Northern Pride Communications Inc.

Northern Pride Communications Inc., a HUBZone-certified small business based in Topsham, Maine, delivers tower and antenna construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, demolition, inspection, and repair services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 100% of its recent awards. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, with secondary work placed on unrestricted vehicles; NAICS 237130 (Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction) frames 50 of 56 recent awards, with PSC 4940 (Repair or Alteration of Radar and Navigational Facilities) accounting for 35.

Northern Pride's customer base is heavily concentrated. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 44 of 56 awards (79% of award count) and $11.4 million of the $13.5 million combined potential value across the portfolio — 84% of total dollars. Three secondary customers—the Department of the Army Cyber Command ($510 thousand, 3 awards), the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration ($328 thousand, 2 awards), and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas ($202 thousand, 1 award)—comprise the remaining 9% of awards and 4% of potential value. A single outlier award to the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection ($900 thousand) appears in the potential-value ranking but not the award-count ranking, indicating one large order from a customer with minimal repeat volume.

Northern Pride's primary federal contract vehicle is the U.S. Coast Guard Tower/Antenna Multiple Award Construction Contract (TMACC), which the company was awarded April 5, 2023, with a $1 ceiling and an ultimate completion date of April 4, 2028. This indefinite delivery contract sits under a total small business set-aside and generates the bulk of Northern Pride's Coast Guard workload—27 task orders totaling $7.1 million in combined potential value. A secondary IDC, Indefinite Delivery Contract 70Z08823DOAKL0003, carries 8 task orders worth $4.2 million. Representative task orders under TMACC include a $1.221 million delivery order for demolition of LORAN towers at multiple Coast Guard locations (awarded January 21, 2026, completing November 17, 2026), a $1.074 million order for FY 2024 tower maintenance and inspection in the Atlantic Area (November 4, 2024, completing September 27, 2026), a $742.6 thousand order for FY 2024 tower maintenance and repairs at Atlantic Area (May 6, 2024, completing August 31, 2026), and a $465.6 thousand order for FY 2025 Atlantic Area tower maintenance and inspection (May 9, 2025, completing January 31, 2026). Outside the Coast Guard IDCs, work includes a $407.2 thousand purchase order from the Department of the Army Cyber Command for an LPH-24 antenna array installation at Raven Rock Mountain Complex (August 18, 2023, completing May 14, 2024), and a $78.2 thousand definitive contract from an unnamed civilian agency for shelter repairs (January 28, 2025, completing July 27, 2025).

Activity has declined over the past three years—six awards in 2022, five in 2023, three in 2024, four in 2025, and two in 2026 through mid-June. Four awards with combined potential value of $3 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and are therefore at recompete risk. Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2022–FY2024 shows $1.6 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across 6 prime records (0 as subcontractor), with $914 thousand in FY2022 and $684 thousand in FY2023; SCI invoicing dropped to zero in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $238.81/hr to a median of $1,194.04/hr, reflecting the labor-intensive field-service nature of tower work. Northern Pride operates with no subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable prime contracts (0% sub-hours share), indicating full internal delivery on the service contracts captured in the inventory. The company has not competed as a subcontractor to other federal primes in the source data.

Northern Pride Communications celebrates its 20th year as a successful small business firm providing management and support tower services for a wide range of tower and communication services such as initial feasibility, planning, permitting, acquisition, construction management, outfitting, installation, demolition, maintenance, inspections and program management services. Customers include all major carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, Sprint, American Tower, SBA, and Crown Castle. Site locations include overseas as well as most of the continental United States and Canada. We have completed more than 1,000 of these projects and to 100's of sites for the Federal Government including Navy and US Coast Guard and VTRAN for FAA. These services are for towers such as cell, communications, signal, broadcasting, radio, beacon, aids to navigation, airports and other similar small and large structures both free standing and discretely encapsulated in buildings.