Army A-E Services in Japan 2016-2021

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Japan established this Master IDIQ for architect-engineer services in Japan from October 24, 2016, with the last date to order passing on October 23, 2021. The vehicle is no longer active for new task orders. With 70 total task orders awarded and $74.2 million obligated against a $75.5 million combined potential value (98% obligation rate), the vehicle has been nearly fully drawn down.

Work spans the full range of A-E services for military infrastructure in Japan: design documents and criteria packages for facilities improvement and military construction programs, construction phase services, structural evaluation and life safety assessments, and value engineering studies. Task orders cover projects across air bases (Kadena, Yokota, Misawa, Futenma), naval facilities (Yokosuka, Sasebo), Marine Corps installations (Iwakuni, Camp Lejeune subordinates), and Army sites (Camp Zama, Sagami General Depot), with performance concentrated in Okinawa and subordinate islands. Typical task-order values ranged from approximately $25,000 to $7.9 million, with a cluster of high-value design and construction-phase orders between $2 million and $6 million. The largest single award was a $7.9 million delivery order for design and construction services associated with Kinnick High School replacement at Yokosuka.

Ordering activity peaked in 2019 with 35 awards, dropping sharply to one award in 2020 as the vehicle approached its October 2021 close-out date. The vehicle served a single customer—the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Japan—across all 70 orders.

Competition is moderately concentrated among five primes accounting for 57 percent of task orders by count. Design Partners, Incorporated leads by potential value at $12.2 million across seven orders, followed by Group 70 Gushiken A-E, LLP ($11.1 million, four orders) and HDR Wtna JV ($10.7 million, three orders). Stanley-Setiadi Joint Venture (10 orders, $3.7 million combined potential) and Wcit-Gushiken JV (8 orders, $4.8 million combined potential) dominate order frequency but carry lower unit values. The top five primes by potential value hold 63 percent of combined potential value; a long tail of seven additional primes split the remainder. All 70 awards carried no set-aside designation. Pricing was firm fixed price across the board.

Army Architect-Engineer Services in Japan (2016-2021)