Fickett Structural Solutions Inc.

Fickett Structural Solutions Inc., a Wisconsin-based small business, provides quality assurance inspection services for hydraulic steel structures and waterway infrastructure to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation specializing in nondestructive testing, welding inspections, and fabrication quality control for locks, dams, miter gates, tainter valves, and roller gates across the Corps' national infrastructure portfolio.

Fickett competes predominantly as a set-aside prime, with 97% of its federal awards as prime contractor work. Of the 38 core Corps of Engineers awards in the source data, a substantial portion carry total small business set-aside designations on delivery orders, while newer awards increasingly trend toward full-and-open competition. The company's two primary indefinite-delivery contracts with the Corps—a $1.5 million five-year vehicle awarded September 2021 (ceiling extended through September 2026) and a $496,531.97 single-award IDIQ for Lock and Dam 5 construction awarded March 2024 (through February 2029)—anchor the prime footprint and generate the majority of task orders.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for 89% of recent awards (38 awards, $6.1 million combined potential value), with subordinate Engineering Districts Rock Island, St Paul, Philadelphia, and St Louis contributing an additional 28 awards worth $1.8 million. The $8.2 million total combined potential value across 74 awards reflects a narrow market focus. Eleven distinct agencies appear in the portfolio, but the Corps represents 97% of combined potential value.

Fickett places work against two mature IDIQs. The $1.5 million W912EK21D0017 vehicle (awarded September 2021, set aside for total small business) has generated 21 task orders worth $1.4 million, with individual delivery orders ranging from $5,481 to $363,866 across projects including LaGrange Lock and Dam ($363,866, July 2025), Brandon Road ($112,916, May 2024), Starved Rock ($31,693, February 2024), and Saylorville sluice gate fabrication ($103,524, February 2024). The newer $496,531.97 W912EK16D0002 vehicle (March 2024, single-award total small business) has drawn 16 task orders worth $935 thousand, including Option Year Two of Lock and Dam 5 Routine Gate Maintenance ($121,751, March 2026) and a $117,634 quality assurance delivery order (January 2025). A third vehicle, W912ES24D0007, has generated three task orders worth $313 thousand. Representative full-and-open work includes a $294,782 delivery order for quality assurance during fabrication of miter gates in Russellville, Alabama (June 2022 through May 2026) and a $184,789 purchase order for Black Rock Lock upper miter gate fabrication QA (August 2024, total small business set-aside).

Recent activity averaged 6 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with 2024 marking the peak at 10 awards. Only seven awards (combined potential value $621 thousand) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the overall portfolio. The source reflects award activity dating back to September 2008, indicating sustained engagement with the Corps over more than fifteen years.

Fickett subcontracts minimally. Two sub-awards appear in the source: a May 2025 testing-laboratory sub under Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. for Alaska National Park Service Denali area improvements and a September 2024 pump-station engineering sub under HDR Engineering Inc. The company's footprint remains prime-centric, with 97% prime and 3% sub composition.

Place of performance spans the nation's major waterways and lock-and-dam complexes, with work orders executed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, reflecting the geographic scope of the Corps' Inland Waterways infrastructure maintenance mission. Administrative oversight is based in Middleton, Wisconsin.

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