Barge Emersion Joint Venture

Barge Emersion Joint Venture, a Nashville-based for-profit partnership, provides architect-engineer services for Department of Defense and Army Corps of Engineers facility design, renovation, and construction-phase support, operating exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) on full-and-open federal contracts with no small-business set-aside strategy. The joint venture holds two large indefinite delivery contracts and operates across multiple regional USACE districts and Air Force installations nationwide.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to USACE Louisville District, which anchors the portfolio. USACE Louisville accounts for 28 awards valued at $444.4 million in combined potential value (83% of total potential value across all awards), followed by Air Force Materiel Command with 29 awards worth $45.1 million. USACE Savannah District, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region round out the top five, collectively representing 95% of awards. The rankings diverge significantly on volume versus dollars: Air Force Materiel Command places the most task orders (29) but generates far less value than USACE Louisville's 28 awards, reflecting the difference between small facility-maintenance orders and large design-phase contracts.

Barge Emersion holds a $240 million ceiling multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with USACE Louisville for Army Reserve facility design (awarded January 1, 2026, running through December 31, 2030) and a $150 million multiple-award IDIQ with USACE Louisville for design services to the Army, Air Force, and civil works projects within Louisville District boundaries (awarded November 20, 2023, through November 19, 2028). The vendor also holds a $4.9 million single-award IDC with Air Force Materiel Command for multidiscipline architect-engineer services at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (awarded September 14, 2023, through September 13, 2028). Recent large delivery orders include a $6.06 million firm fixed-price order for the DTA Child Development Center in Warren, Michigan (May 2025), a $6.15 million order for Building 83 repair at Fort Moore, Georgia (May 2024), a $4.43 million order for primary electric service redesign at an Army facility in Peoria, Illinois (April 2024), and a $3.40 million order for architecture and engineering services at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (September 2024). The top five parent vehicles include IDC FA860115D0007 with 39 task orders worth $11 million and IDC W912HN21D2002 with eight task orders worth $20.5 million.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—three awards in 2022, nine in 2023, eight in 2024, and eight in 2025—though nine awards valued at $27 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and present recompete exposure. Barge Emersion's subcontractor relationships are extensive and recurrent across its prime work. Named regular subs include Advanced Engineering Consultants PLLC (small disadvantaged, Asian-Pacific American owned) for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and registered communications distribution design services; Crawford Consulting Services, Inc. (women-owned small business) for cost estimating, value engineering, and construction management support; Firelogix Engineering LTD. (self-certified small disadvantaged) for fire protection and life safety engineering; 3 Territory Solutions, LLC (self-certified small disadvantaged) for cybersecurity services; Terracon Consultants, Inc. for geotechnical and hazardous materials testing; and Cromwell Architects Engineers, Inc. for condition assessment and survey work. The vendor's capability framing centers on comprehensive architect-engineer design, facility renovation and repair, construction-phase support, quality assurance reviews, and value engineering for military infrastructure projects, with work distributed across Army Reserve facilities, Air Force research and development installations, and civil works initiatives primarily in the southeastern United States and nationwide where USACE holds jurisdiction.