General Architect & Engineering Services (GAES) - Category 3

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established a Master IDIQ for General Architect & Engineering Services (GAES) Category 3 on August 30, 2019, with a shared ceiling of $49 million and final ordering deadline of February 28, 2025—now closed to new orders.

This vehicle is no longer active. Ordering closed more than a year ago, and the most recent task order was awarded in April 2022. Over its six-year life, the vehicle generated only seven task orders totaling $8.4 million in combined potential value, with $8.3 million (99%) obligated. Actual activity concentrated in the first two years: three orders in 2019, three in 2020, and one in 2022.

The scope covers seven functional areas of engineering and architectural support: general military facilities design and studies (including AT/FP, design-build RFP development, cost estimation, and construction phase support); facility commissioning (fundamental, enhanced, and retro-commissioning); facilities cybersecurity for real property systems; high-altitude electromagnetic pulse studies and design; failure mode and effects analysis, reliability and maintainability studies, and TEMPEST analysis; cost engineering and estimating; and explosives and blast engineering. Awarded orders concentrated on ammunition plant and weapons facility projects—thermal destruction facilities, energetic waste incineration systems, and preliminary design support for specialized industrial infrastructure.

Competition was narrow. Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. dominated with four orders valued at $5.1 million combined; Zapata Group, Inc. held two orders worth $3.3 million; and AECOM Services, LLC received one order for $1 thousand. All seven awards were unrestricted, not set-aside. Customer concentration was also tight: the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Ammunition placed three orders totaling $7.9 million combined potential value, while the contracting agency itself placed three orders, and the Air Force's Installation and Mission Support Center placed one order worth $492 thousand.

Individual task-order values ranged from $1 thousand to roughly $3.3 million. The largest order was construction phase support services at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, obligated at $1.37 million in April 2022.

Given that the ordering period ended 16 months ago and no new orders have been placed in over four years, this vehicle is closed to pursuit.

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.