Laboda Grading Inc.

Laboda Grading Inc., a Minnesota-based small business, performs forest road construction, maintenance, and repair work as a prime contractor exclusively to the USDA Forest Service, operating entirely under small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Hovland, Minnesota, competing predominantly through Total Small Business set-asides under NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and related forestry support categories. Laboda Grading holds no subcontract relationships and generates 100% of its recent prime award portfolio from direct federal contracts.

Laboda Grading's capability footprint centers on forest road infrastructure: gravel crushing and placement, culvert removal and replacement, ditch construction, aggregate resurfacing, and emergency road repairs across the Superior National Forest and related national forest lands in northeastern Minnesota. Representative recent work includes a $1.424 million definitive contract (September 2025) for roadway maintenance and repairs on Forest Roads 309, 313, and 1388 in the Superior National Forest, involving 16.7 miles of aggregate resurfacing and storm-damage recovery; a $411 thousand BPA call (September 2026) for gravel crushing at Superior National Forest in Ely, Minnesota; and a $200,690 purchase order (September 2026) for culvert removal, drainage excavation, and ditch construction on five forest roads in the Gunflint Ranger District under Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Eastern Region (Region 9) accounts for 57 awards and $11.9 million of Laboda Grading's $12.9 million combined potential value (78% of recent awards, 93% of combined potential value). Three awards to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and one each to the USDA Forest Service Washington Office and USDA Forest Service represent ancillary activity. The company places work under multiple USDA Forest Service indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (AG63A9C120004) with 7 task orders ($364 thousand combined potential), an Indefinite Delivery Contract (AG63A9C090020) with 7 task orders ($269 thousand), an Indefinite Delivery Contract (1263A920D0005) with 3 task orders ($774 thousand), and the Northeast Zone—Region 9 Roads Blanket Purchase Agreement ($250 thousand ceiling, extended through March 2032) with multiple task orders. The BPA, awarded April 1, 2022, enables Forest Service contracting officers across Region 9 to call task orders for road construction and maintenance projects up to $250 thousand on an as-needed basis.

Activity is sparse and flat: three awards in 2022, one each in 2023 and 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026 (the most recent on October 1, 2026). Four awards with combined potential value $2.1 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk in that window. Combined dollars obligated to date stand at $8.4 million (65% of combined potential value across all awards). Laboda Grading's award history extends to 1999, indicating long tenure with the Forest Service, but recent volume remains low, suggesting either selective pursuit or limited task-order calling against the standing BPA.