Professional Land Survey Services - Border Infrastructure PMO

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, awarded this Master IDIQ on September 30, 2019, to provide professional land survey services primarily for Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection border infrastructure projects along the southwestern U.S. border, with a shared ceiling of $240 million. The vehicle's ordering period closed on September 29, 2024, and is no longer active.

The IDIQ was a total small business set-aside at the vehicle level, though awarded task orders show 90 percent are issued without set-aside designation and only 10 percent carry total small business set-aside. Over its five-year life, 70 task orders were awarded with combined potential value of $33.6 million; $29 million (86 percent) has been obligated. Annual ordering peaked at 17 orders in 2020, declining to 7 orders in 2022, then rebounding to 13 orders in 2023 and 12 in 2024, indicating sustained but variable activity through vehicle closure.

Scope covers boundary surveying, topographic and hydrographic surveying, easement preparation, legal descriptions, boundary retracement, monumentation, encroachment mapping, and hydrographic surveying services. Performance spans the four southwestern border states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) and extends to lakes and water projects within USACE Southwestern and South Pacific Divisions. Representative recent orders include RGV boundary surveys ($14.4 million ceiling), removable barrier surveys ($549 thousand ceiling), and stilling basin inspections across multiple dam sites.

B & F Engineering Inc. dominates, holding 25 of 70 awards (36 percent of orders) with $22.5 million combined potential value—roughly 67 percent of the vehicle's total. EMC Inc. placed second with 14 orders and $7.9 million potential value. The remaining eight primes, including Seaside Engineering & Surveying, hold fragmented shares; the top five primes capture 96 percent of combined potential value. Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth placed 32 orders worth $25.8 million, dominating customer concentration at 77 percent of obligated dollars. The remaining four customer agencies—Army Corps districts and Immigration and Customs Enforcement—placed orders at smaller scale.

Task-order ceiling values typically range from $20 thousand to $700 thousand, with firm fixed-price terms and performance periods of 3 to 18 months. Individual large-value orders include the RGV boundary surveys task (September 2023, $14.4 million ceiling) and Laredo 32-mile surveys (July 2020 and September 2020, $3.5 million and $3.7 million ceiling respectively). The vehicle is closed to new ordering and substantially obligated, rendering pursuit economically limited unless seeking subcontracting on remaining task orders.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), serves as the nationwide program and project management service provider for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Professional Land Survey Services for CBP extend the entire southern border of the United States with Mexico, which primarily encompasses the four states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The tasks awarded under this IDIQ are primarily intended to support Professional Land Survey Services for the border infrastructure program along the Southwestern Border of the United States, but may also be used in support of other Professional Land Survey Service needs for USACE programs within the boundaries of the Southwestern Division (SWD) and the South Pacific Division (SPD). The Professional Land Survey Services procured under these contracts may include, but are not limited to the following: Boundary surveying for the transfer of land, creation of land tracts or parcels, preparation of easements, preparation of legal descriptions for the transfer of land or easements, identification of boundary discrepancies, location of property improvements, mapping of encroachments, the mapping of identified areas, preparation of metes & bounds descriptions, acquisition and preparation of topographic surveying data, performance of hydrographic surveying, creation of documents or maps required for zoning classifications and may include other services that are professionally, historically or generally provided as service by a professional license land surveyor.