Design Bid Build Marine Based Construction for LRD River Districts

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a Master IDIQ on September 27, 2022 for design bid build marine-based construction services to government installations within the Huntington and Pittsburgh River Districts of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, with ordering authority extending through September 26, 2027. The vehicle carries a shared ceiling of $75 million and was established as an unrestricted five-award IDIQ with a one-year base period and four one-year option periods.

Ordering remains active with approximately 14 months of authority remaining. The vehicle has obligated $32.6 million of its $32.9 million combined task-order potential value across 13 task orders awarded since September 2022, with recent ordering momentum declining to a single order in 2025 after peaks of five orders in 2024 and four in 2022. C.J. Mahan Construction Company, LLC dominates the vehicle, holding seven orders valued at $21 million combined potential value, roughly 64 percent of all awards. Brayman Construction Corp holds the remaining material share with four orders totaling $11.9 million; two smaller firms each hold a single $20,000 guaranteed-minimum order.

Scope centers on locks and dams maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation across the navigable inland waterway system. Recent large orders include emergency miter gate sill repairs at Captain Anthony Meldahl Lock and Dam ($7.95 million), lock chamber dewatering work at an unspecified location ($5.98 million obligated against a $6.12 million ceiling), and miter gate removal and repair at Green River ($5.22 million ceiling). Smaller orders address mooring cell removal, anchor point buoy replacement, and towboat rental services. All work requires firm fixed-price contracting. Contractors must demonstrate capability to mobilize crews to multiple job sites concurrently, maintain emergency 24-hour response readiness, and provide multimillion-dollar bonding capacity.

All 13 task orders are unrestricted with no set-aside designations. Customer concentration is split between the Army Corps of Engineers (nine orders, $12.6 million combined potential) and the Louisville Engineering District (four orders, $20.4 million combined potential). Performance spans the Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh districts.

The primary objective of this IDIQ is to provide site survey, work plan(s) and/or specifications, construction, maintenance, repair, and/or rehabilitation (MRR) services to Government installations and facilities located within the geographical boundaries of the Rivers Districts (Huntington and Pittsburgh) locations of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.