Ghd-Cowi Joint Venture

Ghd-Cowi Joint Venture, a strategic partnership between GHD and COWI North America, delivers waterfront architectural and engineering services to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor across full-and-open procurements, with no subcontract footprint and no small business set-aside participation.

The joint venture is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates as a for-profit partnership. Its federal capability set centers on naval and maritime infrastructure design, feasibility studies, engineering assessments, and design-bid-build package preparation across civil, structural, geotechnical, coastal, marine, and environmental disciplines. Representative work includes a $59.9 million delivery order from the Department of the Navy (May 2023) for architect-engineer services supporting construction projects in Palau and Yap; a $6.9 million floating dry dock mooring design contract for Naval Facilities Engineering Command (October 2022); a $4.44 million special operations forces combatant craft launch and recovery facility at Naval Base Coronado (September 2025); and a $1.48 million engineering assessment of Romeo Sierra Wharves in Guam (September 2025). Recent work also includes a $349,964.97 delivery order for SOF undersea operations project development at Naval Air Station North Island and Naval Base Coronado, completed in March 2026.

The joint venture holds a single-award $50 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of the Navy for waterfront architect-engineering services across Naval Facilities Engineering Command's Southwest area of responsibility (California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah), with potential for worldwide work. The contract was awarded February 18, 2025, carries a 2-year base and 3-year option, and features a $5,000 minimum guarantee with individual task order range from $5,000 to $5 million.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic: the Department of the Navy accounts for 100% of recent awards (59 of 65 awards totaling $286.2 million in combined potential value). Within that Navy concentration, Naval Facilities Engineering Command dominates by both count and dollars (30 awards, $157.3 million), followed by Navy Installations Command (15 awards, $7.9 million), with Naval Sea Systems Command and U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces rounding out the portfolio at $1.7 million and $1.6 million respectively. The top three parent vehicles all sit within Navy IDIQs: contract N6247319D2432 carries 29 task orders worth $85.9 million in combined potential value, N6247313D3004 carries 26 task orders worth $7.4 million, and N6247325D5216 carries 7 task orders worth $8.7 million.

Activity has remained modestly volatile over the past five years (2022: 4 awards, 2023: 6 awards, 2024: 3 awards, 2025: 7 awards, 2026: 1 award to date), with a total of 65 prime awards worth $288.6 million in combined potential value. Nine awards with a combined potential value of $78.3 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a recompete cliff. The joint venture competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside strategy across its entire footprint, and operates exclusively as a prime (zero subcontract work in the source data). Work is performed at multiple locations including San Diego, Guam, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Yap, and Australia, with place of performance typically San Diego.