Burns Engineering, Inc.

Burns Engineering, Inc., a Philadelphia-based engineering services firm, provides project management oversight, capital project management, and transportation infrastructure engineering services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards), competing without small business set-aside designations in the full-and-open market. The company holds a $670 million single-award IDIQ with the Federal Transit Administration's 2024 Project Management Oversight Program running through September 22, 2029, and operates primarily as a general management and engineering consulting firm under primary NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services) and 541330 (Engineering Services).

Burns Engineering's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward transportation. The Federal Transit Administration accounts for 85% of recent awards by count (64 awards, $920 million combined potential value), anchoring the vendor's prime footprint to FTA project management oversight across multiple regions and transit systems nationwide. The Department of the Army (11 awards), Department of the Air Force (7 awards), Federal Railroad Administration (3 awards, $9.5 million), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (1 award, $20 million) round out the active customer set, though transportation dominance is overwhelming. Recent representative work includes a $12.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee task order from FTA for programmatic project management oversight services (awarded September 25, 2024, completing September 24, 2029), a $5.4 million delivery order from FTA for project management and oversight of the Chicago Transit Authority, METRA, and Chicago Department of Transportation bundled project in Region 5 (awarded July 8, 2026, completing March 7, 2030), a $4.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for the Austin Light Rail Phase 1 Project (awarded September 30, 2025, completing March 31, 2030), and a $2.8 million task order for the Redline Extension Project (awarded September 3, 2025, completing March 31, 2030). Burns Engineering also holds a separate $9 million IDIQ focused on Federal Railroad Administration Positive Train Control safety reviews and has executed a $237,689 purchase order from FRA for a TexRail Positive Train Control Safety Plan review (awarded December 20, 2024, completing April 25, 2025).

The vendor's activity has declined year over year across the visible award window — six awards in 2024 down to two in 2025 and one in 2026 — suggesting either sampling bias in the source data or a shift in award issuance timing under the new FTA 2024 IDIQ vehicle. The company holds task-order vehicles with the FTA Project Management Oversight Program (17 task orders, $26.1 million combined potential value), Project Management Oversight Services III (15 task orders, $51 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract DTFT6004D00009 (12 task orders, $17 million), and Project Management Oversight Services II (11 task orders, $35.4 million). Burns Engineering operates primarily as a captive delivery organization: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors represent an average 2% share of contractor hours, with 26 named subcontractors reported in total, and the company subcontracts to Weston Solutions Inc. on a change-order modification to reallocate funding (awarded January 22, 2024). SCI-reported invoicing ran $4.4 million in FY2024 against 7.2 FTEs, with median government-paid rates of approximately $271.95 per hour and a range from $251.99 per hour (10th percentile) to $285.67 per hour (90th percentile), reflecting senior professional labor on transportation consulting work. The company was registered in SAM.gov since 2001.