Government & Military Sitework Subcontracting in Louisville, KY

Here is the honest version of how this market works, because it is worth understanding before anyone spends time on it. Federal construction at an installation like Fort Knox is generally awarded to a small group of prime contractors holding multiple-award task order and job order contracts, and the work reaches smaller companies as subcontracts under those primes. E & J General Contracting is a licensed and insured Kentucky contractor working the counties around the installation, and that subcontract path is the realistic entry point for us — not a prime award. The large majority of the addressable work in this corridor is off-post anyway: apartment complexes in Radcliff and Vine Grove, retail and restaurants near the gate, Hardin County and Meade County school facilities, industrial and logistics property along the corridor, and municipal work in Radcliff, Vine Grove, Brandenburg, and Elizabethtown. That is the work we go after, and it is the work we can start on next week.

Who Buys This

Prime contractors holding Fort Knox construction awards, commercial general contractors working the corridor, and city, county, and school district facility staff in Hardin and Meade counties.

What's Included

  • Sitework and concrete packages bid as a subcontractor to a prime contractor or commercial GC
  • A written scope letter stating inclusions, exclusions, and assumptions on every bid
  • Certificate of insurance issued to your entity with the additional-insured wording your subcontract requires
  • Off-post concrete and sitework for municipal, school district, and housing property in Hardin and Meade counties
  • Excavation, grading, storm drainage, demolition, pads, walks, curbs, and ADA ramp work
  • Phased scheduling for occupied properties — barricades, notices, and after-hours pours where required
  • Conditional and unconditional lien waivers, daily reports, and punch list closeout

How We Run This Work

  • Tell us who holds the work

    If the project is federally funded or on the installation, we start from the prime contractor or GC who holds it. Send the scope and the bid date and we tell you the same day whether we are bidding.

  • Prequalification with the prime

    Primes typically vet subs on insurance limits, safety documentation, references, and demonstrated capability for the specific scope. We return that package as requested and we do not overstate what we have.

  • Scope, bid, and wage determination

    We price the defined scope in writing. On federally funded work, prevailing wage under Davis-Bacon applies and the applicable wage determination and certified payroll requirements come from the prime with the subcontract — we ask for them up front so the number and the obligations match.

  • Field execution and closeout

    We work the dates the prime or superintendent sets, follow site access and safety rules, document as required, walk the punch list, and correct items before demobilizing.

How It Gets Priced

Public and federally funded work is priced against the documented scope and the applicable wage determination, so labor is priced from the determination the prime provides rather than from our standard commercial rates — that is normally the single biggest difference from a private job. Off-post municipal, school, and housing work is quoted lump sum where the scope is defined and unit price where quantities are uncertain. Bonding, certified payroll administration, and any registration requirement are project-specific: ask us directly for a given project and you will get a straight answer instead of a website claim.

Scopes This Buyer Usually Needs

Other Commercial Buyers We Serve

Government & Military — FAQs

  • Have you completed work on Fort Knox?

    We are not going to claim installation work we have not done. We are a licensed and insured Kentucky contractor working the counties around Fort Knox, and our path onto post work is as a subcontractor to a prime that already holds the award. Most of what we do in this corridor is off-post.

  • Are you registered in SAM.gov, or do you hold a set-aside status?

    Ask us directly for the specific project and we will answer honestly rather than list registrations or set-aside designations on a web page. Where a prime or agency requires a registration we do not currently hold, we will tell you that plainly instead of wasting your bid cycle.

  • How does a small contractor actually get federal construction work here?

    Almost always as a subcontractor. Installation work is generally awarded to prime contractors holding multiple-award task order or job order contracts, and those primes buy out packages — sitework, concrete, paving, drainage — from local subs they have vetted. Reaching out to the primes and to the commercial GCs already working the corridor is the entry path.

  • Does prevailing wage apply to this work?

    On federally funded construction, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage applies and the wage determination flows down with the subcontract, along with the certified payroll reporting the prime requires. We ask for those documents before we price so the bid reflects the actual obligation.

  • Are you bonded, and can you provide certified payroll?

    Those are project-specific questions and they deserve a phone call, not a marketing sentence. Tell us the project and the requirement and we will tell you straight whether we can meet it.

  • What can you start on right now?

    Off-post work — apartment and housing concrete in Radcliff and Vine Grove, retail and restaurant parking and ADA repair near the gate, school and municipal sidewalks, curbs, pads and drainage in Hardin and Meade counties, and industrial pads along the corridor. And subcontract packages for any prime or GC that needs a sitework and concrete sub in the area.