HDR Engineering, Inc.

HDR Engineering, Inc., doing business as HDR, is a 100% employee-owned, large architectural and engineering services firm competing on full-and-open federal procurement with a dominant concentration in Federal Highway Administration and National Park Service work. The firm operates as a subsidiary of HDR, Inc., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, with operational base in Denver, Colorado, delivering infrastructure design, construction inspection, construction administration, and project management services across transportation, parks and recreation, water resources, and public lands management for civilian federal agencies.

HDR's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in two customer agencies that account for 91% of recent award count. The Federal Highway Administration leads with 436 awards carrying $270.8 million in combined potential value, predominantly delivery orders under the Central Federal Lands Highway Division Full Service Design 2022-2027 IDIQ (77 task orders, $19 million combined value) and predecessor indefinite delivery vehicles. The National Park Service National Office commands 119 awards totaling $177.1 million, placing task orders under a $45 million single-award IDIQ awarded August 2023 through June 2026 for general engineering and supporting services across over 100 national park projects nationwide. A third customer—the Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office—anchors significant dollars despite lower award count: 5 awards worth $104.8 million, including a $100 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract for dam safety engineering and irrigation and power facility design through August 2029 (the Division of Water and Power Architect-Engineer MAC, or DWP-AE). The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region and Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters complete the top five, with 69 and 2 awards respectively. The split between rankings shows FHWA and NPS dominating both volume and dollars; the Interior BIA appears lower by award count but commands substantial potential value.

Across the award portfolio, HDR is predominantly a prime contractor (100% of 714 recent awards), operating on full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designations. Capability portfolio centers on full-service architectural and engineering design—scoping through 100% design, construction documents, environmental permitting, geotechnical investigation, construction inspection, construction administration (Title III services), and project management. Representative work includes a $1.927 million delivery order from FHWA for scoping through 30% design of the North Unit Loop Road in North Dakota (August 2025), a $2.79 million delivery order from Interior BIA for the Bannock Pumping Plant Modernization project (August 2026), a $5.019 million Grand Canyon National Park Trans-Canyon Waterline construction phase contract (September 2023), and ongoing delivery orders for bridge preservation, post-design services, and environmental studies across national parks and federal lands in 14 western states. NAICS coding reflects engineering (627 awards) and architectural services (77 awards); PSC distribution spans architect-and-engineering general landscaping and design, highways/roads/bridges/railways construction support, drafting, inspection, and management engineering.

HDR holds three major parent vehicle positions: the $85 million FHWA Central Federal Lands Highway Division Full Service Design 2022-2027 IDIQ (multiple award, June 2022 through May 2027) anchoring 77 task orders; the $45 million National Park Service single-award general engineering IDIQ (August 2023 through June 2026) supporting 119 task orders across national parks; and the $100 million Interior BIA Division of Water and Power Architect-Engineer MAC (multiple award, August 2024 through August 2029) providing dam safety, construction management, and irrigation/power facility design. Predecessor FHWA vehicles (FHA Roadwork Architect Engineering IDIQ 2016-2021, 105 task orders; Indefinite Delivery Contracts DTFH6812D00013 and DTFH6806D00007, 100 and 82 task orders respectively) continue to show activity, reflecting contract continuity in HDR's FHWA relationship.

Activity has declined in recent years—64 awards in 2022 stepping down to 18 through September 2026—with 41 awards (combined potential value $33.3 million) facing ultimate completion inside the next 24 months, presenting recompete exposure across FHWA and NPS vehicles. Service Contract Inventory reporting for FY2022–FY2025 shows $74.5 million invoiced across prime contracts, with FY2024 peak of $24.6 million across 108 FTEs declining to $19.9 million across 47.8 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts span a median of $186.78/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $440.38/hr at the 90th percentile; entry-level rates show $0.00/hr variance (likely due to fixed-price reporting convention). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform roughly 3% of total contractor hours, with 14 named subs across the portfolio. Named subcontractors include Shannon & Wilson Inc. (geotechnical engineering), Woolpert Inc. (engineering and surveying), GeoEngineers Inc. (geotechnical services), Collier Geophysics LLC (ground-penetrating radar surveys), DJ&A P.C. (architectural and engineering), and smaller specialists in environmental compliance, surveying, and cost estimating. HDR self-performs the vast majority of billable labor, positioning it as a prime-led delivery model with selective subcontractor engagement for specialized technical services.

HDR competes without set-aside designation and operates full-and-open across its footprint, competing directly against large architectural-engineering firms on FHWA and NPS vehicles while maintaining sole-source and competitive positions on interior BIA and NPS work. The firm's federal contracting footprint is rooted in western states infrastructure (particularly Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) and nationwide national park support, reflecting decades of relationships with FHWA Central Federal Lands Highway Division and National Park Service management entities. Recent activity shows strong recompete dependency on FHWA and NPS vehicle renewal; with significant dollars maturing in the next two years, HDR faces material pipeline risk unless it recompetes successfully on successor contracts and maintains task-order win rates across existing IDIQs.