Worldwide Renovation Rehabilitation Design Services

The Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations awarded a Master IDIQ on September 30, 2013 for worldwide renovation, rehabilitation, and restoration design services at diplomatic posts. Ordering closed on September 29, 2019, making this vehicle inactive for new task orders for nearly seven years.

The vehicle carried a $100 million shared ceiling across all awardees. One hundred two task orders totaling $229.5 million in combined potential value have been fully obligated, with ordering concentrated heavily in the first half of the vehicle's lifetime—29 orders in 2015, 21 in 2016, and 22 in 2017, declining to 11 in 2018 and only 2 in 2019. The most recent task order award was in August 2019.

Work spans preliminary facility assessments, architectural and engineering surveys, site utilization and master planning, design-build and design-bid-build bridging documents, construction documents, physical and technical security upgrades, and construction-phase services. Estimated construction values for underlying projects ranged from $1 million to $150 million. All work is performed worldwide at Department of State posts and sponsored facilities.

Five architects and engineers hold the contract. Weiss / Manfredi Architects LLP leads by value with $81.1 million across 5 orders, though Krueck & Sexton Architects, LTD holds the most orders at 30 worth $50.5 million, followed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP with 27 orders valued at $45.4 million. Competition is concentrated among this trio, which collectively account for approximately 68% of the potential value. Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh Mcdowell Incorporated and Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP hold the remaining orders. All task orders fund the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations exclusively.

About 85% of orders carry no set-aside designation, with the remaining 15% designated Partial Small Business. Task orders are firm-fixed-price and range from under $15,000 to the mega-order of $74.8 million to Weiss / Manfredi for master planning services. Typical task-order values cluster between $500,000 and $3 million. A $12.2 million order for compound security upgrade development and design services illustrates the upper range.

The U.S. Department of State has awarded a Master IDIQ for worldwide renovation/rehabilitation design services.