Institute Of Transportation Engineers, Inc.

Institute of Transportation Engineers, Inc., a non-profit professional membership association headquartered in Washington, DC, is a prime contractor to the Federal Highway Administration for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) standards development, maintenance, and related technical advisory services, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations.

ITE operates as one of five Standards Development Organizations designated by the U.S. Department of Transportation to advance ITS standards. The organization's federal work concentrates almost exclusively on FHWA task orders under five parent Indefinite Delivery Contracts, with the largest vehicle being IDC 693JJ321D000005 ($9.75 million ceiling, awarded September 2021) that has generated 16 task orders worth $10.5 million in combined potential value. Representative recent prime work includes a $609,291 delivery order (September 2026) for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) training and engagement on a time-and-materials basis; a $1.047 million delivery order (September 2025) for ITS Infrastructure Standards work under cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing; and a $299,984 delivery order (September 2024) for cybersecurity services supporting the Advanced Transportation Controller Standards Family Phase II. Earlier representative work spans Connected Intersections Phase 2 ($1.354 million, September 2022), National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol Standards Compliance Testing ($299,817, August 2024), Multimodal and Accessible Transportation Standards Support ($438,427, October 2023), and Next Generation TMDD Standardization ($1.486 million, June 2022). ITE also invoices FHWA annually for organizational membership dues (most recent $38,955 in 2024).

Customer concentration is extreme: the Federal Highway Administration accounts for 138 of 162 total awards (89% of award count) and $110.2 million of the $110.7 million combined potential value across the vendor's federal footprint. FHWA's dominance leaves minimal diversification — the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration, the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and DOT's Office of the Secretary represent the remaining seven awards. ITE holds seats on five parent FHWA IDCs: IDC DTFH6106D00042 (27 task orders, $6.4 million), IDC DTFH6113D00026 (20 task orders, $4.2 million), IDC DTFH6116D00055 (18 task orders, $7.6 million), IDC 693JJ321D000005 (16 task orders, $10.5 million), and IDC DTFH6111D00052 (14 task orders, $5.6 million).

Recent activity has declined materially: annual awards fell from ten in 2022 to two in 2026, with only two awards issued in 2025 and one in 2024 after a two-award year in 2023. Six awards with potential value of $4.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will require recompete. SCI-reported invoicing across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold reached $2.1 million in FY2025 across 1.5 FTEs, up from $1.1 million in FY2022, indicating stable near-term demand despite the lower award count. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run a median of $500.26 per hour, with a spectrum spanning $255.25 per hour at the 10th percentile to $900.32 per hour at the 90th percentile, reflecting a mix of technical specialist and senior technical advisory labor. ITE self-performs substantially all federal work — across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average 3% share of contractor hours, with only two named subcontractors reported in the dataset.

ITE operates as a subcontractor on transportation standards and safety initiatives: the vendor subcontracts to Leidos on a $38,955-equivalent pedestrian safety task order (October 2024) under the HRSO IDIQ supporting FHWA's Office of Safety Technologies. In the federal grant space, ITE serves as a named sub-recipient under the University of Michigan on connected intersection research and validation work (May 2024) and under the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials on the National Operations Center of Excellence (January 2026) and CAT Coalition Support Services (January 2024), positioning the organization as the subject-matter authority on ITE Connected Intersection Guidelines compliance and standards certification across multiagency transportation research initiatives.