Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., doing business as Jacobs, is a large for-profit architecture, engineering, environmental remediation, and infrastructure services firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that competes as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) across full-and-open federal procurements with no set-aside posture. The company operates through a parent entity, Jacobs Solutions Inc., and over 145 named subsidiaries spanning project management, joint ventures, and specialized service lines.

Jacobs' federal capability footprint centers on architect-engineer design services, environmental site remediation and monitoring, facilities infrastructure support, and technical consulting across civilian and defense agencies. Representative work includes a $3.02 billion combined potential value set of 43 awards from the Air Force Materiel Command Civil Engineer Center for facilities and engineering design-build projects; a $92.5 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for environmental remediation, compliance, and monitoring services at Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California, spanning groundwater sampling, soil cleanup, fire suppression support, air monitoring, and bioremediation pilot operations; a $7.23 million delivery order from the Air Force for architect-engineer services supporting the Air Force Materiel Command Headquarters renovation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; a $7.17 million contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for environmental restoration and remediation at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant; and a $3.58 million delivery order from the Bureau of Reclamation for Lower Snake River water supply study engineering services. Environmental remediation, engineering services, and architectural services account for over 80% of Jacobs' award volume by NAICS category.

Customer concentration is highly skewed toward defense and federal infrastructure missions. The top five funding agencies by award count include the Department of the Air Force (440 awards), the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency (238 awards, $87.1 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy (204 awards), the Department of the Army (163 awards), and the Environmental Protection Agency (111 awards), collectively covering 65% of recent awards. However, the dollar ranking diverges sharply: the Air Force Materiel Command Civil Engineer Center anchors 43 awards with $3.02 billion in combined potential value (82% of the portfolio's dollar total), while the Army Corps of Engineers mobile, Louisville, and Alaska districts together account for $659.3 million across 115 awards. This concentration reflects Jacobs' deep entrenchment on military construction and environmental compliance IDIQs rather than distributed small-order activity.

Jacobs holds positions on five major parent indefinite-delivery vehicles: the Navy's Indefinite Delivery Contract N6871189D9296 (172 task orders), the Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contracts FA890308D8773 (143 task orders, $141.8 million combined potential value) and FA890304D8673 (117 task orders, $48.5 million combined potential value), the Army's Indefinite Delivery Contract W911KB06D0006 (64 task orders, $145 million combined potential value), and an Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract F4162403D8605 (103 task orders, $9.7 million combined potential value). These vehicles enable rapid deployment of task orders for architect-engineer and facilities support services across military installations.

Award activity has trended upward over recent years—11 awards in 2022 to 39 in 2023 to 33 in 2024—with 22 awards (combined potential value $38.1 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. The SCI dataset shows Jacobs invoiced $10.2 million across 41 reportable service contracts from FY2022 through FY2024, with FY2024 invoicing of $7.5 million across 13.8 FTEs and rising activity. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $260.65/hr, with senior labor pricing through $480.77/hr and entry-level work from $108.61/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Jacobs self-performed all reported contractor hours with zero reliance on subcontractor labor.

Jacobs operates predominantly as a prime contractor, building delivery teams in-house; recent subcontractor relationships visible in the prime awards show engagement with specialized environmental and technical firms including Eurofins Environment Testing Southwest LLC and Emax Laboratories Inc. for laboratory analysis, Blaine TECH Services Inc. (woman-owned small business) for groundwater sampling, B.L. Hall Inc. (woman-owned small disadvantaged business) for environmental technical services, and Cascade Drilling L.P., Roberts Environmental Drilling Inc., and Yellow Jacket Drilling Services for drilling and in-situ remediation. These partnerships cluster around environmental remediation work rather than representing a subcontracting-dependent delivery model. In its limited subcontractor role (2% of awards), Jacobs performs labor-hours and subcontractor services under Research Triangle Institute on Department of Defense environmental testing and method validation efforts, under BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services on architectural services and procurement support, and under Battelle Memorial Institute on operations and safety intervention support.