Tag Contracting, Inc.

Tag Contracting, Inc., a Department of Transportation-certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise based in Old Fort, North Carolina, delivers road and bridge maintenance, trail construction, emergency repairs, and minor engineering services to the U.S. Forest Service and Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor exclusively, competing under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations.

Tag Contracting operates almost entirely within the Forest Service's Southern Region (Region 8), which accounts for 21 of 25 total awards and $67.7 million of the $78.6 million combined potential value across the vendor's footprint. The remaining four awards ($10.9 million combined) split between the Forest Service's broader civilian network and the Army Corps of Engineers' Wilmington District. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on National Forest road infrastructure — maintenance, resurfacing, bridge and culvert repair and replacement, trail improvements, and emergency response work. Concrete recent work includes a $1.8 million total small business set-aside definitive contract with the Forest Service (awarded August 2023) for Catawba Falls Trail boardwalk, staircase, and viewing platform construction in the Pisgah National Forest; a $665 thousand delivery order (December 2025) for failed culvert replacement with aquatic organism passage on the Biltmore Campus Trail; a $914 thousand delivery order (September 2025) for Curtis Creek Upper Campground and Old Fork Recreation Area improvements; and a $1.6 million no-set-aside delivery order (June 2025) for disaster repairs across seven recreation sites along the Davidson River Corridor.

Tag Contracting holds three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Forest Service Southern Region totaling $67 million in ceiling value through 2028–2029: a $49.999 million total small business set-aside North Carolina MATOC for road maintenance and construction across North Carolina and adjacent districts in Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and South Carolina (valid through October 2029); a $10 million total small business set-aside single-award IDIQ for road maintenance, repair, and construction in the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests in South Carolina (through July 2029); and a $7 million total small business set-aside single-award IDIQ for road maintenance and minor construction on the Cherokee National Forest in eastern Tennessee (through August 2028). Six task orders under the North Carolina MATOC have been placed, carrying $4 million in combined potential value.

Award activity has grown modestly over the period, from two awards in 2022 to five in 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 to date. Two awards with combined potential value $1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Tag Contracting invoiced $5.5 million from FY2022 through FY2024, with FY2024 showing peak activity of $3.5 million across 10.9 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ran a median of $157.63 per hour, ranging from $119.47 at the 10th percentile to $208.81 at the 90th percentile. The vendor performed all SCI-reportable work with its own staff; sub-engagement across prime contracts averaged zero percent of total contractor hours. Tag Contracting operates as a pure prime — zero sub-awards appear in the source data — and does not appear to subcontract to other vendors or serve as a subcontractor to larger federal contractors.