Moreno & Nelson Construction Corp

Moreno & Nelson Construction Corp, doing business as Nelson Construction Corp, is a small-business general contractor that delivers road construction, pavement preservation, and civil engineering services to federal land-management and transportation agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The company is based in Walla Walla, Washington, and competes exclusively under total small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Nelson Construction's customer concentration is dominated by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region, which accounts for 3 awards and $26.2 million of the company's $30.9 million in combined potential value. The Federal Highway Administration awarded a $4.4 million definitive contract for construction services on two phases of the Walla Walla South and Walla Walla North Umatilla Repairs 2020 projects in the Umatilla National Forest, with excavation, grading, drainage, riparian stabilization, and embankment work running through September 2027. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for two additional awards totaling $336 thousand. The company holds a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Forest Service covering road construction and reconstruction across five Central and Eastern Oregon national forests (Malheur, Ochoco, Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, and Deschutes) through April 2028, from which two task orders have been issued: a $653,906 delivery order for culvert-to-precast-bridge replacement over Little Catherine Creek (completed November 2024) and a $561,887 chip-seal pavement preservation task order on the Blue Mountain Scenic Byway near Pomeroy, Washington (completion November 2026). A third award from the Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation program carries nominal value ($11 thousand).

Activity is sparse and episodic: one award in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026. Two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.9 million and face recompete. Nelson Construction operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no sub-award activity in the source data. On SCI-reportable service contracts, the company invoiced $654 thousand in FY2024 with government-paid rates of $1,362.30 per hour. The company reports one named subcontractor relationship, with subcontractors performing approximately 52% of hours on prime contracts. Capability spans highway and bridge construction (4 awards), poured concrete foundations and structures (2 awards), and heavy civil engineering construction (1 award), concentrated on federal forest road maintenance and rural transportation infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest.