Burns & Mcdonnell Engineering Company, Inc.

Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc., a large for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, operates as a prime contractor delivering comprehensive architect-engineer services, facility design, construction management, and specialized technical consulting across defense and civilian federal infrastructure programs. The firm competes predominantly without set-asides in full-and-open procurements, positioning itself as an established unrestricted large business contractor across a multi-agency customer base.

The company's capability portfolio centers on full-range architect-engineer services: planning, preliminary and final design, construction administration, commissioning, surveys, cost analysis, and specialized technical assessments for military facilities, ammunition production plants, electrical transmission infrastructure, environmental remediation, and interagency infrastructure projects. Representative recent prime work includes a $28.7 million delivery order from Air Force Research Laboratory for design services on the FY28 Air Force Weapons Technology Integration Complex at Eglin Air Force Base; a $21.9 million Naval Facilities Engineering Command definitive contract for design and drawings of the P-200 NPTU Simulator Training Facility at Joint Base Charleston; a $19.1 million ENDIST Kansas City delivery order modification for Lake City Army Ammunition Plant Environmental Waste Incinerator full design; and a $18 million Army Corps of Engineers delivery order for the SAOC Operations and Training Facility design at Offutt Air Force Base.

Customer concentration spans defense infrastructure, with the Army Corps of Engineers (across multiple districts) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command forming the primary customer base. Within the top five customer agencies accounting for 43% of recent awards by count, the Department of the Army dominates with 369 awards, followed by Naval Facilities Engineering Command with 192 awards. By potential value, the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District leads at $784.8 million combined potential value, with Defense Logistics Agency Energy at $760.3 million and Naval Facilities Engineering Command at $739.8 million. The concentration signals deep integration with defense infrastructure modernization and ammunition program modernization across multiple Army installations and naval facilities.

Burns & McDonnell holds a substantial portfolio of parent indefinite delivery vehicles. Active IDIQs include a $400 million multiple-award contract with Engineering Support Center Huntsville for Ballistic Missile Defense System Mandatory Center of Expertise facility engineering services; a $249 million multiple-award contract with Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District for multi-discipline architect-engineer services; a $240 million multiple-award contract with Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District for multidiscipline architect-engineer services supporting the Army Ammunition Program; a $225 million multiple-award contract with National Guard Bureau for vertical construction programs; a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ with Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) system (placeholder ceiling); a $50 million contract with National Nuclear Security Administration for full-range architect-engineer services; a $50 million single-award contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command for electrical and mechanical engineering services; a $49 million single-award contract with Army Corps of Engineers Finance for Lake City Army Ammunition Plant; a $49 million multiple-award contract with Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District for horizontal design; and a $45 million multiple-award contract with Air National Guard for horizontal region architect-engineer services. The firm also holds significant vehicles with Western Area Power Administration ($31.5 million single-award for electrical transmission engineering), Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District ($30 million unrestricted master planning MATOC), and Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District ($99 million multiple-award IDIQ).

Activity has grown modestly, with 97 awards in 2022 escalating to 125 in 2024, though 2025–2026 shows lighter activity (88 and 23 awards respectively, reflecting the recent snapshot date of July 15, 2026). The recompete cliff indicates 140 awards with combined potential value of $411.5 million reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure and renewal opportunity across the Army Corps of Engineers, Air National Guard, and Naval Facilities Engineering Command vehicles.

SCI-reported invoicing totaled $4.9 million across FY2022–FY2024 (prime records only), with FY2023 peaking at $2.5 million across 8.1 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable service contracts median around $202.69 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $467.93 per hour at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Burns & McDonnell subcontracts approximately 4% of total contractor hours, indicating the firm builds most delivery internally rather than relying heavily on subcontractor labor.

As a prime contractor, Burns & McDonnell engages notable recurring subcontractors including Moca Systems, Inc. (cost engineering and project controls specialist), Crawford Consulting Services, Inc. (women-owned small business providing construction management and cost estimating), Strategic Value Solutions, Inc. (women-owned small business for value engineering), and Avant Acoustics LLC (audio-visual and acoustic consulting). The firm also partners with geotechnical specialists including S&Me Inc., Geoengineers Inc., and Terracon Consultants, and surveying firms such as Whidden Surveying & Mapping and Lowe Engineers, reflecting its practice of assembling multidisciplinary teams for complex facility design and infrastructure assessment projects.

In its subcontractor role, Burns & McDonnell delivers architect-engineer and facility support services to primes including Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration LLC, Mission Support & Test Services LLC, Pantexas Deterrence LLC, Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC, and Triad National Security LLC on Department of Energy national security site management and operations contracts—work that encompasses laboratory design, facility engineering, maintenance planning, and specialized technical support for nuclear production and environmental management facilities.

The corporate structure reflects Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. as a subsidiary of parent company Burns & McDonnell, Inc. (also for-profit), with additional named subsidiaries Burns & McDonnell Land Services, Inc. and Facility Engineering Services KCP LLC. The subsidiary structure enables specialized service delivery and legal separation while maintaining consolidated federal contracting posture under the parent entity.