Association Of Consultants And Engineers

Association Of Consultants And Engineers, doing business as ACE, is a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Leonardtown, Maryland, operating as a prime contractor exclusively in Navy and Marine Corps environmental engineering and compliance services across the National Capital Region and select installations nationwide. ACE is a child entity of Assisted Management Solutions, Inc., a parent company with SBA certifications including women-owned small business, self-certified small disadvantaged business, DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise, and Hispanic American ownership.

ACE's federal footprint consists entirely of prime contract work — 77 awards totaling $67.6 million in combined potential value over the past five years, with 46 delivery orders under a single-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity vehicle (N4008021D0013). The underlying IDIQ, a $30 million contract with a $40 million potential ceiling awarded by Naval Facilities Engineering Command in February 2021 and set aside for woman-owned small businesses, drives ACE's entire prime portfolio. ACE competes exclusively within set-aside or non-competitive delivery-order channels; 100% of named awards are either woman-owned small business set-asides or full-and-open delivery orders issued under the IDIQ vehicle. The vendor does not pursue unrestricted competition or serve as a subcontractor to larger primes.

ACE's capability portfolio centers on environmental engineering, compliance, and infrastructure support services for naval installations: stormwater management and best-management-practice maintenance (51 PSC-coded awards), wastewater treatment and industrial wastewater management planning, drinking water monitoring and system support, tank inspection, repair, and testing (blue tanks, gold tanks, PAX tanks, and brown tanks), hazardous waste management planning and remediation, EPCRA (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act) regulatory reporting, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) monitoring under the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, radon assessment and retesting, lead service-line identification and inventory, invasive species management, pollinator habitat surveys, and environmental site assessments. Representative delivery orders include a $1.7 million treatment chemical needs contract at Naval Support Facility Indian Head (March 2025), a $2.4 million blue tank repairs and testing order at the Naval Academy (September 2023), a $1.4 million blue tank repairs order at Naval Support Activity Dahlgren (September 2024), and a $370 thousand EPCRA reporting support contract across multiple Naval Support Activities in the National Capital Region (April 2024).

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. Naval Facilities Engineering Command accounts for 46 awards representing $61.8 million in combined potential value (91% of dollars); Navy Installations Command holds 26 awards worth $4.9 million; the Marine Corps and Naval Sea Systems Command account for 5 awards totaling $963 thousand. The vendor has no non-Navy customer base. Award activity grew from 9 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2023, declined to 12 in 2024, rebounded to 15 in 2025, and dropped to 3 awards year-to-date in 2026 (as of April 14, 2026). Twenty-one delivery orders with combined potential value of $6.3 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure concentrated within the single IDIQ vehicle.

All 76 task orders flow through the single N4008021D0013 IDIQ, which is the entirety of ACE's parent vehicle footprint. No GSA Schedules, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs appear in the award history. ACE carries no named subcontract relationships and does not subcontract its work — all delivery orders are performed as prime with no sub-awards recorded. The vendor's technical footprint and customer concentration are entirely dependent on IDIQ N4008021D0013 renewal or extension; contract completion is currently scheduled for August 11, 2026, with a potential six-month option noted in source summaries. Loss of this single vehicle would eliminate 99% of the vendor's federal revenue stream.