Gushiken-Pae JV

Gushiken-Pae JV, a Japan-based for-profit joint venture registered since October 2016, provides architect-engineer services—geotechnical and topographic surveys, seismic and structural analyses, facilities design, and repair planning—to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps at military installations throughout Japan as a prime contractor on a single-award IDIQ vehicle. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designations across its entire $104.8 million combined-potential-value footprint of 71 awards.

Gushiken-Pae JV operates under a $40 million single-award IDIQ contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded July 11, 2023, running through July 2031 with a three-year option extending to July 2034. This parent vehicle anchors the vendor's entire federal business: 48 task orders valued at $18.5 million have been issued under the older N4008418D0062 IDIQ, and 21 task orders valued at $16.3 million under the current N4008423D0065 IDIQ. Task orders under these vehicles range from $82,000 to $4.87 million and support projects at Okinawa-based installations including Camp Foster, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Camp Hansen, Camp Schwab, and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, as well as Navy bases at Sasebo, Atsugi, and Misawa. Recent delivery orders include a $4.87 million repair and replacement of runways and taxiways at MCAS Futenma (September 2024, completion July 2027), a $1.73 million architect-engineer services order for Atsugi Recreation Mall utilities and water design (May 2024, completion July 2026), a $1.11 million Design-Bid-Build package preparation for Bachelor Enlisted Quarters Building 3153 (September 2024, completion October 2025), a $934,623 design and planning package for seismic and interior repair of Building F69 (September 2024, completion July 2025), and a $388,745 geotechnical, topographic, structural, and utility survey for a swimming pool at Camp Foster (January 2026, completion June 2026).

Customer concentration sits exclusively within Department of Defense installations in Japan. Naval Facilities Engineering Command leads by potential value ($78.4 million across 17 awards) while the Marine Corps dominates by award count (34 awards, $17.5 million combined potential value). Navy Installations Command accounts for 16 awards valued at $8.3 million. These three customers represent 97% of the vendor's recent awards. The split signals that NAVFAC issues fewer, higher-dollar IDIQ and task orders while the Marine Corps places many smaller task orders under the same vehicles—a concentration pattern that exposes the vendor to recompete risk when the current $40 million IDIQ approaches expiration in 2031, though five awards ($7.5 million combined potential value) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

Gushiken-Pae JV holds no subcontract relationships in the source data; all 71 awards show the vendor as a 100% prime contractor with no identified subs. Capability work spans geotechnical surveys, structural and seismic analyses, hazardous-materials reporting, telecommunications design, building assessments, facility repairs, and architect-engineer planning and design packages for troop housing, recreational facilities, and airfield infrastructure. The vendor's NAICS concentration is entirely Engineering Services, with the top five PSC categories reflecting architect-engineer services across structural engineering, troop housing facilities, other administrative facilities, and landscaping and interior design. All work is performed in Japan with firm fixed-price pricing and no set-asides.

Activity has been uneven: 7 awards in 2022, declining to 5 in 2023, rising to 11 in 2024, then dropping to 4 in 2025 and 2 in early 2026. This volatility reflects the task-order nature of the underlying IDIQ vehicle and the Marine Corps' and Navy's facilities priorities rather than sustained organic growth. The vendor's geographic moat—local presence and expertise supporting U.S. military installations in the Pacific—and single-customer-ecosystem dependency (all work flows from Navy and Marine Corps facilities engineering) position Gushiken-Pae JV as a specialized regional contractor with limited addressable market beyond its current IDIQ vehicle.