Randy Kinder Excavating Inc.

Randy Kinder Excavating Inc., doing business as RKE Contractors, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and SBA-certified HUBZone firm based in Dexter, Missouri that operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering heavy civil engineering construction, infrastructure rehabilitation, and flood mitigation services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of the Interior, and related federal agencies. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and parent entity with one named subsidiary, Rke-Equix Joint Venture, LLC (a SDVOSB and self-certified HUBZone joint venture).

RKE Contractors' capability portfolio centers on water and utility infrastructure, slope stabilization, retaining walls, pump station renovation, channel cleanout excavation, floodwall replacement, cemetery expansion and facility improvements, and heavy earthwork. Representative prime contracts include a $19.26 million Department of the Army definitive contract awarded March 19, 2026, for the Helena Floodwall Replacement Project (approximately 1,600 linear feet of floodwall replacement in Phillips County, Arkansas, with completion January 3, 2030); an $8.57 million Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 definitive contract awarded July 22, 2026, for replacement of exterior utility lines at Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma (including water loop, sewer, and fire protection systems with completion February 16, 2029); a $10.45 million National Park Service definitive contract awarded March 23, 2026, for critical infrastructure stabilization at Vicksburg National Military Park (soldier pile and lagging retaining wall installation plus strand anchor remediation, completion September 22, 2027); and a $20.32 million Department of Veterans Affairs definitive contract awarded November 16, 2022, for Phase 5C cemetery expansion at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri (8.5 acres of burial capacity expansion with completion August 15, 2024).

Customer concentration is highly concentrated in Army Corps of Engineers programs. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 71% of recent awards. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers dominates volume across 68 awards totaling $323.3 million combined potential value, with the Memphis District alone representing 24 awards and $105.5 million. However, the potential-value ranking diverges significantly: the Galveston District carries $7 billion combined potential value across just two awards, and the Fort Worth District carries $5.07 billion across two awards—these are anchor IDV vehicles that dwarf traditional contract activity by orders of magnitude. The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (10 awards, $28.6 million), Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (9 awards, $13.7 million), and Department of the Army (8 awards, $25 million) round out the active set. The concentrated customer base reflects RKE Contractors' positioning as a specialized federal construction prime focused on civil works, water infrastructure, and veteran-serving agencies.

RKE Contractors holds multiple significant indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring its strategic federal footprint. The largest by potential value is a $7 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with USACE Galveston District and Southwestern Division for design-build or design-bid-build horizontal construction services (awarded April 8, 2025, completion April 8, 2033, no set-aside); a $5.07 billion contract with USACE Fort Worth District (implicit from portfolio summary); a $250 million Fish and Wildlife Service MATOC for design-build construction services issued January 1, 2022 (completion June 30, 2027, Total Small Business set-aside); a second $250 million Fish and Wildlife Service MATOC issued March 28, 2023 (completion April 2, 2028, Total Small Business set-aside); a $99 million USACE Southwest Division Civil Works MATOC for design-bid-build horizontal construction awarded July 23, 2025 (completion July 23, 2030, Total Small Business set-aside, up to five contract holders); a $95 million USACE St. Louis District Civil Works and Flood Recovery MATOC awarded November 3, 2025 (completion November 2, 2030, Total Small Business set-aside); a $49 million USACE Mobile District civil works MATOC awarded July 10, 2025 (completion July 9, 2030, Total Small Business set-aside); a $49 million USACE Mobile District design-repair-construction IDIQ awarded June 27, 2025 (completion June 26, 2030, Total Small Business set-aside); a $45 million USACE aggregate materials BPA awarded December 6, 2024 (completion December 5, 2029, no set-aside); and a $45 million USACE Memphis District seepage remediation MATOC awarded May 23, 2024 (completion April 16, 2029, HUBZone set-aside). The Border Patrol Horizontal Construction Services MATOC (a $250 million vehicle) has generated 3 task orders totaling $94.7 million in combined potential value. Across the top parent vehicles, RKE Contractors holds 16 task orders under IDC DACW6698D0002, 6 task orders totaling $7.4 million under IDC W912EQ09D0005, and 4 task orders totaling $2.5 million under IDC W912EQ10D0005. Total potential value across all held IDVs and BPAs substantially exceeds $13.3 billion, indicating that RKE Contractors anchors its business model on idling large-ceiling indefinite vehicles and executing specific work through individual task orders.

Activity has grown since 2022 (4 awards in 2022, 10 in 2024, 14 in 2025) but has decelerated in the current calendar year (4 awards through October 2026). Within the next twenty-four months, 8 awards carrying combined potential value of $38 million reach ultimate completion, creating recompete exposure in that window. The recompete cliff is moderate in dollar terms but substantial programmatically—several multi-year projects with veteran-serving agencies and civil works infrastructure customers will cycle for recompete in FY2027–FY2028.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold) totaled $80.7 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2023 peaking at $39.1 million (5,131 FTEs reported at contract level, which is atypical and likely reflects a high-labor mobilization contract or data reporting artifact). Excluding the FY2023 anomaly, SCI activity shows invoiced revenue of approximately $25.7 million (FY2022), $11.3 million (FY2024), and $4.6 million (FY2025), indicating declining SCI-reportable invoicing in recent fiscal years—consistent with RKE Contractors' shift toward goods-heavy construction (materials, aggregate, equipment procurement) and fixed-price lump-sum construction contracts, both of which carry lower SCI reporting obligations. FTE trajectory on SCI-reportable prime contracts shows 8.9 FTEs in FY2022, climbing to 15.6 in FY2024, then declining to 12.1 in FY2025. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates range from a 10th percentile of $72.01/hr to a median of $282.43/hr and 90th percentile of $824.44/hr, reflecting a mixed labor stack spanning laborer-class field work through senior engineering and project management. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average 35% of contractor hours, with 48 named subcontractors reported across the prime portfolio, indicating selective subcontracting for specialized tasks (geotechnical work, equipment rental, environmental compliance) rather than vertical integration or in-house delivery.

RKE Contractors competes predominantly under set-aside categories. Across the recent award footprint, the vast majority of definitive contracts and MATOCs carry either Total Small Business, HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides. SDVOSB and HUBZone designations recur across the prime footprint and are the basis for RKE Contractors' competitive positioning against larger unrestricted primes. The company's strategic focus on idling large-ceiling indefinite vehicles and executing task orders suggests a federal contracting business model built to capture set-aside task-order work from pre-positioned IDVs rather than pursuit-driven full-and-open competition at the definitive-contract stage. Work is performed across a wide geographic footprint—primarily in the lower Mississippi River basin, Southwest Division territories (Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois), and select interior western locations (Colorado, Arizona, Texas)—with administrative oversight at Dexter, Missouri.

For over 35 years, Randy Kinder Excavating, Inc. (RKE) has provided Civil Construction services to federal, state and local governments. Through the years RKE developed the experience necessary to complete a wide variety of construction projects. During this time RKE has never failed to finish a project on time or received a less than positive evaluation. RKE employs seasoned staff that can manage a wide variety of construction projects - horizontal, vertical, civil, commercial, design-bid-build, design-build, etc. Typical projects include site work, excavating, engineered fill, flood control, levees, mechanical dredging (via dragline), slope protection, riprap, paving, utilities, relief wells, concrete, asphalt, roads and bridges, and National Cemetery Expansions.