WIL Federal Construction Awards · Research Brief · September 2026

Federal Construction Awards: New Hampshire

Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in New Hampshire, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026

98 federal construction contracts were awarded for performance in New Hampshire from September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026, carrying $75.9 million in obligations to date — 0.1% of the national total and rank 48 of 49 states — led by the Department of Veterans Affairs (44% of dollars).

Overview

This profile records the federal prime construction contracts awarded for performance in New Hampshire — 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 from 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.

Table 1. Federal construction awards made in the window — New Hampshire vs. United States
GeographyNew awardsObligated to dateMedian awardShare of US dollars
New Hampshire98$75,906,536$124,9690.1%
United States (49 states + DC)38,650$90,724,163,991$100,841100%

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

New Hampshire · USAspending, 2024-09-29 to 2026-09-29
Obligated dollars by awarding agency
US dollars, millions. Six largest awarding agencies. Observed award records — not a spending forecast.

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Obligated dollars by awarding agencyBar chart: Department of Veterans Affai 33.3; Department of Defense 25.6; General Services Administrat 5.7; Department of Transportation 4.2; Department of Agriculture 3; Department of the Interior 2.6, on a 0–40 scale.010203040Department ofVeterans Affai33.3Department ofDefense25.6General ServicesAdministrat5.7Department ofTransportation4.2Department ofAgriculture3Department of theInterior2.6

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), prime contract awards — construction NAICS 236/237/238, place of performance New Hampshire, 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.

Table 2. Awards by awarding agency — New Hampshire
Awarding agencyAwardsObligated to dateShare
Department of Veterans Affairs15$33,264,12343.8%
Department of Defense29$25,639,94733.8%
General Services Administration17$5,704,0177.5%
Department of Transportation14$4,175,8875.5%
Department of Agriculture9$2,963,3863.9%
Department of the Interior3$2,555,2883.4%
Department of Homeland Security4$1,525,9322.0%
Department of Justice7$77,9560.1%

Ten largest agencies by dollars. Agency is the awarding agency as recorded by USAspending. — Sources: USAspending

Table 3. Awards by construction segment (NAICS) — New Hampshire
SegmentAwardsObligated to dateShare
Construction of buildings (236)44$59,466,05578.3%
Specialty trade contractors (238)42$10,354,14113.6%
Heavy and civil engineering (237)12$6,086,3398.0%

Segment from the award's primary NAICS code. — Sources: USAspending

Table 4. Awards by federal fiscal quarter of base obligation — New Hampshire
Fiscal quarterAwardsObligated to date
FY2024 Q42$94,973
FY2025 Q14$6,557,799
FY2025 Q28$22,258,268
FY2025 Q311$2,138,335
FY2025 Q431$24,207,670
FY2026 Q13$38,142
FY2026 Q26$3,149,562
FY2026 Q310$5,118,802
FY2026 Q423$12,342,985

Federal fiscal year begins October 1. The first and last quarters shown are partial where the window boundary falls inside them. — Sources: USAspending

Table 5. Ten largest awards by obligation to date — New Hampshire
RecipientAwarding agencyNAICSObligated to dateBase obligation date
Cms CorporationDepartment of Defense236220$20,070,9262025-02-26
Ameritech Contracting LLCDepartment of Veterans Affairs236220$13,675,9392025-09-24
Ameritech Contracting LLCDepartment of Veterans Affairs236220$6,132,5262024-10-30
Elevated Technologies Services, LLCDepartment of Veterans Affairs238290$4,960,0002026-09-15
Veterans Development Corporation, INC.Department of Veterans Affairs236220$2,677,8542025-08-14
Brican, INC.Department of Veterans Affairs236220$2,599,2752026-02-18
Schroeder Construction Management INCGeneral Services Administration236220$2,069,1062026-05-14
R.m. Piper, INC.Department of Agriculture237310$1,686,9432026-07-24
Cornerstone Construction Services, LLCDepartment of the Interior236220$1,570,0002026-08-10
Cusa Consulting LLCDepartment of Transportation238210$1,444,5202026-08-10

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

New Hampshire received 98 new federal construction awards in the window, carrying $75.9 million obligated to date — 0.1% of the $90.72 billion national total across 38,650 awards, ranking 48 of 49 states. The Department of Veterans Affairs is the largest awarding agency by dollars ($33.3 million, 44%), followed by the Department of Defense ($25.6 million). By segment, construction of buildings leads at 78% of dollars. Award size is skewed: the median award is $124,969, while the ten largest awards carry 75% of the state's total; the single largest is $20.1 million to Cms Corporation from the Department of Defense. 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 New Hampshire. 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 — New Hampshire

A live public-signal read for New Hampshire from the Lab's standing trackers — banded and directional, refreshed independently of this brief.

Workforce exposure
Moderate
Exposure movement
stable
Wage position
modestly above national medians
Federal-award momentum
Low · softening

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.

Suggested citationWorkforce Intelligence Lab. (2026). Federal Construction Awards: New Hampshire: Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in New Hampshire, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026 (Publication No. WIL-RB-2026.3-FCA-ST-NH, Version 1.0). WIL Federal Construction Awards.

Version 1.0 · Published 2026-11-06T19:00:00Z · Permanent ID WIL-RB-2026.3-FCA-ST-NH. This record is versioned; the URL is permanent and stable for citation.

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  title       = {Federal Construction Awards: New Hampshire: Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in New Hampshire, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026},
  author      = {Workforce Intelligence Lab},
  institution = {Workforce Intelligence Lab},
  type        = {WIL Federal Construction Awards},
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  year        = {2026},
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AB  - A public-record profile of federal prime construction contracts (NAICS 236, 237, and 238; contract types A–D) awarded for performance in New Hampshire in the two-year window September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026, drawn from USAspending. 98 new awards carrying $75.9 million obligated to date, ranking New Hampshire 48 of 49 states by dollars. The Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for 44% of dollars; construction of buildings is the largest NAICS segment at 78%. The ten largest awards carry 75% of the state's total. This is an observed record of awards, not a forecast of spending or a measure of workforce demand.
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