Mike Hooks, LLC

Mike Hooks, LLC, doing business as Mike Hooks Inc., a woman-owned limited liability company headquartered in Westlake, Louisiana, operates as a prime contractor delivering specialized dredging equipment rental and maintenance dredging services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers across the Gulf Coast region. The vendor competes full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-asides applied to its federal awards.

Mike Hooks is exclusively a prime contractor (100% of 831 awards) with no subcontract work in its portfolio. The company operates cutterhead pipeline dredges (primarily 27-30 inch models) and provides comprehensive dredging services including sediment removal, equipment rental with crewed operations, pipeline supply, material disposal, and skilled labor to maintain navigable waterways and harbor infrastructure. Representative work includes a $23.8 million definitive contract awarded January 26, 2026, for maintenance dredging in Galveston Harbor, Texas, with material placement at upland areas and an option for new work dredging; a $6.5 million delivery order issued December 16, 2025, for maintenance dredging of Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi, furnishing a 27-inch cutterhead pipeline dredge with 25,000 feet of pipeline; and a $5.8 million delivery order awarded March 6, 2026, for operation and rental of a 27-30 inch cutterhead pipeline dredge supporting navigation maintenance in Mobile, Alabama, extending through December 31, 2026.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Army Corps of Engineers. The top five customer entities account for 90% of awards by count and 93% of combined potential value. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Mobile dominates at 108 awards and $588.9 million combined potential value; the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers overall (aggregated districts) carries 371 awards and $465.3 million; the Engineering District New Orleans accounts for 45 awards and $287.1 million; the Engineering District Galveston for 15 awards and $92.3 million; and the Engineering District Jacksonville for 2 awards backed by $500 million in potential value. This concentration reflects Mike Hooks' positioning as a critical vendor for the Corps' water resources mission across Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.

Mike Hooks holds five active single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity vehicles with the Corps of Engineers. The largest is a $49 million IDIQ awarded September 5, 2025, through November 5, 2026, for rental and operation of a 27-30 inch cutterhead pipeline dredge with attendant equipment and labor supporting navigation channel maintenance across five Gulf Coast states, with two delivery orders issued to date totaling $6.5 million. A $35 million IDIQ awarded August 2, 2024, through October 2, 2025, procures cutterhead dredge rental for navigation projects in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. An earlier $49 million IDIQ that ran November 8, 2022, through January 8, 2024, generated approximately $36.6 million in task orders across Panama City, Mobile, and Pascagoula harbors. Two additional IDIQs valued at $24 million and expired July 12, 2023, and a vehicle under DACW2986C0043 complete the vehicle footprint.

Activity has been substantial historically—831 total awards since 1980—but recent year volume shows decline: 15 awards in 2022, declining to 3 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 2 in 2026. Seven awards totaling $59.2 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure for the vendor. Combined potential value across all 831 awards totals $2.07 billion, with $1.48 billion obligated (71% of potential).

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), with PSC concentration in Construction of Dredging Facilities (61 awards), Construction of Dredging (49 awards), Construction of Canals (29 awards), and Maintenance-Repair-Alteration of Dredging (26 awards). Mike Hooks has delivered more than $350 million in dredging services across the Gulf Coast over the past decade through prime federal contracts and currently maintains firm fixed-price pricing on all active vehicles and delivery orders.