Lake Contracting, Inc.

Lake Contracting, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Addieville, Illinois, delivers civil works, infrastructure maintenance, and land management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 100 percent of recent awards held as prime positions. The company operates exclusively under full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside designations across its federal footprint and competes predominantly as a small business (no subcontractor relationships in the award record).

Lake Contracting's federal work centers on road and infrastructure maintenance, utility upgrades, shoreline stabilization, vegetation management, habitat restoration, and general facilities work at managed federal sites in southern Illinois. Representative prime work includes a $3.5 million single-award IDIQ with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 for road and infrastructure maintenance at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (awarded August 2022, running through August 2027), a $7.5 million single-award IDIQ with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for rehabilitation and maintenance services at Rend Lake (awarded June 2020), and a $5 million single-award IDIQ with the Army Corps for park and road maintenance at Rend Lake. Recent task orders under these vehicles include a $250,805 culvert repair delivery order at Crab Orchard NWR (September 2026), a $612,582 Rend Lake Lagoon decommissioning and site remediation order from the Corps (September 2024), and a $787,879 Rend Lake sewer construction contract from the Corps (September 2022). Individual task order work spans $8,407 to approximately $1.1 million and carries firm fixed-price structures with Total Small Business or unrestricted set-aside designations.

Customer concentration is acute and geographically grounded. The top five funding agencies account for 96 percent of recent awards. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District St. Louis dominates both volume and dollars, holding 266 awards worth $31.2 million combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (broader headquarters-level) with 139 awards worth $19.3 million. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 places 30 awards valued at $10.7 million. Combined, these three customer points represent 435 of 463 tracked awards in the recent portfolio — a 96 percent concentration. Lake Contracting's entire federal footprint operates across two managed sites in southern Illinois: Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge and Rend Lake.

Primary parent vehicles are five single-award IDIQs: Indefinite Delivery Contract W912P905D0508 (45 task orders), W912P913D0519 (45 task orders, $2.4 million), W912P910D0524 (43 task orders, $1.2 million), and two Fish and Wildlife Service vehicles — 140F0222D0003 at Crab Orchard NWR (42 task orders, $2.8 million) and DACW4303D0510 (39 task orders, $3 million). These vehicles represent the vendor's sole contracting posture; all recent work flows through task orders against these pre-awarded indefinite vehicles rather than through spot-market awards or multiple-award vehicles.

Recent activity has contracted. Awards per year declined from 21 in 2024 to 11 in 2025 and 8 through September 2026 (annualized trajectory suggests 11–12 awards for the calendar year). Combined potential value across all awards stands at $65.6 million, with $33 million (50 percent) obligated to date. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months is modest: six awards with ultimate completion dates in that window carry combined potential value of $568 thousand. The larger recompete exposure lies in the five primary IDIQ vehicles themselves, which run through 2027–2028 and collectively represent the entire federal pipeline. Lake Contracting holds no recorded Service Contract Inventory activity beyond a single FY2022 record covering $679 thousand invoiced across 1.3 FTEs.

The vendor's work footprint is bounded by two federal sites and structured around routine recurring maintenance and infrastructure rehab task orders. The company operates as a sole prime with no subcontractor engagement and competes exclusively under small business set-asides where applicable, positioning itself as a regional incumbent contractor locked into two customer relationships with limited geographic or customer diversification.