Southwest Water Design, L.L.C.

Southwest Water Design, L.L.C., doing business as Southwest Water Design LLC, is a small business engineering and surveying firm based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that provides hydrographic data collection, water resource modeling, and civil works design services to federal water management agencies as a prime contractor exclusively — all 60 recent awards are prime deliveries with no subcontract footprint. The company competes full-and-open with no set-aside posture on the majority of its federal work, though two task orders carry Total Small Business designations and one recent $24 million multiple-award IDIQ from the Bureau of Reclamation was set-aside for small business.

Southwest Water Design's capability portfolio centers on bathymetric and topographic field data collection, hydrographic surveying, water operations modeling and technical coordination, and water control manual updates. Representative work includes a $150.3 thousand delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers (Task Order W912PP25F0020, awarded August 2025) for Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model (URGWOM) planning updates and technical data support through September 2026; a $180 thousand Bureau of Reclamation hydrographic data collection task order for the Middle Rio Grande from Otowi Bridge to Velarde (awarded February 2025, completing December 2025); and an $84.9 thousand Corps delivery order (Task Order W912PP24F0001, awarded October 2023) for Conchas Water Control Manual updates. The firm's recent award activity shows one delivery order in 2026, three in 2025, one in 2024, and five in 2023, indicating a moderated pace after earlier higher volumes.

Customer concentration is extreme and geographically focused. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation accounts for 26 awards and $53.7 million combined potential value (53% of all awards and dollars). The Army Corps of Engineers splits across two organizational reporting lines: the Engineering District Albuquerque holds 24 awards with $7.2 million potential value, while the broader Department of the Army Corps of Engineers line shows 10 awards with $40.6 million potential value. Together, the Corps represents 34 awards and $47.8 million (47% of dollars), giving the two agencies 100% of the vendor's recent federal footprint. Southwest Water Design operates from two primary parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (W912PP09D0010) held with the Corps carrying 23 task orders and $1.2 million combined potential value, and the Bureau of Reclamation's Hydrographic Data Collection IDIQ with 23 task orders and $4.2 million combined potential value. A third Corps vehicle (W912PP20D0003, an Architect-Engineer IDIQ) carries 9 task orders and $600 thousand. The source indicates Southwest Water Design also holds a $40 million Architect-Engineer IDIQ with the Corps awarded in August 2020, though the source does not list it explicitly in the top parent vehicles. The newly awarded $24 million multiple-award IDIQ from the Bureau of Reclamation for Upper Colorado Basin Region hydrographic data collection (January 2026, running through January 2031) represents the firm's largest single contract ceiling in the recent record.

Activity has compressed materially in recent years — from five awards in 2023 to one in 2024 and three in 2025 — suggesting either a shift in federal water management procurement patterns or a narrowing of the vendor's active pursuit. Recompete exposure is minimal: only two awards complete within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $325 thousand. The vendor's work is concentrated within the Rio Grande Basin and surrounding Colorado River operations in the southwestern United States, with all performance-of-work locations in New Mexico and southern Colorado. NAICS classification clusters on Engineering Services (47 awards) and Surveying and Mapping Services (13 awards), with primary PSCs in Architect and Engineering categories and Land Surveys.

We are a small business joint venture in Albuquerque, NM. We are efficient at Civil Engineering, hydrology, hydraulics, floodplain analyses, hydrographic data collection and structural engineering