ENDIST Philadelphia

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, a sub-agency of the Department of the Army within the Army Corps of Engineers, executes civil-works and military construction projects including dredging, inland waterway maintenance, vessel repair and replacement, shore protection, environmental remediation, and facility construction across its Mid-Atlantic regional area of responsibility.

The Philadelphia District has awarded 10,479 federal contracts since October 1996, with a combined potential value of $9.66 billion and combined dollars obligated of $9.9 billion. Recent activity has declined sharply: the District awarded 187 contracts in 2022, 148 in 2023, 103 in 2024, 36 in 2025, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is April 20, 2026.

Competitive concentration among prime contractors is highly fragmented. Over the last five years, Foley Inc. leads by award count with 25 awards valued at $700 thousand combined potential value, followed by Tetra TECH Inc. and Precision Measurements Inc. with 12 awards each; these top five primes represent only 14% of recent awards by count. By potential value, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co, LLC dominates with 7 awards worth $334.7 million, but the top five primes account for only 4% of combined potential value in that window—a structural signal that the District transacts heavily through Schedule task orders, BPA calls, modifications, or below-threshold purchase orders where dollar values go unreported.

Set-aside usage is minimal. About 69% of awards carry no set-aside, 18% are 8(a) sole-source awards, and 11% are small-business set-asides; all other designations (HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, competitive 8(a)) together account for less than 1% of awards.

Recent solicitation activity focuses on vessel acquisition and marine services, civil construction, and contingency operations support. Active opportunities include an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Task Order Contract (IDIQ MATOC) for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Services for inland and coastal vessels, closed to small businesses only with $20 million total capacity and a proposal due date of November 6, 2026; a Power Construction and Services II MATOC for construction and services in CENTCOM and select EUCOM countries with $249 million shared capacity and proposal due November 3, 2026; an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity MATOC for Multidisciplinary Architectural and Engineering Design Services for Vertical Construction with revised capacity of $49.5 million and sources-sought responses due October 30, 2026; FY 26 Inland Waterway Chesapeake and Delaware Maintenance Dredging with estimated value between $5 million and $10 million and bid due August 31, 2026; and the Fort Mifflin Sewage Lift Station Replacement, a small-business set-aside with bid due October 22, 2026. The District is also conducting market research and industry days for the Detection Sciences Testing and Applied Research (DSTAR) design-build project in New Jersey, the Delaware Avenue Revetment project in Cape May, the Delaware Bayshore beneficial use of dredged material initiative, and the Dover Air Force Base Dormitory construction (estimated $100 million to $150 million). A sole-source award notice for Conrad Shipyard LLC to design and build a replacement dredge (CURRITUCK) was published in September 2026 under noncompetitive authority.