ENDIST Pittsburgh

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Pittsburgh is a sub-agency of the Army Corps of Engineers and the principal contracting office for civil works, flood control, navigation, and water-resource projects across the Ohio River Basin and subordinate reservoir and lock-and-dam facilities in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The District has awarded 5,319 federal contracts totaling $2.12 billion in combined potential value since 1998, with 38 awards in 2022, 38 in 2023, 53 in 2024, 130 in 2025, and 103 year-to-date in 2026, reflecting a marked acceleration in procurement activity over the past two years. Combined dollars obligated reached $2.39 billion, exceeding combined potential value by 13 percent—a signal of heavy activity through schedule task orders, blanket purchase agreements, and modifications.

Competitive concentration among prime contractors is highly fragmented. Over the last five years, the top five primes by award count account for 30 percent of recent awards. Dynamic Systems, Inc. leads with 35 awards but only $2.1 million in combined potential value; WSP USA Solutions Inc. holds 25 awards and $59.4 million, the highest reported value among recent-window primes. The top five by potential value capture only 4 percent of combined potential value, indicating that most award dollars are distributed across a long tail of 1,133 distinct prime contractors and that substantial contract volume flows through unreported mechanisms such as task orders and BPA calls.

Set-aside designations split evenly: 2,365 awards (44 percent) carry no set-aside, and 2,331 awards (44 percent) are Total Small Business. The remaining 10 percent comprises 8(a) Sole Source (330 awards, 6 percent), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (196 awards, 4 percent), HUBZone (61 awards, 1 percent), Competitive 8(a) (21 awards, 0 percent), Partial Small Business (8 awards, 0 percent), and Woman-Owned Small Business (5 awards, 0 percent).

Grant activity is negligible: one cooperative agreement awarded to The Student Conservation Association, Inc. on 2026-05-15 for $365 thousand in federal dollars. Grant making does not represent a significant transactional stream for the District.

Recent contract opportunities span a wide range of civil-works scopes. Active or imminent solicitations include PL84-99 flood-control rehabilitation projects (Borough of Millvale Local Protection Project, Canonsburg-Houston Local Protection Project, Borough of Etna Local Protection Project, each set aside for Total Small Business, due dates ranging from October to November 2026); septic pumping services at Hannibal Locks and Dam (firm-fixed-price with five-year ordering period, Total Small Business set-aside, anticipated October 2026 release); JP Murtha Float Mooring Bitts Retrofit, a complex in-the-wet hydraulic-structure retrofit requiring floating plant operations, dewatering, heavy demolition, and commercial diving (no set-aside, due 2026-11-05); building and grounds maintenance at Kinzua Dam (Total Small Business, market research phase); roof replacements and building siding replacement at multiple dam facilities (small-business set-asides); motor control panels for three locks and dams (Total Small Business, due 2026-09-18); confined space rescue services under a blanket purchase agreement (Total Small Business, due 2026-09-14); and Kentucky Lock hydraulic steel structures fabrication and installation (market research phase, no set-aside, due 2026-10-30). The District also manages a Department of Energy Bettis Laboratory courtyard construction project ($2.5 million to $5.5 million anticipated construction cost, no set-aside, market research underway). The plurality of current opportunities are set aside for small business and range from routine maintenance (septic pumping, snow removal) to specialized civil-works delivery (navigation structure retrofits, flood-control channel rehabilitation, electrical control-system fabrication).