Baird-Stantec Joint Venture

Baird-Stantec Joint Venture, a foreign-owned small business joint venture based in Madison, Wisconsin, delivers architect-engineer and environmental engineering services as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) to federal natural-resource and water-management agencies, operating under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on indefinite-delivery and task-order vehicles.

The joint venture is a child entity of W.f. Baird & Associates LTD., a foreign-owned parent, and holds a portfolio anchored to five major indefinite-delivery contracts totaling roughly $154 million in ceiling value across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service. Customer concentration is steep: the top five customer agencies account for 78% of recent awards by count, with the Army Corps of Engineers leading by potential value (the Galveston District's $900 million MATOC alone drives the aggregate, though that represents one vehicle shared across multiple awardees). NOAA (11 awards, $56.8 million combined potential value) and NRCS Central Region (9 awards, $8.6 million) round out the active set. The two rankings diverge markedly — Galveston's shared vehicle inflates the Corps' potential-value ranking, while task-order volume and recent obligated spend cluster in smaller NRCS and NOAA regional contracts ranging from $126 thousand to $5.17 million per delivery order.

Recent representative work includes a $3.65 million total small business set-aside delivery order from USDA NRCS for the Coon Creek and West Fork Kickapoo Watershed Project in Wisconsin (awarded August 18, 2026, through August 2028); a $5.17 million total small business set-aside delivery order from NOAA for data acquisition and engineering-design services supporting the Raccoon Island Restoration Project in Louisiana (awarded September 2023, through August 2026); and a $1.71 million total small business set-aside delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District for CAD technician services under the A-E MATOCS Mississippi Valley Division Upper Three Districts contract (awarded April 2025, through July 2027). The joint venture's capability footprint centers on watershed planning, environmental assessments, habitat restoration, engineering design, environmental compliance and permitting, and construction administration for water-resource infrastructure projects across the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico regions, with secondary exposure to shoreside infrastructure and civil works river design.

The joint venture holds seats on five named IDIQs: the $20 million single-award NRCS Region 6 architect-engineer services contract (total small business, through November 2028); the $50 million single-award NOAA Gulf of Mexico regional architect-engineer environmental services contract (total small business, through May 2028); the $49 million multiple-award A-E MATOCS for the Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division Upper Three Districts (total small business, through July 2029); the $25 million multiple-award Great Lakes & Ohio Rivers Division civil works river design IDIQ (total small business, through September 2029); and the $10 million single-award shore-side infrastructure IDIQ with the Philadelphia District (total small business, through November 2029). Three additional IDIQ vehicles were awarded in late 2025 and mid-2026: a $24 million single-award Philadelphia Civil Works Program contract (total small business, through January 2031), a $49 million multiple-award South Atlantic Division Mobile District civil works contract (no set-aside, through June 2031), and a $15 million multiple-award Northwestern Division architect-engineer services contract (total small business, through November 2030). Against the top two parent vehicles (NRCS Region 6 and NOAA Gulf of Mexico), 13 and 10 task orders respectively have issued, with combined potential value of $9.6 million and $6.8 million.

Activity has accelerated in recent years — one award in 2020 to nineteen in 2024, with eight awards in 2026 to date — positioning annual task-order placement in the $2 million to $5 million range. Twelve awards (combined potential value $13.4 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated in NRCS and smaller NOAA regional work. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $219 thousand across FY2023–FY2024 (a strict subset capturing only service contracts above $150,000 reporting threshold), with roughly 0.4 FTEs delivering federal services in FY2024 at a median government-paid rate of $246.63 per hour, ranging from $200.67 to $265.76 per hour across the 10th to 90th percentile. The joint venture self-performs substantially all reported hours; one named subcontractor (Industrial Economics Inc.) has appeared on select NOAA environmental assessment and restoration planning task orders. The joint venture does not compete as a subcontractor to other primes in the recent federal award footprint.