Steve Manning Construction Inc.

Steve Manning Construction Inc., a HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Redding, California, delivers heavy civil infrastructure construction to the federal government as a prime contractor exclusively, with a portfolio focused on roadway rehabilitation, resurfacing, and emergency repairs in national parks and federal lands. The vendor operates across NAICS 237110 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and PSC R499 and related codes, competing in full-and-open federal procurements without reliance on set-aside vehicles despite its HUBZone qualification.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration accounts for 20 of the vendor's 31 recent awards and $372.6 million of the combined $410 million potential value — 87% of awards by count and 91% by dollars. The remaining three customers of note—the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation ($20.3 million across three awards), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District ($5.5 million), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest Region ($201 thousand)—are secondary and small by comparison. This concentration reflects a specialized, recurring customer relationship anchored in federal highway and park infrastructure work.

Recent representative work illustrates the portfolio: a $80.1 million firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded May 12, 2023, for rehabilitation of 18.5 miles of East Rim Drive in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Oregon, running through October 1, 2026; a $43.3 million contract awarded December 23, 2024, for rehabilitation of 15.20 miles of Mineral King Road in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, California, completing October 1, 2027; and a $9.44 million contract awarded April 23, 2026, for rehabilitation and widening of Red Grade Road in Sheridan, Wyoming, completing November 10, 2027. The vendor also holds a $31.3 million closed contract for Glacier Point Road resurfacing in Yosemite National Park (December 2021 award) and a $16.8 million small-business set-aside contract for emergency repairs and armoring at Death Valley National Park (September 2024 award). Award activity is sparse but weighted toward high-dollar projects: one award in 2021, one in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, and one in 2026. Three awards (combined potential value $132.9 million) complete within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk.

The SCI dataset captures limited service-contract activity: $22 million in invoiced revenue reported in FY2022 across 26.2 full-time equivalents, with no SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2023 or FY2024. This reflects SCI's exclusion of goods and construction projects—the vendor's core delivery vehicles—and does not represent total enterprise revenue or workforce scale. On the service contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $26.66/hr to a median of $133.31/hr and a 90th percentile of $319.71/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 12% of total contractor hours, with nine named subcontractors reported. The vendor operates as a prime-only player: zero sub-awards appear in the source, and 100% of recent awards are prime contracts.

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION, HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION AS A GENERAL ENGINEERING CONTRACTOR, ROCK SLOPE PROTECTION, DRAINAGE