Sauer Construction, LLC

Sauer Construction, LLC, doing business as J.A. Sauer Co, is a Jacksonville, Florida-based general contractor delivering large-scale design-build and design-bid-build construction services to the Department of Defense, NASA, and federal agencies across the southeastern United States as a prime contractor on unrestricted competitive vehicles. The firm operates as a for-profit limited liability company with no SBA set-aside designations; it competes in full-and-open federal procurements across military infrastructure, facility modernization, and institutional building projects.

Sauer Construction's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Navy and Army Corps of Engineers programs. The top five customer agencies account for 72 percent of recent awards by count but 74 percent by potential value, led by the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (79 awards, $7.29 billion combined potential value), the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District (11 awards, $2.71 billion), and the Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District (7 awards, $2.69 billion). Secondary customers include the Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, NASA Kennedy Space Center, and the Department of the Navy Installations Command. Sauer Construction operates across a broad geographic footprint spanning Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the National Capital Region, with recent work at Naval Facilities Engineering Command installations, Army Corps of Engineers regional projects, and NASA facilities.

The contractor's concrete capability profile centers on military facility construction, renovation, and infrastructure modernization. Recent representative awards include a $75.6 million design-build delivery order from US Special Operations Command (awarded September 2025) for a 60,000-square-foot Operations Support Facility at Little Creek-Fort Story, Virginia, with completion targeted for August 2028; a $61.3 million design-build project with Navy Installations Command (awarded September 2025) for waterfront transformer and substation replacement at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, running through February 2030; a $60.1 million delivery order with Navy Installations Command (awarded September 2025) for Hurricane Sally reconstruction at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida; a $52.1 million electrical system repair delivery order for Naval Air Station Key West (awarded September 2025) under the Southeast Area of Responsibility Multiple Award Construction Contract; a $33.66 million definitive contract with Naval Air Systems Command (awarded December 2024) for chilled water and compressed air system replacement at Naval Air Station Jacksonville; and a $98.2 million delivery order with the Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District (awarded March 2024) for the Fort Johnson Joint Operation Center fence relocation project in Louisiana.

Sauer Construction holds three major federal construction IDIQs. The $1.999 billion Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast Area of Responsibility multiple-award IDIQ (awarded June 2025, running through June 2030) covers general construction, renovation, alteration, and repair at Navy and Marine Corps installations across seven southeastern states using design-build and design-bid-build approaches. The $2.358 billion Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District Unrestricted Vertical MATOC (awarded March 2024, running through March 2029) supports design-build and design-bid-build vertical construction for military programs and interagency services across the Southwestern Division. The Johnson Space Center JMACC multiple-award IDIQ (awarded May 2026, running through May 2029, with ceiling of $300 million) supports construction services including general construction, alterations, maintenance, repair, and new construction at JSC and the White Sands Test Facility, funded under the Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, Public Law 119-21). The firm's largest parent vehicles by task-order count are IDIQs N6893198D0027 (29 task orders), N6246798D0672 (20 task orders), N6246701D0297 (16 task orders, $42.9 million combined potential value), and the Large Construction, Marine Corps North Carolina vehicle (11 task orders, $258.7 million combined potential value).

Recent activity shows a declining trajectory: the contractor received 12 awards in 2022, 4 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 through August. Eight awards (combined potential value $479.2 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure. The contractor's award portfolio comprises 776 total awards (773 prime, 3 sub) with combined potential value of $19.24 billion; combined dollars obligated total $4.26 billion (22 percent of potential value). Primary work streams cluster in commercial and institutional building construction (219 awards), industrial building construction (25 awards), and HVAC and plumbing contracting (24 awards).

Sauer Construction's sub engagement on SCI-reportable service contracts shows the firm leans heavily on subcontractors: across prime contracts captured in SCI, subcontractors accounted for an average 88 percent of total contractor hours, with 28 named subcontractors reported across the SCI dataset (FY2022–FY2025). SCI invoicing totaled $69.7 million across the four-year period, with the largest share in FY2022 at $53.6 million. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $292/hr, with rates spanning from approximately $197/hr at the 10th percentile to $1,806/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting variation across labor categories. FTE trajectory on SCI-reported work declined from 2.9 FTEs in FY2022 to 0.0 FTEs in FY2025, reflecting a shift in contract composition toward capital construction projects (IDIQs and delivery orders for facilities work) rather than sustained labor-hour service contracts above the SCI threshold. As a subcontractor, Sauer Construction performs mechanical scope of work for Diversified Construction of Oklahoma on booster fabrication facility interior renovations and HVAC upgrades at Kennedy Space Center.