Argus CJW JV 3 LLC

Argus CJW JV 3 LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned, small disadvantaged business joint venture based in Leesburg, Virginia, delivers design-build and design-bid-build construction, renovation, and facility modernization services to the Department of the Navy, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Air Force, and the Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor on indefinite-delivery contracts and task orders. The joint venture competes predominantly under 8(a) set-asides and total small business designations, with recent awards split between set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders.

Argus CJW JV 3 is a child entity of Argus Services Inc. (Fenton, Michigan), an SBA 8(a) certified parent company also designated as minority-owned and woman-owned small business. The joint venture operates across NAICS 236220 (commercial and institutional building construction), with award history concentrated in PSC 45 (construction of miscellaneous buildings and repair or alteration of miscellaneous buildings).

The vendor's customer concentration is dominated by the National Institutes of Health, which accounts for 14 awards worth $2.52 billion in combined potential value, anchored by positions on the NIH General Construction MACC 2019 ($2 billion multiple-award vehicle). The Department of the Navy drives volume — Naval Facilities Engineering Command (15 awards, $520.7 million), Navy Installations Command (20 awards, $25.5 million), Naval Supply Systems Command (13 awards, $18.9 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command (8 awards, $15.5 million) collectively account for 56 awards representing 63% of recent activity. The Department of the Air Force Headquarters District Washington holds a $715.8 million position across four awards under a $700 million single-award indefinite delivery vehicle (FA286021D0003) for design-build and construction services at Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling through 2028. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Seattle carries $177.6 million across four awards. These top five customers account for 99% of combined potential value.

The vendor places task orders under five primary parent vehicles. The 8A MACC DBB Hampton Roads Area ($249 million multiple-award contract, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, set-aside for 8(a) small business, running through May 2028) anchors 18 task orders worth $29.7 million, including a $5.3 million delivery order for elevator replacement at Naval Station Norfolk Portsmouth (awarded December 22, 2025, ultimate completion June 15, 2027), a $7.17 million delivery order for ordnance operations support and inert storage replacement at Naval Station Norfolk (May 16, 2024), and a $3.98 million sprinkler replacement and secondary ceiling work in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (July 30, 2024, Competitive 8(a)). The parent IDV N4008520D0158 carries 46 task orders worth $64.7 million across Navy commands, including a $4.7 million fire suppression maintenance and repair task for Joint Base Andrews Hangars 8 and 9 (Air National Guard, August 2, 2024, Total Small Business). The NIH General Construction MACC 2019 holds 13 task orders valued at $18.9 million, with recent work including a $1.97 million design-build delivery order for cage wash machine replacement at NIH Building 35A, Bethesda (National Institutes of Health, September 29, 2025, no set-aside, ultimate completion August 30, 2027) and a $3.41 million Competitive 8(a) delivery order for Building 50 fin tube baseboards replacement (July 10, 2023). The Air Force vehicle FA286021D0003 ($700 million single-award design-build contract) has generated 4 task orders worth $20.5 million, including a $10.2 million Hangar 4 repair at Joint Base Andrews (May 22, 2023) and a $5.56 million Hangar 18 repair (July 26, 2022, Total Small Business, ultimate completion August 31, 2027). Additional vehicles include an Army Corps IDV (W912DW19D1001) with 3 task orders valued at $2.6 million.

Argus CJW JV 3 operates as a pure prime contractor footprint — 89 of 89 awards are prime, with zero subcontract activity. However, across SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor subcontracts 55 percent of total contractor hours on average, with 103 named subcontractors reported across its prime portfolio. SCI-invoiced revenue declined sharply from $3.5 million in FY2022 and $2.1 million in FY2023 to $168 thousand in FY2024 and $6 in FY2025, reflecting minimal direct labor reported on recent task orders; FTE trajectory fell from 1.8 FTEs in FY2023 to near-zero in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts show a median around $54.40 per hour with a 90th percentile reaching $1,471.26 per hour, indicating wide variance in labor category mix. Total SCI records number 24 across FY2022–FY2025.

Activity has expanded significantly — 8 awards in 2021 growing to 31 in 2024, with 10 awards recorded in 2025 through December. The combined potential value across all 89 awards totals $4.01 billion, with $135.1 million obligated (3% execution rate). Nine awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $28.9 million and representing near-term recompete exposure. Place of performance spans multiple regions: Hampton Roads area of Virginia (Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk Portsmouth, Dam Neck Annex, Naval Air Station Oceana, Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story), Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (Maryland), Mechanicsburg (Pennsylvania), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Bethesda (Maryland), and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. The vendor's recent capability portfolio demonstrates extensive experience in HVAC system replacements, electrical and mechanical upgrades, roof repairs and replacements, fire suppression and alarm systems, structural repairs, window replacement, elevator replacement, transformer and generator installation, sprinkler systems, office and facility renovations, and EV charging infrastructure at military installations and federal research facilities.