Habitat and Invasive Species Services

Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded a Master IDIQ for habitat and invasive species services on September 8, 2023, with ordering authority through March 7, 2032. The vehicle carries no set-aside designation and established a $98.5 million shared ceiling across five awardees, though actual task-order obligations total $14.9 million through March 2026, leaving $83.6 million in remaining potential value.

Ordering activity accelerated from 7 awards in 2023 to a peak of 27 in 2024, then moderated to 20 in 2025 and 2 to date in 2026, reflecting typical early-stage IDIQ ramp-up followed by steady-state ordering. The vehicle serves Navy and Marine Corps installations across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, with scope spanning invasive weed control, habitat enhancement, erosion control, earth moving, biomass removal, native planting, biological monitoring, botanical surveys, fencing, and GIS documentation.

Task-order work ranges from small targeted efforts ($33,976 to $81,317) through significant multi-year habitat-restoration programs ($1.29 million for habitat enhancement and dune work; $949,695 for early-detection rapid-response invasive-plant management across 100-plus species; $840,240 for biological monitoring support). Performance periods typically span 12 to 36 months, with firm-fixed-price pricing standard across all orders.

Tierra Data Inc. dominates by order count and value, holding 20 awards worth $6.1 million combined potential value. Gulf South Research Corp and ACS Habitat Management each hold 13 awards but diverge on value ($4.2 million and $2.9 million respectively), followed by Acacia7 ($1 million across 4 awards) and Sierra JV ($693 thousand across 6 awards). Department of the Navy Installations Command and Naval Facilities Engineering Command together account for roughly 65 percent of awarded task orders; Marine Corps, remaining Navy commands, and other services fill the remainder.

Approximately 88 percent of task orders carry no set-aside designation; 13 percent are total small-business awards. Task orders obligate 100 percent of combined potential value already, indicating either conservative baseline pricing or early ordering in the vehicle's lifecycle. Firm-fixed-price structure and geographic concentration across Southwest installations make this vehicle suitable for contractors with established operations and IDIQ-level experience in ecological restoration and invasive-species management within federal lands management.

This IDIQ requires vendors to provide all management, labor, equipment, materials, and supervision necessary to perform invasive weed control and habitat enhancement services