M.j. Hughes Construction, Inc.

M.J. Hughes Construction, Inc., based in Vancouver, Washington, operates as a prime contractor on federal construction and infrastructure projects, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside restrictions on its largest vehicles while maintaining self-certified small disadvantaged business and DOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise designations. The company delivers highway and road construction, bridge rehabilitation, building and facility repair, and heavy civil engineering services across western federal land-management and transportation agencies.

MJ Hughes operates across a diversified customer base within the Department of Interior, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Transportation, with concentration in Forest Service and FHWA work. The top five funding agencies account for 69% of recent awards by count, led by Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (13 awards, $24.7 million combined potential value), Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington (9 awards, $31.3 million), Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region (7 awards, $66.9 million), and Federal Highway Administration (7 awards, $66.7 million). When ranked by potential value, the picture inverts slightly: FHWA and Forest Service R6 anchor the top positions with roughly $66.7 million and $66.9 million respectively, while Fish and Wildlife Service (consolidating Region 1 and other regional offices) contributes $51.2 million combined, reflecting larger per-task-order values in the fish hatchery design-build work and road stabilization projects.

MJ Hughes holds four active indefinite-delivery vehicles on the Forest Service and FHWA side. The Federal Highway Administration awarded a $60 million multiple-award task order contract in April 2025 for Idaho, Montana, and Surrounding Areas Highway, Road, and Bridge Construction 2025–2028, under which MJ Hughes has executed two delivery orders totaling approximately $5.57 million: a $3.58 million Trestle Creek Road stabilization project (bank stabilization, culvert replacement, asphalt concrete pavement, completion November 2026) and a $1.99 million Custer Motorway Stabilization project in Challis, Idaho (completion October 2026). The Forest Service, Region 6–Pacific Northwest Region, awarded a $25 million single-award IDIQ in August 2024 for Western Oregon Road Construction through April 2028, set aside for total small business. The same Forest Service region awarded a second $25 million single-award contract in May 2023 for Central and Eastern Oregon Road Construction, also through April 2028 and set aside for small business. A third Forest Service vehicle—a $15 million multiple-award IDIQ for Gifford Pinchot and Olympic National Forests through September 2028—carries two task orders totaling roughly $1.9 million for roadway improvement and slide remediation work in Randle and Tumwater, Washington.

Beyond the vehicle-based work, MJ Hughes has executed fixed-price design-build and definitive contracts for the Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Reclamation. Representative prime awards include a $5.84 million small-business-set-aside design-build contract with Fish and Wildlife Service (September 2022) for a new barrier weir at Makah National Fish Hatchery in Clallam Bay, Washington (completed June 2024); a $3.03 million small-business-set-aside contract with Bureau of Reclamation (January 2022) for the Hungry Horse Window Replacement project in Montana (completed December 2024); a $397,852 task order under the Fish and Wildlife Service's Alternate Repair MATOC (April 2023) for partial roof replacement at Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery in Oregon; and a $259,177 total-small-business-set-aside design-build contract with Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (September 2021) for a replacement catwalk at Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery in Bingen, Washington.

Activity has fluctuated in recent years—three awards in 2022, six in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and two in early 2026—with only four awards reaching completion within the next twenty-four months and carrying $5.6 million combined potential value, indicating moderate recompete exposure. MJ Hughes operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (98% of awards), with a single documented sub-award under Tucci & Sons LLC on a National Park Service Stevens Canyon Road rehabilitation project (June 2022). SCI-reportable federal service-contract invoicing totaled $7.6 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2023 and FY2024 showing $3.9 million and $3.7 million respectively against FTE headcounts of 1.9 and 4.8 on federal service work; government-paid hourly rates on service-reportable contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $329.87/hr to a 90th percentile of $2,327.90/hr, with a median of $679.53/hr. MJ Hughes does not subcontract on its prime SCI-reportable service work, performing labor in-house at a 0% sub-hours share on those contracts.

heavy infrastructure projects up to five million dollars