Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc.

Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc., a women-owned and minority-owned small business based in Montgomery, Alabama, is a prime contractor in federal construction with a 25-year footprint of facility design-build, renovation, repair, alteration, demolition, HVAC replacement, electrical system upgrades, and infrastructure improvement work across 46 federal agencies. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business and woman-owned small business set-asides.

Southeast Cherokee Construction operates as a 100% prime contractor, holding six active indefinite delivery vehicles with combined potential ceiling value exceeding $956 million. The company's customer concentration is pronounced and geographically clustered. The top five agencies by combined potential value account for 89% of the vendor's total $4.56 billion federal footprint: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Mobile leads with 16 awards and $1.43 billion in potential value, followed by NASA Stennis Space Center (14 awards, $790.8 million), Air Combat Command (21 awards, $778.1 million), Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters Military Programs (8 awards, $562 million), and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (15 awards, $481 million). The top-by-count split differs from top-by-dollars: Air Combat Command places the most task orders (21 awards) but ranks third in potential value; the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District dominates dollars despite fewer orders. The vendor's capability footprint is concentrated in commercial and institutional building construction (152 awards) and industrial building construction (23 awards), with the preponderance of work falling under construction of miscellaneous buildings and repair-alteration of office and industrial facilities.

Recent activity shows modest decline: the vendor received nine awards in 2022, ten in 2023, then five in 2024, four in 2025, and five through December 2026. Only five awards (combined potential value $14.6 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, presenting a manageable recompete window. Recent named work includes a $25.5 million repair and renovation of Dormitory 131 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (November 2023, Air Combat Command, firm fixed-price, completion March 2026), a $7.07 million design-and-construct delivery order for a KC-46 aircraft maintenance facility at MacDill Air Force Base (September 2024, Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District, North Region Small Business MATOC, firm fixed-price, completion May 2026), a $9.35 million demolition of three buildings at NASA Langley Research Center (September 2023, Total Small Business set-aside, completion September 2026), and a $5.15 million warehouse operations delivery order for KC-46 supplies and equipment at MacDill (December 2026, Army Corps of Engineers Mobile, completion September 2027).

The vendor holds positions on several named IDV vehicles: a $400 million Multiple Award Construction Contract (MACC) IDIQ with Air Combat Command for maintenance, repair, alteration, electrical, HVAC, demolition, and paving work at Joint Base Langley-Eustis and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (awarded May 2025, completion May 2031); a $200 million North Region Small Business MATOC with Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District for general construction and repair in the Mobile District area of responsibility (awarded July 2024, completion July 2029); a $200 million South Region Small Business MATOC with Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District for the same scope (awarded July 2022, completion July 2027); a $116.4 million Vertical Construction MATOC with Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District for woman-owned small business (awarded September 2023, completion September 2028); a $49 million DHS Construction MATOC with FEMA (awarded February 2026, completion February 2031); and a $40 million construction services IDIQ with Mississippi Army National Guard (awarded December 2022, completion November 2027). Task order velocity across the top five named vehicles remains modest: EPC05054 carries 13 task orders ($620 thousand combined potential value), FA480018D0003 carries 12 task orders ($59.9 million), NAVFAC MIDLANT A-E Services carries 9 task orders ($21.7 million), and two additional vehicles each hold 9 task orders.

On SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Southeast Cherokee Construction invoiced $11.7 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 showing the highest invoicing ($4 million across 11.5 FTEs reported). The trajectory across the period shows growth from $957 thousand (FY2022) to $4 million (FY2025). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor engages subcontractors for an average 38% of total contractor hours, with 16 named subcontractors reported across the dataset. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run a median of $252.60/hr, with rates ranging from $121.57/hr (10th percentile) to $649.66/hr (90th percentile), indicating a capability mix spanning junior labor and senior engineering or management roles. The vendor consistently subcontracts specialized work: recent awards name Moon Construction Services (pre-engineered metal buildings), Johnson Controls (HVAC instrumentation and controls), Tampa Bay Electric (electrical), American Mechanical Solutions (HVAC and plumbing), Cross Construction Services (demolition), Argosy Electric (electrical and fire alarm), and others for structural steel, roofing, concrete, fire suppression, and demolition scopes. This teaming pattern positions Southeast Cherokee Construction as a general contractor managing specialized subcontract teams rather than a sub-provider to larger primes.

General Contractor, residential and commerical buildings, design-build, roofing, concrete foundations,framing

Heavy/highway/street construction: grade, drain, base pave, all utilities, erosion control,demolition, debris removal, site cleanup, trucking