Post by Elaine Richardson - Ellison

$50.2M JUST AWARDED — COASTAL CONSTRUCTION, MARINE, STONE, CIVIL & RECOVERY SUBS ARE BEING SELECTED NOW 🚨 USACE coastal restoration and disaster recovery projects move fast once mobilization begins. Early supplier positioning creates the strongest subcontracting advantage. DoD Contract Alert — Serious Subcontractors Only The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a major Hurricane Ida recovery construction project supporting shoreline protection and resilience infrastructure in Louisiana. If you wait 30+ days to engage, the best field execution and supplier opportunities may already be committed. ⬇️ THIS IS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE: • Marine construction contractors • Civil and heavy highway firms • Aggregate and stone suppliers • Geotextile installation companies • Marine transportation providers • Surveying and geospatial firms • Electrical and navigation systems contractors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 CONTRACT BREAKDOWN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Prime: TKTMJ Inc. Value: $50,233,000 Award Date: June 2026 Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – New Orleans District Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price Scope Includes: • Grand Isle Hurricane Ida repairs • Construction of stone segmented breakwaters • Placement of stone and bedding stone • Geotextile installation • Navigation lights and platforms • Associated incidental construction work Place of Performance: Grand Isle, Louisiana (Jefferson Parish) Estimated Completion: July 27, 2027 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 POSSIBLE SUBCONTRACTOR LANES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Marine and barge operations • Stone sourcing and transport • Geotextile procurement and installation • Earthwork and shoreline stabilization • Surveying and construction staking • Navigation lighting installation • Heavy equipment rental and operators • Environmental and compliance support • QA/QC and testing services ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 LIKELY REVENUE ENTRY POINTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • $100K–$500K surveying and support packages • $250K–$1.5M transportation and hauling scopes • $500K–$3M marine construction packages • $1M–$5M materials and field execution packages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏳ WHY THIS MATTERS NOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most small businesses miss recovery and USACE construction opportunities because they pursue primes after mobilization plans and supplier teams are already finalized. 📌 WHAT TO DO IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS Refresh capability statement for marine, coastal, or civil construction Pull 2–3 relevant past performances with measurable outcomes Begin outreach to prime contractor BD and procurement teams Prepare a one-page teaming package aligned to breakwater and coastal repair work Richelli Consulting Group supports subcontractor positioning and capture strategy.