Noble Excavating Inc.

Noble Excavating Inc., a HUBZone-certified small business based in Libby, Montana, provides heavy civil construction and infrastructure services—road and bridge construction, culvert replacement, forest road maintenance, timber harvesting and vegetation management, and emergency stabilization work—to federal agencies as a prime contractor exclusively. The vendor operates with no subcontractor footprint on its own prime awards, though it has engaged an average of 6 named subcontractors on federal work when reporting service contracts above the $150,000 threshold. Noble Excavating competes predominantly under small-business set-asides, with 100% of recent prime awards held by the firm and a recurring emphasis on Total Small Business and HUBZone designations across its portfolio.

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1–Northern Region dominates Noble Excavating's customer base, accounting for 48 awards (73% of the top-customer-by-award-count band) and $159.9 million in combined potential value—roughly 85% of the vendor's total award pipeline. This concentration reflects the vendor's core positioning as a heavy civil and forestry infrastructure provider to the Forest Service's Northern Region across Montana, Idaho, and surrounding states. Secondary customers include the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration ($11.9 million across 3 awards), the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Seattle ($7 million across 12 awards), and the National Interagency Fire Center ($1.4 million across 5 awards). The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission shows 41 awards in the top-customer count but carries negligible potential value, indicating a portfolio of low-dollar, high-frequency transactions. Representative work includes a $7.61 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded June 15, 2027, for the Mitchell-Jackson Integrated Resource Service Contract covering commercial timber harvesting, pre-commercial thinning, fuels management, and road work across 4,586 acres on the Kootenai National Forest; a $5.96 million total-small-business definitive contract awarded April 19, 2022, for roadway grading, asphalt, retaining walls, and drainage improvements on the McNamara and Johnsrud Roads near Missoula; and a $1.34 million BPA call awarded June 12, 2024, for road repairs under the Trojan Defense Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance project.

Noble Excavating holds four parent vehicles anchoring its federal delivery: a $50 million Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction Multiple Award Task Order Contract valid through December 2029 (yielding recent delivery orders for Good Creek Bridge Replacement at $405,895 and stream crossing culvert replacement at $45,670); a $50 million Region 1–Region 4 Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance Blanket Purchase Agreement running through August 2033, open for use by all federal agencies; two indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center totaling $750,000 for heavy equipment and fire-suppression support across the East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), both carrying Total Small Business set-asides and running through June 2028; and multiple smaller task-order vehicles under the Department of Transportation. Activity has declined from 7 awards in 2023 to 1 in 2027 as reported in the source, though this reflects the snapshot nature of recent activity; the vendor's cumulative footprint spans 188 prime awards with $187.7 million in combined potential value across a 35-year award history. Only one award (valued at $519 thousand) faces recompete within the next twenty-four months, leaving the vendor's major vehicle floor largely stable through 2029–2033.

Service Contract Inventory reporting captures $7.4 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across six prime records spanning fiscal years 2022–2025, with concentration in FY2022 ($6.2 million across 7.9 FTEs) and FY2024 ($1.2 million across 1.5 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts run a median of $350.17 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $508.91 per hour and lower-tier labor at $99.39 per hour. Across prime SCI-reportable contracts, subcontractor hours averaged 16% of total contractor hours delivered, indicating that Noble Excavating retains most delivery capacity in-house while engaging subs for specialized skill sets. The top NAICS categories across the portfolio are Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (49 awards), All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining (36 awards), and Support Activities for Forestry (21 awards); PSC coding emphasizes Mineral Construction Materials Bulk (50 awards) and Maintenance of Highways/Roads/Streets/Bridges/Railways (16 awards), confirming the vendor's anchoring in infrastructure maintenance and extraction services for forest and highway programs.