Federal contractor · ELIZABETHTOWN, KY

HOWARD W. PENCE, INC.

HOWARD W. PENCE, INC. received $13.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 21 awards (−48% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $267.3M. Its largest customer was Federal Highway Administration ($6.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$13.1M
New awards
21
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
2.4%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 19.2MFY2017
  2. 13.3MFY2018
  3. 28MFY2019
  4. 62.8MFY2020
  5. 9.7MFY2021
  6. 21.6MFY2022
  7. 32.2MFY2023
  8. 42.3MFY2024
  9. 25MFY2025
  10. 13.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Highway Administration$6.1M47%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$5.7M44%
    16 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$1.2M9.4%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Construction & real property$11.9M91%
  2. Facilities & utilities$1.2M9.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. Polk County, TN$6.1M47%
  2. Chippewa County, MI$5.2M40%
  3. Beaufort County, SC$1.2M9.1%
  4. Martin County, FL$483K3.7%
  5. Vigo County, IN$318.9K2.4%
  6. Montgomery County, TN$305.1K2.3%
  7. Orange County, FL$40.5K0.3%
  8. Christian County, KY$31.9K0.2%
  9. Montgomery County, AL$9,9930.1%
  10. Prince George County, VA$5000.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition2.4%
    US 39% · $319.4K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions2.4%
    US 8.7% · $319.4K
  • 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. RENOVATION OF BUILDING 3071 CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT FORT CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY.$13.6M
    Department of the Army· Christian County, KY· Construction & real property· Sep 28, 2023 – Jan 8, 2026· W912QR23F0451
  2. CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR IN ANG SMALL INDOOR ARMS RANGE$13M
    Department of the Army· Vigo County, IN· Construction & real property· Apr 10, 2025 – Mar 26, 2026· W912QR25F0224
  3. TN ERFO FS CHRKE804 2020-2(5): THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF REPAIRING VARIOUS DAMAGED SITES ON SPRING CREEK ROAD (FS 27) AND CITICO CREEK ROAD (FS 35-1). PROJECT WORK INCLUDES GRADING, ROADWAY RESURFACING, DRAIN DIP CONSTRUCTION, REPLACEMENT OF DRAINAGE$6.1M
    Federal Highway Administration· Polk County, TN· Construction & real property· Jul 9, 2026 – Jul 9, 2026· 693C7326C000015
  4. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR THE REPAIR AND RENOVATION OF THE VEHICLE MAINTENANCE SHOP - TRANSIENT (BLDG. 5921) LOCATED AT JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, NJ.$5.9M
    Department of the Army· Burlington County, NJ· Construction & real property· May 22, 2023 – Feb 9, 2026· W912QR23F0167
  5. CONSTRUCTION OF A 3,800 SQ. FT. ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITY LOCATED AT MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE (AFB), AL$5.5M
    Department of the Army· Montgomery County, AL· Construction & real property· Dec 19, 2023 – Dec 12, 2025· W912QR24F0020
  6. COR SPILLWAY GATE REPAIRS /REPLACEMENT$5.5M
    Department of the Army· Smith County, TN· Construction & real property· Sep 23, 2024 – May 4, 2026· W912P524F0126
  7. SOO FACILITY SITE IMPROVEMENTS$5.2M
    Department of the Army· Chippewa County, MI· Construction & real property· Dec 18, 2025 – Dec 18, 2025· W911XK26FA006
  8. NEWBURG ELECTRICAL REPAIR - BASE$5M
    Department of the Army· Warrick County, IN· Construction & real property· Sep 29, 2022 – May 13, 2026· W912QR22F0334

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

1 company · $449.7K reported

  1. KAISER EXCAVATING, LLC$449.7K
    ELGIN, SC · 1 subaward · Nonresidential building construction

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. BRISTOL DESIGN BUILD SERVICES, LLC$71M−80% in FY2026
    ANCHORAGE, AK · 71% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Nonresidential building constructionNavy · Nonresidential building construction
  2. BRISTOL PRIME CONTRACTORS, LLC$61.1M−68% in FY2026
    ANCHORAGE, AK · 2 entities · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Nonresidential building constructionNavy · Nonresidential building construction
  3. QBS INC$46.2M−88% in FY2026
    ALLIANCE, OH · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Nonresidential building constructionNavy · Nonresidential building 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.