDA Forest Service BPAs ceilinged at $250,000 each: the Northeast Zone Region 9 Trails BPA (awarded April 1, 2022, completion March 31, 2032), the Northeast Zone Region 9 Roads BPA (March 28, 2022, completion March 31, 2032), the Northeast Region 9 Facilities BPA (March 1, 2022, completion February 28, 2032), and the newly awarded LMIR BPA ($50 million ceiling, completion March 6, 2033). Task orders flow from these vehicles. Recent representative work includes a $76,700 total small business Trails BPA call for rolling-dip construction and aggregate placement on the Birdseye Trail in Indiana (July 15, 2026, completion October 13, 2026), a $38,595.56 total small business Roads BPA call for grading, ditch cleaning, and culvert installation at Tell City, Indiana (August 12, 2026, completion October 5, 2026), and a $273,966.95 definitive contract for dam removal and stream restoration on the Hoosier National Forest (August 12, 2024, completion April 23, 2027, termination for convenience noted).

Activity has been episodic. After one award in 2021, work rose to seven awards in 2022, then declined to four in 2023 and one in 2024 before resuming with three awards in 2026 (the most recent dated August 12, 2026). The LMIR BPA award in March 2026 signals potential for expanded volume, but historical task-order velocity and the vendor's narrow customer concentration make the pipeline opaque beyond current BPA ceilings.

The single SCI-reportable service contract (the $273,966.95 dam removal and stream restoration definitive) invoiced $157 thousand in FY2024 across 1.0 FTE and 2,000 contractor hours, yielding a government-paid hourly rate of $78.67 per hour; no subcontractors were engaged. The vendor self-performs all work. Award categorization centers on heavy and civil engineering construction (38 awards), highway and street construction (29 awards), landscaping services (22 awards), and support activities for forestry (21 awards), with PSC activity concentrated in housekeeping and landscaping (22 awards) and maintenance of highways and roads (14 awards). Geographic scope is limited—work is performed across Forest Service lands in the Eastern Region, primarily in Indiana (Tell City, Bloomington, Bedford, Avoca).

We have done many contracts for the US Forest Service. From wildlife improvements,brush hog work,timber stand improvement,tree planting,over 100 miles of horse trail construction,pond maintenance,shower house building.pole barn building.bulldozer work,