FEMA National Cross Dock and Incident Support Base

FEMA established this Master IDIQ on July 21, 2020, to contract national cross dock, empty trailer yard, and incident support base services for disaster logistics throughout CONUS; ordering closed on May 31, 2025, and no new task orders may be placed.

The vehicle is no longer active. All ordering authority has expired. The most recent task order was awarded October 5, 2024, more than 20 months ago.

The work scope covers transportation and logistics network operations including cross dock facilities for transloading and freight consolidation, empty trailer staging yards to reduce detention costs and trailer congestion at federal staging areas, and contractor-staffed incident support bases. Contractors must deploy personnel, material handling equipment, fleet resources, and information technology for supply tracking, transloading, and transport into disaster-affected regions. Work is performed nationwide across CONUS with performance tied to individual incident activations.

Three prime contractors hold 100 percent of the 11 awarded task orders. J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. dominates with 7 orders and $81 million combined potential value; Estes Express Lines holds 2 orders worth $54 million in potential value; Crowley Government Services, Inc. has 2 orders valued at $3.6 million. Activity was concentrated early: 5 orders in 2020, declining to 2 in 2021, 1 in 2022, and 3 in 2024, with no activity in 2023.

Ordering has been event-driven and limited to FEMA customer organizations. The parent FEMA agency placed 7 orders totaling $119 million in potential value; FEMA's Incident Support Section placed 4 orders for $19.5 million. No set-asides were used across the portfolio; all 11 orders were unrestricted.

Combined task-order potential value stands at $138.6 million with $52.6 million obligated (38 percent). Recent major orders include a $19.9 million Hurricane Helene cross dock and empty trailer support order awarded to J.B. Hunt in October 2024 and a $53.9 million multi-year cross dock and trailer staging facility order to Estes Express Lines from 2022. Task order values range from $2,000 minimum guarantees to $54 million potential ceilings, with durations extending up to six years on standing facility contracts.

Transportation service providers who possess the ability to develop and employ a network of transportation and emergency cross dock/freight forwarding service operation centers, along with disaster staging area support services, throughout the Continental United States, (CONUS). As national emergency situations occur, the need for transportation and providing logistics services to the impacted areas are most critical. An efficient, reliable and highly flexible operation is needed to provide State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments the life sustaining supplies needed to deliver relief to survivors in the affected areas. Therefore, transportation service providers shall possess an adequately controlled infrastructure, including transportation resource fleet, personnel, and material handling equipment (MHE), as well as the information technology capability to efficiently transload, transport, manage, track, communicate and process various levels of supplies into the impacted area. The contractor shall provide all personnel, training, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and all other items, unless specified as Government furnished, to manage and perform key logistical aspects and support for either a cross dock site (CDS), empty trailer yard (ETY), and/or an ISB, or both CDS and ISB at the same location, as set forth in task orders.