W.f. Baird & Associates LTD.

W.F. Baird & Associates LTD., a foreign-owned engineering services provider headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, delivers coastal and river engineering, environmental resilience, and survey services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Justice as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) competing predominantly full-and-open without set-aside designations, though holding multiple Total Small Business IDVs with the Corps.

W.F. Baird is a subsidiary of 964218 Ontario LIMITED, a Canadian parent organization, and operates a named joint venture subsidiary, Baird-Stantec Joint Venture. The firm's primary capability footprint centers on architect-engineer services for coastal flood risk management, navigation improvements, and ecosystem restoration projects—grounded in concrete delivery orders including a $10.576 million Design Documentation Report for the New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Study (ENDIST New York, awarded April 2024), a $3.834 million Total Small Business delivery order for Anacostia Watershed Restoration across three Prince George's County, Maryland sites (ENDIST Baltimore, awarded July 2022), and a $1.762 million no-set-aside order for New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Study architectural and engineering services (ENDIST New York, awarded September 2025). The firm also executes recurring aerial LiDAR survey and photography work across the Corps' portfolio, including multiple task orders at Poplar Island, Maryland, and provides expert witness services for the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division on environmental litigation matters.

Customer concentration is tightly focused on Corps of Engineers district commands. The top five customers account for 71% of award count by volume and 96% of combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District New York dominates both metrics—15 awards carrying $93.8 million combined potential value—followed by Engineering District Baltimore (13 awards, $36.9 million) and Engineering District Detroit (11 awards, $14.2 million). The Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division represents the fourth-largest customer (11 awards, $8.5 million), concentrated in expert witness purchase orders ranging from $39,035 to $2.15 million, with performance periods extending through February 2029.

W.F. Baird holds five named parent indefinite delivery vehicles with the Corps. The largest are a $50 million multiple-award IDC with ENDIST New York (17 task orders, $1 million combined value across bounded slice) set aside for small businesses for architect-engineer services supporting navigation, coastal flood risk management, and ecosystem restoration; a $13.75 million IDC with ENDIST Detroit (no set-aside, awarded December 2021, completion June 2027) for multidisciplinary planning, engineering, design, construction, and operations/maintenance support across Detroit, Chicago, and Buffalo Districts; and a $30 million IDC with ENDIST Baltimore for civil works architectural and engineering services. Three additional vehicles each carry 8–17 task orders.

Recent activity shows modest decline—9 awards in 2022 and 2023, 11 in 2024, and 8 in 2025—with a single award through April 2026. Seventeen awards (combined potential value $39.4 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure across multiple Districts. The firm obligated $61.1 million against a $168.9 million combined potential value portfolio (36% obligated), indicating early-stage performance on larger, multi-year delivery orders.

W.F. Baird's category concentration is narrow: 84 of 133 awards fall under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), with 74 awards classified under PSC code for Architect and Engineering—General, and 17 under expert witness support services. The vendor sits as a subcontractor in one named award—AE services for Orange County Coastal Storm Risk Management under Galveston Coastal Services (awarded February 2024)—indicating a predominantly prime-contractor posture. The firm has maintained federal contracting activity since at least 1997 and been registered in SAM since 2002.

Baird provides professional engineering design and technical services for waterfront structures on oceans, lakes and rivers. Our projects involve flood control, navigation, marine terminal, coastal storm/ flood risk management, and ecosystem restoration and mitigation. We are highly skilled at numerical modeling of current and future conditions within riverine, coastal, and estuarine environments. Our experience spans initial fieldwork and studies through design and construction. We have been recognized for the successful completion of innovative and practical projects for various USACE Districts and repeatedly receive positive CPARS. Founded over 40 years ago, Baird is a small business with 90 staff which include structural and civil engineers specialized in waterfront structures, coastal engineers, landscape architects, coastal scientists, geomorphologists, numerical modelers, navigation assessment experts, coastal hazard and risk assessors, and CAD technicians.