Steep Creek LLC

Steep Creek LLC, a sole proprietorship and small-business-limited-liability company based in Mena, Arkansas, provides infrastructure maintenance, grounds services, road construction, and natural resource restoration to federal agencies as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. All thirty-three awards in the vendor's portfolio are primes (100%); the company does not sub, and operates entirely within set-aside categories across its customer base.

The customer base concentrates heavily on Army Corps of Engineers work in Arkansas. The top four agencies account for 100% of awards by count and potential value, with the Army Corps of Engineers holding twenty-one awards valued at $9.9 million combined potential value across its Little Rock Engineering District (ENDIST Little Rock) contracting office. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) anchors the dollar value with two awards—a single $18 million indefinite delivery contract for road construction and maintenance across the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas (awarded July 1, 2023, through March 31, 2028) and a $689,279 purchase order for sewer line replacement at Blanchard Springs Recreation Area awarded September 28, 2026. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Midwest Region placed one award for $248 thousand. Representative Army Corps work includes a $1.66 million single-award IDIQ for general maintenance at the Russellville Site Office supporting the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) through June 30, 2026, a $1.14 million single-award IDIQ for general maintenance at Ozark Field Office through June 30, 2027, and a $2.55 million natural resource restoration contract (expired June 2024) under which the Corps issued task orders for oak woodland restoration and habitat work at Mountain Home and Norfork facilities.

Steep Creek holds five named single-award IDIQs, all under Total Small Business set-asides, with combined potential value exceeding $26 million. The largest, the $18 million USDA Forest Service contract, structures road construction projects across multiple named task orders (Abernathy, Curtis, Jones, Mullenix, Philpot, RCI, Robinson, Six Mile, Standridge, Steep Creek, and SYTE) under Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements. The Army Corps vehicle portfolio includes contracts supporting MKARNS and Mountain Home Project operations through task orders for general maintenance, electrical and plumbing services, natural resource restoration, road closure services, precast concrete barrier installation, and grounds maintenance. Work is performed at Russellville, Ozark, and Mena, Arkansas, and across Ouachita National Forest. The vendor's service scope spans NAICS 561210 (Facilities Support Services), 561730 (Landscaping Services), 236210 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), 237110 (Water and Sewer Line Construction), and 237310 (Highway and Bridge Construction), with corresponding PSC codes for facilities operations support, groundskeeping, recreation facility operations, and infrastructure maintenance.

Activity volume peaked in 2023 with eight awards, declined to three in 2024, and has recovered modestly to four in 2025 and six through September 2026. Four awards with combined potential value of $804 thousand carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure on those vehicles. The company's invoiced-obligations rate stands at 9% of combined potential value ($2.7 million obligated of $30.2 million potential), reflecting the heavy weighting of large-ceiling IDIQs with task-order-driven drawdown patterns.