Federal contractor · LIBBY, MT

NOBLE EXCAVATING INC

NOBLE EXCAVATING INC received $6.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+1,016% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $21.6M. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($6.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$6.6M
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
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Small businessHUBZone firm
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 37.2KFY2017
  2. 1.9MFY2018
  3. 1.3MFY2019
  4. 1.1MFY2020
  5. 1.1MFY2021
  6. 6.9MFY2022
  7. 77KFY2023
  8. 2MFY2024
  9. 592.2KFY2025
  10. 6.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$6.5M98%
    2 awards
  2. Department of the Army$118.1K1.8%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$6.5M98%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$118.1K1.8%

Where the work was performed

  1. Lincoln County, MT$6.6M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $6.6M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $6.6M
  • 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. MITCHELL JACKSON IRSC-12363N26C4005 TOTAL FOREST PRODUCT VALUE APPLIED: $1,124,270.25 TOTAL APPROPRIATED FUNDS APPLIED: $6,488,660.97 TOTAL CONTRACT VALUE: $7,612,931.32 COR: [name removed] (TIMBER REMOVAL AND SERVICE WORK REQUIREMENTS) AN$6.5M
    Forest Service· Lincoln County, MT· Facilities & utilities· Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 8, 2026· 12363N26C4005
  2. ATTN: NIKKI LAYTON OR SAM COOK/STEWARDSHIP BRANCH PROJECT NAME: TROJAN DEFENSE FERM$1.3M
    Forest Service· Lincoln County, MT· Construction & real property· Jun 12, 2024 – Oct 8, 2025· 12363N24F4171
  3. THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS TO PROVIDE THE APPROPRIATE ASSISTANCE FOR REQUIRED EMERGENCY MEASURES TO SAVE LIVES AND TO PROTECT PROPERTY AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, OR TO LESSEN OR AVERT THE THREAT OF A CATASTROPHE IN THE DESIGNATED AREAS.$118.1K
    Department of the Army· Lincoln County, MT· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 14, 2026 – Apr 14, 2026· W912DW26PA022

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 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

3 companies · $2.5M reported

  1. CONNOLLY-PACIFIC CO.$2.2M
    LONG BEACH, CA · 1 subaward · Highway, street, and bridge construction
  2. ALLWEST TESTING & ENGINEERING INC$228.6K
    HAYDEN, ID · 1 subaward · Highway, street, and bridge construction
  3. POTEET CONSTRUCTION INC$131.4K
    MISSOULA, MT · 1 subaward · Highway, street, and bridge 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 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. J J EXCAVATION INC$7.3M
    HOLMAN, NM · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Logging
  2. OEDEKOVEN EXCAVATING & CONSTRUCTION LLC$2.6M
    GILLETTE, WY · 28% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Highway, street, and bridge construction
  3. R. C. PAVING, INC.$2.6M
    DERIDDER, LA · 28% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Highway, street, and bridge 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.