Dewberry Engineers Inc.

Dewberry Engineers Inc., a Fairfax, Virginia-based engineering and consulting subsidiary of The Dewberry Companies LC, provides geospatial data collection, coastal mapping, disaster response logistics, and architectural-engineering services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) operating predominantly under full-and-open competition with no set-asides. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with over 60 years of federal contracting experience, holding a portfolio of massive indefinite delivery vehicles totaling more than $4.48 billion in combined potential value across 463 recent awards.

Dewberry's capability footprint centers on three capability pillars grounded in its award history. First, geospatial services—LiDAR data collection, bathymetric surveying, shoreline mapping, orthoimagery processing, magnetic and radiometric surveying, and digital elevation modeling—dominate the award portfolio, reflected in 116 awards under NAICS 541360 (Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services) and 104 under NAICS 541370 (Surveying and Mapping Services). Representative work includes a $3.0 million NOAA shoreline mapping delivery order for North Carolina (December 2025, completion December 2027), an $850 million USGS Geospatial Products and Services IV IDIQ for multi-agency geospatial task orders, and a $4.3 million Army Corps of Engineers delivery order for Upper Mississippi River System LiDAR and hydrographic surveying (September 2024, completion August 2027). Second, disaster response and emergency management services—housing mission planning, logistics support, temporary housing program management, and quality assurance—anchor 123 FEMA awards worth $1.79 billion in combined potential value, including an $806.9 million FEMA Logistics, Planning, and Construction Services single-award IDIQ (June 2024, completion June 2027) that serves as the master vehicle for task orders across multiple disaster declarations (North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Hawaii). Third, architectural and engineering services for military facilities and intelligence installations, reflected in 199 awards under PSC code R406 (Architect and Engineering—General), including a $196.5 million FBI IDIQ for Architectural, Engineering, and Planning services across Region 1 (August 2024, completion August 2029), a $131 million FBI AEP Region 2 IDIQ (August 2024), a $120 million Army Corps of Engineers A/E IDIQ for North Atlantic Division and Europe District (July 2024, completion July 2029), and a $39 million USACE South Atlantic Division mobile-district A/E IDIQ for survey and mapping.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to civilian disaster-response and geospatial agencies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency leads by far—123 awards, $1.79 billion combined potential value (40% of the total portfolio). The U.S. Geological Survey (Office of Acquisitions and Grants) follows with 103 awards, $1.05 billion combined potential value (24%), driven largely by the GPSC IV IDIQ, which has generated 47 task orders worth $97.5 million. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranks third with 75 awards, $586.8 million combined potential value, anchored by a $250 million NOAA Shoreline Mapping Services single-award IDIQ (May 2025, completion May 2030). The Department of Justice (FBI) accounts for 11 awards worth $434.3 million, concentrated in the two AEP IDIQs. The Army Corps of Engineers contributes 12 awards at ENDIST St. Louis and 19 awards total, worth $70.2 million across multiple A/E and surveying vehicles. In aggregate, the top five customers represent 92% of combined potential value and 75% of award count, with FEMA and USGS—both civilian mission-critical customers—dominating the active pipeline.

Dewberry's vehicle position is strategically diverse and deep. The vendor holds position on multiple-award indefinite delivery vehicles as a prime, most notably the $806.9 million FEMA Logistics, Planning, and Construction Services IDIQ (44 task orders, $215.6 million combined value), the $850 million USGS Geospatial Products and Services IV IDIQ (47 task orders, $97.5 million), the $250 million NOAA Shoreline Mapping Services single-award IDIQ, the $196.5 million FBI AEP Region 1 IDIQ, the $131 million FBI AEP Region 2 IDIQ, the $120 million USACE North Atlantic Division A/E IDIQ, and the $249 million photogrammetric mapping IDIQ with USACE ENDIST St. Louis (February 2026, completion February 2031). Dewberry also holds seat on OASIS+ Unrestricted (a $999.9 trillion-ceiling GSA GWAC, awarded December 2024, completion December 2029), and operates on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 41 task orders worth $25.2 million, including BPA positions with the Federal Transit Administration ($6.08 million ceiling, September 2024), the National Resources Conservation Service ($3.5 million ceiling, September 2024), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wetlands inventory mapping. These vehicles enable Dewberry to compete for task orders across civilian and defense agencies without re-competing the underlying IDIQ, positioning the vendor as a fixture in federal disaster response and geospatial procurement.

Activity has accelerated year-over-year in the recent past, peaking in 2024 with 88 awards, then declining to 43 in 2025 and 19 in the first half of 2026; this pattern reflects a typical cycle of large-value IDIQ awards concentrated in prior years (2024–2025) followed by execution against those vehicles via task orders, rather than a declining pipeline. Sixty-three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $124.9 million—a meaningful recompete window that includes expirations of FEMA disaster-response task orders and NOAA/USGS geospatial mapping orders. Service Contract Inventory data shows Dewberry invoiced $281.9 million across SCI-reportable prime federal service contracts over FY2022–FY2024, with peak activity in FY2023 ($146.1 million across 278 FTEs) and a significant decline in FY2024 ($55.7 million across 137 FTEs), likely reflecting the timing of billing on large fixed-price delivery orders and the completion of disaster-response surge work. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI records run around $193/hr, with a spectrum from $51.45/hr (Surveyor I) through $1,560.39/hr (specialized senior roles), and across SCI-reportable prime contracts the vendor subcontracts approximately 26% of contractor hours to an average of 374 named subcontractors per fiscal year.

Dewberry operates as a prime contractor on the vast majority of federal work (94% of recent awards are prime), and where it subcontracts, it engages a stable base of small and diverse businesses—notably HUBZone-certified, minority-owned, woman-owned, and veteran-owned firms such as The Benade Group (HUBZone, minority, woman-owned), Cdee Inspection Services (woman-owned), Iparametrics LLC (small business), Diverse Disaster Recovery Specialist LLC (Black American-owned small disadvantaged business), and Martiel Group LLC (woman-owned small business) on FEMA disaster recovery missions; and specialized technical consultants including Dynamic Aviation Group (aircraft services on NOAA GRAV-D missions), Limno-Tech Inc. (environmental engineering on coastal resilience projects), and Steven Kahle Architects (MEP engineering on FBI and DOI projects). This subcontracting model reflects Dewberry's role as a prime integrator rather than a pure service delivery firm, assembling task-focused teams to execute large-scale federal initiatives, particularly in disaster response where surge staffing and specialized expertise are required.

Dewberry's federal footprint is characterized by sustained dominance in civilian disaster response and geospatial services, deep positioning on mission-critical IDIQs with FEMA, USGS, NOAA, and the FBI, and consistent competition for task orders on full-and-open vehicles without reliance on set-aside categories. The company's 60-year track record, $4.48 billion portfolio ceiling, and concentration of awards in high-frequency customer agencies position it as an incumbent prime across federal disaster management and mapping missions—a posture that creates both durable revenue streams (renewals of large IDIQs) and competitive exposure (recompete risk on maturing vehicle ceilings and task order volume sensitivity to federal appropriations cycles, particularly FEMA disaster funding).