The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington (NAVFAC Washington) awarded two parallel, competing $249,000,000 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts on June 18, 2026, for architectural-engineering services across its national capital region portfolio. Jacobs Government Services Co. (Arlington, Virginia) received contract N40080-26-D-1501, and Wiley|Wilson, Burns, & McDonnell JV (Alexandria, Virginia) received contract N40080-26-D-1502. Both contracts run through June 2031 and together create $498 million in available design capacity for Navy and Marine Corps facilities in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. Ten offers were submitted via SAM.gov in the competitive procurement.
Background
NAVFAC Washington oversees design, construction management, and facilities support for Navy and Marine Corps installations clustered in the national capital region. Its portfolio spans naval air facilities, shipyard support infrastructure, joint-use installations, and administrative campuses across three jurisdictions: Virginia accounts for approximately 40 percent of the work share, Maryland for 40 percent, and Washington, D.C. for the remaining 20 percent. The contracting activity is located at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. The command manages a continuous pipeline of renovation, new construction, and sustainment projects that require licensed engineering and architecture support from contracted firms.
Architectural-engineering IDIQ contracts of this type — sometimes called A-E IDIQs or task-order contracts — are the standard vehicle NAVFAC uses to procure design services at scale. Rather than competitively awarding each individual design project, the command pre-qualifies a small pool of firms for a defined ordering period and then issues task orders against those established contracts. Firms compete at the task-order level based on technical approach, key personnel, and sometimes price, depending on the task order structure.
The dual-award structure is a deliberate acquisition strategy. By awarding to two firms rather than one, NAVFAC Washington preserves competitive tension throughout the ordering period. Every task order above the simplified acquisition threshold can be competed between Jacobs and the Wiley|Wilson JV, preventing the de facto monopoly that a single-award IDIQ would create. This structure also provides program continuity: if one firm encounters capacity constraints, key personnel turnover, or performance problems, the government retains a fully onboarded alternate that already holds a current contract, clearances, and site familiarity. Ten firms competed for these two slots, meaning eight technically qualified offerors were left without vehicles — a reminder of how consequential the initial award decision is for firms seeking access to NAVFAC Washington work over the next five years.
Key Details
Both contracts share identical terms. The maximum ceiling per contract is $249,000,000, covering a base period plus one option period with an ordering period end date of June 2031. At award, only $5,000 was obligated per contract — the minimum guarantee NAVFAC uses to establish contract validity. All substantive funding flows through individual task orders as projects are defined, scoped, and competed. The contracts are classified as firm-fixed-price, meaning all design labor, overhead, and profit must be baked into task-order proposals rather than tracked through cost-type billing.
Jacobs Government Services Co. is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and holds contract N40080-26-D-1501. The Wiley|Wilson, Burns, & McDonnell JV pairs two distinct firms into a single contracting entity based in Alexandria, Virginia, holding contract N40080-26-D-1502. Joint ventures of this type pool complementary geographic presence, technical disciplines, and contract capacity limits — allowing firms to compete for larger single vehicles as a combined entity.
The geographic distribution written into both contracts — 40 percent Virginia, 40 percent Maryland, 20 percent D.C. — reflects the actual distribution of NAVFAC Washington’s installation footprint across the three-jurisdiction national capital region.
What It Means for Contractors
- The ordering window opens immediately. Both contracts are active as of June 18, 2026, with a five-year ordering period through June 2031. NAVFAC Washington is expected to begin issuing task orders shortly; firms that lost in the initial competition should monitor SAM.gov for any future recompetes or supplemental vehicle opportunities if ceilings are exhausted early.
- Only Jacobs and the Wiley|Wilson/B&McD JV can receive task orders. No other firm — regardless of qualifications — can be awarded work under these vehicles. Subconsulting or teaming arrangements with one of the two primes is the only pathway for other A-E firms to participate in NAVFAC Washington design work during this ordering period.
- Ten-firm competition signals strong market interest. A pool of ten qualified offerors for two IDIQ slots is a competitive field by NAVFAC A-E standards. This level of interest reflects the size of the ceiling, the prestige of the national capital region portfolio, and the multi-year pipeline stability that NAVFAC IDIQs historically provide. Firms planning future NAVFAC bids should track this vehicle’s task-order awards to understand NAVFAC Washington’s scope preferences and key-personnel expectations ahead of the next recompete.
- Dual-award task-order competition requires sustained proposal investment. Unlike a single-award IDIQ where the prime simply negotiates task orders, dual-award vehicles require each holder to submit a competitive proposal for every significant task order. Jacobs and the JV should budget ongoing business development and proposal resources for the full five-year ordering period — not just the initial ramp.
- Small business opportunities are indirect. These are full-and-open competition contracts with no set-aside designation. However, federal A-E contracts of this scale typically include small business subcontracting plans as a contract requirement. Small and disadvantaged A-E firms should engage Jacobs and the JV team early to position for subcontracting roles across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and environmental disciplines. Firms that have not previously worked with either prime in the national capital region should submit capability statements early in the ordering period, when primes are still building their local subcontracting rosters rather than drawing on established relationships.
- A-E registration and licensing requirements apply at the task-order level. NAVFAC task orders under both contracts will specify the professional licensing required for each project jurisdiction — Virginia, Maryland, or D.C. A-E subcontractors holding licenses in only one of the three jurisdictions are limited in their eligibility to participate on cross-jurisdictional task orders. Maintaining active registration across all three jurisdictions is a baseline requirement for firms seeking to participate broadly across the NAVFAC Washington portfolio.
