Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company

Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company, doing business as Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co Inc., a for-profit railroad services provider based in Brewster, Ohio, supplies railroad flagging and safety monitoring services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor on competitive open-market contracts, with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

The vendor's entire federal award portfolio consists of six prime contracts and one single-award BPA, all issued by the Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District for the Somerdale Levee project in Dover, Ohio. The core vehicle is a $150,000 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded September 29, 2023, running through September 28, 2028, under which four task orders have been issued to date. Recent work includes a $70,290 BPA call for emergency flagging services awarded January 23, 2026 with completion targeted December 31, 2026; a $70,290 call awarded February 10, 2025 (completion December 19, 2025); a $13,043.39 call issued April 3, 2024; and a $6,435 call from April 2024. Combined potential value across the six awards totals $325,000, with $105,000 obligated to date (32% of potential value). Activity has remained sporadic — one award in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — reflecting the as-needed task-order pattern typical of a single-award BPA supporting a specific infrastructure project.

Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company operates exclusively within a single customer relationship: the Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District accounts for all six awards and the entire $325,000 combined potential value. One award, the $70,290 task order from January 2026, faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore enters recompete exposure. The vendor holds no parent vehicles, seats on no government-wide acquisition contracts or multi-agency BPAs, and carries no subcontract footprint. Flagging services involve positioning trained safety personnel to protect railroad operations during construction or maintenance activities near active tracks — a specialized but narrow capability set that the Corps of Engineers has engaged consistently for levee infrastructure work since 2022. The vendor's NAICS alignment is Line-Haul Railroads; primary PSC coding reflects logistics support and administrative support delivery.