Army Corps Updates East Coast BRAC Projects The Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District anticipates making more than $10 billion in construction awards for Base Realignment and Closing projects. Jack Beecher, Director of Small Business Programs for the district, described the status of the Corps’ BRAC projects at Set-Aside Alert’s Executive Breakfast on Oct. 6. Beecher expects $1.6 billion will be awarded to small businesses, $710 million to HUBZone companies, $592 million to SDB and 8(a) companies, and $300 million to Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned firms. For the BRAC efforts, three A/E contracts of $3 million to $9 million are designated for small businesses and 61 IDIQ construction contracts, valued at $20 million to $50 million each, are designated small business, 8(a), and HUBZone or SDV set-asides. Winners so far include Robra Construction, Leebcor, Ironbridge, Veterans Construction, Trillacorpe, Arriba, Lindburg Associates, Rocky Hill Contracting, Bay Electric, Homeland Security Construction, AMC and Ortega Group. In addition to military BRAC projects in the North Atlantic region, Beecher’s office has recently been assigned to handle a variety of army base dining-hall contracts, as well as three key Veterans Administration projects in Virginia. The VA projects are designated 100% SDV set-asides, valued at around $60 million. The 14 dining-hall contracts are divided between five-year term IDIQs and small direct contracts. The 80 prime contracts total $2.4 billion, to be awarded over five years from FY2007-2011. Another $3.5 billion in subcontracts should flow to small businesses from the major primes handling the largest projects. Prime winners so far include Clark/Balfour Beatty, Turner/Gilbane, Tompkins/Turner, Hensel Phelps and Purcell Construction. Each of these primes has small business goals to reach. For more information, including contacts at the prime contractors, go to www.nao.usace.army.mil/.