Other than Concrete Border Wall Prototype

Customs and Border Protection established a Master IDIQ on September 7, 2017 to design and construct border wall prototypes and operational miles of non-concrete barriers along the southwest border from San Diego, California to Brownsville, Texas, with a shared ceiling of $300 million and a last date to order of September 6, 2022—ordering closed approximately three years and ten months ago and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle is effectively exhausted. Combined task-order potential value reaches $276.9 million against the $300 million ceiling, with $276.8 million obligated (100% of potential value). The most recent task order awarded on September 6, 2022 brought the vehicle to its final ordering deadline; no further orders may be placed.

Scope centers on border barrier construction and repair. Task orders describe border infrastructure work, barrier systems (notably the North Laredo Barrier System), and repairs to existing wall segments, executed under firm fixed price contracts. The earliest awards (2017) funded design-build prototypes with completion dates of October 30, 2017; later awards (2020–2022) shifted to operational construction and maintenance work with extended performance periods through early 2025.

Competitive concentration is extreme: Caddell Construction CO. (De), LLC holds three orders valued at $231.1 million combined—83% of all potential value. KWR Construction Inc. holds seven orders totaling $44.9 million (16%). Two smaller firms, W.g. Cleansyates & Sons Construction Company and Elta North America Inc., account for the remaining $903 thousand across two prototype-phase orders. All 12 task orders funded Customs and Border Protection directly; no customer diversification exists.

All task orders are unrestricted, non-set-aside awards. Ordering activity peaked in 2020 (5 orders) and declined thereafter; four orders awarded in 2017 and three in 2022 bracket the vehicle's lifecycle.

Typical task-order values range from under $500 thousand for prototype design-build work to $175.1 million for the largest operational construction award (June 8, 2022). Firm fixed price pricing is standard throughout.

Customs and Border Protection has awarded a Master IDIQ is to cover the design and construction of a border wall prototype and various miles of border wall along the southwest border, that is something other than a concrete wall (i.e. San Diego, CA to Brownsville, TX). The purpose of this vehicle is the acquisition of a prototype using other than solid concrete materials, in addition to future possible construction along the American-Mexican border.