Mccalls Grading & Construction Inc.

Mccalls Grading & Construction Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business based in Balsam Grove, North Carolina, delivers road maintenance, construction, and emergency infrastructure repair services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively—114 awards across the past five years, all under a total small business set-aside posture on IDVs and full-and-open task orders. The company operates entirely within Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) and holds no subcontract work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on highway and bridge construction (NAICS 237310), road reconditioning, culvert and bridge replacement, drainage maintenance, erosion control, aggregate supply and placement, and emergency repairs to federal forest system roads across the Carolinas. Recent representative work includes a $2.2 million delivery order for Nantahala National Forest road maintenance (awarded September 2025), a $1.7 million bridge reconstruction over Curtis Creek following Hurricane Helene damage (awarded April 2025), a $721 thousand roadway restoration and emergency repairs delivery order in Fair Play, South Carolina, addressing Hurricane Helene damage (awarded January 2026), and a $367 thousand one-mile road paving contract on Burrell's Ford Road in Huger, South Carolina (awarded January 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 70 of 114 awards (61% by count) and $84.1 million of the $100.2 million combined potential value (84% by dollars). Five regional Forest Service subordinate offices round out the remaining 39% of award volume and 16% of potential value. The vendor does not serve defense, civilian IT, or non-Forest Service federal customers.

The vendor holds four primary IDVs: the $50 million North Carolina MATOC Road Maintenance single-award contract running through October 2029 (awarded September 2024, set-aside for total small business), the $10 million Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests road maintenance, repair, and construction contract through July 2029 (awarded August 2024, total small business set-aside), the $7 million Croatan Ranger District aggregate supply BPA through June 2029 (awarded July 2024), and a $9 million Andrew Pickens Ranger District road maintenance IDC through May 2027 (awarded August 2022, total small business set-aside). The North Carolina MATOC contract anchors the portfolio; task orders issued under it account for the majority of recent delivery-order work. Activity has been volatile—six awards in 2022, four in 2023, fourteen in 2024, six in 2025, and three in 2026 to date—with only three awards (combined potential value $3.1 million) completing within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

The vendor's PSC profile concentrates on maintenance and repair of highways, roads, streets, bridges, and railways (55 awards across maintenance, repair, and construction variants) and natural resource conservation work (eight awards). The award distribution skews heavily toward delivery orders on standing IDVs; 62 of 114 awards are delivery orders against the five parent vehicles listed above. Definitive contracts and purchase orders comprise the remainder.

Mccalls Grading & Construction Inc. operates as a specialist regional contractor locked into a single customer and a single geographic footprint (North and South Carolina National Forests). The vendor has established itself as the Forest Service Region 8's principal small-business infrastructure partner for road system maintenance and emergency response work, particularly on disaster recovery projects (Hurricane Helene repairs feature prominently in 2025–2026 awards). The company's combined potential value across all four IDVs exceeds $75 million through 2029, but obligated dollars stand at $17.8 million (18% of potential), indicating that the IDVs function as multi-year task-order capacity vehicles rather than firm commitments. Competitive entry into this customer-vendor relationship faces significant incumbent advantage; new vendors would need to displace Mccalls on one or more of the four IDVs to establish foothold within Region 8 road operations.

clearing, grubbing, grading, excavation, Erosion control, demolition