Adaptive Management And Engineering, LLC

Adaptive Management And Engineering, LLC, an SBA 8(a)-certified minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, provides coastal engineering and geotechnical design services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), with all work anchored to Louisiana and Gulf Coast restoration initiatives. The company is a Subchapter S corporation and Subcontinent Asian American-owned firm holding a $30 million Army Corps of Engineers geotechnical services IDIQ and an $8.3 million USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service coastal architect-engineer IDC, both award vehicles placing delivery orders across Louisiana through early 2027 and 2031 respectively.

Adaptive Management And Engineering's customer base concentrates entirely within two federal agencies. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District New Orleans dominates by potential value, holding $30 million across two awards (a 2026 IDIQ for geotechnical investigation, laboratory testing, and coastal construction inspection support across the lower Mississippi Valley and adjacent Gulf Coast districts). The Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service holds the remaining $8.3 million in ceiling value plus three smaller delivery orders and definitive contracts totaling approximately $875 thousand for coastal restoration projects. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recipient role (a $300 thousand Small Business Innovation Research grant awarded in September 2022) rounds out the federal footprint. Recent concrete work includes a $355.7 thousand July 2026 USDA delivery order for geotechnical design data collection via borings and cone penetration testing in support of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act program (completion July 2027), and a $516.5 thousand definitive contract with NRCS for the LaBranche Marsh Creation Project engineering services (completed December 2024).

Activity has been episodic: one award in 2022 and 2023, two in 2024, and three in 2026. One award (the $356 thousand LaBranche contract) reached ultimate completion in the next twenty-four-month window as of the source date. SCI-reported invoiced revenue shows $121 thousand in FY2023 and $507 thousand in FY2024 across 0.3 and 1.3 FTEs respectively; government-paid rates on these service contracts ran a narrow band around $181/hour median, with 10th and 90th percentiles at $179 and $183 per hour. The vendor operates entirely with internal staff on SCI-reportable contracts, averaging zero percent subcontractor hours, and does not appear in the award portfolio as a subcontractor to other primes. Work is performed in Baton Rouge and Cameron, Louisiana, and across the lower Mississippi Valley Division and adjacent Gulf Coast Districts.

Adaptive Management and Engineering, LLC. (AME) has expertise in providing geotechnical, instrumentation and monitoring services for various public and private clients. Our services include:

Coastal design, Coastal Use Permits, Desktop study and research for planning mitigation projects, coastal protection and restoration projects, upland disposal sites and beneficial use of dredge material projects; Site exploration and field testing of soft soil on land, in marshes and open water sites; Containment dike and levee stability analyses (slope stability, settlement and bearing capacity); Hydraulically dredged and placed marsh fill analyses; Borrow area soil analyses to estimate dredgeability of soil and clay-ball formation; Instrumentation and monitoring of dredged and placed hydraulic fill (ISPs and other instrumentation); Preparing geotechnical and monitoring reports. Plans and specifications for coastal projects; AASHTO Accredited Laboratory