USACE NW A-E Hazardous Waste 2015-2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Kansas City closed ordering on the USACE NW A-E Hazardous Waste 2015–2020 Master IDIQ on August 12, 2020, ending a five-year-eleven-month ordering window that began at vehicle award on August 13, 2015. The vehicle is no longer active; all 80 task orders were awarded by April 13, 2018, with the most recent order closing out nearly eight years ago. Activity peaked in 2016 with 35 awards, then dropped sharply to only five orders in 2018. The combined task-order portfolio carries a potential value of $113.3 million, of which $108.7 million (96%) is obligated.

The vehicle funded Superfund site remedial investigations, feasibility studies, remedial design, remedial action oversight, and related architect-engineer services across multiple operable units and sites. Work included pre-design investigations, remedial design and construction-phase services, engineering during construction, responsible-party oversight, and long-term monitoring. Cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price arrangements were both used.

Competition was concentrated among five firms holding 84% of task orders by count. WSP USA Solutions Inc. led by potential value with $40.3 million across 13 orders; CDM Federal Programs Corporation captured the most orders with 22 awards totaling $30.7 million in potential value. Arcadis U.S., Inc., Ch2M Hill, Inc., and HDR Obrien & Gere, A Joint Venture collectively held the remainder of the top-five positions. Three additional small-business contractors shared the remaining 16 orders.

Customer concentration was skewed heavily toward the Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, which placed 43 of the 80 orders valued at $83.5 million (roughly 74% of the portfolio). The Corps of Engineers Engineering District Kansas City awarded 14 orders worth $9.1 million; EPA Region 8, the Seattle District, and the Army's other divisions together accounted for the balance. All task orders were unrestricted, with no set-asides in the vehicle structure or awarded orders. Task-order values ranged from guaranteed-minimum instruments of $0 in obligated funds to mega-orders exceeding $13 million obligated, with multiple five-million-dollar-plus awards for long-term remedial action and oversight projects at Hudson River, Newark Bay, Lower Passaic River, and Welsbach Superfund sites. Place of performance was distributed across the geographic scope of the EPA regions and Corps districts served, including sites in New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and other states nationwide.

The Northwestern Division of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has a requirement to acquire Architect-Engineer Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDC) for execution of its environmental mission.