Black & Veatch - Zapata JV

Black & Veatch - Zapata JV, a joint venture operating as a child entity of Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp., provides multidiscipline architect-engineer services to the Department of the Army as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurements, with 100% of recent awards directed to Army ammunition program modernization and facility design work.

The joint venture holds a $240 million multiple-award IDIQ contract issued by the Program Executive Office Ammunition on August 13, 2025, for multidisciplinary architect-engineer services supporting the Norfolk District Army Ammunition Program across multiple Department of Defense installations. Work performed under this vehicle includes facility design, planning, and engineering services for ammunition production and storage operations at ammunition program installations nationwide. Black & Veatch - Zapata JV has issued three delivery orders against this IDIQ: a $1.56 million firm fixed-price order awarded December 12, 2025, with completion through June 25, 2029; an $817,970.62 order awarded March 31, 2026, due September 22, 2027; and a $5,000 minimum guarantee order awarded August 13, 2025, extending through August 12, 2030. Place of performance for the majority of work is Shawnee Mission, Kansas, with one order performed in Norfolk, Virginia. The parent IDIQ solicitation posted February 9, 2022, with a due date of May 16, 2022, indicating an extended procurement timeline to the August 2025 award.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Program Executive Office Ammunition accounts for $240 million of the combined $242.4 million potential value across all four recent awards, while the Norfolk District Corps of Engineers Engineering accounts for three smaller delivery orders totaling $2.4 million in combined potential value. The joint venture has obligated $1.7 million (1% of combined potential value) to date. One delivery order ($818 thousand in potential value) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and faces recompete exposure. Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp., which operates through its Federal Services Division and does business as Black & Veatch Architects LLC, carries the prime contractor position and corporate continuity; Zapata's specific role within the joint venture is not detailed in the source material.