Earthwork Construction Capabilities by Tepa Companies

EXPERIENCED SMALL BUSINESS SPECIALIZING IN EARTHWORK AND SITE DEVELOPMENT

Flexible team delivering high-quality horizontal construction and heavy civil projects.

CACHE CREEK LEVEE REPAIR (PL84-99) | $6.3M

West Levee of the Yolo Bypass Area, Davis, California Contract #: W9123817C0041

The project required over 48,982 cubic yards of soil be excavated, transported, and placed for flood recovery efforts. These quantities were tracked daily by the Tepa team identifying several quantity overruns and providing significant savings to the government. The emergency response work was completed within 45 days.

/// WHY TEPA

f $3B in revenue since 2005

f $1B bonding capacity with $250M per project

f 350+ projects concurrently with combined value of more than $1B

f Experience modification rate (EMR) below industry standard

f Small-company flexibility with large company financial controls

f Global reach, local touch

f Government, commercial, and tribal nation clients

f 8(a) sole-source capability

/// Tepa, LLC (Tepa) provides comprehensive earthwork, grading, and site development services for public infrastructure and facility projects through our East and West Construction Divisions. Our team self-performs critical scopes of work, including excavation, trenching, underground utility installation, and concrete placement, ensuring cost, schedule, and quality control from start to finish. We deliver complex civil projects efficiently and safely for federal, state, tribal, and municipal clients. As Native-owned and 8(a) small businesses, the Tepa Companies combine technical expertise, reliable performance, and a strong commitment to safety and sustainability, building enduring partnerships and solid foundations for the communities we serve.

BUSINESS CLASSIFICATION

The Tepa Companies are tribally owned by the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, a federally recognized American Indian Tribe.

f Small Business

f 8(a) Certified f Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE)

BONDING CAPABILITIES

Bonding Capacities

$250M Bonding Capacity per Project

$1B Aggregate Bonding Capacity

Line of Credit

Tepa has sufficient working capital and credit to support growth. The consolidated Tepa Companies carry an average cash balance in the eight digits.

Labor Force and Staffing

Tepa is committed to expanding personnel resources when necessary to fulfill any and all awarded contract requirements.

PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, OGLALA, SOUTH DAKOTA

| $58.3M CONTRACT #: 140A1623C0014

Originally constructed in 1938, the earthen dam was deemed unsafe after a 2019 flooding event, leading to the draining of Oglala Lake and the redirection of water around the spillway. Tepa is the prime contractor for the remediation of the Oglala Dam project, which includes the rehabilitation of the service spillway, emergency spillway, embankment dam, and outlet works at the dam.

FORT CARSON ARMY BASE,

COLORADO | $22M CONTRACT #: W9128F19C0028

Tepa was the prime contractor for this design-bid-build project. Our team worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District to upgrade Teller Dam. Modifications reduced the risk of dam failure from overtopping and left-abutment seepage. There were four primary areas of work: raising the embankment, secant cutoff wall, grout curtain, and the low water crossing.

DEMOLITION SITE PREPARATION, FLOOD RECOVERY

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, NEBRASKA | $56.1M CONTRACT #: W9128F21C0059

Tepa, under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District, provided site demolition, earthwork, environmental remediation, utility installation, security fencing, roadways, and curbs and gutters as part of recovery efforts following major flood damage in 2019. The demolition included the complete removal of 41 buildings, aboveground and belowground fuel storage tanks, all utilities, roadways, parking lots, and security fencing. The scope also included the removal and disposal of contaminated soils considered hazardous waste due to lead levels.

CONVERT SOUTH FRANGIBILITY ZONE

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GEORGIA | $7.1M

CONTRACT #: FA850118C0602

Tepa provided construction and design services for this design-build contract. Our team provided all site preparation, earthwork, labor, materials, plants, and equipment to convert the mandatory frangibility zone from a wetland into a grass management area. The scope of work also included relocating a weir and reestablishing airfield approach lights.

FORT CARSON ARMY BASE, COLORADO | $6.3M CONTRACT #: W9128F12C0095

STATIC DETONATION CHAMBER

BLUE GRASS ARMY DEPOT, KENTUCKY | $14.6M

CONTRACT #: W52P1J19C0050

Tepa worked with the Army Contracting Command and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville District for the development of a 4-acre site for a new static detonation chamber. Construction included installation of site utilities; civil site improvements; new construction of two structures; construction of a 42-inch thick, 22,000-square-foot concrete mat foundation to support the facility; and the construction of a concrete/asphalt apron for forklift traffic.

Tepa provided construction services for this firm-fixed-price project to construct a 410-foot-wide by 770-foot-long ramp, designed to accommodate four helicopters side by side or moor up to 19 helicopters. The new ramp required the demolition of existing pavement, an asphalt taxiway, and fencing, followed by a site elevation increase of 15 feet. This project also included 160,000 cubic yards of excavation and dirt placement, 6,700 cubic yards of taxiway and airfield paving, and 1,400 tons of asphalt paving.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

MAMMOTH, WYOMING, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | $30.1M

CONTRACT #: 140P2022C0162; 140P2022C0166; 140P2022C0072

Tepa provided construction services to the National Park Service to replace wastewater infrastructure with a modern resilient treatment system designed to endure dynamic seasonal conditions and support long-term operational sustainability. The complex scope included, a headworks building with filter and bar screening, sludge processing building for both temporary and screw press sludge treatment and processing for haul-off, influent and effluent lift stations, chemical laboratory with programmable logic control over the entire plant, and a new dedicated 1200- and 800-Amp services for the plant.

SMALL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH LARGE BUSINESS RESOURCES

The Tepa Companies, 100% owned by the federally-recognized Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, provide access to over 500 employees across the country. The companies share a common administrative and executive management team through Tepa, LLC to reduce client costs and improve project efficiency. All Tepa employees have access to extensive resources, professional expertise, and financial backing to ensure the successful delivery of projects.

The companies work independently and collaboratively to provide construction, engineering, environmental, industrial, and technology services. Since 2005, the Tepa Companies have a proven history of delivering comprehensive and sustainable solutions to federal, state, local, commercial, and tribal clients nationwide on time and within budget.

TEPA COMPANIES OFFICES

TRIBALLY OWNED SMALL BUSINESS ADVANTAGE

Being tribally owned small businesses managed under Tepa, LLC gives the additional benefit of sole-source contract awards. Tepa's 8(a) small businesses welcome the opportunity to negotiate a sole-source contract with the government. Under 13 CFR 124.506(b), sole-source federal contracts may be awarded to tribally owned 8(a)-certified small businesses for up to $25M (or $100M for Department of Defense agencies) without justification and approval. This CFR provision exempts contracts to 8(a) companies owned by Indian or Alaska Native tribes from the competitive lower dollar limit thresholds of other 8(a) contracts.

The Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians is a federally recognized tribe based in Northern California, east of the Coastal Range in what is now known as Tehama and Glenn counties. The Tribe actively supports its members and surrounding residents through diversified business holdings and contributions to community organizations from the Paskenta Nomlaki Foundation.