Varner Construction LLC

Varner Construction LLC, doing business as A1-Pumping, is a HUBZone-certified small business based in Durbin, West Virginia, that delivers forest-service and civil-infrastructure construction as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under total-small-business and partial-small-business set-asides. The vendor operates as a limited liability partnership and competes exclusively as a prime on small-business set-aside work; it holds no subcontract awards.

Varner's service portfolio centers on forest-road maintenance, bridge and culvert construction and replacement, drainage improvement, site preparation, and facilities maintenance within the national forest system. Representative recent work includes a $1.3 million definitive contract (November 2023) to replace a 76.5-foot prestressed concrete box beam bridge over Red Run on Forest Road 209 in the Monongahela National Forest near Huttonsville, West Virginia; a $1.3 million purchase order (August 2026) for a single-span steel girder bridge with timber deck and wearing surface on Forest Road 81 at Big Laurel Creek in the Monongahela National Forest; an $855,621 campground facilities replacement project (GAOA Lake Sherwood Phase 2) involving demolition and reconstruction of toilet and shower buildings at Lake Sherwood Campground; and a $449,559 purchase order (August 2026) to furnish and install a timber dowel-laminated slab superstructure on Forest Road 86 in the Monongahela National Forest. Work is performed across West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest, with administrative oversight in Elkins, West Virginia.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) represents 89% of awards (88 awards, $15.6 million combined potential value); the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration contributes $3 million across 2 awards; and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, Department of Agriculture Washington Office, and Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southern Region account for the remainder. The award portfolio shows flat activity — four awards annually in 2022–2023, three in 2024–2025, and five in 2026 — with four awards (combined potential value $1.9 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Varner holds positions on multiple USDA Forest Service indefinite-delivery vehicles, including a $1 million single-award IDIQ for forest-wide road maintenance (awarded March 20, 2024, through December 31, 2028) under partial small-business set-aside, and a $250,000 blanket purchase agreement for regional facilities construction (awarded April 25, 2022, through February 28, 2032) with no set-aside designation. Task orders under these vehicles have generated 7 task orders across the principal BPAs and IDICs in the portfolio.

SCI-reportable invoicing ran $5.9 million across FY2022–FY2024 (with no FY2025 reported): $2.9 million in FY2022 on 6.7 FTEs, declining to $1.5 million in FY2023 (0.9 FTEs) and FY2024 (0.6 FTEs). On prime service contracts, median government-paid rates ran $827/hr, with senior labor pricing through $1,482/hr and entry rates near $397/hr. Varner performs 100% of its work with internal labor; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share was 0%. The vendor does not appear in the source as a subcontractor to other federal primes.