Burns Cooley Dennis Inc.

Burns Cooley Dennis Inc. is a for-profit corporate entity that provides geotechnical engineering, construction materials engineering and testing (CMET), and pavement engineering services. It was founded in 1977 and is based in Ridgeland, Mississippi.

Burns Cooley Dennis Inc. has received numerous federal contract awards from agencies such as the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and FEMA regional offices. The awards consist primarily of firm fixed price purchase orders for services such as laboratory testing of aggregate and pavement samples to support the agencies' research and development activities, expert witness evaluation and testimony related to public assistance and litigation, and technical specialist services. Several of these awards were set aside for small businesses. Burns Cooley Dennis Inc. has also served as a subcontractor on projects involving geophysical surveying and mapping, geotechnical services for bank repair and monitoring at the Vicksburg National Military Park, and support for the Myrtle Grove Geotechnical Services project in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

Burns Cooley Dennis Inc. holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service to provide geotechnical engineering services in support of the Great American Outdoors Act. This multiple award task order contract (MATOC) utilizes a total small business set-aside and has a potential value of $25,000,500 over a five-year period from 2022 to 2027. Services will be performed across the continental United States and Hawaii on lands owned, leased, or with use agreements by the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management. The scope of work includes field exploration, laboratory testing, engineering analysis and design, instrumentation, construction monitoring, and report preparation to support deferred maintenance projects funded through the Great American Outdoors Act. Individual task orders are expected to range from $3,500 to $2,000,000 and total $10,000,000 over the base period.