FEMA Housing Inspection Services 2013-2016

FEMA Headquarters Office of the Chief Procurement Officer established this Master IDIQ on September 30, 2013 to support the FEMA Individual Housing Program (IHP) through on-site housing inspections, damage verification, and data collection via approved methods including inspector-staffed phone banks, aerial imagery, and tax data. Ordering closed on September 30, 2018; the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The Master IDIQ carried a shared ceiling of $163 million and issued 77 task orders across a five-year active period, with ordering momentum peaking in 2016 at 22 orders before tapering in 2017–2018 as the vehicle approached its close date. Combined task-order potential value reached $1.06 billion, with $774.6 million obligated (73% of combined potential). Activity concentrated heavily on disaster response: task orders funded housing inspections following Hurricane Harvey (Texas, August 2017: $80.1 million), Hurricane Irma (Florida, September 2017: approximately $176.4 million across two orders), Hurricane Maria (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, late 2017: approximately $207.7 million across multiple orders), and Hurricane Michael (Florida and Georgia, October 2018: approximately $19.5 million combined). California wildfires, flooding in Louisiana and the Midwest, and smaller state-level disasters also generated orders.

Competition was concentrated: WSP USA Services Inc. held 43 orders totaling $611.3 million in combined potential value, while Vanguard Emergency Management Housing Inspection Services held 34 orders totaling $448.6 million. These two firms captured all 77 task orders awarded under the vehicle. Customer concentration was similarly narrow, with FEMA Headquarters Office of the Chief Procurement Officer funding 44 of the 87 counted orders (26 at the agency level for $449.3 million, plus 18 at the headquarters office level for $295.6 million). FEMA Region 6, Region 4, and the Support Services Section filled the remainder. All task orders were unrestricted, non-set-aside awards.

Task-order values ranged from under $100,000 (Wyoming, July 2015: $123,180 obligated on a $596,165 ceiling) to over $102 million (Puerto Rico disaster recovery, October 2017: $102.8 million obligated on a $120.8 million ceiling). Pricing structures included Cost No Fee, Firm Fixed Price, Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive, and Time and Materials. Most orders covered 60-day base periods with optional 30-day extension periods. Place of performance was nationwide and across U.S. territories, driven entirely by disaster geography.

This Master IDIQ supports the FEMA Individual Housing Program (IHP) by providing for the collection and reporting of information gathered by on-site inspection and verification or by other means approved by FEMA (e.g. inspector manned phone banks, aerial imagery, or tax data).