Federal contractor · BURNSVILLE, MN

AMES FEDERAL CONTRACTING GROUP LLC

AMES FEDERAL CONTRACTING GROUP LLC received $132.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+18% vs FY2025). Since FY2025: $244.6M. Its largest customer was Bureau of Reclamation ($132.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$132.5M
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 112.1MFY2025
  2. 132.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Bureau of Reclamation$132.5M100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Construction & real property$132.5M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. San Juan County, NM$129.5M98%
  2. Cache County, UT$3M2.2%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. THE WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THE HYRUM DAM SPILLWAY REPLACEMENT PROJECT WILL TAKE PLACE APPROXIMATELY 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOGAN, UTAH IN CACHE COUNTY, UTAH. THE OVERALL WORK IS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SPILLWAY AND THE REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING SPILL$115.1M
    Bureau of Reclamation· Cache County, UT· Construction & real property· Mar 21, 2025 – Sep 9, 2026· 140R4025C0005
  2. NGWSP INTAKE & RIVER PUMPING PLANT$67.7M
    Bureau of Reclamation· San Juan County, NM· Construction & real property· Apr 3, 2026 – Jul 20, 2026· 140R4026C0006
  3. NGWSP PUMPING PLANT 1$61.8M
    Bureau of Reclamation· San Juan County, NM· Construction & real property· Nov 10, 2025 – Jul 20, 2026· 140R4026C0001

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $18.8M (16 subawards)

16 sub-recipients

  1. PILLAR INNOVATIONS, LLC$5.4M29%
    GRANTSVILLE, MD · 1 subaward
  2. MESA SAND & GRAVEL INC$2.2M12%
    FARMINGTON, NM · 1 subaward
  3. BLUEBIRD BUILDING SYSTEMS LLC$2M10%
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 1 subaward
  4. NORTHWEST PIPE COMPANY$1.9M10%
    DENVER, CO · 1 subaward
  5. GOULDS PUMPS CO., LTD.$1.8M9.7%
    CHEONGJU-SI, KOR · 1 subaward
  6. FERGUSON ENTERPRISES LLC$1.8M9.3%
    NEWPORT NEWS, VA · 1 subaward
  7. PULSCO, INC.$1.3M6.9%
    SANTA ANA, CA · 1 subaward
  8. VERNON HAMILTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY$1.3M6.8%
    GALLUP, NM · 1 subaward
  9. GEOMAT, LLC$235.2K1.3%
    COLUMBIA, SC · 1 subaward
  10. RSM COLLECTIVE, LLC$212.9K1.1%
    SPRING VALLEY, CA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Its reported sub-contracts equal 14% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2025: $27.5M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $18.8M paid out · $0 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

30 companies · $46.3M reported

  1. PILLAR INNOVATIONS, LLC$5.4M
    GRANTSVILLE, MD · 1 subaward · Utility system construction
  2. KILGORE COMPANIES, LLC$5.3M
    WEST VALLEY CITY, UT · 2 subawards · Other heavy and civil engineering construction
  3. BCI CONSTRUCTION USA, INC.$5M
    PACE, FL · 1 subaward · Other heavy and civil engineering construction

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. OSCAR RENDA CONTRACTING INC$133.2M+1,247% in FY2026
    GRAPEVINE, TX · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Utility system construction
  2. CDM CONSTRUCTORS INC$267.7M−95% in FY2026
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Utility system construction
  3. FLATLAND ENERGY SERVICES LLC$75.5M
    MIDLAND, TX · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Utility system construction

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.