USACE Planning and Programming Architect-Engineer

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established this Master IDIQ on February 16, 2023, to procure facility master planning, area development planning, and related architectural-engineering services for MILCON projects and DoD installations worldwide, with ordering authority extending through February 15, 2028.

The vehicle is entirely unrestricted (no set-aside designation) across all 95 awarded task orders. Ordering activity peaked early, with 41 orders awarded in 2023, declining to 29 in 2024, 24 in 2025, and only 1 through April 2026 as of the source date. The vehicle has obligated $124.9 million against a combined task-order potential value of $155.8 million (80% of potential), leaving $30.9 million in unobligated potential value remaining under the $160 million shared ceiling.

Scope encompasses the full spectrum of planning deliverables: master planning, facility utilization studies, requirements analyses, geospatial products, energy studies, DD1391 development, facility assessments, and environmental analysis. Recent task orders reflect sustained demand for building system assessments (particularly fire and safety compliance evaluations), installation infrastructure capacity analysis, National Guard planning support, and Naval facility assessments. Representative recent orders include a $9.2 million USMC INFADS asset evaluation (awarded September 2025), an $8.1 million Army Materiel Command facility assessment (September 2025), and a $6.5 million SMS support contract (awarded September 2024).

Competition concentrates moderately among five firms. Michael Baker International leads by combined potential value with $42.3 million across 14 orders; Jacobs Government Services Company and The Urban Collaborative each hold roughly $24–34 million across 15 orders. HDR Engineering and WSP–Moca Joint Venture round out the top tier at $13–19 million each. These five firms account for 85% of combined potential value and 72% of order count, with the remaining four primes capturing a small long tail.

Customer concentration centers on the Army. The Engineering Support Center Huntsville (the contracting office itself) places 34 orders worth $71.7 million; the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center adds 26 orders worth $47.3 million. Together, Army-connected customers represent roughly 74% of orders. Secondary customers include Air Combat Command, Army Materiel Command components, Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy, National Guard Bureau, and Space Force, distributed across 22 distinct federal agencies overall.

Task-order values range widely, from minimum guarantees of $2,500 to a ceiling of $15.6 million (the BEQ/BOQ utilization assessment), with typical firm-fixed-price orders in the $500,000 to $3 million range. Performance periods typically span 12–36 months from award.

The work provides a variety of facility, master planning, and area development planning for a MILCON projects and U.S. Army Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Department of Defense or other agency installation or facility locations worldwide. Planning products are diverse and would include planning charrette and DD1391 development, facility utilization studies, land use requirements studies, real property management, requirements analysis, facility master planning, area development studies, geospatial products, energy studies, and similar deliverables.