USDA APHIS Nationwide A-E Services 2016-2021

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Headquarters awarded a Master IDIQ for nationwide architecture and engineering services on June 15, 2016, with a shared ceiling of $15 million and a last date to order of June 30, 2021. Ordering against this vehicle is now closed; the ordering period ended over five years ago.

Ninety-four task orders were awarded under the vehicle between June 2016 and July 2021, peaking at 30 orders in 2018 before declining to 7 orders in the final year. The combined potential value of task orders stands at $14.5 million, with $14.4 million obligated, exhausting the vehicle's capacity. Stanley Consultants, Inc. captured roughly 55 percent of combined potential value with 33 orders worth $8 million; Merrick & Company and Coffman Engineers, Inc. followed with $2.5 million and $1.4 million respectively. Activity is heavily concentrated at APHIS Headquarters and APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine, which collectively account for roughly 68 percent of obligated value across 63 orders; smaller shares fund programs at National Resources Conservation Service regional offices.

Task orders procured work across all advertised disciplines—architecture, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, environmental, fire protection, civil, and structural—though awarded orders reveal a focus on design of record and construction inspection services for laboratory and facility upgrades at APHIS research campuses and satellite locations. Representative work includes schematic and design-phase services for the Mycobacteriology Laboratory relocation at Ames ($1.25 million), Strategic Master Plan and utility loop design for the National Center for Applied Plant Protection ($2.11 million), designer-of-record and commissioning services for the modernization of the Pest Survey Detection and Exclusion Lab in Otis, Massachusetts ($332.7 thousand), and easement boundary surveys across multiple states for the NRCS Water Resources and Environmental (WRE) program. Task-order values range from $7.4 thousand (miscellaneous plumbing design at a plant materials center) to $2.11 million (strategic planning and multi-phase utility design), with typical design orders in the $40 thousand to $150 thousand range. All 94 orders are unrestricted, unrestricted by set-aside.

Performance occurred nationwide at APHIS headquarters and regional facilities, primarily Ames, Iowa; Moore Air Base, Texas; Fort Collins, Colorado; Otis, Massachusetts; and multiple NRCS easement survey locations. The vehicle has expired and represents historical activity only.

A-E services are required for a Master IDIQ to provide for the primary disciplines of Architecture, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Environmental, Fire Protection, Civil, and Structural.