Atkins - Black & Veatch - FSB JV

Atkins - Black & Veatch - FSB JV, operating as Pbs&J, is a joint venture partnership based in Denver, Colorado that provides architectural and engineering design, Title II construction inspection, construction management, and infrastructure planning services to the U.S. Department of Defense as a prime contractor across military installations domestically and internationally. The joint venture competes exclusively in full-and-open federal procurements with no set-aside designations across its portfolio.

The vendor holds a single dominant parent vehicle: the $2 billion Architect-Engineering Services for Design and Construction Support for the Air Force Construction Program (AE NEXT), awarded by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center in February 2021, which carries 34 of 38 total prime awards ($26.1 million combined potential value). The joint venture also holds a $30 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha for architectural and engineering services supporting military airfield projects worldwide, issued in January 2023. These two vehicles anchor the vendor's federal work and fund the vast majority of its recent task order activity. Recent AE NEXT deliveries include a $15.3 million delivery order from Air Force Space Command for design services supporting the FY26 EMSO Superiority Complex at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida (awarded July 2024, completion January 2027); a $1.34 million delivery order from the Air National Guard for F-16 Mission Training Center design at Fort Wayne, Indiana (awarded February 2026); and a $6.98 million delivery order from Air Forces Europe and Africa for hangar renovation and construction support at Katterbach and Storck in Germany under the Army Corps of Engineers contract (awarded September 2023, completion April 2026). Title II inspection services, facility renovation charrettes, and HVAC system design and inspection work recur across the portfolio, with multiple repeat engagements at Vandenberg Space Force Base, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and Joint Base Andrews.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Air Force enterprise. The Air National Guard leads by award count with nine deliveries totaling $4.4 million combined potential value, followed by Air Force Space Command with nine awards totaling $1.7 million. However, the top-customer ranking by potential value is dominated by a single $2 billion IDV ceiling from the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Civil Engineer Center (the AE NEXT vehicle itself), which represents the full future ordering capacity under that contract. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha and District Europe together account for $22 million in combined potential value across three awards. Fourteen distinct federal agencies appear across the portfolio, but the Air Force and Air Force subordinate commands represent the overwhelming operational customer base. All awards carry full-and-open competition — no set-asides are present.

Activity has tracked irregularly across recent years: eight awards in 2022, twelve in 2023, six in 2024, nine in 2025, and one in the first months of 2026. Combined potential value across all 38 prime awards reaches $2.06 billion, although only $30.9 million has been obligated to date (1% of the ceiling), reflecting the typical front-loaded ceiling structure of multiyear IDIQs where dollars flow as task orders are issued. Within the next twenty-four months, nine awards (combined potential value $19.7 million) reach ultimate completion and face recompete, representing modest near-term at-risk value. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint is present in the source data. When the joint venture does engage specialized capabilities — such as minority- and woman-owned small business Acacia7 for Title II HVAC inspection services at Vandenberg — those relationships are embedded within delivery orders rather than separate sub-awards. The joint venture's capability portfolio is concentrated in preliminary design (Title I), construction documents and inspection (Title II), and Type C construction management services for military facility infrastructure, with particular depth in hangar design, flight simulator facilities, HVAC systems, fire protection systems, and facility renovation support. All work is grounded in the full spectrum of AE services — studies, analysis, preliminary design, detailed design, construction inspection, and design consultation — across the Air Force construction program and Army Corps airfield engineering mission.