Institute For Building Technology And Safety

Institute For Building Technology & Safety, a non-profit organization and community development corporation headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, delivers manufactured housing inspection, factory monitoring, quality assurance, and architectural and engineering services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) with no SBA set-aside designations. The organization competes full-and-open across all contract vehicles.

IBTS's customer base concentrates heavily on disaster-response and housing-focused agencies. The top five customer designations account for 74% to 82% of awards (depending on whether ranking by award count or dollar value): the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its Community Survivor Assistance Section dominate by award volume (77 and 35 awards respectively, $32.1 million and $79 million combined potential value), while the General Services Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Housing (Federal Housing Commissioner), and HUD's Office of Single Family Housing anchor the dollar ranking. GSA's position reflects a single $160 million Federal Supply Schedule contract with a March 1, 2027 expiration that covers engineering services, program management, and consulting across a 23-category labor portfolio priced from $63.08 to $309.26 per hour with education requirements spanning high school through bachelor's degrees and no security-cleared roles.

IBTS's primary vehicle footprint consists of two large single-award IDIQs and the GSA MAS. The FEMA Transportable Temporary Housing Unit (TTHU) Technical Support Services single-award IDIQ, valued at $8.5 million with performance through August 29, 2026, generates task orders for factory monitoring, quality assurance, and forensic analysis across the housing unit lifecycle; recent work includes a $97.8 thousand task order (March 16, 2026) for factory monitoring of 115 manufactured housing units in Berry, Alabama, and a $56.5 thousand task order (April 17, 2026) for factory monitoring in Live Oak with completion targeted for October 16, 2026. The Federal Railroad Administration's single-award IDIQ, ceiling $3.6 million, running through February 28, 2027, focuses on architectural and engineering services for code compliance and project inspection at Washington Union Station, with a $1.5 million time-and-materials delivery order issued March 1, 2026, and a prior $1.8 million delivery order (March 1, 2025). IBTS also operates under the GSA MAS with 13 smaller task orders totaling $2.6 million and several smaller IDIQs.

Representative contract work spans FEMA's TTHU program (factory inspection, quality assurance monitoring, and annual maintenance services), HUD's manufactured housing oversight under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act — including a $24.6 million IPIA and SAA Monitoring and Inspection Services definitive contract (November 5, 2024, through November 4, 2029) and a $9.7 million DAPIA Monitoring & Inspection Services definitive contract (October 5, 2024, through October 4, 2029) — and the Census Bureau's $25 thousand manufactured housing survey support (March 10, 2026). Award activity remains moderate: three awards in 2022, six in 2023, nine in 2024, one in 2025, and five so far in 2026. A recompete cliff of $1.7 million in combined potential value is due within the next twenty-four months.

IBTS's core service delivery aligns with facilities support services (95 awards, primarily inspection and monitoring) and engineering services (24 awards). SCI-reported invoicing reached $6.1 million in FY2024 across 15.4 contractor FTEs on seven prime records; the government paid median rates around $211/hr, with hourly labor ranging from $187/hr at the tenth percentile through $243/hr at the ninety-fifth percentile. IBTS does not employ subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime contracts (0% sub-hours share); a single documented sub-award shows IBTS providing energy systems installation monitoring support under KBC Energy Solutions LLC as prime, executing work in Puerto Rico under a Department of Energy cooperative agreement focused on residential solar and battery storage deployments. The organization also holds a Department of Energy cooperative agreement (February 7, 2024, through December 20, 2028) as prime recipient for the Solar Homeowner Information, Needs & Education (SHINE) initiative supporting Puerto Rico's energy resilience program, with phases covering project planning and installer-facing quality assurance and consumer protection. A Rural Utilities Service project grant (September 18, 2024, through September 18, 2026) represents additional grant activity.