Environmental Remediation Services in the Mobile District Area of Responsibility 2022 - 2032

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Mobile awarded a Master IDIQ for Environmental Remediation Services in the Mobile District Area of Responsibility on December 15, 2022, with ordering authority through December 14, 2032. The vehicle carries a shared ceiling of $219 million and is a total small business set-aside at the vehicle level, though actual task orders show a divergent pattern.

Ordering activity is declining sharply. The vehicle established 20 task orders over its first three years, with 13 orders in 2022 (vehicle award year), 4 in 2023, 2 in 2024, and 1 in 2025. The most recent award was July 10, 2025. Combined task-order potential value across all 20 orders is only $3.1 million—less than 2 percent of the vehicle ceiling—with $2.8 million obligated (91 percent of combined potential). This mismatch between vehicle capacity and actual utilization signals minimal ongoing pipeline activity despite six years of remaining ordering authority.

The awarded work spans environmental restoration and site closure activities: site assessment, surface water and groundwater sampling, vapor intrusion studies, remedial design, interim measures, source removal, investigations, risk assessments, feasibility studies, remedy selection, and site closure. Work is geographically concentrated in the Mobile District area of responsibility, with recent orders addressing Fort Rucker (formerly Fort Novosel), Alabama; MacDill Air Force Base and Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida; and the Former Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Competition is highly concentrated. Bhate-Fpm JV LLC holds 3 orders worth $2.5 million combined potential value, capturing roughly 80 percent of actual procurement activity; Fpm-Aecom JV1 holds 2 orders worth $585 thousand. Fifteen other small business firms share the remaining six orders, each valued between $3 thousand and $3 thousand. Customer concentration is similarly narrow: the Engineering District Mobile itself placed 18 of 20 orders worth $2.5 million combined; the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center placed 1 order for $585 thousand.

Task-order set-aside designations diverge sharply from the vehicle's total small business designation: 95 percent of awarded orders (19 of 20) carry no set-aside, with only 1 order designated Total Small Business. Individual order values range from minimum-guarantee placements of $2.5 thousand to firm-fixed-price task orders between $617 thousand and $1.9 million for multi-year work (two to three years). Durations extend to 2032 in some cases.

Environmental Restoration Services (ERS) for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division, specifically for the Mobile District Environmental Restoration Program (CESAM). Support environmental restoration activities such as long-term monitoring, site assessment, surface water, groundwater, soil and air sampling, vapor intrusion studies, remedial design, interim measures and source removal actions, soil and groundwater remediation, investigations, risk assessments, corrective measures studies, feasibility studies, remedy selection, public involvement, response complete and site closure.