Merrick & Company

Merrick & Company, doing business as Merrick & Co, a self-certified HUBZone joint venture and employee-owned engineering and architecture firm headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, competes as a prime contractor delivering architect-engineer, facility design, construction management, and specialized technical services across defense, civilian, and space sectors with no set-aside requirement. The firm operates predominantly in full-and-open competition, with 99% of recent awards as prime contracts and 1% as subcontractor positions, competing across 109 distinct federal customer agencies on contracts valued at $5.37 billion in combined potential value.

Merrick & Company's capability portfolio centers on multidiscipline architect-engineer services: facility design, renovation, infrastructure assessment, construction phase engineering, and project management across military installations, research facilities, and federal infrastructure. Representative prime work includes a $37.5 million definitive contract with the Department of Agriculture (awarded September 2026) for BSL-3 operational readiness and BSL-4 stand-up at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas; a $35.8 million definitive contract (awarded August 2025) for accelerated project management and recommissioning at NBAF; a $29.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with the Department of Homeland Security (awarded January 2024) for scientific, technical, and engineering support to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center closure and support program; a $8.0 million delivery order (awarded June 2026) for VANCE Undergraduate Pilot Training design under the Air Force's Architect and Engineering MATOC for Texas; and a $6.58 million delivery order (awarded May 2024) with the Army Corps of Engineers for architect-engineer services designing a chapel for airmen at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The firm also holds work on smaller discrete facility projects—HVAC repairs, utility studies, building renovations, electrical system upgrades—across Air Force Space Command, the Air Force Academy, and Army installations.

Customer concentration reflects the firm's deep roots in military infrastructure and Army Corps of Engineers programs. The top five agencies account for 49% of award count: the Department of the Air Force (219 awards, $18.3 million potential value), the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (215 awards), the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service (181 awards), the Department of the Army (181 awards, $11 million potential value), and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth (109 awards, $426.4 million potential value). When ranked by potential value, the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth dominates, representing $426.4 million across 109 awards; the broader Army Corps of Engineers organization accounts for $251.2 million and $141.9 million respectively across its district offices, positioning Army programs as a critical revenue driver. The Department of the Air Force Academy carries $48.7 million across 61 awards, and the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service carries $47 million across 26 awards. The rankings show material divergence: count concentration splits across Air Force, Interior, and GSA, while dollar concentration clusters heavily in Army Corps of Engineers engineering and construction vehicles.

Merrick & Company holds multiple large indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its pipeline. The firm was awarded a $151 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, covering research, development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains through December 28, 2035. A $99 million indefinite delivery contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division (awarded January 30, 2025) provides architect-engineer services for the Tulsa District with ordering through January 30, 2030. The firm holds a $300 million multiple-award Southeast Regional Architect and Engineering IDIQ with NASA Kennedy Space Center (awarded January 7, 2022, expiring September 9, 2026), supporting design and engineering services at Kennedy, Johnson, Marshall, Stennis, Michoud, and Vandenberg. A $245 million multiple-award task order contract (MATOC) with the Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District (awarded September 20, 2023, expiring March 9, 2031) funds architect-engineer services for military programs across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. A $48 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Army Corps of Engineers (awarded April 28, 2023, expiring May 2, 2028) provides architect-engineer services under the AE Center of Standardization Program MATOC for the Fort Worth District. A $20 million multiple-award IDIQ with the U.S. Air Force Academy (awarded January 11, 2023, expiring January 10, 2028) funds architect-engineer services across Air Force Space Command and Global Strike Command facilities. A single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (awarded September 1, 2024, expiring August 31, 2029) carries a $6.96 million ceiling for project management and scientific and technical writing support. Delivery orders under these vehicles number in the hundreds, with the largest concentration under the Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth MATOC (55 task orders, $35.4 million) and the Air Force Academy contract (43 task orders, $9 million).

Activity has been cyclical: 26 awards in 2022, rising to 35 in 2023, remaining steady at 34 in 2024, declining to 27 in 2025, and 10 through September 2026 year-to-date. Twenty awards with combined potential value of $101 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure concentrated in Army Corps and Air Force Academy programs. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above $150,000 totaled $56.3 million across fiscal 2022–2025, with FY2024 peak at $26.2 million across 81.5 FTEs, declining to $12.9 million across 26.8 FTEs in FY2025. Derived government-paid hourly rates span from nominal entry-level at the 10th percentile through a median of $192.30/hr to senior technical labor at $464.79/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 2% of total contractor hours on average, with only 3 named subcontractors reported, indicating Merrick & Company builds and staffs its own delivery teams rather than leaning on subcontractor-heavy execution models. The vendor has appeared as a named subcontractor on four SCI records, primarily performing engineering and design services under primes including Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC (for Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant management and operating work), D7 LLC (for FBI Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center design-build, backup generator circuit design, and security site improvements), Applied Research Associates Inc. (penetrating weapons evaluation tests and analysis support), and HDR Environmental Operations and Construction Inc. (real property management and environmental planning support).

Merrick & Company corporate structure includes named subsidiaries Merrick-Mott Macdonald Joint Venture, LLP and Merrick-Imeg Joint Venture, LLP, which may reference teaming relationships or joint venture partnerships with Mott MacDonald and IMEG, respectively, though the source does not characterize these explicitly. The parent company designation and subsidiary names reflect capability framing around architecture, engineering, and infrastructure specialization rather than distinct operating divisions in the award data. Category concentration remains sharply focused on architecture and engineering: 498 awards carry Engineering Services NAICS, 315 carry Architectural Services, with 46 awards in Remediation Services and 35 in Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services. The dominant PSC coding is Architect And Engineering—General (Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing) at 833 awards, with 194 in Architect And Engineering—General (Other) and smaller pockets in Support—Professional (Other) and Support—Professional (Engineering/Technical), reinforcing the firm's identity as a generalist architecture and engineering prime contractor without significant diversification into supply, product delivery, or services outside facility design and infrastructure.

Merrick & Company is a multi-disciplined engineering, architect, design-build firm. We also provide GIS mapping and applications, equipment design and construction management.