General Architect & Engineering Services (GAES) - Category 4

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established the General Architect & Engineering Services (GAES) Category 4 Master IDIQ on November 19, 2019, with a shared ceiling of $49 million across four categories, but ordering closed on November 19, 2024, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle contracted engineering and architectural services in seven functional areas: general military facilities design and studies; facility commissioning; facilities cybersecurity; high-altitude electromagnetic pulse studies and design; failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis; cost engineering and estimating; and explosives and blast engineering. Work was performed for USACE Engineering Support Center Huntsville and subordinate Army organizations at locations including Huntsville, Alabama, Fort Detrick, Maryland, Camp Roberts, California, and Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

The vehicle issued 13 task orders between October 2019 and June 2023. Michael Baker International, Inc. holds four orders valued at $864 thousand combined potential value, followed by Alliance Consulting Group, Inc. (four orders, $397 thousand) and PCS & Moca JV, LLC (two orders, $457 thousand). The remaining six primes hold one order each. The Engineering Support Center Huntsville placed nine orders ($623 thousand combined potential value), with the remaining four orders distributed among the Department of the Army, Army Medical Command, the Sacramento District, and the Albuquerque District. All 13 task orders carried no set-aside designation.

Combined task-order potential value across the vehicle reached only $1.7 million, with $1.7 million obligated (98% of potential value). This represents deep undercapitalization relative to the $49 million shared ceiling; the vehicle consumed roughly 3.5% of available capacity. Orders were predominantly firm-fixed-price, ranging from $1 thousand minimum guarantees to roughly $387 thousand. Ordering activity declined sharply after 2021, with only three orders placed in 2022 and 2023 combined.

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.