Shekar Engineering, P.l.c

Shekar Engineering, P.L.C., doing business as Shekar Engineering PLC, is a Des Moines, Iowa-based minority-owned, SBA-certified 8(a) small disadvantaged business operating as a prime contractor on federal facility construction, renovation, and maintenance work across the Midwest, with no subcontractor activity. The company is a Limited Liability Company with Subcontinent Asian American ownership and has generated $437.2 million in combined potential value across 223 prime awards since 2013, with $72 million obligated to date.

Shekar Engineering delivers concrete construction and design-build services across commercial and institutional building trades—carpentry, plumbing, HVAC, electrical systems, fire suppression, roofing, concrete repair, and specialty infrastructure work. Primary work centers on facility maintenance, renovation, and minor new construction at federal installations in the Midwest. Representative named work includes a $50 million five-year multiple award indefinite delivery contract awarded August 1, 2025, by Air Combat Command for sustainment and modernization projects at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska; a $38 million multiple award task order contract with the Air National Guard for Nebraska National Guard facility maintenance and repair through August 2029; a $35 million five-year Iowa National Guard construction IDIQ with the Air National Guard through September 2028; a $25 million GSA Region 6 small business IDIQ for construction services across Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska through January 2029; and a $1.65 million design-build delivery order from Air Combat Command for water line repairs at Offutt AFB awarded October 2025. Recent smaller task orders include a $607 thousand building renovation for the 95th Wing at Offutt AFB, a $586 thousand concrete repairs and pavement painting order from USDA Agricultural Research Service at Ames, Iowa, and a $359 thousand pumped pretreatment waste piping repair contract from USDA.

Customer concentration is dual-anchored by civilian and military customers. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 6 leads by potential value at $186.4 million across 61 awards (43% of total potential value), while the Air National Guard commands $111 million across five awards (25% of total potential value). The Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command holds $58.6 million across seven awards, and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Midwest Area carries $21.1 million across 71 awards—highest award count but lower per-award value, reflecting task-order and repair-order activity. Together, the top five customers account for 92% of combined potential value, with GSA and Air National Guard together representing 68% of the dollar footprint.

Shekar holds position on multiple large vehicles. The PBS Region 6 Construction Services 2019 IDIQ (GSA, 22 task orders, $4.6 million combined potential value) enables rapid-response federal courthouse and office building maintenance across five Midwest states. The Offutt Air Force Base Multiple Award Construction Contract 2025–2030 ($50 million shared ceiling) anchors Air Force facility work through July 2030 with five task orders currently issued. The Air National Guard Iowa Construction MATOC ($35 million through September 2028) and Nebraska Air National Guard MATOC ($38 million through August 2029) position Shekar as a standing provider for National Guard facility sustainment across both states. A GSA Region 6 small business IDIQ worth $25 million through January 2029 provides additional authority for multi-state courthouse and federal building work.

Award activity has grown incrementally—9 awards in 2022 to 16 in 2023—then moderated to 11 in 2024 and 10 in 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 as of the data cutoff. Six awards with combined potential value of $3 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the firm's $437.2 million total potential value footprint.

Across NAICS categories, Shekar concentrates in Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (127 awards) and Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (19 awards), with secondary depth in environmental consulting (10 awards) and electrical contracting (8 awards). Service contract inventory reporting covers eighteen contracts above the $150,000 threshold. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $20.1 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($4.8 million in FY2022, $8.7 million in FY2023, $6.5 million in FY2024), with workforce scale ranging from 4.0 FTEs in FY2022 to 7.8 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $364.88 per hour, with the 90th percentile at $6,221.42 per hour, reflecting a mix of labor categories from technicians to senior engineers. Shekar operates entirely as a prime contractor—zero subcontractor hours recorded in SCI—indicating a fully in-house delivery model with no named subcontractor reliance across its reported federal service work.

Shekar competes exclusively in set-aside categories. Total Small Business designations dominate the prime contract footprint, with 8(a) Sole Source and Competitive 8(a) set-asides concentrated in smaller task orders and specialty work. The vendor's $437.2 million pipeline sits entirely on small-business-reserved vehicles and task orders, positioning it as a set-aside specialist with limited full-and-open competition exposure.

Environmental, Remediation, Engineering Services, Consulting, Construction, Abatement.