Sol - Merrick Joint Venture LLC

Sol - Merrick Joint Venture LLC is a minority-owned, HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business joint venture based in Jackson, Mississippi, specializing in architect-engineer services for federal military construction and infrastructure projects as a prime contractor under multiple-award IDIQs and delivery orders. The joint venture operates under a child structure reporting to parent vendor Sol Engineering Services, LLC, and competes predominantly in full-and-open and total-small-business set-aside pools across Air Force and Army Corps of Engineers platforms.

Sol - Merrick's capability portfolio centers on Title I and Title II architect-engineer design services, master planning, investigative design for environmental and infrastructure compliance, quality assurance inspection, and construction support. Recent representative work includes a $1.02 million Total Small Business delivery order with Air Education and Training Command at Goodfellow Air Force Base for corrosion control treatment facility design addressing lead and water-quality exceedances; a $139,992 delivery order with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District for laboratory testing and subsurface exploration supporting the Yazoo Backwater Pump Station flood-risk-management project; and a $294,599 delivery order with Pacific Air Forces for master planning at Eielson Air Force Base's core district.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Air Force and Army Corps of Engineers. The Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Civil Engineer Center anchors 97% of the combined potential value (roughly $2 billion) through Sol - Merrick's seat on the AE NEXT POOL 3 contract, a $2 billion multiple-award IDIQ running through August 2031 that supports Title I and Title II architect-engineer services across Air Force, Army, Navy, and other installations. The Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg and Memphis Districts represent the second-largest customer by dollar value (roughly $49.1 million) through an Indefinite Delivery Contract valued up to $49 million through June 2030 for miscellaneous architect-engineer design services within the Mississippi Valley Division. These two vehicles account for all named parent-vehicle activity. Seven task orders have been placed against AE NEXT POOL 3 (combined potential value $2.6 million); two task orders under the USACE Vicksburg contract (combined potential value $141 thousand) and two under a separate USACE Engineering District contract (combined potential value $877 thousand).

Activity has remained modest and episodic—two to four awards per year with a 2024 trough—and three awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) face completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure. The vendor holds no subcontract work in the source data, maintaining a 100% prime-award footprint. Sol - Merrick's award history reflects consistent positioning on two high-ceiling platforms (AE NEXT and the USACE Mississippi Valley Division IDC) but limited task-order velocity; the bulk of potential value sits in platform ceilings rather than obligated work, with only $3.6 million obligated against a $2.07 billion combined potential value across all fourteen awards.

SOL Engineering and Merrick & Company have combined resources through the SBA Mentor Protege Program to provide our clients with a powerful Federally Certified HUB Zone small business with the capability, capacity and strong past performance of a market leading large business AE Firm. Additionally, our JV brings together two Award winning multi-discipline firms with a strong nationwide presence supporting Federal, State, and Local Governments along with various commercial clients.