Cultural and Environmental Resources Services MATOC

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Sacramento awarded this Master IDIQ for cultural and environmental resource services with a shared ceiling of $49 million on September 22, 2022, but the ordering period closed on September 22, 2025, and no new orders can be placed against this vehicle.

With the ordering window now closed, pursuing new work under this vehicle is no longer possible. The MATOC served USACE customers across California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, contracting environmental assessments, cultural resource inventories, biological monitoring, and environmental planning support. The sourcing solicitation (W9123820R0036) anticipated up to five IDIQ awards with no set-aside at the vehicle level, though the government indicated willingness to limit competition to small business if sufficient responses arrived.

Over its operational period, the vehicle generated 15 task orders totaling $7.5 million in combined potential value, with $5.7 million already obligated (76% utilization). Ordering velocity declined sharply: eight orders in 2023, six in 2024, and one in early 2026 before the ordering period expired. Gulf South Research Corp dominated with five orders worth $2.4 million combined potential value, followed by Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. (two orders, $1.7 million) and Vernadero Group Inc. (three orders, $1.3 million). Eight distinct primes competed under the vehicle overall, with the top three capturing roughly 60% of combined potential value.

The customer base concentrated heavily on USACE Engineering District Sacramento, which placed 14 of 15 orders ($6.4 million potential value), with one outlier order from USACE central ($1 million). Set-aside distribution skewed unrestricted: 11 orders carried no set-aside designation, while four were total small business. Representative task orders ranged from $74 thousand (developing local operating procedures for endangered species) to $1.45 million (Lower San Joaquin River Project phases), with typical performance windows from one to three years. Completed work centered on specific USACE projects including fish monitoring, environmental assessments at military installations (Beale Air Force Base, Travis Air Force Base), and dredging site water quality monitoring.

The objective of this contract is to provide Cultural and Environmental Resource Services support for work assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), including but not limited to South Pacific Division and their customers. Projects will primarily be in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.