Cornforth Consultants, Inc.

Cornforth Consultants, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, delivers geotechnical engineering and dam safety assessment services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 99 percent of recent awards placed as a prime and the remaining 1 percent as a subcontractor to Ch2M Hill. The company operates across civil-works and infrastructure programs, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-asides, though it holds a single-award Total Small Business set-aside indefinite delivery contract with the Army Corps of Engineers.

Cornforth's capability portfolio centers on geotechnical investigations, field explorations, dam and levee safety reviews, landslide analysis, and materials engineering support. Representative prime work includes a $1.8 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers for Prado Dam materials engineering support (awarded June 28, 2024, completion December 31, 2026); a $794.8 thousand delivery order from the U.S. Forest Service, Region 6, for Great American Outdoors Act engineering oversight support (awarded September 10, 2021, completion August 23, 2024); a $466.4 thousand delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center Los Angeles for RDF safety assurance work (awarded January 7, 2026, completion January 7, 2031); and multiple routine levee inspection and geotechnical exploration orders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Malmstrom Air Force Base, and other military installations across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The company also holds a General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contract under which it delivered a $402 thousand Forest Service task order for GAOA engineering oversight. On the subcontractor side, Cornforth performs engineering services to Ch2M Hill for Cobble Beach Stairs A-E architecture and engineering work.

Customer concentration centers on the Army Corps of Engineers and its regional engineering districts. The top five funding agencies—dominated by Army Corps of Engineers (54 awards, $27.7 million combined potential value), Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Louisville (2 awards, $15 million), Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Seattle (24 awards, $14.6 million), Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Portland (47 awards, $14.5 million), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (1 award, $2 million)—account for 89 percent of combined potential value across the portfolio. The two rankings align tightly; Louisville's concentration reflects two large contracts supporting the firm's core dam safety and levee programs. Cornforth serves 18 distinct customer agencies overall, with secondary exposure to the Federal Highway Administration (16 awards, $601 thousand) and Department of the Army (18 awards).

Cornforth holds a $5 million single-award Total Small Business indefinite delivery contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for geotechnical services in the Northwest region (awarded January 19, 2022, ultimate completion July 24, 2025, with a six-month performance-period extension applied). The firm's principal parent vehicles by task-order activity are Indefinite Delivery Contract DACW5700D0011 (22 task orders), DTFH7006D00002 (18 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value), W9127N10D0001 (18 task orders, $1.7 million), W9127N07D0001 (17 task orders, $2.9 million), and W912DW18D1021 (16 task orders, $3.7 million). The source data reflects 201 total awards (prime and sub combined) since 1984, with activity averaging five to nine awards per year in the 2022–2024 period and one award recorded in 2026 to date. Only one award (combined potential value $1.8 million) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

Service Contract Inventory reporting captures three SCI-reportable prime contracts and no named subcontractor records across fiscal years 2022–2024, with combined invoiced revenue of $269 thousand. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $134 thousand in FY2022 and $135 thousand in FY2024 with approximately 0.2 FTEs per fiscal year in each case; FY2023 carried no invoiced SCI activity. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts ran from a 10th percentile of $374.92 per hour to a 90th percentile of $383.97 per hour, with a median near $379.45 per hour, reflecting senior technical labor pricing. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero percent of hours were performed by subcontractors, indicating that Cornforth delivers services through its own workforce rather than sub-reliance on these particular vehicles. GSA Schedule labor categories span eight classifications from Secretary at $55.57 per hour (high school, no experience, no clearance) through Senior Consultant II at $251.31 per hour (master's degree, fifteen years' experience, no clearance), covering CADD drafting, engineering analysis, and senior consulting roles without security-clearance specialization.