Federal Services - Freese and Nichols

Federal Services

Federal Focus

Freese and Nichols has been providing services to federal clients since 1940. Our decades of experience in meeting the needs of federal agencies and military installations has given us proven expertise and knowledge in the regulations and requirements that drive federal work.

Our federal clients can leverage the full strength of our firm’s entire service line, including:

Civil Works/Water Resources

Planning/Design

Water/Wastewater/Reuse

Master Planning/Treatment/Utilities and Transmission

Environmental/HTRW

Compliance/Regulatory/Permitting/PFAS Management

Construction-Phase Services

Program and Construction Management

Facilities

Planning/Design

Clients, Contracts and Partners

Our federal clients can rely on us to manage a project at a single installation or execute work for their nationwide programs. We are well-versed in executing IDIQ contracts, including Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOCs) and Single Award Task Order Contracts (SATOCs).

Additionally, we have a history of working with small businesses and have a deep commitment to our national mentor-protégé program.

Some of the federal entities we have worked with are listed below.

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

Southwestern Division (SWD)

Fort Worth District
Galveston District
Tulsa District

Mississippi Valley Division (MVD)

New Orleans District
St. Louis District

South Atlantic Division (SAD)

Jacksonville District
Mobile District

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), continued

Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD)

Huntington District

South Pacific Division (SPD)

Albuquerque District
Los Angeles District
Sacramento District

Northwestern Division (NWD)

Omaha District

Other Departments and Organizations

Bureau of Indian Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Fish and Wildlife Services
International Boundary and Water Commission
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) – Mid-Atlantic

A Range of Services Offers Support through the Entire Project Life Cycle

As a multi-discipline firm, Freese and Nichols provides a broad range of services to help its clients through every stage of the project life cycle: planning, design, program management, funding procurement, regulatory compliance, construction management, and operations and maintenance.

A select list of services offered appears below.

Civil Works/Water Resources

Planning/Design

• Floodplain management
• Stormwater master planning
• Stormwater pump station and gate design
• Dam, levee and hydraulic structures design and rehabilitation
• Dam and levee inspections, breach analyses and emergency action plans
• Riverine modeling and channel/bank stabilization designs
• Geotechnical investigations, testing and analysis
• Water resources planning and conservation
• Water rights
• Land use studies
• Street and highway design
• Bridge design
• Airfield ramp work and loading bridges

Environmental/HTRW

Compliance/Regulatory/Permitting/PFAS Management

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
• Natural resource and watershed management
• Pollution prevention and permitting
• Section 404/10 permitting and wetlands services
• Contamination assessments and remediation
• PFAS Management

Water/Wastewater/Reuse

Master Planning/Treatment/Utilities and Transmission

• Master planning
• Hydraulic modeling
• Water quality analysis
• Infiltration/Inflow studies
• Sanitary sewer evaluation studies
• Transmission pipelines
• Wastewater lift stations
• Treatment plants
• Industrial pretreatment
• Alternative treatment studies

Facilities/Utilities

Planning/Design

• Master planning
• Architectural and interior design
• Charrettes
• Site development
• Design Review/QA
• Historical restoration and preservation
• Instrumentation and controls/SCADA

• Landscape architecture
• Utility relocation/design
• Right-of-Way (ROW)/easement management
• Regulatory compliance assistance
• Asset management programs

Construction-Phase Services

Program and Construction Management

• Quality management
• Schedule management and analysis
• Site documentation/construction inspection
• Drone imagery and 3-D modeling
• Change/claim management
• Resident representation
• Risk management
• Procurement support
• Constructability reviews
• Contract administration and management
• Cost estimating
• Phasing and mobilization planning during design phase
• Commissioning and start-up
• Alternative project delivery
• Construction Inspection
• Earned value management

Technology and Additional Services

• Geographic information systems (GIS)
• Building information modeling (BIM) systems
• Civil design/engineering
• Mechanical design/engineering
• Electrical design/engineering
• Structural design/engineering
• Geotechnical design/engineering
• Hydraulic design/engineering
• Environmental engineering