USACE Water Resources Professional Consulting Services

The US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources established this multiple-award Master IDIQ on March 17, 2016, to procure professional consulting services across all Civil Works mission areas—Navigation, Flood Risk Management, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, Hydropower, Regulatory, Recreation, and Water Supply. The ordering period closed on July 6, 2021; no new task orders may be issued against this vehicle.

The vehicle is now in a closed-ordering posture with 133 task orders awarded over its five-year ordering window, though order placement has slowed considerably since peak activity. From 2017 through 2021, task order frequency declined from 35 per year to just 5 in the final year. The combined potential value of all awarded task orders is $45.2 million, with $39.4 million (87 percent) obligated to date, indicating most of the vehicle's financial capacity has been drawn.

Competition is highly concentrated among a small cadre of prime contractors. CDM Federal Programs Corporation dominates with 77 orders totaling $23.9 million in potential value—more than half the vehicle's activity. ABT Global LLC holds the second position with 26 orders worth $12.9 million. The Council Oak, LLC (10 orders, $4.7 million), The Louis Berger Group, Inc. (8 orders, $2.5 million), and WSP USA Solutions Inc. (4 orders, $721 thousand) constitute the next tier. These five firms account for 94 percent of all task orders and 99 percent of combined potential value; the remaining three awarded primes operate at marginal scale.

Customer concentration mirrors the vehicle's narrow purpose: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources itself funds 93 of 133 task orders ($27.8 million combined potential value), representing 70 percent of activity. The National Capitol Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity places 32 orders ($13.9 million), while three other Army entities account for the remainder.

Task orders are overwhelmingly unrestricted; 98 percent carry no set-aside designation. Only two small-business task orders appear in the portfolio, and one hybrid partial small-business order.

Task order values cluster in the low-to-mid six figures, with typical ceiling values ranging from roughly $70 thousand to $1.7 million. Notable larger orders include one for $1.7 million on National Shoreline Management System Regional Assessments (obligated $1.7 million), another for $1.8 million on National Levee Database and Levee Safety Program Tool Enhancements Phase 3 (obligated $1.8 million), and a $1.9 million order on Alternative Financing and Delivery Mechanisms for Civil Works development. Most awards use firm-fixed-price pricing with labor-hour task structures. All work is performed within USACE oversight and Civil Works program requirements; place of performance spans USACE facilities and projects nationwide.

The US Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources (IWR) was formed in 1969 to provide the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works (CW) Program with the capability to analyze and anticipate emerging water resources trends and issues facing our nation. In support of this program, USACE has awarded a Multiple Award Task Order Contract encompassing all of the Civil Works mission areas - Navigation, Flood Risk Management, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, Hydropower, Regulatory, Recreation, and Water Supply.