Utility Works A Joint Venture

Utility Works A Joint Venture, a Virginia Beach-based joint venture subsidiary of CDM Federal Programs Corporation (CDM Smith), delivers utility infrastructure assessment, engineering, and architectural services to the Department of Defense on a prime-contractor basis, competing exclusively under full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor footprint across 36 federal awards worth $242.5 million in combined potential value, with $89 million obligated to date.

The vendor's customer concentration is highly specialized and monolithic: Naval Facilities Engineering Command accounts for 32 of 36 awards and $238.3 million of the $242.5 million combined potential value—98.3% of the entire portfolio. The remaining four awards split among the Marine Corps ($2.5 million across 2 awards), Navy Installations Command ($1.1 million), and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center ($641 thousand). This concentration reflects Utility Works' embedded position on NAVFAC's flagship $135 million single-award IDIQ for multi-discipline architect-engineering services supporting utility asset management systems at Department of Defense facilities worldwide, awarded February 10, 2021. Utility Works places 35 task orders under this parent vehicle, generating $107.5 million in combined potential value.

Utility Works' capability footprint is narrowly defined within electrical, water, wastewater, and utility control system assessment, master planning, and optimization work. Representative recent delivery orders include a $13.8 million electrical utility master plan study at Marine Corps Base Quantico (awarded September 2025, completion September 2027); a $9.3 million electrical utility study assessment modification covering four Marine Corps installations—Hawaii, Parris Island, 29 Palms, and Bridgeport (awarded September 2023, completion March 2027); a $27.8 million delivery order under the Utility Infrastructure and Condition Assessment Program (UICAP) Phase I (awarded August 2022, extended through November 2026); a $3 million Western New York utilities master plan (awarded September 2023, completion March 2026); and three concurrent NSA Bethesda facility studies totaling $4.4 million for steam utility plant evaluation, water and sanitary sewer master planning, and chilled water system optimization (all awarded September 2025, completion October 2026). Work scope spans field verification, condition assessment, hydraulic modeling, mapping, inspections, testing, SCADA analysis, and system optimization across Navy and Marine Corps installations globally.

The vendor regularly engages small disadvantaged business subcontractors to deliver surveying, GPS mapping, cost estimation, and specialized testing services. Named recurring subs include Martinez Couch & Associates L.L.C. (surveying and geophysical work), TCT Cost Consultants LLC (cost estimating), ABM Electrical Power Solutions LLC (electrical field inspection and testing), Peer Consultants P.C. (hazardous materials assessment), Craig A. Smith & Associates LLC (surveying), Pure Technologies U.S. Inc. (field investigation), and New Spring Engineering LLC (consulting). These partnerships are embedded across the NAVFAC IDIQ delivery order stream and reflect the vendor's standard practice of subcontracting specialized technical services while maintaining prime responsibility.

Activity trajectory shows volatility. Awards per year: 2022 carried 9 awards, 2023 dropped to 3, 2024 rebounded to 8, 2025 held at 7, and 2026 through March shows only 2 awards. Eleven awards worth $58.8 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating significant recompete exposure concentrated within the parent NAVFAC IDIQ. The February 10, 2021 award date on the $135 million parent IDIQ suggests a recompete window opening in early 2026 if standard five-year IDIQ terms apply, though source language indicates extensions already in place on several task orders extending to 2027. Utility Works operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of CDM Smith, a national environmental and engineering services firm, which may provide parent-company capacity and teaming opportunities on larger federal infrastructure programs outside the current Navy-focused footprint.