Army Awards Miller Electric $15 Million Construction Contract

Miller Electric Co. Inc. of Reno, Nevada, won a firm-fixed-price deal for facility maintenance, design, construction and repair, with work running through July 31, 2031.

First Published: July 28, 2026, 1:27 PM ET

RENO, NEVADA — Miller Electric Co. Inc., a Reno, Nevada, contractor, won a $15 million Army construction contract for maintenance, design, construction and repair of real property facilities, as announced on war.gov.

The firm-fixed-price award covers a five-year period with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2031, according to war.gov. Bids were solicited over the internet, and three offers were received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each individual task order.

The Army 419th Contracting Support Brigade at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, is the contracting activity for the deal, identified by contract number W911SA-26-D-A022, according to war.gov. The award was made July 27, 2026, and disclosed in the Defense Department’s daily contract announcement dated July 28, 2026.

Firm-fixed-price contracts place the cost risk on the contractor rather than the government. The structure rewards Miller Electric for controlling expenses across the life of the agreement, while the task-order format lets the Army direct work to installations as maintenance and repair needs surface. Federal facility owners benefit from a locked-in vendor and predictable pricing, while competitors that lost the bid forgo five years of steady government revenue.

The contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity vehicle, a common tool the military uses for recurring construction and repair needs across bases. The $15 million ceiling represents a mid-size award among the many contracts the Defense Department publishes each business day. Larger single-award construction deals routinely exceed $100 million, placing this agreement well below the top tier of federal building work but firmly within the range that sustains regional contractors.

For the average reader, the award reflects the routine machinery of federal spending that keeps military installations operating. Construction and repair contracts like this fund the roofs, roads and buildings service members use daily, and the dollars flow to private firms and their local workforces. The pricing structure aims to protect taxpayers from cost overruns by fixing the price in advance.

This has happened before. The Defense Department issues hundreds of construction and facilities contracts each year through regional contracting brigades, and multiple-award task-order deals of this size are a standard feature of the process. The 419th Contracting Support Brigade regularly manages such awards for Army installations, making this contract a repeat of a well-worn procurement pattern rather than a departure from it.

The next decisions rest with the Army 419th Contracting Support Brigade, which will issue individual task orders that set specific work locations and funding over the life of the contract. A date for the first task order has not been announced.

Military construction contracting traces back to the earliest days of the republic, as happened before. The Army built its first permanent arsenals and fortifications in the 1790s under contracts overseen by the War Department, including the Springfield and Harpers Ferry armories authorized by Congress in 1794 according to war.gov. Those early agreements established the practice of hiring private builders to erect and maintain government facilities. The model endured, and today firms like Miller Electric perform the same essential role that private contractors filled more than two centuries ago.