Nine billion dollars of capacity, and $75,000 of it guaranteed. NAVFAC Northwest awarded a $9 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award construction contract to 15 builders on Sept. 30, the last day of the federal fiscal year, according to the Defense Department’s daily contract announcement. The command calls it the largest single procurement action in its history.
Each awardee gets a $5,000 minimum. Walsh Federal LLC of Chicago also picked up the first task order, $76.161 million in Navy military construction funds to build the P939 Launcher Equipment Processing Building at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Wash.
Who’s in the NAVFAC Northwest $9 billion pool
The roster leans heavily on national federal builders. Per the announcement, the pool is Alberici Constructors, Caddell Nova JV, CDM Constructors, Clark Orion JV, Contrack Watts, ECC Expeditionary Constructors, Garney Federal-Obayashi JV, Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Kiewit Infrastructure West Co., Korte Construction Co., RQ Construction, SLSCO Ltd., Tutor-Perini Corp., Walsh Federal and Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. The Navy received 21 proposals.
One housekeeping note: the announcement prints 16 contract numbers for 15 named firms, including one number with no awardee attached. That reads as a clerical slip, but anyone tracking the pool should confirm against SAM.gov before treating the list as final.
What the Navy plans to build under the MACC
The term runs up to 96 months through September 2034: a one-year base, two two-year options and a three-year option. NAVFAC Northwest says most of the work will land on installations in Washington state. Its list covers aviation hangars, classified facilities (SAPFs and SCIFs), industrial fabrication plants, high-voltage substations and electrical distribution, airfield pavement, road and bridge reconstruction, training ranges, waterfront production facilities, clinics and barracks.
Capt. Bob Stiles, the command’s commanding officer, called the award “a generational milestone” for its contracting staff and said it gives the region the tools to keep shore installations ready for the fleet.
It’s the second big vehicle out of the same office in a week. On Sept. 24, NAVFAC Northwest awarded a $1 billion small-business MACC for waterfront, airfield and industrial work in Washington, running through September 2028. And on Sept. 30 a Stantec-TranSystems JV in Denver took a separate $249 million architect-engineer IDIQ covering the same command’s ten-state area.
Why a $9 billion ceiling isn’t $9 billion of work
A MACC is a hunting license. The ceiling caps what the Navy can spend, the minimums are token, and every task order gets competed among the 15 holders. Walsh’s Bangor building is the only funded work in the announcement. The real test is how fast task orders follow, and that depends on annual military construction appropriations rather than the contract itself.
The demand underneath is real. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is one of the four public yards in the Navy’s shipyard optimization program, which GAO now sizes above $200 billion. The structure mirrors the $8 billion NAVFAC Washington contract Exchange covered in June, which split capital-region work among six builders.
The full award text is in the Sept. 30 contract announcement and NAVFAC Northwest’s release.
Fifteen firms now hold a seat. Over eight years, it’s the task-order count that will say how many of them got paid.