# USACE Centralizes National Dredging Procurement

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is creating an Enterprise Dredging Delivery Center (EDDC), supported by an interim Dredging Evolution for Enterprise Production (DEEP) Team, to coordinate its national dredging program rather than manage requirements primarily through separate district acquisitions. USACE executes approximately 190 dredging contract actions annually. The center’s acquisition approach is still being developed, and planned industry engagement will inform assessments of market capacity, competition, and regional impacts; the announcement identifies no specific solicitation, contract value, or award.

- Contractors should prepare to provide relevant market-capacity and regional information through the planned industry engagement, which USACE says will inform its acquisition concepts.
- The enterprise approach could give dredging firms greater visibility into future requirements and help reduce scheduling conflicts, but the announcement does not establish a new contract vehicle or confirm how awards will be structured.
- Companies should use the roughly 190 annual contract actions as context for the scale of USACE’s dredging market, while avoiding assumptions about specific solicitations or award values that have not been announced.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure, Transportation
**Topics:** Physical Infrastructure
**Published:** October 16, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- Enterprise Dredging Delivery Center (EDDC)
- Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works
- Dredging Evolution for Enterprise Production Team (DEEP Team)

### Sources
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	USACE modernizes national dredging delivery through enterprise execution > U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters > News Release Article View
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