1. Portland District – Future Workload
Lance A. Helwig, P.E.
Chief, Engineering and Construction Division
Portland, OR
9 September 2016

2. Budget process guidelines/constraints
3-yr budget cycle: “executing, planning, developing”
FY16 Budget: executing…….
FY17 Budget: released in February; we don’t have signed budget; heading to Continuing Resolution; election year unknowns
FY18 Budget: still being developed; can’t release info
Ban on earmarks continues
Work Plan process: Congress has provided programmatic funding (funding pots) and guidance on how to prioritize.
Portland District has fared well in past Work Plans

3. Portland District overview
Mission: The dedicated people of the Portland District provide vital public engineering services to the Pacific Northwest and the Nation during peace and war to strengthen our security, promote a strong economy, and enhance environmental sustainability. (NWP has ~15% of USACE assets)
Civil Works district
~1300 civilian employees
8 military officers
FY15 Budget
Total
~$360M
BPA funding
~$104M
Payroll
~$73M
2 governors
4 U.S. Senators
7 U.S. Representatives
15 Tribal Nations
Navigation
10 million tons of products transit our dams annually, from the ports of Lewiston/Clarkston to Portland and back.
Hydropower
The Corps is the nation’s largest hydropower producer (can power 10 million homes). NWP produces 20 percent of power consumed in WA, OR and Idaho. 12 dams x 12 months = 300 Million wegawatts
Fish Support
We operate a $XX million fish program in which we help juvenile salmon and steelhead migrate downstream over around and through the dams on their way to the ocean. And we help them migrate back to their spawning grounds when they return as adults, three to five years later.
Recreation
More than XX million visitors a year use our facilities, which in turn, creates three thousand of jobs.
Engaged Globally
Expeditionary Mindset –deployments supported OCO
XXX ventured forth to help rebuild Louisiana and Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
Support For Others
97,000 square miles; 4.5M people; coordination and partnerships with other federal, state and local entities

4. USACE Civil Works Missions
Balance the region’s competing needs for navigation, flood risk management, hydropower, fish and wildlife habitat, disaster recovery, irrigation and recreation.
Slide Owner: PAO
The Corps’ civil works missions are diverse.
Tribal Trust Responsibilities

5. Portland District total program
Workload ($M)
In general, most projects received an increase in funding in FY12. The decrease in FY12 appropriated funding is mostly due to completion of the Navloc work on the Columbia River.
Overall Portland District’s program for FY12 remains strong.
* FY17 does not include any potential Work Plan funding

6. Future workload trends
Moderate/large growth areas:
Willamette Valley Biological Opinions (CRFM)
BPA Large Capital Investment Program (2406)
Tribal Housing
Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA)
Small Growth Areas:
Dam Safety IES/DSMS + Levee Safety
Cyber Security (HDC MCX)
Welding & HSS (EC TCX)
Coastal Navigation (jetties & pile dikes)

7. Future workload trends
Sustainable (flat) areas:
Non-routine O&M (except navlock work, gate)
CAP
Reduction in workload:
CRFM on Columbia River

8. Willamette Valley BiOp implementation
13 Dams & Reservoirs
10 separately authorized Projects
12 high-head dams ( ft.)
8 hydropower (458 MW Cap)
3 re-regulating dams
Large pool fluctuations ( ft.)
Annual benefits
Flood risk reduction: ~$900M
Hydropower produced: ~$85M
Willamette BiOp(s)
2008 NMFS and USFWS BiOps ( )
Jeopardy BiOp with an RPA
Actions: upstream adult passage, trap and collection at Big Cliff (Minto), Foster, Dexter and Fall Creek dams + Configuration and Operation Plan (COP) (complete or on-going)
Actions: downstream juvenile passage at Detroit, Cougar and Lookout Point dams (in design)
North Santiam (Spring Chinook & Winter Steelhead)
South Santiam (Spring Chinook & Winter Steelhead)
The dams and reservoirs support the wide variety of project purposes authorized by Congress.
They were located and designed, and are primarily operated for flood control.
Other authorized purposes include hydropower production, recreation, fish and wildlife, water quality, and storage of water for municipal and industrial water supply and irrigation.
Some of those purposes benefit from having the water in storage in the reservoirs...while others benefit from the timed release of water to meet downstream needs.
I want to stress that this is not a prioritized list--beyond the hard constraints of flood control, we do our best to try to balance all the purposes.
In authorizing the projects, Congress gave the Corps relatively little guidance in terms of specific operating criteria
Over the past 50 years…the Corps has continually refined operation of the reservoir system in response to changing needs and lessons learned.
McKenzie (Spring Chinook)
Middle Fork Willamette (Spring Chinook)

9. Willamette Valley BiOp implementation
Detroit Downstream Passage:
Phase 1 - Temp control for passage
Phase 2 – Passage facility
Cougar Downstream Passage:
Temp control tower for passage (completed prior to 2008 BiOp)
Passage facility
Lookout Point Downstream Passage:
Passage facility (completing extensive RM&E to inform biological feasibility)
Detroit (450’)
Key remaining work was identified through the development of a Configuration and Operations Plan
The COP was included in the RPA as a tool to assist in determining the specific needs for large-scale configuration actions (three downstream passage actions and one temperature control improvement) due to the uncertainty at the time the BiOp was issued.
The NMFS RPA suggested that all four of these actions were needed to avoid jeopardy although no performance metric was included.
The analysis and recommendation from the COP form the basis for the course of action described in the 5-year plan and associated key remaining work
Cougar (452’)
Lookout Point
(250’)

10. BPA Large Capital Investment Regional Program (Corps & BOR)
FY 23-FY 28
$350M-$375M
-FCRPS includes NWP, NWW, NWS, and BOR
-Significant growth to maintain system reliability

11. BPA Large Capital Investment Portland District Program
FY16 is $36.5M; FY17 is $44.2M
NWP Program FY 18-FY 22
Turbine replacement/rewind (JDA)
Cranes (JDA, TDA, BON, BCL, DEX)
Fire protection upgrades (BON, JDA)
Oil Water Separators (WVY)
Spillway Tainter gates (WVY)
Transformer replacements (TDA)
Station service improvements (WVY)
FY 23-FY 28
$90M-$110M
Greater emphasis being placed on long term planning will increase knowledge of up coming work.
We will need to be innovative to grow the program.

12. Tribal housing
Objective: mitigate impacts from construction of The Dalles Dam.
Schedule: under development
Scope: under development
Taskers: recently completed accelerated site identification study; currently doing site selection alternative study.
Resourcing: in-house for recent taskers; next phases (if pursued), likely AE assistance.

13. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Portland Medical Center Seismic Retrofit and Renovation
PA: $650M
Acquisition strategy: D-B-B, AE solicitation TBD
Timeline: ~ 5 yrs with 3 yr construction duration
Resources: NWP lead; regional PDT w/ CX’s

14. Mouth of Columbia River jetties
Ensures reliable entrance for the $24B Columbia-Snake System “Highway”
Columbia River navigation system:
No. 1 export gateway for the Nation’s wheat and barley exports
No. 1 export gateway for west coast wood and mineral bulk exports
No. 1 one for automobile imports
More than 40,000 jobs are dependent on these trades
Over $1B in new infrastructure investment along the river since the main channel deepened in 2010

15. Optimal forecasted program (estimated)
MCR Jetties
Optimal forecasted program (estimated)

16. Current Architect/Engineering contracts
Contract Number
Contract Requirement
Contractor
Number of Options
Remaining Options
Expiration Date
Original IDIQ Total Capacity
Remaining Capacity
W9127N-11-D-0009
Multi-Discipline Engineering & Design
Tetra Tech, Inc 4
9-Aug-2016
$10,000,000
W9127N-11-D-0011
Multi-Discipline Engineering & Design; NWD
HDR Engineering, Inc.
18-Sep-2016
W9127N-12-D-0001
Harbor Consulting Engineers, Inc. (SB)
10-Jan-2017
$7,500,000
$1,006,527 *
W9127N-12-D-0004
URS Energy & Construction, Inc.
7-Jul-2017
$2,000,000 *
W9127N-12-D-0005
GDACS - Engineering & Design Support; NWD
Ensoftek, Inc. (SB, 8a)
30-Jun-2017
$4,000,000
$750,000 *
W9127N-12-D-0006
Ecosystem Restoration Engineering, Design, and Planning Services; NWD
River Design Group, Inc. (SB)
31-Jul-2017
$5,000,000
$1,000,000 *
W9127N-13-D-0002
Support Services Associated with 536 Program within Lower Columbia River; NWP
Columbia River Estuary Study Task (CREST) 1
12-Dec-2013
(contract closed)
$500,000
$385,630
W9127N-13-D-0005
Aerial Mapping and Lidar Services; NWD
David C Smith & Associates, Inc (SB)
5-May-2018
$961,496 *
W9127N-16-D-3000
Hydroelectric Power and Pumping Plant Engineering for HDC; USACE USA
29-Oct-2020
$4,750,000
$4,251,119
W9127N-16-D-3001
BLACK & VEATCH HDC SERVICES IDIQ; USACE USA
BLACK & VEATCH SPECIAL PROJECTS CORP.
15-Dec-2020
$4,747,500
* Remaining capacity as of 30 Aug Note that actual capacity may be higher, but KO determined capacity does NOT carry over……can only execute current option year capacity.

17. Architect/Engineering contracts future/under development
5 multi-discipline AE IDIQ contracts
2 Small $10M ea.; 3 Large $15M ea.
Likely 5 year base contract (no options)
Anticipated solicitation date: FY 17
1 Geologic & Geotechnical AE IDIQ Contract
$10M total
5 year base period contract (no options)
Anticipated solicitation date: on street
1 Hydraulic & Hydrologic A&E IDIQ Contract
Anticipated solicitation date: target Sept. 2016

18. Professional Services (PS) contracts future/under development
1 Water Management Programming and Software Services Contract (not AE)
$3.5M total
3 yr base period contract with 2 option years
Anticipated solicitation date: target Oct. 2017

19. How can you help? Issues & Challenges
Shape/eliminate the Brooks Act 6% design fee for Civil Works
Continue to partner with districts via Liaison Committee (i.e. quarterly meetings)
Please respond to our solicitations
Communication between AE PM’s and appropriate district staff
Issues & Challenges
AE contracting continues to receive more scrutiny (harder), but we continue to strive for better processes and meet intent.
Smaller task orders (6% design fee hard to meet; inefficient for USACE Tech Lead’s to manage, so do more in-house.)

20. How to reach us Tracy Wickham Chief, Contracting Division
Carol McIntyre
Chief, Small Business Programs Office
Laurie Gillespie
Contracting Officer
Lance Helwig
Chief, Engineering and Construction Division
Don Erickson
Chief, Programs Management Branch

21. Questions?