Advancing Resilience In Communities

Advancing Resilience In Communities, a for-profit limited liability partnership and subsidiary of Michael Baker International, Inc., operates exclusively as a FEMA prime contractor delivering architect-and-engineering and technical services for disaster preparedness, flood hazard mapping, dam safety assessment, risk assessment modeling, and community resilience initiatives. The vendor competes full-and-open (no set-aside designations) and has received 34 delivery orders against a single FEMA indefinite-delivery contract since 2021, with a combined potential value of $656.2 million and $204.6 million in obligated dollars to date. All recent awards are priced on cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-fixed-price bases under the Production and Technical Services Support (PTS) for Zone 1 IDIQ.

The vendor's customer concentration is absolute: the Federal Emergency Management Agency accounts for 100 percent of all 34 awards and $656.2 million in combined potential value. Advancing Resilience In Communities sits exclusively on one parent vehicle, the $300 million PTS Zone 1 IDIQ (contract 70FA6021D00000003), which carries 33 task orders worth $266.2 million in combined potential value. Work is performed primarily in Washington, DC; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; and Chicago, Illinois, with subordinate performance in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. Recent representative awards include a $14.7 million delivery order (September 2026) to complete legacy flood mapping projects and demonstrate modern flood mapping methodology developed by FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; a $56.95 million delivery order (March 2024) for architect-and-engineering services supporting Zone 1 Standard Operations 3; and a $16.6 million delivery order (September 2024) for FEMA Region 2 Risk MAP production and technical services and repriorization of FY24 production work.

Award activity has grown from eight orders in 2022 to nine in 2023 and 2024, declining to one in 2025 and rebounding to five in 2026. Sixteen orders carrying combined potential value of $182.3 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating significant recompete exposure tied to the underlying IDIQ vehicle, which expires in September 2025. On SCI-reportable federal services, Advancing Resilience In Communities invoiced $130.9 million across FY2022–FY2025, with a trajectory from $12.1 million and 30.4 FTEs in FY2022 to a peak of $51.6 million and 154 FTEs in FY2024, then stabilizing at $46 million and 133 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-captured work ranged from a tenth-percentile floor of $124.81 per hour to a median of $159.73 per hour and a ninetieth-percentile ceiling of $235.66 per hour. The vendor operates with minimal subcontractor engagement—an average of 5 percent of prime-contract hours subcontracted across SCI-reportable work, with 16 named subcontractors reported across the full portfolio—indicating the vendor builds and self-performs its delivery teams on FEMA work. Advancing Resilience In Communities carries no recorded sub-awards in the federal portfolio; it operates as a 100 percent prime across its FEMA footprint.