Coleman Engineering Company

Coleman Engineering Company, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Iron Mountain, Michigan, delivers cadastral surveys, boundary surveys, geotechnical engineering, environmental assessments, and land management support services to federal natural resources agencies as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) competing predominantly under small-business set-asides and full-and-open designations.

Coleman's customer base concentrates heavily in the Department of Agriculture's natural-resource missions. The top five funding agencies by award count represent 68% of recent awards, anchored by the USDA Forest Service Region 9–Eastern Region (51 awards, $17.2 million combined potential value) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (25 awards, $39 thousand combined potential value). By dollar magnitude, however, the portfolio is dominated by two large parent vehicles: a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources Blanket Purchase Agreement with USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions and a $25 million geotechnical engineering MATOC with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Central Region places six awards valued at $5.4 million, and EPA Region 5 and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission each appear on the active roster. The disconnect between volume and value rankings signals that Coleman holds anchor IDVs with USDA (the $50 million LMIR BPA and a $25 million DOI Fish and Wildlife MATOC) while executing numerous smaller task orders against forest-service cadastral and boundary-surveying vehicles.

Coleman places work under five primary parent vehicles: the Region 9 Cadastral Survey Services IDIQ (12 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value), the A-E Easement Boundary Surveying Services IDIQ ($10 million NRCS nationwide vehicle, 9 task orders, $1.3 million combined potential value), and three additional regional Forest Service and Army Corps IDIQs. Recent representative prime work includes a $444,474 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 9 for 35.45 miles of surveying around Ottawa National Forest in Michigan (awarded January 2026, completion January 2027), a $100,772 delivery order from NRCS for easement boundary re-establishment on 13 Indiana parcels under the A-E Easement Boundary Surveying Services IDIQ, a $97,019 delivery order for five ACEP-WRE boundary surveys in Michigan under the same NRCS IDIQ, and a $16,824 small-business-set-aside definitive contract from USDA Forest Service Region 9 for soil investigation on the East Branch Tahquamenon River (awarded June 2026, completion October 2026).

Award activity has fluctuated moderately over the past five years — eight awards in 2022, six in 2023, twelve in 2024, six in 2025, and five in early 2026 — with combined potential value across all 155 awards (prime and sub combined) reaching $109.8 million. Only $9.2 million (8% of combined potential value) has been obligated to date, reflecting the prevalence of IDVs and BPAs with minimal guarantees and highly variable task-order demand. The recompete cliff is modest: four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $652 thousand, posing manageable recompete risk.

Coleman operates as a prime on 92% of awards; its subcontractor exposure is limited to remediation and environmental services work performed under Ch2M Hill and Jacobs Engineering Group on EPA and DOD Superfund site investigations and design efforts, with awards dating from late 2024 through mid-2026. SCI-reported invoiced revenue for federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $687 thousand across three prime records from FY2022 through FY2024 (FY2022: $110 thousand, FY2023: $289 thousand, FY2024: $288 thousand), with estimated FTE delivery running 0.9 to 1.6 FTEs per fiscal year. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran approximately $87.56/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching the 90th percentile of $100.30/hr and junior labor starting around $66.62/hr. Subcontractors performed roughly 9% of hours across SCI-reportable prime contracts, with a single named sub reported. These SCI figures capture only a narrow slice of Coleman's federal service delivery — the dataset excludes goods, classified work, and micro-purchases — and do not represent the vendor's full enterprise revenue or federal footprint.

Coleman's capability portfolio centers on land surveying and boundary delineation (35 awards across cadastral, easement, and boundary-resurvey work), general engineering services (43 awards), and remediation and environmental consulting (29 awards combined across remediation, environmental consulting, and testing services). The vendor competes across small-business set-asides (Total Small Business designations on 28% of recent awards) and full-and-open procurements, with no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB certifications noted in the source. Work is performed primarily at the contractor's headquarters in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and at subordinate sites across the Midwest and nationally on Forest Service and NRCS properties in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Coleman Engineering Company (CEC) is a multi-disciplinary engineering firm with 2 offices in MI & 1 in WI. CEC has a team of professional engineers, registered land surveyors, scientists and technicians, along with the expertise required to provide a broad range of exceptional services. The range of services offered includes: Civil Engineering, Assistance with Grant and Loan Funding, Geotechnical/Geophysical Services, Subsurface Explorations, Geotechnical Reports, Environmental Engineering, Construction Staking, Land Surveying, Construction Materials Testing, Computer Aided Drafting and Design and Geographic Information Systems.