WIL Federal Construction Awards · Research Brief · September 2026

Federal Construction Awards: Wyoming

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

242 federal construction contracts were awarded for performance in Wyoming from September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026, carrying $588.7 million in obligations to date — 0.6% of the national total and rank 29 of 49 states — led by the Department of the Interior (61% of dollars).

Overview

This profile records the federal prime construction contracts awarded for performance in Wyoming — 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 — Wyoming vs. United States
GeographyNew awardsObligated to dateMedian awardShare of US dollars
Wyoming242$588,742,974$213,2000.6%
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

Wyoming · 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 the Interior 360.2; Department of Veterans Affai 95.1; Department of Defense 67.3; Department of Transportation 49.7; Department of Agriculture 11; Department of Energy 3.9, on a 0–400 scale.0100200300400Department of theInterior360.2Department ofVeterans Affai95.1Department ofDefense67.3Department ofTransportation49.7Department ofAgriculture11Department ofEnergy3.9

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), prime contract awards — construction NAICS 236/237/238, place of performance Wyoming, 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 — Wyoming
Awarding agencyAwardsObligated to dateShare
Department of the Interior94$360,190,26261.2%
Department of Veterans Affairs35$95,116,95116.2%
Department of Defense71$67,260,20411.4%
Department of Transportation8$49,676,8358.4%
Department of Agriculture19$11,021,9231.9%
Department of Energy10$3,928,8820.7%
General Services Administration4$1,505,7550.3%
Department of Health and Human Services1$42,1610.0%

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

Table 3. Awards by construction segment (NAICS) — Wyoming
SegmentAwardsObligated to dateShare
Heavy and civil engineering (237)71$417,174,90570.9%
Construction of buildings (236)104$159,055,30427.0%
Specialty trade contractors (238)67$12,512,7652.1%

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

Table 4. Awards by federal fiscal quarter of base obligation — Wyoming
Fiscal quarterAwardsObligated to date
FY2024 Q43$1,198,408
FY2025 Q119$27,532,602
FY2025 Q217$2,454,152
FY2025 Q327$104,709,022
FY2025 Q462$53,173,660
FY2026 Q118$10,129,935
FY2026 Q222$48,877,565
FY2026 Q340$296,358,843
FY2026 Q434$44,308,788

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 — Wyoming
RecipientAwarding agencyNAICSObligated to dateBase obligation date
Record Steel And Construction, INC.Department of the Interior237110$129,150,0002026-04-22
G.s.e. Construction Company, INC.Department of the Interior237110$109,487,8002026-05-28
Record Steel And Construction, INC.Department of the Interior237110$46,195,8052025-05-13
Bridger Richard JV LLCDepartment of Veterans Affairs236220$23,568,9002026-08-25
Oftedal Construction, INC.Department of Transportation237310$22,578,9652026-02-18
Bridger National Construction LLCDepartment of Veterans Affairs236220$21,190,7122025-05-07
Recco INCDepartment of Defense236220$17,336,0002025-06-12
Respec Company, LLCDepartment of Defense237110$16,782,3932025-06-11
Steve Manning Construction INCDepartment of Transportation237310$9,441,7492026-04-23
Bhate Environmental Associates, INC.Department of Defense236220$8,987,3102024-12-06

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

Wyoming received 242 new federal construction awards in the window, carrying $588.7 million obligated to date — 0.6% of the $90.72 billion national total across 38,650 awards, ranking 29 of 49 states. The Department of the Interior is the largest awarding agency by dollars ($360.2 million, 61%), followed by the Department of Veterans Affairs ($95.1 million). By segment, heavy and civil engineering leads at 71% of dollars. Award size is skewed: the median award is $213,200, while the ten largest awards carry 69% of the state's total; the single largest is $129.2 million to Record Steel And Construction, INC. from the Department of the Interior. 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 Wyoming. 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 — Wyoming

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

Workforce exposure
Low
Exposure movement
softening
Wage position
well below national medians
Federal-award momentum
High · 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: Wyoming: Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in Wyoming, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026 (Publication No. WIL-RB-2026.3-FCA-ST-WY, Version 1.0). WIL Federal Construction Awards.

Version 1.0 · Published 2026-10-26T17:00:00Z · Permanent ID WIL-RB-2026.3-FCA-ST-WY. This record is versioned; the URL is permanent and stable for citation.

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  title       = {Federal Construction Awards: Wyoming: Prime construction contracts awarded for performance in Wyoming, September 29, 2024 through September 29, 2026},
  author      = {Workforce Intelligence Lab},
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  type        = {WIL Federal Construction Awards},
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  year        = {2026},
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