Nicklaus Amec JV

Nicklaus Amec JV, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business joint venture between Nicklaus Engineering, Inc. and Amec Foster Wheeler, delivers environmental engineering and compliance services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under a single large IDIQ vehicle, with all work concentrated on Navy and Marine Corps stormwater, wastewater, drinking water, and environmental site remediation programs at installations primarily in California and western states.

The joint venture's footprint is entirely concentrated within naval facilities operations. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command dominates both volume and dollars, anchoring 31 awards valued at $119.3 million out of the combined $130.4 million potential-value portfolio. The Marine Corps places 17 awards worth $4.8 million, and the Navy Installations Command (a distinct customer from NAVFAC) holds 8 awards valued at $5.9 million. These three customers account for 100% of reported awards. All work is issued as firm fixed-price delivery orders under the single parent vehicle, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Indefinite Delivery Contract N6247321D1816 — a $100 million, five-year IDIQ established September 2021, carrying 57 task orders totaling $30.4 million in combined potential value. The contract vehicle runs through September 2026, with eighteen task orders (combined potential value $12.6 million) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete risk.

Nicklaus Amec JV's capability portfolio centers on Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act compliance. Recent representative awards include a $1.99 million delivery order from NAVFAC for stormwater and water quality pollution prevention management at Naval Base San Diego, Naval Base Point Loma, and Naval Base Coronado (ultimate completion December 2026, with twelve-month no-cost extension already executed); a $949 thousand remedial investigation task for PFAS contamination at the former Long Beach Naval Complex, San Pedro, California (completion August 2028); and a $1.06 million stormwater monitoring and reporting order for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (completion January 2027). Work also includes potable water compliance reporting, lead and copper sampling under drinking water rule revisions, groundwater monitoring, SPCC and underground storage tank management plan development, wastewater treatment plant operations, and environmental site assessments under CERCLA at active military installations.

Activity has grown year over year — from eleven awards in 2022 to seventeen in 2024 — though 2025 and early 2026 show thirteen and one award respectively, reflecting the compressed timeline remaining under the parent IDIQ's September 2026 expiration. The vendor competes full-and-open without set-aside designations, though the parent company, Nicklaus Engineering, Inc., carries SBA Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) certifications that make the joint venture eligible for women-owned set-asides if pursued. NAICS coding is concentrated in Engineering Services (58 awards), with PSC primary assignments as Architect and Engineering — General: Other (56 awards). The combined dollars obligated to date total $29.4 million, representing 23% of the $130.4 million combined potential-value ceiling, indicating a portfolio weighted toward awarded but not yet fully invoiced task orders. The $100 million IDIQ structure and single-vehicle concentration create substantial recompete-cliff exposure at the September 2026 parent contract expiration; the vendor's federal footprint depends entirely on successful IDIQ recompete or award of new Navy/Marine Corps environmental engineering vehicles.