Meridian Engineering Co

Meridian Engineering Co, doing business as Meridian Contracting, is a small business prime contractor (95% of recent awards) specializing in highway and bridge construction, road maintenance, and civil infrastructure work for federal land-management and military agencies. The company competes predominantly full-and-open and under total small business set-asides, holding three active parent contracts with the Forest Service and Army Corps of Engineers worth up to $110 million in combined ceiling value.

Meridian is a for-profit corporation headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, operating primarily under NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and PSC code 3420 (Construction of Highways, Roads, Streets, Bridges, and Railways). The company's portfolio spans nineteen awards coded to highway and road construction, with additional work in water crossings, bridge replacement, pavement preservation, and minor facility construction across multiple federal land systems. Recent representative work includes a $9.6 million full-and-open definitive contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District (awarded September 2021, completed October 2022) for construction of high-water crossings across Vamori Wash on the Tohono O'Odham Nation reservation in Arizona; a $1.37 million delivery order under the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region 2 Road and Bridge Construction Services MATOC for the Gaoa Cottonwood Bridge Replacement project in Colorado (awarded January 2026, completion May 2027); and a $1.94 million total small business delivery order under the Coconino & Kaibab Roads Construction IDIQ for repair to Forest Service Road 552 facilities in Arizona (awarded January 2026, completion December 2026).

Meridian's customer concentration reflects a heavy tilt toward Forest Service work, particularly Region 3–Southwestern Region. The top five agencies by potential value account for 75% of combined potential-value dollars, with the Forest Service R3–Southwestern Region anchoring ten awards worth $68.2 million; Forest Service R2–Rocky Mountain Region contributing two awards worth $51.4 million; the Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District providing three awards worth $48 million; the International Boundary and Water Commission U.S.-Mexico placing four awards worth $38.5 million; and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region contributing two awards worth $32.9 million. By award count, Forest Service R3 and the Federal Highway Administration together represent the plurality of activity.

Meridian holds three active IDV positions anchoring its federal work: a $50 million multiple-award MATOC with Forest Service Region 2 for road and bridge construction across Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, and Wyoming (awarded July 2025, running through July 2030, total small business set-aside); a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service Region 3 for road maintenance and construction services on the National Forest Road System within Arizona (awarded February 2023, running through February 2033, no set-aside); and a $10 million single-award IDC with Forest Service Region 3 for road construction on the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests (awarded July 2022, running through September 2026, total small business set-aside). Task orders under these vehicles have generated $1.6 million, $255 thousand, and $1.9 million in combined potential value respectively.

Activity over the past five years shows low and uneven award volume—two awards in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026—with a combined potential value of $317.5 million and $182.2 million obligated (57% burn rate). Only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $3.3 million. The company operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor on its own contracts and holds minimal subcontractor exposure (0% sub-hours share on SCI-reportable prime records). The company holds no federal grant positions as a prime recipient, although it has sub-recipient exposure on two grant sub-awards from the Colorado Department of Transportation related to US Highway 160 and the San Juan River crossing (awarded May and June 2024). SCI-reportable invoicing is minimal—$72 thousand in FY2022 across 2.2 FTEs—reflecting that Meridian's federal work is predominantly goods and construction services outside SCI's reporting scope. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable service records ran from a 10th percentile of $5.00 per hour to a 90th percentile of $26.99 per hour, with a median around $15.99 per hour.

Heavy Civil / Industrial Construction

Structural Steel

Structural Concrete

Welding Applications

Pipe (Carbon, stainless steel, alloy, etc.)

Coatings

Road construction

Mass earthwork

Storm drains

Asphalt

Parking Lots

Fences

Soil cement