Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a large for-profit engineering and technical services firm headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor on 968 federal awards (97% of its recent footprint) delivering architecture, engineering, environmental remediation, construction management, and infrastructure solutions to civilian and defense agencies on full-and-open, unrestricted basis. The firm competes as a large business without set-asides; it is a child entity of parent Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, TX).

Jacobs executes federal work across three primary capability areas: architectural and engineering design services (587 awards under NAICS 541330, Engineering Services, and 344 under 541310, Architectural Services); environmental remediation and Superfund site support (20 awards); and construction management and technical consulting. Recent representative prime work includes a $88 million time-and-materials delivery order from Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for agile software development and mission planning capabilities under GSA MAS; a $15.7 million FAA order for Air Route Traffic Control Center prototype design; a $10.7 million EPA Region 5 delivery order for Milwaukee Estuary Superfund remedial design; a $12.2 million Army Corps of Engineers task order for remedial action at Dry Canyon Artillery Range in California; and a $12.8 million DoD delivery order for architect-engineer services supporting B-21 Stealth Bomber beddown at Dyess Air Force Base. GSA Schedule rates span $99.55/hr for administrative roles to $313.59/hr for principal-level positions, with median government-paid rates on SCI-reportable contracts running $165.24/hr across engineering and planning disciplines.

Customer concentration is extreme and split between two dominant agencies. The Internal Revenue Service anchors 90 awards valued at $1.35 billion combined potential value (15% of total portfolio), primarily for workplace engagement studies, facility security design, electrical system upgrades, and construction administration at IRS campuses. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Headquarters commands 64 awards worth $1.07 billion in potential value for terminal facilities design, air traffic control infrastructure, and related engineering services. These two customers account for 174 of 380 awards across the top-five customer set. Beyond the IRS and FAA, NASA Kennedy Space Center places 18 awards ($607.1 million potential value) for facility design and infrastructure at launch complexes; EPA Region 5 issues 13 awards ($495.1 million) for Superfund site remediation and environmental engineering; and the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District accounts for 66 awards ($182 million) supporting civil works and infrastructure projects. Together, the top five customer agencies represent 42% of combined potential value across 996 total awards.

Jacobs holds a portfolio of major parent indefinite-delivery vehicles. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries the highest task-order volume (106 orders, $1.25 billion potential value) and enables rapid procurement of architecture and engineering services across civilian agencies. Army and Air National Guard Nationwide A-E Services (2015–2020) vehicle hosts 72 task orders ($43.9 million). EPA Region 5's $450 million Superfund and Great Lakes Architect-Engineer Services contract issued numerous delivery orders for remedial design and environmental investigation at contaminated sites. The FAA Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Tier 1 Southwestern Region vehicle carries a $271.95 million ceiling; the Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Architecture and Engineering Services contract holds a $200 million ceiling through May 2028. Recent IDV awards in 2025–2026 include a $490 million CBP Construction Management Advisor BPA, a $900 million Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division MATOC for A-E services, an $88 million NASA Glenn Research Center contract for architect-engineer services through July 2028, and multiple IIJA-funded FAA and Army Corps vehicles valued collectively at over $800 million through 2033–2036. Jacobs' vehicle portfolio demonstrates heavy concentration in full-and-open federal architecture and engineering vehicles, with no small business set-asides across its named vehicles.

Activity has grown steadily: 46 awards in 2022 → 69 in 2025 → 20 in the first half of 2026 (partial year). Seventy-three awards valued at $203.5 million in combined potential value are completing within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts captured at the $150K threshold and above reached $79.3 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($19.7M, $29M, $30.6M respectively) with visible FTE scaling—from 56 FTEs in FY2022 to 469 FTEs in FY2024—suggesting rapid scaling of delivery capacity on larger contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Jacobs self-performs essentially all hours; sub-engagement averages 0% with 20 named subcontractors reported across the SCI dataset, indicating Jacobs builds delivery primarily through in-house staffing rather than reliance on subcontractor labor. On the prime side, Jacobs places subcontractors as specialized partners on environmental and design work: Eurofins provides laboratory and testing services on EPA Superfund contracts; CTL Engineering provides engineering consulting; Seaworks Group (HUBZone) provides surveying; Resource International and Shannon & Wilson provide geophysical and geotechnical services; and various women-owned and small disadvantaged businesses deliver surveying, mapping, and remediation support on Army Corps of Engineers and environmental projects. Jacobs also subcontracts as a second-tier vendor to larger primes such as Bb&E Inc., Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), EA Engineering, and WSP USA on federal environmental and systems engineering programs, though sub-award volume is minimal (28 sub-awards, 3% of footprint) relative to its prime role. The vendor's competitive posture is full-and-open across all named vehicles and award categories with no set-aside participation in its recent footprint.