USACE Rapid Disaster Infrastructure 8a MATOC

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha awarded this Master IDIQ, established August 19, 2019, as a competitive 8(a) set-aside for rapid disaster infrastructure work, but ordering closed August 18, 2024, and the vehicle is no longer active. The $95 million shared ceiling covered up to four 8(a) small-business contractors competing for time-sensitive flood recovery, infrastructure restoration, emergency management, and military construction across all 50 U.S. states.

The vehicle executed only two task orders totaling $57.6 million in potential value, both obligated by December 2019. Klutina River Contractors received both awards — a $57.5 million levee-repair delivery order (cost-plus-fixed-fee, completed October 2021) and a $120,251 levee-repair order in Hamburg, Iowa (cost-plus-fixed-fee, terminated January 2020). Both orders actually executed under cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing despite the solicitation's authorization for cost-reimbursable, cost-plus-fixed-fee, or firm-fixed-price structures based on project risk. No orders carried a set-aside designation in execution, despite the vehicle's competitive 8(a) structure. All funding came from Engineering District Omaha.

The vehicle never achieved its intended multiple-award competition model. The minimum guarantee of $2,500 per contract was substantially exceeded, but at least $37.4 million of the $95 million potential ceiling remained unobligated when ordering closed. Activity concentrated entirely in 2019, with no task orders awarded in 2020 or beyond. The five-year base period plus four one-year option periods concluded in August 2024; no successor vehicle is identified in the source. For firms evaluating similar vehicles, this MATOC demonstrates execution risk in achieving the forecast order volume under multi-award structures and underscores the importance of rapid responsiveness — the two awarded projects were levee-related emergency repair work, consistent with the vehicle's time-sensitive positioning but narrower in scope than the solicitation's broad infrastructure definition.

This RDI MATOC allows for a full range of time-sensitive disaster, infrastructure, and construction related scopes of work to support federally funded customers. Projects may vary in size, complexity, and location, and will require a high degree of flexibility and adaptability. The Contractor must respond quickly and effectively. All work will be time-sensitive in nature, necessitating an immediate response to mitigate threat to life and property and/or operational impacts to the government. Examples include but are not limited to: Flood Recovery: flood control and water diversion projects, embankments, channel alignments and flood control structures in support of civil works missions. Infrastructure Recovery: restoration, repair, and demolition of facilities, utilities, real property systems, and other infrastructure requirement that cannot be performed in required timeframes with normal contract mechanisms to meet vital mission requirements. Emergency Management: response actions such as unwatering missions, debris recovery, temporary housing, and other actions to meet vital mission requirements. Military: construction of facilities, infrastructure, water and sanitation systems, electrical systems, natural gas and other energy systems, fences, lighting, and roads to support troop movements and other crucial military missions.