NAVFAC SW Cultural Resources Related Services 2011-2014

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest awarded this Master IDIQ on January 27, 2011 for archaeological and historical studies, investigations, document preparation, and plan implementation under Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, with ordering closed on January 26, 2016. The vehicle is no longer active—the ordering period ended more than a decade ago.

The vehicle executed 172 task orders over its operational window, with the most active period in 2012 (81 orders) and rapid tapering thereafter (32 orders in 2013, 4 in 2014). All 172 orders are obligated against the $28.3 million combined potential value, leaving no unexercised capacity. Most recent awards date to January 2014, making this vehicle historically complete rather than operationally relevant for new business pursuit.

Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. dominated the vehicle, holding 114 of 172 orders worth $23.2 million combined potential value—roughly 82 percent of all activity by both count and value. HDR Environmental, Operations And Construction, Inc. was a distant second with 33 orders totaling $4 million, followed by ASM Affiliates Inc. (22 orders, $1 million) and SWCA, Incorporated (3 orders, $112 thousand). The competitive concentration was extreme: a single firm captured the vast majority of work.

Marine Corps entities drove demand. United States Marine Corps placed 68 orders worth $10.4 million, and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms added 12 orders worth $2.6 million. Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (the contracting office) and Navy Installations Command combined for another 66 orders. Roughly 92 percent of awarded task orders funded Marine Corps or Navy programs, reflecting heavy cultural resources compliance work at California and Nevada training ranges and installations.

All 172 task orders carried no set-aside designation. Task orders were uniformly firm fixed price, ranging from under $4 thousand to $667,943 (delivery order N6247311D2220-0106). Typical orders clustered between $75 thousand and $400 thousand. Work was performed across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, with heavy geographic concentration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command Twentynine Palms, California; Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada; and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona.

The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Southwest, San Diego, California, has awarded a Master IDIQ for Cultural Resources Related Services at various locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The services under this vehicle are to: perform archaeological and historical (cultural resources) related studies, investigations, preparation of historic and archaeological documents, and implementation of plans in accordance with Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended.