Federal Construction Awards: Alabama
Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in Alabama, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026
1,264 federal construction contracts were awarded for performance in Alabama between September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026, carrying $2.00 billion in obligations to date — 2.2% of the national total and rank 10 of 49 states — led by the Department of Defense (49% of dollars).
Overview
This profile records the federal prime construction contracts awarded for performance in Alabama — every contract of types A through D (definitive contracts, purchase orders, delivery orders, and BPA calls) coded to a construction NAICS (236 buildings, 237 heavy and civil engineering, 238 specialty trades) with a base obligation date between September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026. Dollar figures are the obligation to date on each award as published by USAspending at the time of the pull, not the ceiling value and not spending within the window. The measure is therefore "awards made in the window and what they have obligated so far"; it is not total federal construction spending in the state, which also includes obligations on awards made earlier. Sub-awards, grants, and state or local contracts are outside scope. This is a public-data profile: it describes where federal construction dollars were awarded, and makes no claim about labor availability, hiring conditions, or the workforce a project will require.
| Geography | New awards | Obligated to date | Median award | Share of US dollars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 1,264 | $1,996,984,605 | $45,949 | 2.2% |
| United States (49 states + DC) | 38,650 | $90,724,163,991 | $100,841 | 100% |
Awards with a base obligation date in the window; dollars are obligations to date as of 2026-09-29. Alaska and Hawaii are not in the Lab's warehouse coverage and are excluded from the national figure. — Sources: USAspending
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), prime contract awards — construction NAICS 236/237/238, place of performance Alabama, 2024-09-29 to 2026-09-29 · Methodology WIL-FCA-1.0 · Public federal award records. Dollar values are obligations to date on each award at the pull date; they are not contract ceilings and not spending within the window.
| Awarding agency | Awards | Obligated to date | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | 974 | $976,044,315 | 48.9% |
| Department of State | 16 | $489,037,393 | 24.5% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 71 | $250,200,114 | 12.5% |
| Department of Justice | 38 | $150,668,171 | 7.5% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 68 | $94,390,120 | 4.7% |
| General Services Administration | 12 | $11,641,207 | 0.6% |
| Department of the Interior | 25 | $11,522,444 | 0.6% |
| Department of Homeland Security | 23 | $5,200,494 | 0.3% |
| Department of Transportation | 24 | $5,004,632 | 0.3% |
| Department of Commerce | 6 | $1,387,896 | 0.1% |
Ten largest agencies by dollars. Agency is the awarding agency as recorded by USAspending. — Sources: USAspending
| Segment | Awards | Obligated to date | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction of buildings (236) | 1,023 | $1,642,494,622 | 82.2% |
| Heavy and civil engineering (237) | 72 | $303,349,350 | 15.2% |
| Specialty trade contractors (238) | 169 | $51,140,633 | 2.6% |
Segment from the award's primary NAICS code. — Sources: USAspending
| Fiscal quarter | Awards | Obligated to date |
|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Q4 | 22 | $25,801,334 |
| FY2025 Q1 | 49 | $25,105,336 |
| FY2025 Q2 | 175 | $49,691,220 |
| FY2025 Q3 | 172 | $114,160,600 |
| FY2025 Q4 | 362 | $536,530,926 |
| FY2026 Q1 | 27 | $128,261,849 |
| FY2026 Q2 | 161 | $269,164,496 |
| FY2026 Q3 | 223 | $138,135,274 |
| FY2026 Q4 | 73 | $710,133,570 |
Federal fiscal year begins October 1. The first and last quarters shown are partial where the window boundary falls inside them. — Sources: USAspending
| Recipient | Awarding agency | NAICS | Obligated to date | Base obligation date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddell Construction CO. (de), LLC | Department of State | 236220 | $484,206,341 | 2026-09-02 |
| Bl Harbert International LLC | Department of Defense | 236220 | $177,456,091 | 2026-01-02 |
| Brasfield & Gorrie LLC | Department of Justice | 236220 | $147,588,356 | 2025-09-18 |
| Cci Facility Contractors, LLC | Department of Defense | 237130 | $69,247,440 | 2025-12-22 |
| Thrash Commercial Contractors, INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 236220 | $63,518,941 | 2026-08-27 |
| Brasfield & Gorrie LLC | Department of Defense | 236220 | $59,575,212 | 2026-02-19 |
| Hensel Phelps Construction CO | Department of Defense | 236220 | $56,075,016 | 2025-08-05 |
| Bl Harbert International LLC | Department of Defense | 236220 | $45,913,430 | 2025-11-19 |
| Norfolk Dredging Company | Department of Defense | 237990 | $45,741,737 | 2026-05-21 |
| Hurley JV, LLP | Department of Veterans Affairs | 236220 | $44,948,296 | 2025-09-22 |
Recipient names as registered with the federal government (case normalized for display); each award is a public record on USAspending.gov. — Sources: USAspending
What the record shows
Alabama received 1,264 new federal construction awards in the window, carrying $2.00 billion obligated to date — 2.2% of the $90.72 billion national total across 38,650 awards, ranking 10 of 49 states. The Department of Defense is the largest awarding agency by dollars ($976.0 million, 49%), followed by the Department of State ($489.0 million). By segment, construction of buildings leads at 82% of dollars. Award size is skewed: the median award is $45,949, while the ten largest awards carry 60% of the state's total; the single largest is $484.2 million to Caddell Construction CO. (de), LLC from the Department of State. These are observed award records; nothing here measures how hard the work will be to staff.
Method and limitations
Source: USAspending.gov, spending_by_award search API, pulled 2026-09-29 with date_type new_awards_only over the window 2024-09-29 to 2026-09-29; filters: award types A, B, C, D; NAICS 236xxx, 237xxx, 238xxx (31 six-digit codes); place of performance in Alabama. Every page of results was retrieved (no result cap), and the rows are archived in the Lab's governed warehouse (workforce_intel.federal_construction_awards, source USASPENDING_FULL). Limitations: obligation-to-date values change as agencies modify awards, so figures are as of the pull date; place of performance is the primary location USAspending records and may differ from where work is physically performed for multi-site contracts; agency attribution follows the awarding (not funding) agency; recipient names are as registered in SAM. Fiscal quarters follow the federal fiscal year. This profile asserts where awards were made and their obligated value only — not workforce availability, not hiring conditions, not project outcomes.
State workforce context — Alabama
A live public-signal read for Alabama from the Lab's standing trackers — banded and directional, refreshed independently of this brief.
Source: Workforce Exposure Index and federal-award momentum — public_reports (banded). Directional, banded read — not a forecast. Methodology v2 · last updated 2026-05-26. See Live metrics for the full charts.
Version 1.0 · Published 2026-10-12T19:00:00Z · Permanent ID WIL-RB-2026.3-FCA-ST-AL. This record is versioned; the URL is permanent and stable for citation.
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@techreport{WILRB20263FCASTAL,
title = {Federal Construction Awards: Alabama: Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in Alabama, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026},
author = {AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab},
institution = {AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab},
type = {WIL Federal Construction Awards},
number = {WIL-RB-2026.3-FCA-ST-AL},
year = {2026},
note = {Version 1.0; methodology WIL-FCA-1.0},
url = {https://wilinstitute.org/library/p/federal-construction-awards-alabama},
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