USACE Dam and Levee Safety 2009-2015

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District St Louis established this Master IDIQ on October 20, 2009 for dam and levee safety services; ordering closed on February 10, 2015. This vehicle is no longer active — the last task order award was issued March 26, 2015, and no further orders may be placed.

The IDIQ funded periodic and engineering inspections of levee systems across multiple USACE districts and regions, risk assessments of dams, instrumentation and data acquisition system installation, and software upgrades related to dam safety databases. Task orders were firm fixed price, with 28 total awards across the vehicle lifetime. Order velocity peaked in 2012 with five awards but declined thereafter, with only two awards issued in 2015 before the ordering deadline closed.

The prime contractor base was moderately concentrated. URS Group, Inc. captured 12 of 28 orders and $4.3 million combined potential value. Stantec Consulting Services Inc. (6 orders, $4.8 million), Affinis Corp (4 orders, $5.6 million), and Midwest Levee Inspectors, LLC (4 orders, $4.9 million) collectively held the next largest shares. One additional firm, Kaskaskia Engineering Group LLC, received one order for $3.9 million. These five primes accounted for 96% of all task orders.

Customer concentration was high within USACE. The Omaha Engineering District placed eight orders worth $10.9 million combined potential value; the St. Louis District placed ten orders for $5.2 million combined potential value. Combined, these two districts funded 18 of 28 orders. The Sacramento, Nashville, and Los Angeles districts collectively placed six more, leaving four orders distributed across nine customer agencies.

The set-aside distribution skewed toward unrestricted competition. Eighteen orders (64%) were issued without set-aside; ten orders (36%) were designated for small business. Individual task-order values ranged from roughly $42,000 to $3.9 million. The vehicle's combined task-order potential value was $23.9 million, but combined obligations reached $25.4 million (106% of potential), reflecting order modifications and scope expansions during performance.

USACE Dam and Levee Safety IDIQ