CDM Federal Programs Corporation

CDM Federal Programs Corporation, a subsidiary of Boston-based CDM Smith Inc., delivers architect-engineering and environmental remediation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) without small business set-aside designation, operating from Kansas City, Missouri.

CDM Federal's customer footprint concentrates heavily with the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA Region 2. The top five funding agencies account for 81% of recent awards by count and 90% by potential value. USACE Kansas City District dominates the portfolio—91 awards totaling $883.8 million combined potential value—followed by USACE Omaha District (4 awards, $250.6 million potential value), EPA Region 2 (93 awards, $150.7 million), USACE National Capitol Region Humphreys Engineer Center (19 awards, $17.6 million), and USACE St. Louis District (2 awards, $49.5 million). The split between volume and dollars reveals concentration: USACE Kansas City drives both the award count and most of the dollar value, while the Omaha District's four awards carry outsized potential value, suggesting large IDVs. The 379 awards tracked span 22 distinct customer agencies, indicating broad but concentrated federal reach.

CDM Federal's capability portfolio centers on Superfund site remediation, hazardous waste management, and environmental engineering design. The work includes pre-design investigation and remedial design, engineering during construction, feasibility studies, remedial investigations, site characterization, and construction-phase oversight across contaminated sites. Representative prime work includes a $9.4 million delivery order from EPA Region 2 for pre-design investigation and remedial design at the Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund Site Operable Unit 3 in Niagara County, New York (February 2026 award, Kansas City Unrestricted A-E MATOC); a $3.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for battery recycling remedial design services in Puerto Rico (EPA Region 2, February 2025, same MATOC); and an $8.9 million delivery order for architect-engineering services at the Lower Passaic River (EPA Region 2, June 2023). The portfolio also includes a $1.6 billion combined potential value across awards spanning SERDP and ESTCP research contracts for PFAS remediation technology demonstration and environmental restoration innovation, with subcontractors including Colorado School of Mines, Purdue University, and Harvard University.

CDM Federal holds three major parent indefinite-delivery vehicles. The Kansas City Unrestricted Architect-Engineer Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste and Environmental Services MATOC ($225 million ceiling, awarded August 2024 to September 2029) anchors the portfolio with 35 documented task orders worth approximately $18.3 million across EPA Superfund sites in EPA Region 2 (New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands). The USACE Omaha District's Environmental Architect-Engineer Services MATOC ($249 million ceiling, September 2024 to September 2031) supports Air Force nuclear weapons modernization and EPA environmental work, with CDM Federal as one of five contractors. A $49.5 million MATOC with USACE St. Louis District (March 2025 to September 2030) provides A-E services for environmental design and related work. Across all identified parent vehicles, CDM Federal maintains positions on contracts generating dozens of task orders annually, though recent award velocity has slowed—from 21 awards in 2022 to 4 in 2026 year-to-date.

Activity has declined significantly. In the past five years, award volume dropped from 21 awards in 2022 to 9 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 10 in 2025, and 4 in the first three months of 2026. Despite the slowdown in award count, the portfolio carries substantial recompete exposure: 25 awards totaling $44.4 million in combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months, representing both recompete risk for CDM Federal and opportunity for competitors positioned on the same vehicles.

CDM Federal competes full-and-open, not under set-asides. The work is NAICS-concentrated in engineering services (249 awards) and research and development in physical and engineering sciences (15 awards), with PSC concentration in Architect and Engineering—General (185 awards under A-E landscaping/interior/design; 131 under A-E other) and Other Environmental Services (30 awards). Nearly all recent awards are cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders against pre-existing IDVs; few definitive contracts or direct procurements appear. CDM Federal subcontracts to academic institutions (University of Minnesota, Colorado School of Mines, Purdue, Harvard), small businesses including women-owned firms (Richard Grubb And Associates, Strategic Value Solutions), and specialized environmental service providers (Dakota Technologies, Aptim Federal Services, Wasatch Environmental). The subcontract footprint reflects typical Superfund work—analytical laboratories, drilling services, surveying, and research support—but CDM Federal's own footprint is 100% prime, carrying no visible sub-award revenue.