Medical Facilities Architect-Engineer Services (MFAES)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville awarded this Master IDIQ for Architect-Engineer Services supporting the Department of Defense Medical program on September 30, 2013, with ordering authority closed since September 29, 2018. The vehicle is no longer active; no new task orders have been placed in over seven years, and all remaining work under existing orders relates to closeout and final obligations.

The IDIQ contracted planning, feasibility studies, comprehensive design services, Request for Proposal development, energy and conservation analyses, and architect-engineer support for new construction, upgrades, maintenance, and repair of medical facilities worldwide, with performance locations spanning CONUS, OCONUS, and overseas installations including Germany, Japan, and other locations. Work included design services for ambulatory care centers, clinical facilities, blood donor centers, power system upgrades, facility utilization studies, and technical support across military medical centers.

Nika Technologies Inc. holds a dominant position with 124 orders worth $124.2 million in combined potential value, representing roughly 43 percent of all task orders. Altus Architectural Studios Inc. holds the second position with 71 orders totaling $56.2 million. The top five primes—Nika, Altus, Rtkl / SSR JV, LEO A. Daly LLC, and Sherlock, Smith & Adams Pagesoutherlandpage Joint Venture—account for 246 of 273 total orders and approximately 93 percent of combined potential value, indicating high competitive concentration among established A-E firms.

Ordering activity peaked in 2017 with 107 task orders, then dropped sharply to 25 orders in 2018 before the ordering deadline. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville placed 219 of 273 orders (80 percent), valued at $214 million; the Department of the Army Medical Command placed 19 orders ($21.7 million), with Navy and Air Force accounting for smaller volumes.

Task orders split between 142 partial small-business set-asides (52 percent) and 128 unrestricted orders (47 percent), with only 3 orders fully set aside for small business (1 percent). Typical task-order values ranged from under $50,000 for technical labor support to $8.7 million for major sustainment and logistics work. The vehicle's combined potential value across all 273 orders reached $289.2 million, with $242.6 million obligated (84 percent). The largest individual order—valued at $14.7 million in ceiling authority—was awarded in August 2017 for design-build Request for Proposal support and combined clinic project documentation. Most orders employed firm-fixed-price labor contracting with durations of one to three years, though multi-year option periods extended some work through 2026.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a Master IDIQ for Architect-Engineer (A-E) Services in support of the Department of Defense Medical (DoDM) program. Medical Facilities A-E Services (MFAES) shall be provided throughout the Contiguous United States (CONUS) and Outside the Contiguous United States (OCONUS). Huntsville Center is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Medical Facilities Mandatory Center of Expertise and Standardization (MX), and partners with the Corps project delivery teams, regional business centers/divisions, stakeholders and geographical districts to provide medical expertise and the highest quality medical and medical research facility life cycle support to the Department of Defense (DoD), other federal agencies and foreign governments. The A-E contracts are intended to provide a variety of A-E services to include but not limited to: planning, survey, energy conservation and analyses studies, and other investigations/studies; comprehensive interior designs; development of Request For Proposal (RFP); and design services related to new construction, upgrade, maintenance, and repair of various medical facilities, including related infrastructure systems, medical equipment planning and components worldwide.