Burns & Mcdonnell Engineering Company Inc.

Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company Inc., a subsidiary of Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell, Inc., operates as a prime contractor (70% of recent awards) and subcontractor on federal architect-engineer and commissioning projects. The firm competes full-and-open, holding no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Burns & McDonnell's federal work centers on design, engineering, and construction support for military facilities, diplomatic compounds, and federal buildings. Concrete recent work includes a $4.36 million delivery order from the Department of the Army for design of the Department of Homeland Security Detection Sciences Testing and Applied Research Transportation Security Laboratory campus in Atlantic City, New Jersey (awarded June 2025, completion December 2027); a $6.28 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers order for a general-purpose warehouse building at the Defense Distribution Center in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania (awarded December 2023, completion December 2028); and a $4.02 million National Institute of Standards and Technology delivery order for architect-engineer services executed in Arlington, Virginia (awarded September 2025, completion February 2027). Overseas work includes two State Department commissioning orders under the Worldwide A-E Commissioning Services IDIQ — a $1.96 million delivery order for the Podgorica New Embassy Compound in Montenegro (April 2022, completion June 2028) and a $1.27 million order for the Nassau New Embassy Compound in the Bahamas (January 2022, completion January 2027).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense and State Department real-property missions. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Baltimore accounts for 17 awards and $657.6 million in combined potential value (74% of the portfolio), while the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations holds 14 awards and $211.5 million (24%). The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, General Services Administration Region 2, and the Smithsonian Institution round out the active customer set, covering 80% of award volume. The two rankings align closely — the Army dominates both volume and dollars — but represent distinct mission types: the Army's orders run to facility renovation and repair at domestic installations, while State's concentrate on commissioning services at overseas diplomatic posts.

Burns & McDonnell maintains positions on multiple parent vehicles anchoring its delivery-order pipeline. The indefinite delivery contract 47PC0321D0004 (16 task orders) and the Army Corps of Engineers IDC W912DR20D0002 (16 task orders, $37.7 million combined potential value) account for the plurality of recent task order activity. The Worldwide A-E Commissioning Services IDIQ carries 11 task orders valued at $15.5 million combined, serving overseas building projects. The firm also holds a $500 million multiple-award Architect-Engineer MATOC awarded by ENDIST Baltimore in July 2026 (term through July 2031) supporting the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District and North Atlantic Division, and a $25 million worldwide commissioning engineering services IDIQ awarded by the State Department Bureau of Overseas Building Operations in April 2026 (term through April 2027).

Activity has tracked upward over the past five years, rising from seven awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2025, with eight awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Nine awards with combined potential value of $24.8 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across Army and State Department vehicles.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $11 million across four fiscal years (FY2022–FY2025): $1.3 million in FY2022, $2.8 million in FY2023, $3.3 million in FY2024, and $3.5 million in FY2025. This represents only the SCI-captured subset of the firm's federal services and excludes goods, products, classified work, and non-federal revenue. The SCI dataset shows roughly 2.1 to 5.5 FTEs delivered to the federal government by fiscal year, with government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranging from a median of $276.42 per hour, with senior labor pricing extending through $406.52 per hour.

Burns & McDonnell operates predominantly as a self-performing prime, with an average sub-hours share of 8% across SCI-reportable contracts, employing three named subcontractors over the period. On named primes, the firm engages Crawford Consulting Services Inc., a women-owned small business, repeatedly for construction management and cost estimating support on Army facility projects. It also subcontracts to N.K. Bhandari Architecture & Engineering P.C. as a specialized mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection services provider across GSA and federal courthouse modernization work. This teaming pattern reflects Burns & McDonnell's role as the lead architect-engineer firm with selective specialty subcontracting for geotechnical, surveying, and blast-design work on larger military and federal facility projects.

Burns & McDonnell's award footprint is concentrated in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services, 37 awards) and 541310 (Architectural Services, 19 awards), with PSC codes dominated by Architect and Engineering—General categories (22 awards) and Architect and Engineering—Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing (10 awards). The vendor's federal presence is narrowly anchored to facility design, engineering, and commissioning for military installations and diplomatic properties, with no exposure to IT, construction products, or non-infrastructure services.