ENDIST Savannah

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Savannah is a sub-agency within the Army's civil-works and military-construction acquisition arm, managing federal contracts and grants across water-resources projects, installation support, environmental remediation, and military construction in a multi-state region spanning Georgia, South Carolina, and subordinate service areas.

The Savannah District has awarded 11,219 federal contracts totaling $17.39 billion in combined potential value since 1996, with $19 billion in dollars obligated across the portfolio. Recent contract activity shows 147 awards in 2022, 166 in 2023, 149 in 2024, 106 in 2025, and 68 year-to-date in 2026, reflecting a downward cadence in the current year. The most recent contract award closed on September 3, 2026. The District transacts with 2,354 distinct prime contractors, a highly fragmented competitive base in which the top five primes by award count hold 14 percent of recent awards. R. Ward & Associates, Inc. leads by award count with 22 awards ($50.8 million potential value), followed by Legacy Joint Venture Group, LLC (19 awards, $42.1 million) and Ma-Chis C & C Contractors LLC (18 awards, $43.8 million). By potential value over the last five years, Ashbritt Inc. holds the largest position at $125.1 million across 12 awards, though the top five by-value primes account for only 2 percent of combined potential value, indicating that the District's larger awards are spread across many vendors or transacted through Schedule task orders and BPA calls. Roughly 63 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 17 percent are small-business set-asides, 11 percent are 8(a) sole-source awards, and 6 percent are competitive 8(a), with HUBZone and service-disabled veteran-owned small-business awards together comprising 3 percent of the portfolio.

The Savannah District has awarded 22 federal grants totaling $13.7 million in federal dollars obligated since July 2018. Grant activity shows 4 awards in 2020, 2 in 2021, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2024, and 2 in 2026; all 22 awards are structured as Cooperative Agreements. Grant recipients are highly fragmented: the top recipient by federal dollars, Natural Resources South Carolina Department, holds 100 percent of recent-window awards (by count) but only 10 percent of recent-window federal dollars, reflecting a small number of very-small awards across six distinct recipients. The Student Conservation Association, Inc., University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., and Contra Costa Mosquito & Vector Control District account for the remaining recent activity.

Recent contract opportunities span traditional civil-works, military-construction, and facility-support categories. The Savannah District posted a pre-solicitation on October 20, 2026 (due November 18) for a Single Award Task Order Contract supporting the Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Program, encompassing database management, project documentation, and community relations. A second pre-solicitation on October 19 (due November 20) seeks sources for FY26 Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway maintenance dredging at select Georgia and South Carolina sites, estimated $5 million to $10 million. A pre-solicitation on October 2 for the Tybee Island Shoreline Protection Project (due October 9) targets beach renourishment work estimated $10 million to $25 million. The District issued a Special Notice on September 23 (due October 23) requesting market intelligence on tension-fabric structures and hybrid industrialized construction for hangar facilities at Hunter Army Airfield. A firm-fixed-price solicitation (W912HN26BA017) closed in September for a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business construction project at Robins Air Force Base (CMC Greenspace); this procurement included multiple amendments extending the bid-opening date and closed to public bid opening on September 14, 2026. A small-business set-aside solicitation (W912HN26RA020) for the Western Hemisphere Command Sustainable Range Program Single Award Task Order Contract, valued at $49 million, closed September 3, 2026. Armed Forces Career Center lease opportunities in Columbia, South Carolina and Greensboro, North Carolina (both initially due September 14, 2026) remain active for five-year commercial retail space under government lease. Recent other-transaction solicitations include a progressive design-build for 86-bed barracks at Fort Stewart, Georgia (NTE $38 million, 900-day duration) and a two-phase design-build for the Air Marine Interdiction Site at FLETC, Glynco, Georgia (estimated $25 million to $100 million, 1,460-day performance period).