Army Environmental Ordnance, and Chemical Warfare Remediation

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established this Master IDIQ for environmental ordnance and chemical warfare remediation services on February 12, 2010, with a final ordering deadline of March 10, 2017—nearly nine years closed to new task orders as of this writing. The vehicle is no longer accepting orders.

The vehicle awarded 191 task orders across a combined potential value of $575.8 million, though obligated spend reached $614.7 million (107% of potential value), indicating cost overruns on individual orders. Ordering activity peaked in 2016 with 28 orders, but slowed to just four orders in 2017 before the vehicle closed. Approximately 98 percent of task orders carry a Total Small Business set-aside, with only four orders unrestricted.

Scope spans environmental remediation, remedial investigation and feasibility studies (RI/FS), munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) removal, military munitions response program (MMRP) services, demolition, and contamination assessment at Army installations and former military sites. Recent awards include groundwater monitoring and treatment-system operations at Fort Ord, California; munitions response work at Fort McClellan, Alabama; PCB-contaminated soil removal in Alaska; and removal actions at multiple Army facilities nationwide.

Competition concentrates heavily among the top five primes. Pika-Pirnie JV LLC leads with 50 orders and $128.6 million in combined potential value, followed by Hydrogeologic, Inc. (41 orders, $90.6 million), USA Environmental, Inc. (33 orders, $62.4 million), Zapata Incorporated (23 orders, $84 million), and Explosive Ordnance Technologies Inc. (19 orders, $34.6 million). These five primes account for 87 percent of task-order count and 83 percent of combined potential value by other measures, indicating significant concentration. Eight distinct primes hold awards across the vehicle's life.

Customer demand originates almost entirely within the Army Corps of Engineers. Engineering Support Center Huntsville placed 148 of 191 orders (77 percent of portfolio by order count), worth $305 million in combined potential value. District offices in Sacramento (9 orders, $94.3 million), Fort Worth (8 orders, $9.9 million), Baltimore (5 orders, $10 million), and Albuquerque (4 orders, $30.5 million) account for most remaining activity.

Task-order ceiling values typically range from roughly $200,000 to $5 million for single-site environmental studies and removals, with several mega-orders exceeding $20 million for large-scale remediation and munitions response programs. Firm Fixed Price dominates the pricing model; a smaller number of orders employ Cost Plus Fixed Fee. Work spans domestic Army installations and subordinate locations across the continental United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and other territories.

Army Environmental, Ordnance, and Chemical Warfare Remediation Services