J&a FY26 racer/paces SATOC

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville has awarded a sole-source SATOC IDIQ contract to AECOM Technical Services, Inc. (CAGE 4L767) for software maintenance of the Remedial Action Cost Engineering Requirement (RACER) and Parametric Cost Engineering System (PACES) applications on August 26, 2026.

The justification cites 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1), implemented by RFO 6.103-1, on the basis of AECOM's exclusive ownership of the RACER and PACES source code, trademarks, and copyrights. RACER and PACES are parametric cost engineering tools used by the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Federal Aviation Administration, and Environmental Protection Agency to develop budgetary cost estimates for military construction, environmental remediation, and site work projects. The Government retains Government Purpose Rights to core systems and models but lacks an operational version of either software free of AECOM's proprietary enhancements. Extensive market research from March through December 2025, including a Sources Sought announcement yielding seven responses and an RFI to IT contracts yielding 20 no-bids, identified no alternative vendors capable of providing these specialized services. Previous replacement system development efforts—the Environmental Estimator (EII) and TRACES Enterprise Portal Parametric Estimator (TEPPE)—failed due to insufficient functionality and cost ineffectiveness. Sole-source continuation is critical to avoid disruption of cost estimation capabilities essential to multiple agencies and to support System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 Type II compliance for RACER.

The contract runs from August 30, 2026, through August 29, 2031, with a six-month option extending through February 28, 2032. Individual task orders are awarded on a Firm Fixed Price basis. Place of performance is Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Funding sources include USACE Enterprise Reimbursable Cost Funds, Air Force Military Construction, Navy Military Construction, Office of the Secretary of War Operation and Maintenance, Formerly Used Defense Sites O&M, and Defense Logistics Agency Working Capital Funds.