EBL Engineers, LLC

EBL Engineers, LLC, doing business as EBL Fire Engineering, is a Parkville, Maryland-based mechanical, electrical, and fire protection engineering firm that serves the federal government overwhelmingly as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across architect-engineer design, facility assessments, life safety system evaluations, and construction administration work. The company is a for-profit limited liability partnership with no disclosed set-aside certifications; it competes predominantly full-and-open, though several recent task orders carry Total Small Business set-asides at the vehicle level.

The vendor's footprint spans 758 awards with combined potential value of $2.46 billion, though activity has moderated in recent years (22 awards in 2022, declining to six in 2026 year-to-date). Customer concentration is diffuse across 67 agencies, with the top five—the Department of Navy (76 awards), GSA Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (74 awards, $40.5 million), the Department of Interior National Park Service National Office (66 awards, $16.9 million), the Department of Air Force (55 awards, $17.3 million), and the Department of Army (44 awards)—representing 42% of award count. Potential-value concentration skews differently: the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations anchors $156.3 million across eight awards, and the National Institutes of Health adds $43.3 million across eight awards. Federal recompete exposure is modest—$5.5 million in potential value completing within the next twenty-four months across 15 awards.

Capability delivery centers on architectural and engineering services for federal facilities. Representative prime work includes a $2.4 million Air Force delivery order (March 2026) for electrical switching station design at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, a $1.4 million Air Force order (October 2023) for fire suppression system repair design at Bolling Air Force Base, a $804 thousand Air Force delivery order (September 2025) for water control system repair with SCADA controls at Luke Air Force Base under the AE NEXT vehicle, a $667 thousand Air Force order (January 2024) for architect-engineer services at Travis Air Force Base, and a $602 thousand FDA order (March 2022) for laboratory building renovation design at White Oak Campus. Fire protection engineering and life safety system work recurs across the portfolio—fire alarm design, system studies, suppression system assessments, and testing and inspection services feature prominently across National Park Service, FDA, Environmental Protection Agency, and Army Corps of Engineers task orders.

EBL holds nine named IDVs anchoring delivery capacity. The cornerstone is a $2 billion multiple-award AE NEXT contract with the U.S. Air Force (Air Force Civil Engineer Center, awarded August 2021, expiring August 2031) for architect-engineer services supporting the Air Force Construction Program globally; dozens of task orders have flowed from this vehicle, many set-aside for small businesses. A $150 million single-award Department of State contract (Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, awarded July 2021, expiring July 2026) covers worldwide fire protection engineering services and has seeded multiple task orders. A $50 million multiple-award Department of Interior MATOC (awarded September 2022, expiring September 2027) and a $40 million multiple-award EPA contract (Office of Administration and Resource Management, Regions 1–4, awarded August 2021, expiring August 2026) provide regional architect-engineer capacity. More recently, a $25 million small-business-set-aside GSA PBS National Capital Region contract (awarded August 2025, expiring August 2026 with four 1-year option periods) covers Washington, D.C. metropolitan A&E services, and a $13.7 million NIH single-award BPA (awarded September 2024, expiring September 2029) provides hospital facilities fire and life safety system oversight. A $9.99 million single-award Air Force contract (awarded September 2022, expiring September 2027) covers A&E design services at Joint Base Andrews. A $5 million Department of Energy IDC (awarded June 2024, expiring June 2029) and a $1.6 million Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing multiple-award contract (awarded August 2021, expiring August 2026) round out the core vehicle set.

EBL also maintains active position on GSA's Federal Supply Schedule for mechanical, electrical, security, fire protection, and code consulting services across 26 hourly labor categories ranging from $81.50 per hour (CAD Technician 2) through $235.14 per hour (Principal Engineer), with mid-spectrum fire protection and engineering roles priced at $140–$159 per hour. No security-cleared positions are offered; education requirements span high school through bachelor's degree.

On the 118 Multiple Award Schedule task orders tracked in the source, EBL has invoiced approximately $61.5 million in combined potential value. SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing across FY2022–FY2024 totaled $6.1 million as a prime (FY2022: $2 million, FY2023: $2 million, FY2024: $2.2 million), with government-paid median hourly rates around $109.96/hr and a 90th percentile reaching $119.98/hr on prime contracts. SCI-reportable FTE scale was approximately 8–9 FTEs per year across the three-year window. Subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable prime contracts averaged 8% of hours, with one named sub reported.

EBL operates overwhelmingly as a prime contractor, building its own delivery teams rather than relying on subs for performance; the vendor shows minimal sub engagement in the award portfolio (3 sub awards total, 0.4% of recent activity). Where the vendor does subcontract, it performs to larger primes: recent sub work includes consulting engineering on building automation systems at Aberdeen Proving Ground to Johnson Controls and architectural and engineering support on a Tobyhanna Army Depot MATOC to a shared-capacity vehicle. The vendor's business model is prime-centric, and teaming arrangements—if pursued—would place EBL in a junior sub role rather than as a teaming prime.

EBL specializes in mechanical, electrical, and fire protection engineering, code consulting, life safety, energy conservation, facilities management, and construction phase services.