Baker-Stanley-Cardno JV

Baker-Stanley-Cardno JV, a for-profit joint venture and wholly-owned subsidiary of Michael Baker International Inc., provides architectural and engineering design and construction oversight services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor exclusively, competing full-and-open on federal infrastructure programs with no set-aside posture. The joint venture is headquartered in Moon, Pennsylvania, and competes in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), delivering design-build, design-bid-build, and construction quality-assurance support across Air Force, Space Force, and Army Corps of Engineers installations domestically and internationally.

Baker-Stanley-Cardno JV operates predominantly through two anchor indefinite-delivery vehicles: the AE NEXT 2021 Pool 4 contract with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (a $2 billion ceiling running through July 2031) and a $249 million Centralized Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program AE Services contract with the Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering Support Center Huntsville (performance through November 2030). The vendor also holds a subordinate AE NEXT 2020 Pool 1 – Airfield Infrastructure vehicle for design-bid-build airfield and facility repairs. Recent task orders reflect a portfolio concentrated on facility repair, dormitory renovation, airfield infrastructure assessment, and military construction support. Representative work includes a $13.8 million delivery order from Pacific Air Forces (September 2024) for program management of planning, design, and construction at Misawa Air Base, Japan, extending through September 2028; an $8.25 million delivery order from Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (December 2025) for architectural and engineering design services supporting the F-16 beddown program at Tandil Air Base in Argentina; a $4.4 million delivery order from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (September 2022) for 100% design and construction documents for repair of Jones Hall at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi; and a $2.16 million order (May 2024) for design-build construction and surveillance at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Arkansas.

Customer concentration sits with Air Force infrastructure programs. The top five customer agencies account for 99% of combined potential value, led heavily by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Civil Engineer Center (20 awards, $4.03 billion combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency (1 award, $1.3 billion). The Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering Support Center Huntsville ranks third with 2 awards and $249 million. Air Force Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, and Pacific Air Forces round out the active customer set. The vendor serves 15 distinct federal customer agencies total, but Air Force facility and engineering programs account for the overwhelming majority of both award count and dollar exposure.

Activity has contracted sharply from 15 awards in 2022 (the vendor's peak year) to 3 awards in 2025, signaling either market saturation under the primary vehicles or shifting procurement patterns. Five awards (combined potential value $16.9 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor places 28 task orders under the primary AE NEXT vehicle and 14 task orders under the AFICA A-E 2013 Design & Construction Services vehicle; these two vehicles account for 99% of recent task-order activity.

Service Contract Inventory data captures only one reportable prime record ($2 million invoiced across 1.5 FTEs in FY2022), reflecting the vendor's alignment with design and project-management work rather than labor-intensive service delivery. The SCI snapshot is too narrow to support workforce or rate trajectory claims. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor across all recent awards (100% prime, 0% sub split) and does not engage named subcontractors systematically across the visible award footprint, though source materials reference occasional engagement with HUBZone and Women-Owned Small Business subs (Midland Surveying & Mapping JV, Somat Engineering Inc., Frank X. Spencer And Associates, Inc.) for specialized surveying and geotechnical support on individual projects. Baker-Stanley-Cardno JV does not appear in the federal award data as a subcontractor to other primes.

The joint venture's combined potential value across 55 prime awards stands at $5.66 billion, with only $109.1 million obligated to date (2% of potential), typical of indefinite-delivery vehicle positioning where ceilings far exceed near-term execution. Parent Michael Baker International, Inc., registered in SAM.gov since 2013, provides corporate stability and resource backing for the joint venture's Defense infrastructure franchise.