General Architect & Engineering Services (GAES) - Category 2

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established a Master IDIQ for general architect and engineering services (GAES Category 2) on November 19, 2019, with a last date to order of November 18, 2024—ordering under this vehicle is now closed and no further task orders may be placed.

The vehicle is not active for new procurements. The last task order was awarded on February 28, 2020, with only five task orders issued across the entire vehicle lifecycle. Activity was heavily front-loaded: four orders in 2019, one in 2020, then no activity thereafter. The combined potential value of all awarded task orders was $143 thousand, of which $135 thousand (94%) has been obligated, leaving minimal remaining capacity.

GAES Category 2 focuses exclusively on facility cybersecurity services related to real property facility systems (HVAC, controls, and similar infrastructure), excluding personal property and non-installed equipment. The originating solicitation also listed a broader set of seven functional areas including general military facilities design, commissioning, HEMP studies, FMECA and RAM analysis, cost engineering, and explosives and blast engineering; however, actual task-order activity reflects only the cybersecurity specialization.

Competition is highly concentrated. EXP Federal Inc. holds two of five task orders representing $140 thousand of the $143 thousand combined potential value—roughly 98% of the vehicle's capacity. The remaining three primes (Chinook Systems Inc., HDR Engineering Inc., and Shearer & Associates LLC) each hold one task order valued at $1 thousand each. All five task orders are unrestricted competitive awards. The Engineering Support Center Huntsville is the sole customer.

The single substantial order was a February 2020 delivery order to EXP Federal Inc. for design of military-naval security facilities in Bahrain, valued at $140.3 thousand firm-fixed-price with a February 2023 completion date. The remaining four task orders represent minimum-guarantee obligations of $1 thousand each, awarded in November 2019.

Engineering and architectural services primarily in support of USACE Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville programs. These services may include but are not limited to the following seven (7) functional areas (FA): (1) General Military Facilities Design/Studies to include but not limited to Architectural and Engineering designs, drawings, plans, specifications (all major disciplines to include AT/FP), Design-Build RFP development; bid document preparation, Design criteria development, Construction Cost Estimation/Schedule Preparation, Facility condition surveys/studies; testing; HAZMAT surveys; GIS surveys; engineering forensics, Value Engineering Studies, Specification updates and policy input, Design reviews, Independent Technical Reviews (ITR) support, Site planning, Facility Planning, Economic Analysis, Construction Cost Estimating, Construction Phase Support (2) Facility Commissioning to include but not limited to Fundamental, enhanced, and retro-commissioning and post-occupancy validation HVAC, electrical, plumbing, control systems (3) Facilities Cybersecurity to include services primarily related to real property facility systems (HVAC, controls, etc.) and NOT related to personal property or non-installed equipment (4) Facility High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) Studies/Design (5) Facility Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability, Availability, & Maintainability (RAM), and TEMPEST Analyses (6) General Military Facility Cost Engineering/Estimating to include but not limited to Planning estimates, parametric estimates, and detail estimates, Reviewing cost portions of DD1391 documents, Development of schedules and project controls documentation (7) Explosives and Blast Engineering to include but not limited to Development of Explosive Safety Plans, Explosives effects/mitigation, Protective construction, Explosives safety studies/reports.