Pasadena-based engineering and infrastructure company Tetra Tech Inc. has announced several contracts in recent weeks totaling well over $260 million.
The largest of these contracts was from the U.S. Navy for up to $240 million more than eight years. Tetra Tech is part of a joint venture of a trio of companies that won the contact. The other two companies are Edmonton, Canada-based Stantec Inc. and Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure Inc.
Under the contract with the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest division, engineers and consultants with the joint venture companies will design environmental remediation strategies for naval and Marine Corps facilities in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and other installations throughout the Pacific region.
Work could include site inspections and assessments to identify potential environmental and health impacts, remedial investigations, feasibility studies and design of remediation programs.
Because some of the work will be performed on an on-call basis, exactly how much of the $240 million will be spent and how that money will be divided among the three firms has yet to be determined.
This contract was initially announced in September by Stantec and highlighted by Tetra Tech in its most recent earnings press release.
One of 13 firms
Earlier this month, Tetra Tech announced an even bigger contract worth up to $249 million with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers division in Mobile, Alabama, for similar work. This contract is to provide architectural and engineering services to support the environmental assessment, water management, and project design at Department of Defense facilities around the world.
However, there’s one big catch: Tetra Tech is one of 13 firms or joint venture teams that the Corps chose for a standing roster of contractors on this five-year contract. As projects come up, they will be put up for bid amongst these 13 firms and joint ventures. Under this format, there’s no way of telling how much work any of these firms or the joint ventures will receive.
One team or company could end up with a quarter of all the work, while another might end up with less than 5% of the work.
Nonetheless, Tetra Tech Chief Executive Dan Batrack welcomed the initial contract win.
“We look forward to continuing to use our Leading with Science approach to design innovative solutions for U.S. Department of Defense installations and other critical facilities worldwide,” he said.
U.K. contract
Tetra Tech’s other contract win was in the United Kingdom. And unlike the other two, all of this award is going to the company and its subcontractors.
On Oct. 30, Tetra Tech announced that Portsmouth Water of Portsmouth on the southern coast of England had awarded the company a water engineering design contract worth just over $22 million.
Under this contract, Tetra Tech’s water engineers will design solutions to improve critical infrastructure including reservoirs, pipes, and treatment plants that serve more than 700,000 people.
