RQ Construction, LLC

RQ Construction, LLC, a large for-profit general contractor headquartered in Carlsbad, California, competes as a prime contractor on design-build and design-bid-build military construction and facility modernization projects across the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, delivering full-and-open (non-set-aside) work with a 93% prime footprint across 182 recent awards totaling $26.32 billion in combined potential value. RQ Construction operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of DPR Construction, a Santa Clara–based general partnership, and fields work through 14 named joint venture subsidiaries that pair RQ with specialized engineering and construction firms—enabling concurrent execution of large, complex military infrastructure projects.

RQ Construction's customer concentration is acute and Navy-dominated. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command anchors 96 awards worth $19.13 billion combined potential value—73% of all dollars across the entire footprint—reflecting deep positioning on multiple NAVFAC indefinite-delivery contracts for commercial and institutional building renovation, design-build and design-bid-build facility modernization, and repair work at naval installations nationwide and overseas. The Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard represents $4.03 billion across three awards (the National Multiple Award Construction Contract III), and the Department of the Navy Installations Command carries $775.2 million across 18 awards. The Army Southern Command, despite 34 awards, contributes only $1.5 million combined potential value—these are micro-scale blanket purchase agreement calls for ready-mix concrete and aggregate materials supporting contingency operations at Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay. This split signals capability in both large facility modernization (Navy platforms) and consumable material procurement (Army BPA calls).

RQ Construction holds significant seat positions on multiple federal indefinite-delivery vehicles. The Commercial and Institutional MACC V with Naval Facilities Engineering Command carries a $3 billion ceiling and has generated recent large-dollar delivery orders including a $134 million modernization of Halligan Hall at Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California), a $72.3 million expeditionary mobile combat laboratory at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (California), and a $33.5 million HVAC replacement at a San Diego naval facility. The National Multiple Award Construction Contract III with the U.S. Coast Guard holds a $4 billion ceiling through September 2033, with a $33.4 million delivery order for runway recapitalization at U.S. Coast Guard Base Elizabeth City, North Carolina. RQ also holds the Southeast Area of Responsibility Multiple Award Construction Contract (SEAOC) at $1.999 billion for design-build and design-bid-build general construction across a seven-state Southeast region (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), with recent orders including a $123.7 million Trident Training Facility mechanical and electrical recapitalization at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, and a $79.1 million airfield improvement project at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Additional IDIQs include a $2.5 billion facilities and infrastructure contract with NAVFAC Pacific (Guam and overseas), a $499 million design-build contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division, and a $245 million two-phase design-build contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District.

Capability framing is grounded in scope: RQ delivers design-build and design-bid-build services spanning structural, mechanical, electrical, HVAC, roofing, plumbing, fire protection, hazmat abatement, and specialty systems integration. Representative prime work includes a $197.9 million preconstruction services and expansion contract for the Trident Refit Facility at Kings Bay (awarded November 2023, NAVFAC), a $134 million Halligan Hall modernization including unforeseen asbestos abatement at Naval Postgraduate School (April 2025, NAVFAC), a $122.4 million Norfolk Naval Shipyard Triplex and Building 163 repair contract (May 2025, NAVFAC), a $110.1 million design-build Special Operations Forces Warcom operations facility in San Diego (August 2024, Naval Special Warfare Command), and a $104.7 million design-build SOF facility in San Diego (August 2024, Naval Special Warfare Command). The subcontractor model reflects deep specialization: RQ engages primary trade partners (Southern Spear Ironworks for structural steel, Weldway Steel Fabrication for structural steel and metal deck, Mitsubishi Electric US for elevators, Bergelectric Corp for electrical systems, Mcclain Mechanical Systems for plumbing) paired with small and disadvantaged business subcontractors, including TST Tactical Defense Solutions (SDVOSB, roofing), Blackwater Electric (WOSB, electrical-lighting and security systems), Sharpe Concrete (SDVOSB/VOSB, concrete work), and Above Green LLC (WOSB, sustainability consulting).

Activity is stable to slightly declining year over year: 21 awards in 2022, 19 in 2023, 26 in 2024, and 25 in 2025, with only four awards recorded in 2026 (source date is mid-October, limiting the year-to-date sample). Twenty-one awards with ultimate completion dates in the next 24 months carry combined potential value of $1.31 billion and therefore face recompete exposure. NAICS concentration shows 109 awards in commercial and institutional building construction, 51 in ready-mix concrete manufacturing (the Army BPA calls), 11 in facilities support services, and smaller volumes in highway and bridge construction. The subcontract footprint is minimal (7% of portfolio, 12 awards), routed through V2X Systems LLC as prime on Naval Station Guantanamo Bay base operations support services, water line inspection and repair, and Operation Southern Guard support.