Schools, Career Techs, Cities & Counties
Public buildings have a roofing problem the private sector does not.
The roof leaks over a classroom, the money is in a different fiscal year, the work has to happen during a break, and the purchasing process has to survive an audit. We plan school and public agency roofing around those constraints rather than around our own schedule.
Who we work for
Public entities across Oklahoma
Public school districts
Elementary through high school campuses, gymnasiums, field houses, bus barns, and administration buildings — usually several roofs of different ages on one site.
Career techs
Technology center campuses with large-span shop and lab buildings, heavy rooftop mechanical loads, and exhaust equipment that is hard on a membrane.
Cities & towns
City halls, community centers, libraries, police and fire stations, public works and utility buildings, and recreation facilities.
Counties
Courthouses, county barns and equipment sheds, health department buildings, and detention facilities where access control shapes the whole schedule.
Cooperative purchasing
The Oklahoma Purchasing System (TOPS)
TOPS is a cooperative purchasing program organized under the Oklahoma Interlocal Cooperation Act. It lets member schools, cities, and counties buy construction-related materials and services through a contract that has already been competitively solicited by a lead agency, instead of running a duplicate solicitation of their own (tops-usa.org).
For a district that means the procurement work is already done and documented, which shortens the runway between the board approving a project and a crew being on the roof — a real advantage when the work has to land inside a summer break.
Badger is a TOPS assignee
Badger Construction Services is a TOPS assignee — assignee #154673803. That means a TOPS member district, city, or county can contract our roofing and construction work through the cooperative rather than running its own solicitation. Reference that number on your purchase order or requisition and your purchasing office has what it needs. TOPS is a public-sector purchasing route — schools, career techs, cities, counties, and other member entities. Private commercial owners contract with us directly. If your entity is not a TOPS member, the routes listed alongside are all still available.
Ways we can contract today
- TOPS cooperative purchasing — assignee #154673803, for member entities
- Competitively bid projects under the Oklahoma Public Competitive Bidding Act
- Direct purchase for work under your bid threshold — which covers most service, repair, and section work
- Roof maintenance agreements as a recurring service
- As the roofing subcontractor to your general contractor or CM
- Federally funded facility work — see federal contracting
Certified payroll & prevailing wage
Where a project is federally funded or otherwise carries a wage determination, Badger runs certified payroll in-house. That obligation is a common reason small roofers cannot take public work, and it is exactly the back-office load the parent company carries for the family.
Working on an occupied campus
Roofing over children is a different job
Summer and break scheduling
Reroofs planned against the district calendar with a hard finish date before students return, daily tie-ins so no area is left open overnight, and weather contingency built into the schedule rather than discovered in July.
Separation from students
Fenced and signed staging and dumpster areas, controlled crane and hoist zones, protected pedestrian routes, and no material handling over occupied circulation paths during school hours.
Background checks
Crew background screening to your district requirement, badged and logged site access, and a single named superintendent who is accountable to your facilities director.
Odor, noise & fumes
Low-odor and self-adhered assemblies specified where classrooms or daycare spaces stay occupied, exhaust and fresh-air intakes identified and protected, and loud work scheduled against the bell schedule.
Asbestos in older assemblies
Older buildings can contain asbestos in roofing felts and mastics. Sampling and a proper abatement plan happen before demolition, not after a crew has already disturbed it.
Documentation for the file
Photographs, daily reports, submittals, and a closeout package with the executed warranty — the record your business office needs when an auditor or a bond oversight committee asks.
District-wide roof planning
Most districts do not need a roof. They need to know which roof.
A typical district has six to twenty roof areas of different ages, assemblies, and conditions, and a maintenance budget that will not cover all of them. We assess every roof area, report remaining service life on each, and rank them — so the money goes to the roof that will cost the most if it is ignored, and a bond proposal gets built on documented condition rather than on which building complained loudest.
Facilities director, superintendent, or city manager?
Send the building list. You will get a written condition report on each roof area, a ranked priority order, and budget ranges you can take to a board — before anyone talks about a contract.