Kobo Utility Construction Corp.

Kobo Utility Construction Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation and Community Development Corporation Owned Firm headquartered in Sandwich, Massachusetts, operates exclusively as a federal prime contractor delivering airport and airfield infrastructure construction services, including runway and navigational aid replacement, communications tower installation, and port-of-entry radiation detection equipment deployment, under total small business set-asides across all major federal contracts.

The vendor's customer base concentrates entirely within the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration across five regional offices. FAA Headquarters accounts for 41 awards and $22.4 million in combined potential value; FAA Southwestern Region for 12 awards and $14.3 million; FAA Franchise Acquisition Services for 14 awards and $11.1 million; FAA New England Region for 41 awards and $7.2 million; and FAA Northwest Mountain Region for 21 awards and $6.8 million. These five customer entities represent 75% of all awards and 80% of combined potential value, with secondary but material exposure to the Department of Homeland Security Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office and the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard. Kobo has worked with 15 distinct federal agencies across 172 prime awards totaling $77.3 million in combined potential value.

Capability framing centers on navigational aid infrastructure and airfield facility modernization. Representative work includes a $1.115 million definitive contract from FAA Headquarters awarded May 28, 2026, for runway localizer and glide slope replacement at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, Hartford, Wisconsin, completing June 30, 2027; a $1.657 million definitive contract from the Franchise Acquisition Services entity awarded December 3, 2024, for tower and shelter replacement at Fullerton Municipal Airport, Fullerton, California, completing July 30, 2026; and a $1.7 million definitive contract from FAA Headquarters awarded March 26, 2024, for remote communications air-ground tower replacements at Mt. Kaala, Oahu, Hawaii, completing May 8, 2026. The vendor also executes border-security infrastructure work: a $2.043 million definitive contract from DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction awarded September 30, 2022, for radiation portal monitor installation at Champlain and Peace Bridge land ports of entry in New York, completed October 2, 2023; and a $1.538 million definitive contract from the General Services Administration on behalf of DHS CWMD awarded January 26, 2023, for radiation portal monitor installation at Sweet Grass, Pembina, and Portal land ports of entry spanning Montana and North Dakota, completed May 31, 2024.

Kobo operates on three parent vehicles carrying minimal task-order activity: Blanket Purchase Agreement W912SV19A6003 with 8 task orders totaling $248 thousand, Indefinite Delivery Contract DTFACN15D00014 with 2 task orders totaling $719 thousand, and Blanket Purchase Agreement DTFAEN11A00013 with 2 task orders totaling $676 thousand. The vendor's primary contract category is power and communication line and related structures construction (40 awards), supplemented by commercial and institutional building construction (35 awards) and other heavy and civil engineering construction (31 awards). Construction of radar and navigational facilities dominates the PSC alignment with 57 awards, followed by construction of electronic and communications facilities (12 awards) and maintenance and repair of electrical and electronic equipment components (10 awards).

Activity has contracted sharply in recent periods: 11 awards in 2022, declining to 5 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 1 award in the first five months of 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, only 3 awards totaling $3.8 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion, indicating minimal recompete exposure near term but reflecting a steep decline from prior years.

Service Contract Inventory data covering federal contracts above $150,000 reports $26.1 million in invoiced revenue across prime records in FY2023–FY2024 (FY2022 carried no SCI reportable activity). FY2023 invoiced $14.1 million across 11.5 FTEs; FY2024 invoiced $12 million across 9.9 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts median around $532.84 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $1,566.96 per hour at the 90th percentile and junior labor pricing at $167 per hour at the 10th percentile. The vendor self-performed 100% of contractor hours across prime contracts with zero subcontractor engagement, meaning Kobo builds its own delivery teams and does not rely on named subcontractors for execution.