Martin Brothers Construction

Martin Brothers Construction, doing business as Martin Bros Construction, is a Sacramento-based minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business and Subchapter S corporation that delivers heavy civil infrastructure construction and emergency post-disaster recovery services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides. The company specializes in concrete and asphalt pavement repair and replacement, airfield paving, roadway rehabilitation, drainage systems, and bridge work across Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Agriculture, and Department of the Army facilities, with a portfolio emphasizing self-performed delivery and competitive positioning under small business reserve categories.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense and civil-works agencies. The top five customer agencies by award count — Air Combat Command (34 awards, $97.9 million combined potential value), Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District (27 awards, $124.4 million), Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest (12 awards, $102.7 million), Marine Corps (9 awards, $11 million), and Federal Highway Administration (7 awards, $322.1 million) — account for 66% of recent awards. The potential-value ranking shifts when Fort Worth District Corps of Engineers enters: that single district carries six awards valued at $10.06 billion combined potential value, reflecting Martin Brothers' position on massive infrastructure IDVs that dwarf the active task-order volume. This divergence between award count and dollar concentration signals a portfolio anchored by large open-ended vehicles with modest utilization to date.

Martin Brothers holds three parent vehicles: a $250 million Federal Highway Administration Expedited California Road & Bridge Construction multiple-award IDIQ running through January 2031 for earthwork, structures, bridges, walls, drainage, and surfacing work in and near California; a $70 million Air Combat Command Beale Air Force Base Airfield and General Paving single-award IDIQ running through June 2029 for design, repair, and construction of airfield and general paving work; and a $50 million Forest Service Region 5 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement running through March 2033 covering road maintenance and construction across California national forests and grasslands. Task-order activity against the Beale vehicle totals five orders ($4.7 million combined potential value), while 26 task orders ($6.9 million) flow from an earlier Air Force indefinite delivery contract (FA468612D0043).

Recent representative prime work includes a $28.9 million firm fixed-price design-bid-build definitive contract with Air Force Civil Engineer Center (awarded September 2025) to repair and replace approximately 29,000 square yards of concrete pavements, drainage systems, and Portland cement concrete transitions at Travis Air Force Base with an on-site concrete batch plant; a $21.9 million Federal Highway Administration definitive contract (awarded December 2023) for construction and rehabilitation of 17.62 miles of Ice House Road in Placerville, California under a no-set-aside full-and-open competition, yielding $4.5 million in FY2024 SCI invoicing across 12 FTEs; a $5.25 million Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District contract (September 2024) to repair pavement on Main Street at Military Ocean Terminal Concord supporting ammunition-laden vehicular traffic; a $4.5 million Forest Service contract (July 2023) for Creek Fire Beasore Road repairs in Sierra National Forest including culvert work and asphalt paving; and a $3.26 million Forest Service BPA call (April 2026) to address atmospheric river road damage in Sierra National Forest Tamarack area.

Activity has grown substantially from 2022 (4 awards) through 2023 (17 awards) before declining to 5 awards in 2024 and 2 in 2025, with 5 awards posted in 2026. Three awards carrying $32.6 million combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $52.2 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2024 activity of $34.4 million representing the peak ($8.8 million in FY2022, $9 million in FY2023, and zero reported in FY2025). On SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Martin Brothers deployed roughly 4.7 FTEs in FY2022 and grew to 27.7 FTEs by FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts captured in SCI median around $732.81 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $1,198.27 per hour and lower-tier work starting around $283.43 per hour.

Martin Brothers operates predominantly as a self-performing prime, with across SCI-reportable prime contracts an average sub-hours share of 5% and only four named subcontractors reported. The company subcontracts primarily to Nova Group, Inc. on Marine Corps facilities work, delivering site grading, aggregate base placement, and asphalt paving for aircraft refueling facility demolition, earthwork, and hydrant outlet construction at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, California (nine sub-award task orders, August 2022–February 2026). This subcontract portfolio is minimal relative to the prime footprint and reflects Martin Brothers' characteristic posture as a builder rather than a teaming or staffing intermediary.

By NAICS and PSC, the portfolio concentrates in Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (89 awards) and Oil and Gas Pipeline and Related Structures Construction (16 awards), with repair or alteration of highways, roads, streets, bridges, and railways the dominant PSC (39 awards). All three IDVs and most prime definitive contracts carry total small business set-asides, positioning Martin Brothers as a beneficiary of small business reserve carve-outs, particularly on Federal Highway Administration and Forest Service work. The vendor's strategy centers on California and western United States federal installations — Air Force bases, national forests, military terminals, and civilian transportation infrastructure — with limited geographic footprint beyond that region.

Martin Brothers Construction is a general eng. contractor with an EMR of .73 and $40M bonding capacity that self-performs road, bridge, airfield, flood control, underground utility, site development and recreational/sports facility construction projects.