DOS Value Engineering IDIQ 2017-2022

The Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations awarded this Master IDIQ for value engineering studies on Foreign Service posts and OBO offices worldwide on February 21, 2017, with ordering authority ending February 20, 2022—the vehicle is now closed to new orders and has been inactive for over four years.

Across its five-year ordering window, the IDIQ generated 94 task orders totaling $21.3 million in combined potential value, with all funds obligated. Ordering momentum peaked in 2019 with 25 awards, then declined to 10–12 annually in 2020–2021 before a final surge of 19 orders in 2022 as the deadline approached. Work performed spans worldwide Foreign Service posts and OBO facilities, covering risk workshops, value engineering studies, constructability assessments, cost reviews, and strategic studies such as life-cycle cost analysis development and cost process improvements. Representative orders range from small post-specific risk workshops ($6,000–$100,000) to larger strategic efforts like a $5.3 million life-cycle cost analysis review and a $974,000 cost process improvement engagement.

Five firms dominate the vehicle: Kirk Associates LLC leads by potential value at $6.6 million across 12 orders, followed by Michael Baker International, Inc. ($4.8 million, 24 orders), Strategic Value Solutions, Inc. ($4.5 million, 26 orders), Value Management Strategies, Inc. ($2.7 million, 12 orders), and Rha, LLC ($2.5 million, 18 orders). These five capture 99 percent of potential value. The concentration is moderate—no single firm holds a controlling share, and the field spreads across six primes total, but the top three firms account for roughly two-thirds of the value. Nearly all ordering (96 percent) was unrestricted open competition; a small number of orders set aside for women-owned small business (3 percent) and partial small business (1 percent) designations.

The Bureau of Overseas Building Operations accounted for 98 percent of orders ($21.2 million), with the Bureau of Administration placing two smaller orders totaling $154,000. All task orders were firm-fixed-price awards. This vehicle is now expired and offers no remaining opportunity for new work.

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) Office of Logistics Management, on behalf of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO), has awarded a Master IDIQ for value engineering (VE) studies on a variety of OBO projects at various worldwide Foreign Service posts, as well as OBO offices in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.