Thompson Contracting, Inc.

Thompson Contracting, Inc., a for-profit Montana-based small business specializing in infrastructure construction, road and bridge maintenance, and emergency response services, operates as a prime contractor on federal construction and land stewardship projects, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides. The company is headquartered in Libby, Montana, and carries primary NAICS 237990 (heavy and civil engineering construction) alongside PSC codes for highway/road/bridge maintenance and forest-range fire suppression work. Thompson Contracting has held federal contracting status since 2002 and currently holds multiple indefinite delivery vehicles totaling over $180 million in combined ceiling value across the U.S. Forest Service and Federal Highway Administration.

The vendor's customer concentration is extremely narrow: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) accounts for 116 of 172 total awards (67% of the portfolio) and $164.3 million of the $250.6 million combined potential value (66% of dollars). The Federal Highway Administration anchors the second-largest dollar concentration with a $60 million MATOC awarded April 30, 2025 for construction and infrastructure improvement services in Idaho, Montana, and surrounding areas. Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) contributes a $20 million road maintenance IDC awarded September 30, 2025. The Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 9 awards worth $1.9 million, primarily heavy equipment and mechanic services under multiple-award blanket purchase agreements. This concentration pattern—Region 1 dominates both award count and dollars—reflects the vendor's geographic and programmatic positioning as a regional prime for USDA Forest Service initiatives.

Thompson Contracting holds a commanding position on the Forest Service Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction Services MATOC, a $50 million multiple-award vehicle awarded December 16, 2024 as a total small business set-aside with completion through December 15, 2029. Four task orders totaling $1.6 million have been issued: $676,880 for temporary bridge installation at Ramsey Creek and Lower Granite near Libby (due December 15, 2026), $446,005 for GAOA FKL Day Use Area and Emery Bay Campground improvements in Hungry Horse (due June 1, 2027), $361,645 for GAOA Rexford Bench boat ramp asphalt replacement (due June 30, 2026), and $117,200 for Dead Post Timber Sale road work and culvert replacement (due July 31, 2026). The Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA, a $50 million single-award blanket purchase agreement running through October 3, 2032, covers stewardship services across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Three additional NIFC multiple-award IDCs ($250,000 each) established February 6, 2026 procure miscellaneous heavy equipment, heavy equipment for the East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), and mechanic services with service truck support; these supplement two prior NIFC IDCs awarded in 2023 and 2024 (each $250,000) for comparable equipment and mechanic services. The FHWA MATOC represents the vendor's entry into a non-Forest Service vehicle.

Recent work examples from the award footprint include a $1.57 million Great American Outdoors Act definitive contract (April 1, 2026) to reconstruct the Timberlane Campground on the Kootenai National Forest—a 10-acre facility improvement involving approximately 14 campsites, trails, pavilion, parking, and roads (due September 30, 2027); a $1.25 million GAOA delivery order for surface preservation on Stillwater Road and Pine Creek Road near Bozeman (awarded September 23, 2024, due September 1, 2026); a $2.36 million Lost Mule Road reconstruction contract for the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests in Idaho County involving road widening, realignment, aggregate placement, and grubbing (awarded June 1, 2024, due October 1, 2025); and a $565,660 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act delivery order to replace three undersized culverts with aquatic organism passage structures on National Forest roads in the Dillon area (awarded May 1, 2025, due October 15, 2025). The vendor also holds a $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement for stewardship services across the Northern Rockies.

Award activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years: 7 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, 16 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 10 in the first five months of 2026. Eight awards with combined potential value of $5.2 million carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, establishing near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (99% of the footprint), with a single named sub award: excavation and haul-off services to H-K Contractors, Inc. on a Yellowstone River Bridge project (Subcontract awarded July 12, 2023).

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing on federal work reached $2.7 million in FY2023 and $3.3 million in FY2024 across a 2.0-FTE footprint in FY2023 declining to 1.8 FTEs in FY2024; these SCI figures capture only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and exclude goods, products, and the vendor's substantial construction contract revenue. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts span from a 10th percentile of $503.43/hour to a median of $1,044.69/hour to a 90th percentile of $3,285.18/hour, reflecting a mix of field labor and higher-level management resource deployment. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractor hours account for approximately 1% of total delivery hours, with three named subcontractors reported across the SCI sample.

General Contractor Excavation, hauling, site prep, under ground utility installation, engineered waste water system construction, industrial construction road construction, site demo buildings