Affiliated Engineers Metro DC, Inc.

Affiliated Engineers Metro DC, Inc., a subsidiary of Affiliated Engineers Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin), is a professional engineering and architectural services firm operating as a prime contractor delivering construction administration, commissioning, design, and technical peer review services to federal research facilities, with 98% of recent awards as prime contracts and no set-aside designations across all work.

The vendor's federal footprint is entirely concentrated with the National Institutes of Health. Of 57 total awards, 50 delivery orders (combined potential value $840.4 million) flow through NIH Construction under the NIH Architect Engineering MATOC, a $400 million multiple-award IDIQ running through June 2032 that Affiliated Engineers Metro DC earned on June 24, 2026. Four additional awards (combined potential value $1.6 million) come from NIH's Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, also under the MATOC. The remaining three awards span the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency, representing negligible portfolio share. Across the NIH work, Affiliated Engineers Metro DC delivers architectural and engineering services spanning feasibility studies, construction quality management (CQM), commissioning support, design phases, peer reviews, and post-design services. Representative recent task orders include a $12.4 million design engagement for central utility plant electrical upgrade and chiller/cooling tower replacement (awarded October 2023, ultimate completion May 2028), a $1.9 million construction quality management and commissioning order for reheat water pipe replacement (awarded November 2023, ultimate completion May 2027), a $1.2 million construction quality management and commissioning package for Building 11 fire sprinkler modification and cooling tower air compressor upgrade (awarded September 2024, ultimate completion March 2026), and a $724,987.73 design order for sanitary main repair beneath Building 35A (awarded May 2025, ultimate completion August 2026). Work locations span NIH's Bethesda, Maryland campus and the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina facility at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Activity trajectory shows growth into FY2024 (six awards in 2022, twelve in 2023, fifteen in 2024) followed by a sharp contraction to three awards in FY2025 and four in FY2026 year-to-date, though this reflects timing of task-order issuance rather than capacity loss—the vendor holds a $400 million IDIQ seat capable of supporting multiple concurrent projects. Thirteen awards with combined potential value $32.5 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore represent recompete exposure and near-term cash-flow risk.

Service Contract Inventory-reported invoicing on prime contracts totaled $18.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($2 million in FY2022, $4.2 million in FY2023, $12.3 million in FY2024), reflecting the ramping of larger orders into full execution phase. SCI-captured FTE trajectory showed 0.9 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 1.5 in FY2023, then expanding to 5.5 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a median of $354.30/hr to a 90th percentile ceiling of $23,820.88/hr, reflecting a mix of technical staff and senior engineering and commissioning labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed 100% of reported contractor hours with no named subcontractors, indicating a direct-delivery model rather than a sub-heavy approach.

The vendor operates as a subsidiary of Affiliated Engineers Inc., a parent engineering firm registered in SAM.gov since May 2004. A single subcontract award under Booz Allen Hamilton (December 2024) for engineering renovations and construction support services represents minimal sub footprint—the portfolio is overwhelmingly prime-driven. All NIH work carries full-and-open competition with no socioeconomic set-asides applied across the award history, positioning Affiliated Engineers Metro DC as a capability-based competitor rather than a set-aside beneficiary in the federal A/E services market.