Welch Construction Inc.

Welch Construction Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and SBA-certified Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Marcellus, New York, operates as a prime contractor for federal facility construction, renovation, and maintenance work, competing exclusively under SDVOSB and other small-business set-asides across a geographically concentrated footprint in upstate New York.

Welch Construction delivers concrete construction and mechanical/electrical/plumbing (MEP) trades: commercial and institutional building construction (158 awards), roofing services (30 awards), HVAC system repair and replacement (18 awards), electrical installation and upgrades (17 awards), and masonry work (4 awards). Representative work includes a $32.6 million firm fixed-price electrical switchgear replacement, renovation, and building-expansion contract at Buffalo VA Medical Center (July 2022, SDVOSB set-aside, through May 2026); a $14.1 million gut renovation of the 9C unit at Buffalo VA Medical Center (March 2023, SDVOSB set-aside, through June 2026); a $10 million renovation of the Rome Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Marcellus (January 2022, SDVOSB set-aside, through January 2025); a $7.8 million HVAC system repair and replacement contract at the Air Force Research Laboratory Building 3 in Rome, New York (July 2025, total small business set-aside, through January 2027); and a $6.8 million replacement of three air handler units at Syracuse VA Medical Center (March 2025, SDVOSB set-aside, through May 2027). The vast majority of work targets VA medical facilities across Veterans Integrated Service Network 2.

Customer concentration is extreme and reflects a single dominant buyer. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 accounts for 133 of 249 awards (53% of award count) and $345.2 million of the combined $412.9 million potential value (84% of dollars). By potential value, the second and third customers — the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region ($27.5 million across 36 awards) and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District New York ($26.1 million across 39 awards) — trail the VA by a factor of roughly 13:1. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, and Department of the Army Corps of Engineers District Wilmington comprise the remaining 1% of the vendor's portfolio.

Welch Construction holds positions on three Army Corps of Engineers Indefinite Delivery Contracts: W912DS13D0005 (27 task orders, $1.3 million combined potential value for work at Watervliet Arsenal and Seneca Army Depot), W911S216D8002 (25 task orders, $10 million combined potential value), and a VA Indefinite Delivery Contract VA52814D0070 (23 task orders, $97.7 million combined potential value). The vendor also operates under the Army 174th Fighter Wing Construction IDIQ (2012–2017) and a Blanket Purchase Agreement W911S216A8002.

Award activity has declined in recent years: the vendor captured six awards in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, and four in 2025, with two awards issued through March 2026. Four awards with combined potential value of $21.4 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure beginning immediately.

Service Contract Inventory data captures $38.4 million in invoiced federal services revenue across FY2023 and FY2024 (no SCI-reportable activity in FY2022): $19.4 million in FY2023 and $19 million in FY2024, both supported by 11.0 FTEs. The SCI dataset reflects only service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes goods and many construction micro-purchases; total enterprise federal revenue substantially exceeds these figures. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ran from $186.77/hr at the 10th percentile to a median of $442.37/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $2,319.33/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performs 100% of labor and engages no named subcontractors.

Welch Construction operates entirely as a prime contractor; the vendor holds no sub-award positions in the source data. All 249 awards are prime contracts or delivery orders under prime IDCs. The company's set-aside posture is uniform across its portfolio: it competes under SDVOSB, VOSB, or total small business set-asides and does not pursue full-and-open competition. Within VA VISN 2 specifically, virtually all awards carry an SDVOSB set-aside designation, reflecting the region's commitment to that certification category. The vendor's geographic footprint is tightly bounded to upstate New York and the Northeast, with place of performance concentrated in Syracuse, Buffalo, Bath, Canandaigua, Rome, Albany, and surrounding communities, plus Army installations at Watervliet Arsenal, Seneca Army Depot, and Griffiss Air Force Base.

General Construction specializing in-house fabrication; field erection of structural steel; concrete work; construction and restoration of masonry walls; and commercial/industrial roofing, including built-up and single ply systems.