ENDIST Omaha

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha, a sub-agency within the Department of Defense, executes civil works and military engineering projects across the Northwestern United States, procuring construction, professional services, remediation, and facility maintenance through federal contracts. The District transacts through its Omaha-based contracting office serving USACE operations primarily across the Northwestern Division states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin).

The District has issued 12,284 federal contract awards since 1995, with a combined potential value of $19.21 billion and $18.97 billion obligated. Contract activity has remained steady over recent years: 224 awards in 2023, 214 in 2024, 346 in 2025, 167 in 2026, and one recorded award in 2027. The most recent recorded award date is July 17, 2027. Competitive concentration among prime contractors is highly fragmented by award count—the top five primes hold only 9 percent of recent awards—though by contract value the distribution is more concentrated, with the top five holding 15 percent of combined potential value. Weston Solutions Inc. leads by dollar value with $1.62 billion across 12 awards over the last five years, followed by Conti Federal Services, LLC at $956.1 million across 11 awards. Interspec, LLC leads by award count with 33 awards but only $3.6 million in combined potential value; the agency transacts heavily through small task orders and modifications where dollar value goes unreported. Among 3,177 distinct primes in the lifetime portfolio, the long tail of contractors—many with single or low-count awards—dominates transaction count.

Set-aside activity reflects a substantial small-business focus. Fifty-six percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 35 percent are Total Small Business set-asides. The remaining 9 percent split among 8(a) Competitive (3 percent), 8(a) Sole Source (3 percent), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (2 percent), and HUBZone (1 percent), with negligible use of WOSB, EDWOSB, and emerging-small-business designations.

The District also administers federal grants at modest scale. Fifty-eight total grant awards have been made since 2014, with $115.9 million combined federal dollars obligated. Grant activity is minimal and sporadic: 10 awards in 2018, 5 in 2019, 5 in 2020, 2 in 2021, and 1 year-to-date in 2026, with the most recent award closing on May 1, 2026. All 58 grants are structured as Cooperative Agreements. The Student Conservation Association, Inc. is the sole recorded grant recipient in recent activity, holding the single 2026 award worth $230 thousand. The 20 distinct recipients across the full grant portfolio represent a highly fragmented recipient base, though the very low grant volume makes recipient concentration metrics less decision-relevant than contract concentration.

Recent contract opportunities span military construction, facility services, and civil works. The District is actively soliciting construction management services through a $249 million unrestricted MATOC for Northwestern Division Sentinel CMS projects (W9128F26RA124, due November 10, 2026); a $99 million small-business MATOC for roofing FSRM services across Colorado and Wyoming (W9128F26RA0690, currently in draft/special notice phase); and a Lower Brule North Shoreline Stabilization and Ecosystem Restoration project (W9128F27BA007, 100 percent small-business set-aside, estimated construction cost $10 million to $25 million, with IFB anticipated for October or late October 2026). Near-term solicitations also include fuel system and tank repairs across multiple Air Force and Space Force installations (WH Ford RTC Fueling System Repairs W9128F27RA054 due November 23, 2026; Mather Fueling System Repairs W9128F27RA045PN as pre-solicitation due October 14, 2026), the Nelson Tunnel Superfund interim remedial action construction in Colorado (W9128F27RA056, pre-solicitation due November 20, 2026 with RFP anticipated for November 2026 and proposals due January 2027), janitorial services at F.E. Warren Resident Office (W9128F27QA003 small-business set-aside, due October 16, 2026 with Amendment 01 and government Q&A posted as of October 14, 2026), and multiple office-space lease renewals across Minnesota and Iowa locations. Noxious-weed helicopter spraying on North Dakota federal lands (PANNWD26P30676, small-business set-aside, pre-solicitation due October 9, 2026) and aeronautics lab renovation at the Air Force Academy under Other Transaction Authority for military construction (W9128F27SM002, pre-solicitation due October 23, 2026) round out the current pipeline.