Michels Construction, Inc.

Michels Construction, Inc., a Wisconsin-based heavy civil engineering and marine construction contractor, operates as a prime contractor exclusively on full-and-open federal construction work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Interior, with no small-business set-asides across its recent federal footprint. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and a subsidiary of Michels Corp, a diversified infrastructure services parent headquartered in Brownsville, Wisconsin.

Michels Construction specializes in large-scale river infrastructure, dike and revetment repair, navigation channel dredging, lock and dam maintenance, and marine terminal construction. Recent prime work spans multiple USACE districts and includes stone placement for bank stabilization and navigation improvements on the Missouri River ($45.4 million, September 2022; $39.8 million, November 2022), reinforced concrete weir construction at Success Lake spillway ($56 million, December 2021), lock and dam kevel rail repair on the Mississippi River ($12.8 million, August 2022), maintenance dredging at Scarborough River, Maine ($3.1 million, October 2023), and Wells Harbor, Maine ($3.5 million, September 2023). Recent awards include a $16.1 million design-build contract for the Kettle Falls Power of Recovery project with the National Park Service (September 2025), a $9.2 million water injection dredging demonstration project at Tuttle Creek Lake, Kansas (December 2024), a $8.2 million stone dike alteration contract on the Mississippi River near Herculaneum and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (July 2026), and a $5.5 million upper wall repair contract in Appleton, Wisconsin (March 2026). In June 2026, the company secured a $99.5 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District for construction of stone navigation structures, dikes, chevrons, bendway weirs, and bank stabilization structures within the Vicksburg District through June 2031, with estimated task order values ranging from $500,000 to $15 million.

Customer concentration centers on USACE, which accounts for five awards and $135.5 million in combined potential value across multiple engineering districts (St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Kansas City). The USACE Vicksburg District award anchors the potential-value rankings at $99.5 million. The top five customer entities (measured both by award count and potential value) represent 69% of recent awards and 90% of combined potential value. The National Park Service National Office and the Department of the Army (non-USACE) round out the active customer set at $16.1 million and $7.8 million respectively.

Activity has remained steady at two to three awards per year between 2022 and 2026, with combined potential value of $352.7 million across sixteen prime contracts and one IDIQ. Seventy-one percent of that potential value ($249.1 million) has been obligated. Five awards (combined potential value $47.3 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractor engagement on its federal work. SCI-reported service contract data shows minimal presence in the federal services reporting system, reflecting the company's focus on capital construction projects rather than labor-hour services work. NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) covers 15 of 16 awards, with primary PSC codes in construction of non-building facilities, restoration of real property, and dredging facilities.