ENDIST Fort Worth

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth, a sub-agency within the Army Corps of Engineers, administers civil works construction, real property management, environmental restoration, and natural-resources management for military installations and federal water-resource projects across a multi-state region. The District operates as both a contracting and grant-making organization, procuring construction services, maintenance, and supplies while funding cooperative-agreement research through ecosystem study units.

The District closed 223 contract awards in 2022, 200 in 2023, 251 in 2024, 342 in 2025, and 253 year-to-date in 2026, drawn from a cumulative portfolio of 20,534 awards since 1998 with combined potential value of $325.64 billion and $25.07 billion obligated to date. The most recent contract award closed on October 13, 2026. Competitive concentration is moderately concentrated: over the last five years, Sedona-Nasco Jv2 LLC leads by award count with 175 awards (combined potential value $61.2 million), followed by Team Consultants Inc. with 104 awards, and Crb-Pls LLC with 64 awards; these three vendors hold 30 percent of recent awards. By potential value over the same window, Sedona-Nasco Jv2 LLC and HDR Engineering, Inc. dominate smaller award pools, though the top-five concentration by value is under one percent—a structural signal that the District transacts heavily through Schedule task orders, BPA calls, and below-threshold purchase orders, which carry unreported value in the source data. The District has worked with 3,831 distinct prime contractors across its lifetime portfolio.

Set-aside activity is biased toward unrestricted contracting: 55 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 29 percent are total small-business set-asides; 11 percent are 8(a) sole-source awards; 3 percent are competitive 8(a); and the remaining 2 percent include HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, woman-owned, and other emerging-small-business designations in fractional volumes. The District awarded 147 cooperative-agreement grants totaling $61.4 million in federal obligation since 2013, with most-recent award activity in May 2026. Grant award volume was 5 in 2022, 18 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. Grant recipient concentration is highly concentrated: The Student Conservation Association, Inc. holds 28 awards and $2 million federal dollars, covering 78 percent of recent awards by count; by federal-dollar value, concentration is highly fragmented at 14 percent of the top five, with University of California, Davis ($4.2 million in a single award) and the Student Conservation Association ($2 million across 28 awards) leading. All grant awards are structured as Cooperative Agreements, predominantly for ecosystem restoration research and wildlife-monitoring studies across coastal and inland military installations and national parks.

Recent contract opportunities reflect the District's heavy focus on B-21 beddown at Dyess Air Force Base and infrastructure modernization at Army depots and Air Force bases. The District posted a Special Notice on October 21, 2026, seeking vendors for Piney Woods Region park signage (due November 12, 2026); a Pre-Solicitation Request for Information for Fort Wolters H Barracks design-build under Other Transaction Authority (due November 4, 2026); and a Pre-Solicitation for a Non-Destructive Testing Facility at Red River Army Depot targeting $8 million to $8.5 million in construction cost (due November 13, 2026). Multiple sources-sought notices for B-21 facilities at Dyess AFB include a Flight Simulator Facility (estimated cost $57.3 million), a Field Training Detachment (estimated cost $66.2 million), and a Weapons Generation Facility (estimated cost unspecified but complex secure-space construction). The District also posted solicitations for forest-products salvage and timber sales at Wright Patman Lake (due November 18, 2026) and a small-business-set-aside competitive solicitation for Joe Pool Dam slide repairs (due October 27, 2026, as amended).

Recent grant opportunities are exclusively ecosystem and natural-resources cooperative agreements: the District solicited Statements of Interest through early October 2026 for American alligator and wading-bird monitoring in the Everglades, juvenile sportfish habitat suitability in Florida Bay, saltwater intrusion surveys in Everglades National Park, and aquatic-fauna response to ecosystem restoration in Southwest Florida. All research grants target Cooperative Ecosystem Study Units (CESU) in the Gulf Coast, South Atlantic, and South Florida-Caribbean regions, with indirect-cost rates capped at 17.5 percent on Modified Total Direct Cost base.