Consultant Engineering Inc.

Consultant Engineering Inc., doing business as CEI, is a minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned small business based in Phoenix, Arizona, that provides construction inspection, project management, and engineering design services for federal transportation infrastructure on an all-prime basis, competing on full-and-open contracts without set-aside designation. The vendor operates as a Subchapter S corporation and holds a dominant single-customer footprint concentrated entirely with the Federal Highway Administration.

CEI's customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration accounts for 19 of 20 awards (100% coverage by award count) and $130.8 million of the $131.6 million combined potential value across all recent work; the GSA Federal Acquisition Service holds a single $800 thousand contract. This concentration reflects CEI's core capability positioning as a construction inspection and engineering support services provider for Federal Lands Access Program projects across western and mountain-region states.

The vendor's primary IDIQ is a $69.975 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Federal Highway Administration, awarded September 2, 2021, and extended through March 1, 2027. This vehicle authorizes construction inspection, project management, and administrative support services across fourteen states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Recent delivery orders under this IDIQ exemplify CEI's scope — construction inspection for the Wyoming FLAP SHE 26(1) Red Grade Road project ($939,965, May 2026, completion September 2027), the California ERFO FS LSPDR 2023-1(1) Black Mountain Road project ($429,589, March 2026, completion August 2026), the Texas FLAP 200(1) Lewisville Lake project ($531,992, June 2025 with modifications, completion May 2026), the New Mexico FS 141(1) South Fork Negrito Creek Bridge project ($370,093, May 2025, completion November 2025), and the Nevada FLAP 500(1) Red Rock Trail project ($531,745, March 2025, completion May 2026). CEI also holds a $55 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Federal Highway Administration, awarded February 2026, covering architect/engineer construction management and inspection support services across six western states—Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming—through February 2031. A Federal Supply Schedule contract under GSA Federal Acquisition Service (award May 4, 2023, ceiling $800 thousand, expiration May 3, 2028) covers engineering services under Special Item Number 541330ENG with 18 labor categories spanning inspectors ($90.70/hr), lead inspectors ($134.41/hr), registered landscape architects ($153.43/hr), senior inspectors ($162.28/hr), project controls managers ($181.84/hr), resident engineers ($219.13/hr), and senior project managers ($286.92/hr) — no security-cleared positions offered.

Activity has been volatile. CEI received nine awards in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and four in 2026 year-to-date. Only three awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $1.5 million, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in that window. The $69.975 million primary IDIQ approaches recompete in September 2026 (four months from the source date of July 15, 2026), representing the highest-value vehicle at risk. Across the portfolio, combined dollars obligated amount to $5.8 million against $131.6 million potential, reflecting the early-execution phase of most delivery orders under the parent IDIQs.

CEI competes on a full-and-open basis across all recent awards, with no set-aside designations applied. All work is prime contracting; CEI holds no subcontractor relationships in the source data. All work centers on construction inspection, project management, and design-phase engineering for federal transportation infrastructure, almost entirely routed through the Federal Highway Administration's authority for Federal Lands Access Program and other transportation improvement initiatives on federal lands. Geographic scope spans the Mountain West and Southwest regions, with place-of-performance locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.