Lake Contracting, Inc.

Lake Contracting, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Addieville, Illinois, operates as a prime contractor delivering civil works, infrastructure maintenance, and natural resource conservation services to the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers across southern Illinois federal lands and water resources projects.

The company's capability portfolio centers on road and infrastructure rehabilitation, vegetation and habitat management, shoreline stabilization, sewer system installation, boat ramp and recreation facility construction, and environmental conservation work at federal wildlife refuges and Corps-managed water resource sites. Recent representative work includes a $1.09 million shoreline revetment storm damage prevention project at Rend Lake (July 2022), a $787.9 million sewer construction contract for the east side of Rend Lake (September 2022), a $612.6 million Rend Lake Lagoon decommissioning and site remediation delivery order (September 2024), and a $461.7 million Jackie Branch Boat Ramp and Fishing Pier construction project (September 2024). Under its primary $3.5 million single-award IDIQ with the Fish and Wildlife Service for road and infrastructure maintenance at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (awarded August 2022, running through August 2027), Lake Contracting has issued 36 task orders totaling $2.3 million combined potential value, with recent orders addressing fire line repairs and timber reduction ($99,734), crushed stone supply for road maintenance ($84,416.55), roadside maintenance ($92,571.05), aquatic herbicide application ($36,369.04), tree removal with stump grinding ($98,950), and facility improvements for a volunteer village compound.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps' Engineering District St. Louis accounts for 266 awards valued at $31.2 million, and the Corps itself (broader designation) holds 139 awards valued at $19.3 million — together representing 96% of all awards and 96% of combined potential value ($50.5 million of $65.1 million). The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 accounts for 24 awards valued at $10.2 million. Lake Contracting has worked with 14 distinct federal customer agencies in total, though activity remains concentrated on Corps and Service work in Illinois.

Lake Contracting holds multiple parent IDIQs anchoring its federal business. The top vehicles by task order volume are Indefinite Delivery Contract W912P905D0508 (45 task orders, $319 thousand combined potential value), W912P913D0519 (45 task orders, $2.4 million), W912P910D0524 (43 task orders, $1.2 million), DACW4303D0510 (39 task orders, $3 million), and 140F0222D0003 with the Fish and Wildlife Service (36 task orders, $2.3 million). All five vehicles are single-award indefinite delivery contracts, indicating Lake Contracting competes for task orders rather than competing for the IDIQs themselves.

Activity has been volatile but shows recent contraction. The company received 14 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, peaked at 21 in 2024, then fell to 11 in 2025 and 2 year-to-date in 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal — only 4 awards (combined potential value $313 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, suggesting most active IDIQs and delivery orders have longer runways or are renewing steadily.

Lake Contracting operates exclusively as a prime contractor across its 477 recent awards; no subcontract footprint appears in the source data. The Service Contract Inventory dataset covers only one SCI-reportable record (FY2022: $679 thousand invoiced across 1.3 FTEs), indicating the bulk of Lake Contracting's federal business is goods procurement, construction, and task orders below the $150,000 SCI threshold rather than labor-intensive service contracts. The single SCI record shows a government-paid hourly rate of $243.66/hr with zero sub-engagement, though this minimal SCI coverage does not characterize the full scope of the company's federal delivery model.