HDR Engineering, Inc.

HDR Engineering, Inc., doing business as HDR, is a 100% employee-owned architectural and engineering services firm delivering infrastructure design, construction inspection, and project management services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on an extensive portfolio of indefinite delivery vehicles and task orders. The firm operates as a subsidiary of parent company HDR, Inc., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, and maintains its operational base in Denver, Colorado. HDR competes exclusively full-and-open — no set-aside awards appear in the footprint — and operates at scale across a diversified federal customer base spanning transportation, parks and recreation, water resources, and public lands management.

HDR's federal footprint centers on transportation infrastructure and facilities engineering. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration dominates the customer base by both award count and dollar volume: 427 awards carrying $268.6 million in combined potential value represent 72% of the portfolio. Work under the Federal Highway Administration encompasses design services across the Central Federal Lands Highway Division Full Service Design 2022-2027 IDIQ ($85 million ceiling, 68 task orders through May 2027) and construction inspection services under a $69.975 million single-award vehicle through January 2027, with representative delivery orders for geotechnical investigation, final design, and post-design services on low-volume roadway improvements, bridge rehabilitation, and access road projects across 14 western states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. The second-largest customer is the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office (119 awards, $177.1 million combined potential value), where HDR holds a $45 million single-award IDIQ through June 2026 for general engineering and supporting services across over 100 projects nationwide, and has delivered Title III construction administration, architectural and engineering design, dam safety engineering, and wastewater system replacement work at Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Everglades National Park, and Mesa Verde National Park. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office represents a concentrated pocket of value: three awards carry $101.5 million in potential value, anchored by a $100 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract for dam safety engineering, emergency management, construction management, and irrigation and power facility design through August 2029. Combined, these three agencies account for 98% of potential value across the footprint.

HDR's capability portfolio is grounded in full-service architectural and engineering delivery across federal lands and facilities. Recent representative work includes a $12.478 million delivery order from the National Park Service for construction documents and supplemental services at Grand Canyon Village; a $1.819 million order from the Federal Highway Administration for scoping through 30 percent design on the North Unit Loop Road in North Dakota; a $1.421 million order for Title III SCADA programming and construction administration at Grand Canyon Village; a $1.29 million order under the Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Water and Power contract for 2025 periodic reviews of dam infrastructure; and a $779.202 million order for preliminary and final design services on the Quincy Junction Road project in California. Services span civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering disciplines; environmental compliance and permitting; geotechnical investigation and testing; cost estimation; construction inspection and administration; and project management. Subcontractors including Shannon & Wilson Inc., Woolpert Inc., GeoEngineers Inc., DJ&A P.C., and Winterton Consulting provide specialized geotechnical, surveying, environmental, and women-owned small business services on an as-needed basis. SCI data shows HDR invoiced $54.5 million across federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold in FY2022–FY2024, with median government-paid rates around $184/hr and rates ranging through $435/hr for senior labor. The SCI dataset captured 46.6 FTEs in FY2024, with subcontractors performing approximately 3% of reported contractor hours across prime contracts.

Activity has been volatile. The award footprint shows 64 awards in 2022, declining to 55 in 2023 and leveling at 34 in both 2024 and 2025, with 7 awards through mid-July 2026. Recompete exposure in the next 24 months is moderate: 43 awards with ultimate completion dates through mid-2027 carry combined potential value of $34.8 million, including multiple delivery orders across the Federal Highway Administration and National Park Service contract vehicles nearing completion. The indefinite delivery portfolio anchors HDR's federal position; primary vehicles include the Central Federal Lands Highway Division Full Service Design 2022-2027 IDIQ ($85 million, 68 task orders), the National Park Service $45 million single-award IDIQ through June 2026 (64 task orders with $30.8 million combined value), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Water and Power Architect-Engineer MAC ($100 million through August 2029), the Federal Highway Administration $69.975 million single-award construction inspection IDIQ (through January 2027), and multiple legacy Federal Highway Administration IDIQs from predecessor vehicles. HDR's historical footprint spans predecessors such as the FHA Roadwork Architect Engineering IDIQ 2016-2021 (105 task orders) and other FHWA indefinite delivery contracts (82 and 100 task orders respectively). The category concentration by NAICS and PSC is overwhelming: 616 of 700 prime awards fall under Engineering Services (NAICS 541330), with the remaining 84 split between Architectural Services (77 awards) and other professional services. By PSC, Architect and Engineering services dominate, with 246 awards for general landscaping and design, 212 for highway and bridge construction, and 123 for engineering drafting.

HDR operates as a prime contractor on nearly all work in the source footprint (700 of 703 awards, 100% of prime awards). Subcontract engagement is minimal: only 3 sub-awards appear, and SCI records show subcontractors contributed 3% of contractor hours on average across prime contracts. The vendor builds and sustains internal delivery teams rather than operating as a feeder to larger primes.