Dewberry Engineers Inc.

Dewberry Engineers Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation subsidiary of The Dewberry Companies LC and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, delivers geospatial data collection (LiDAR surveying, bathymetric analysis, orthoimagery processing), disaster response logistics and housing mission planning, and architectural-engineering services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across full-and-open procurements without set-aside positioning. The vendor operates on a $4.6 billion portfolio across 487 recent awards split between 94% prime and 6% subcontractor roles, with 60 years of federal contracting experience and demonstrated capacity to assemble task teams with diverse small business participation for execution.

Customer concentration anchors to three agencies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency leads both by award count (136 awards, $1.81 billion potential value) and by dollar magnitude, reflecting Dewberry's strategic positioning on FEMA's $806.9 million Logistics, Planning, and Construction Services single-award IDIQ (effective through June 2026) and execution of disaster recovery housing mission planning across Hurricane Helene, winter storm, and wildfire declarations nationwide. The U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants follows with 110 awards and $1.06 billion combined potential value, substantially anchored to the $850 million Geospatial Products and Services IV (GPSC4) multiple-award IDIQ on which Dewberry holds 54 active task orders for magnetic and radiometric surveying, LiDAR data collection, and digital elevation modeling across multi-state geographies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contributes 81 awards and $638 million, driven by Dewberry's $250 million single-award Shoreline Mapping Services IDIQ (effective through May 2030) supporting coastal mapping, LiDAR collection, and bathymetric surveying. These three agencies represent 91% of combined potential value. The Department of Justice FBI's Architectural, Engineering and Planning (AEP) IDIQs for Regions 1 and 2 (combined $327.5 million ceiling, awarded August 2024) and the Army Corps of Engineers photogrammetric mapping vehicle ($249 million, awarded February 2026) round out the top-five customer concentration.

Vehicle positioning spans geospatial and disaster-response platforms. Beyond FEMA's LPCS IDIQ, GPSC4, and NOAA's shoreline mapping vehicle, Dewberry holds the FBI AEP Region 1 ($196.5 million, August 2024–August 2029) and Region 2 ($131 million, same period) IDIQs, an ENDIST St. Louis photogrammetric mapping IDIQ ($249 million, February 2026–February 2031), an OASIS+ Unrestricted GWAC (multi-billion-dollar ceiling, no specified ceiling, December 2024–December 2029), a Customs and Border Protection cost engineering BPA ($5 million, September 2026–September 2029), Federal Transit Administration BPA ($6.075 million, September 2024–September 2029), National Resources Conservation Service land surveyor BPA ($3.5 million, September 2024–September 2029), ENDIST Savannah rapid-response A/E IDIQ ($49 million, July 2026–June 2031), NOAA coastal geospatial services IDIQ ($49 million, August 2026–August 2031), and a Missile Defense Agency SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ (announced December 2025) with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling. The vendor competes unrestricted across these vehicles without set-aside limitation and operates predominantly as prime on full-and-open work.

Activity trajectory shows volatility across the past five years—53 awards in 2022, 59 in 2023, 88 in 2024, then declining to 43 awards each in 2025 and 2026 year-to-date—reflecting both seasonality in disaster-response work and the cyclical nature of geospatial mapping procurements. Sixty-seven awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $111.9 million and face recompete exposure.

Service Contract Inventory data captures federal services contracting at $395.4 million invoiced across FY2022–FY2025 (prime records only), with FY2025 showing the strongest invoicing at $113.6 million across 145 FTEs. This represents a subset of the vendor's federal revenue—SCI excludes goods, classified work, and contracts below $150,000. FY2024 showed a dip to $55.7 million and 84.3 FTEs, while FY2022 invoiced $80 million across 98.9 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts median around $191.93/hr, with a 10th percentile of $65.21/hr (entry-level surveyors) and a 90th percentile of $1,381.70/hr (senior technical roles). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform approximately 27% of total contractor hours on average, with 560 named subcontractors reported across the portfolio. GSA Schedule labor categories span 90 unique classifications from $55.21/hr (Surveyor I, high school education) through $330.86/hr (Subject Matter Expert IV, master's degree), with no security-cleared positions offered and no clearance requirement stated. The Schedule portfolio supports field surveyors, GIS specialists, civil engineers, environmental consultants, program directors, and subject matter experts positioned to staff task orders across the FEMA, USGS, NOAA, and FBI vehicles.

Named subcontracting patterns reflect both specialized services and small business engagement. Across recent awards, Dewberry has engaged Crawford Consulting Services, Inc. (woman-owned small business) for environmental engineering on coastal work; Jensen Hughes, Inc., for fire protection and life-safety evaluation; Dynamic Aviation Group, Inc., for aircraft and pilot services on NOAA shoreline mapping; Surdex Corporation (Bowman Company subsidiary) for orthoimagery processing; Revolution Flight LLC (self-certified small disadvantaged business) for aircraft services on geospatial missions; Limno-Tech Inc. for environmental engineering on resilient Great Lakes coast initiatives; Syncadd Systems Inc. (woman-owned small business) for GIS support on Army Corps work; Emergent Performance Solutions LLC (woman-owned SDB) for MHU design; and diverse disaster recovery specialists including The Benade Group (HUBZone-certified minority and woman-owned), Diverse Disaster Recovery Specialist LLC (Black American-owned SDB), Cdee Inspection Services LLC (woman-owned), Iparametrics LLC, DRG Technical Solutions LLC, and others across FEMA disaster task orders. The vendor acts as prime on over 94% of awards and assembles subs for specialized or labor-intensive execution rather than pursuing substantive subcontractor roles to other large primes—only 30 sub-awards are present in the source, concentrated in architectural-engineering services roles to Steven Kahle Architects, Inc., The CNA Corporation, CDM Federal Programs Corporation, and Ch2M Hill–CDM PA-TAC Recovery Services. Subcontracting on federal services work averages 27% of contractor hours across SCI records, indicating Dewberry blends in-house staffing with subcontractor augmentation rather than relying predominantly on subs.

Capability framing is anchored in the work itself. Representative FEMA prime awards include a $25.2 million Search and Rescue Common Operating Platform (SARCOP) Sustainment delivery order (February 2026, firm fixed price, completion February 2031) supporting ongoing platform maintenance and operations; a $36.5 million housing mission planning delivery order for Hurricane Helene in North Carolina (October 2024, labor-hours pricing); a $19.9 million housing mission planning order for Georgia Hurricane Helene (October 2024, labor-hours); a $14.3 million direct housing mission support order for Hurricane Helene in Georgia (January 2025, labor-hours, invoiced $5.3 million in FY2025 across 14.2 FTEs at $179.32/hr blended rate); and ongoing logistics planning and construction support across disaster declarations in Florida, Texas, Iowa, Kentucky, and Hawaii. USGS GPSC4 task orders exemplify geospatial scope: a $11.7 million magnetic and radiometric surveying order for North Carolina Piedmont Bridge area (June 2024, completion August 2027); a $5.6 million geospatial data collection order for Kansas (August 2023); a $5.5 million magnetic and radiometric surveying order for North Carolina Piedmont Bridge South area (July 2023); and 54 active task orders totaling $104.7 million across the vehicle. NOAA shoreline mapping work includes a $4.1 million LiDAR and imagery collection, processing, and shoreline mapping order for Florida (August 2023, completion June 2026); a $3.0 million shoreline mapping order for North Carolina (December 2025, completion December 2027); a $1.02 million shoreline mapping order for Indiana (May 2025, completion May 2028) with subcontracted imagery acquisition to Surdex Corporation and aircraft services to Revolution Flight LLC; and $250 million in IDIQ ceiling supporting coastal resilience, national geodetic survey, and hydrographic improvement missions. Architectural-engineering work on the FBI AEP Region 1 IDIQ includes a $3.495 million delivery order for Quantico Pods B18 and B19 Program of Record and engineering services (February 2026, completion February 2027), with subcontracted cost estimating and consulting to Crawford Consulting Services, fire protection engineering to Jensen Hughes, architectural assessment to Gale Associates, and vertical transportation consulting to Michael Blades & Associates, all women-owned or small businesses. Army Corps of Engineers work spans geospatial and facility missions: a $3.13 million EPRISMS and AIGP technical support order (June 2025); a $2.57 million geospatial support order under the photogrammetric mapping IDIQ (March 2024); and LiDAR surveying and bathymetric orders on the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program and other navigation-support missions.

Corporate structure places Dewberry Engineers Inc. as a subsidiary (child entity) of The Dewberry Companies Inc. (UEI UZJ1AMPCEA77), a for-profit Subchapter S corporation parent also headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The parent company holds federal prime contract vehicles in its own right; both parent and subsidiary maintain active federal contracting registrations and pursue awards independently under their respective UEIs, with the subsidiary's $4.6 billion portfolio supporting a more granular market-intelligence focus on geospatial and disaster-response federal work. Subsidiary structure provides operational compartmentalization while maintaining integrated shared-services infrastructure (finance, HR, facilities) across the parent holding company.