Cems Engineering Inc.

Cems Engineering Inc., a for-profit professional services firm based in Summerville, South Carolina, delivers architect-engineer and design services as a prime contractor predominantly under full-and-open federal procurement across defense installation modernization and military facility infrastructure. The company competes across Army Corps of Engineers indefinite-delivery contracts, Naval Facilities Engineering Command vehicles, and multiple-award task-order contracts without systematic reliance on set-aside categories, though recent awards include Total Small Business set-asides issued by ENDIST Charleston, ENDIST Savannah, ENDIST New York, ENDIST Wilmington, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the Air National Guard.

Cems Engineering's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Army Corps of Engineers entities and naval customers. The top five customer agencies account for 55 percent of recent awards by count: the Marine Corps leads with 155 awards ($24.4 million combined potential value), followed by ENDIST Savannah with 74 awards ($420.2 million), the Navy with 58 awards ($1.5 million), GSA Public Buildings Service Region 4 with 27 awards ($12.2 million), and the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region with 25 awards ($10.3 million). By potential value, the customer ranking reorders sharply: ENDIST Mobile anchors the footprint with seven awards valued at $563.5 million combined, followed by ENDIST Savannah's $420.2 million across 74 awards, ENDIST Charleston's $135.3 million across twelve awards, Air Combat Command's $73.8 million across twelve awards, and the Engineering Support Center Huntsville's $61.7 million across eleven awards. The divergence reflects Cems Engineering's positioning on large IDIQ vehicles with Mobile and Charleston, where a small number of awards carry outsized ceiling values, versus high-volume transactional work with the Marine Corps under smaller delivery orders.

Cems Engineering holds a substantial portfolio of Army Corps of Engineers indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring its prime work. Recent major IDIQs include a $499 million multiple-award contract with ENDIST Mobile for military design and construction architect-engineer services (awarded May 15, 2026, through May 14, 2031), a $249.5 million Total Small Business set-aside Enterprise A-E Southeast Region IDIQ with MICC Fort Campbell (April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2036), a $240 million unrestricted multiple-award USACE Savannah District architecture and engineering general design contract (May 31, 2024 through May 31, 2029) generating eight named delivery orders ranging from $368,345 to $2.68 million for facility design, HVAC studies, and child development center conversions, a $140 million Total Small Business USACE Savannah District general design IDIQ (October 15, 2025 through October 14, 2030), a $99 million unrestricted ENDIST Charleston multi-discipline architect-engineer MATOC (July 21, 2025 through July 21, 2030), a $49.9 million Total Small Business ENDIST New York IDIQ for MILCON and facility modernization programs (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2030), a $49 million multiple-award ENDIST Mobile Horizontal Design Program contract (April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2031), a $33 million Total Small Business Naval Facilities Engineering Command single-award IDIQ for Southeast North Area of Operations (January 15, 2026 through January 14, 2031), a $30 million Total Small Business ENDIST Charleston Small Business A-E Pool A vehicle (February 5, 2025 through February 5, 2030), a $225 million partial-small-business Air National Guard Vertical Construction Programs Guam multiple-award IDIQ (March 31, 2025 through September 30, 2030), and a $7.7 million Total Small Business ENDIST Wilmington architect-engineer multidiscipline IDIQ (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2030). Representative delivery-order work across these vehicles includes a $2.2 million Fire Station B377 addition and renovation design in Summerville, South Carolina (ENDIST Savannah), a $1.28 million Combined Arms Collective Training Facility design at Fort Gordon, Georgia (ENDIST Savannah), a $1.19 million JSOC Building 3-3046 design renovation (ENDIST Savannah), a $2.79 million Roanoke manufacturing facility architectural and engineering design (ENDIST Charleston), generator connection services at a Vessel Maintenance System facility in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico ($288,098, ENDIST Charleston), a $1.3 million ICBM roadway widening design at Cape Canaveral, Florida (Headquarters Military Programs), and a $566,317 commissioning services delivery order for the USASOC Hangar at Fort Liberty, North Carolina (U.S. Special Operations Command).

Recent activity shows fluctuation: awards per year averaged between 9 and 20 over the past five fiscal years (2022: 19, 2023: 9, 2024: 14, 2025: 20, 2026: 13), indicating volatility in award frequency rather than sustained growth trajectory. Fourteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $16.9 million, representing moderate recompete exposure; however, this figure understates exposure on large IDIQ vehicles where the ceiling values exceed recent task-order activity. The most heavily used parent vehicles by task-order count are Indefinite Delivery Contract GS07P16UCD7010 (51 task orders, $21.8 million combined potential value), followed by N4008509D9010 (47 task orders, $3.7 million), N6945010D2530 (29 task orders, $2.5 million), N6247001D2007 (27 task orders, $1.5 million), and N4008515D0858 (26 task orders, $4.5 million) — predominantly Navy and Corps of Engineers vehicles used for transactional delivery-order placement.

Cems Engineering operates as a prime contractor on 100 percent of recent awards; sub-award activity is minimal (three named sub-awards under Science Applications International Corporation as prime for architectural and structural engineering services at Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic). Service Contract Inventory data on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $5.8 million across 18 prime records over FY2022–FY2025 (FY2022: $2.9 million across 6.4 FTEs; FY2023: $1.7 million across 3.3 FTEs; FY2024: $1.2 million across 17.7 FTEs; FY2025: $0). This declining SCI invoicing does not reflect the vendor's broader contract portfolio — the $2.06 billion in combined potential value across all 610 prime awards indicates that SCI captures only a narrow slice of work, primarily smaller or older service contracts. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $277.64/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $832.13/hr and entry-level rates around $69.03/hr. Sub-engagement on SCI-reportable prime contracts averaged zero percent of total contractor hours, indicating that Cems Engineering builds its own delivery teams on SCI-visible work rather than subcontracting labor. The vendor maintains a subsidiary, Cems-Rs&H SE JV, a small-business joint venture entity that may serve strategic partnerships on specific vehicles.

Cems Engineering competes full-and-open on most Army Corps of Engineers delivery vehicles while accessing Total Small Business set-asides on selected ENDIST Charleston, ENDIST Savannah, ENDIST New York, ENDIST Wilmington, and Naval Facilities Engineering Command IDIQs — a mixed posture that anchors value to unrestricted competition but preserves set-aside access where certification applies. The company's footprint centers on multi-discipline architect-engineering services (NAICS 541330, PSC Architect and Engineering codes), with work spanning preliminary design, Title II design development, construction administration, HVAC studies, facility modernization, design-build commissioning, value engineering, and infrastructure repair across military installations, federal buildings, and defense space facilities nationwide.

Full service Engineering and Architectural firm