Prairie-Hanson 8A JV

Prairie-Hanson 8A JV, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business joint venture headquartered in Columbia, Illinois, delivers architectural and engineering services to federal agencies as a prime contractor under set-asides and full-and-open competition, with a concentration in civil works, coastal protection, and infrastructure restoration projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior.

Prairie-Hanson 8A JV is a child entity of Prairie Engineers, P.C., a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a Subchapter S corporation. The joint venture itself carries multiple SBA certifications: self-certified small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, economically disadvantaged women-owned small business, and DOT-certified DBE status. The vendor competes across both set-aside and full-and-open vehicles, though recent awards show a split between Total Small Business set-asides on larger IDVs and full-and-open task orders against those vehicles. Work is performed primarily from the Columbia, Illinois headquarters or at project sites nationwide, with place of performance spanning the Great Lakes, Ohio River, and upper Mississippi River regions plus scattered coastal and interior projects.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on architectural and engineering design, flood evaluation and quantification modeling, structural assessment, breakwater and coastal protection repair, floodproofing design, environmental restoration analysis, and construction support services. Representative delivery orders include a $902,483.51 firm fixed-price task order from the Army Corps of Engineers for Algoma Harbor breakwater repair A/E services (completed June 2023), an $846,237.50 order for Missouri River navigation obstruction removal design (completed November 2024), a $727,046.81 order for Michigan City Harbor Pier and Breakwater infrastructure (completed July 2023), a $626,272.80 order for Fox River abutment repairs in De Pere, Wisconsin (completed September 2024), and a $256,921 order from the National Park Service under the Department of Interior MATOC for Lowney Creek System Restoration Alternatives Analysis at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan (completed October 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily dominated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which accounts for 19 awards and $10.3 million in combined potential value. However, potential-value ranking diverges significantly from award count: the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters anchors $50 million (the single Department of Interior MATOC vehicle) and the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard holds $20 million (a single regional A/E services IDC for Horizontal Region 2 covering fifteen southeastern states). Together, these three customers account for 100% of the combined potential value of $117.4 million. The Department of the Interior National Park Service, National Park Service Midwest Region, and National Park Service National Office round out the active customer set with lower-value delivery orders.

Prairie-Hanson 8A JV holds three primary indefinite delivery vehicles: a $50 million multiple-award MATOC with the Department of Interior for architectural and engineering services supporting the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Forest Service (active through September 2027, with three task orders executed to date); a $20 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with the Air National Guard for non-personal architectural and engineering services in Horizontal Region 2 (awarded August 2024, 5-year period, with a $2,500 minimum guarantee); and a $5 million single-award contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for on-demand A/E services supporting civil works programs (awarded September 2021, active through September 2026, NAICS 541330). Against the USACE vehicle, the vendor has issued 14 task orders valued at $4.1 million combined; against a second USACE IDV (W912DQ19D1015), five task orders total $1.9 million.

Activity has declined modestly year over year, from seven awards in 2022 to one award in 2026 year-to-date (snapshot as of April 2026), though this reflects the award-heavy front-loaded nature of large IDV vehicles rather than lost capacity. Five awards totaling $471 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure on lower-value delivery orders. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor across its 28 federal awards; no subcontract footprint appears in the source data. PSC concentration is heavily weighted toward Architect and Engineering–General (21 awards), with five awards in Architect and Engineering–Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing, one in Inspection (Non-Construction), and one in Support–Professional Engineering/Technical. All 28 awards fall under Engineering Services NAICS coding.