Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., doing business as Jacobs, is a large multinational architecture, engineering, and environmental remediation prime contractor that competes in full-and-open federal procurement across defense and civilian agencies without set-aside restrictions, securing the majority of its federal work as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and delivering environmental site remediation, architectural and engineering design, infrastructure modernization, and facilities management services to 86 distinct customer agencies. The parent company is Jacobs Solutions Inc.; the operating entity carries 145 named subsidiaries spanning engineering disciplines, project management, joint ventures, and government services operations. Jacobs does not claim SBA certifications and competes on its scale and technical capabilities as a large professional services firm.

Jacobs' federal customer concentration reflects heavy Air Force exposure and Army Corps of Engineers engineering services work. The top five customer organizations by award count — Department of the Air Force (440 awards), Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency (238 awards), Department of the Navy (204 awards), Department of the Army (163 awards), and the Environmental Protection Agency (111 awards) — account for 65% of recent awards. By combined potential value, however, the distribution is sharper: the Air Force Materiel Command Civil Engineer Center anchors the portfolio at $3.02 billion across 43 awards; the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Districts (Mobile, Louisville, and Alaska) collectively hold $660.3 million across 115 awards; and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center contributes $118.9 million across 43 awards, dominated by the flagship $92.5 million indefinite-delivery contract for Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) environmental remediation, compliance, and monitoring services. The SSFL IDIQ, awarded as a single-award vehicle in December 2022 and extending through November 2026, represents Jacobs' anchor position in NASA remediation work and has funded dozens of delivery orders for groundwater sampling, soil cleanup, fire suppression support, bioremediation pilots, RCRA permit work, and technical consultation across West Hills, California operations.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a subset of Jacobs' federal services above the $150 thousand reporting threshold), invoicing has grown from $930 thousand in FY2022 across 1.7 FTEs to $10.6 million in FY2025 across 17.4 FTEs, indicating scaling of direct-labor service delivery. The government-paid median hourly rate on prime contracts runs $260.65 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $108.61/hr and the 90th percentile at $480.77/hr, reflecting a mix of technical and senior-level labor. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, Jacobs self-performed all contractor hours with no named subcontractor labor share, though across the broader federal portfolio Jacobs regularly engages specialized environmental, construction, and engineering subcontractors — including B.L. Hall Inc., Eurofins Environment Testing Southwest LLC, Emax Laboratories Inc., Blaine TECH Services Inc., Ocmi Inc. (service-disabled veteran-owned), and Microbial Insights Inc. (woman-owned) — to supplement prime delivery on remediation and infrastructure projects.

Parent vehicle activity centers on five Air Force and Army Corps of Engineers indefinite-delivery contracts: Indefinite Delivery Contract N6871189D9296 (172 task orders), FA890308D8773 (143 task orders, $141.8 million), FA890304D8673 (117 task orders, $48.5 million), W911KB06D0006 (64 task orders, $145 million), and F4162403D8605 (103 task orders, $9.7 million). These vehicles provide standing authority for Jacobs to issue delivery orders for architect-engineer and environmental services across Air Force installations and Army Corps civil works projects. The portfolio carries 1,748 prime awards spanning architecture-engineering design (250 awards), environmental remediation services (528 awards), and architectural services (124 awards), with the bulk of PSC coding under architect-engineer-general categories and environmental services PSCs. Award activity peaked at 39 awards in 2023, declining to 33 in 2024 and 20 in 2025; the source captures only 7 awards in 2026 to date. The recompete window shows 23 awards (combined potential value $28 million) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate near-term recompete exposure.

Recent prime contract examples span the full scope: a $92.5 million SSFL environmental remediation IDIQ with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (single-award, FY2022–2026) funding delivery orders for groundwater and soil remediation; a $3.58 million Lower Snake River Water Supply Study delivery order from the Bureau of Reclamation (April 2024, subcontracted to AECOM and Geosyntec); a $3.48 million Cannon Air Force Base Deployment Processing Center task order (October 2023, subcontracted architectural and engineering support to Ocmi Inc., a SDVOSB); a $3.36 million Architect Engineer Environmental Support Services delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District for site investigation and remedial action at Kinross, Michigan (August 2022, subcontracted to Cascade Drilling and CT Laboratories); a $3.34 million Air Force Research Laboratory design-build-bid task order for Maxwell facility replacement at Kirtland Air Force Base (September 2023, subcontracted to Terracon Consultants); and a $1.58 million NASA Marshall Space Flight Center technical consultation delivery order for SSFL remediation (April 2023, invoiced $786 thousand across FY2023–FY2025 at rates ranging $325–$1,269 per hour, subcontracted to Blaine TECH Services and American Integrated Services). Recent sub-award activity shows Jacobs engaged as a named subcontractor to Research Triangle Institute (PFAS vapor-phase method development and validation), BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services (architectural and labor-procurement support), and Battelle Memorial Institute (real-time operations and safety intervention), reflecting a minor but growing subcontractor role to large defense and research primes. The portfolio concentration in Air Force and Army environmental and facilities work, combined with scale on multi-year IDIQ vehicles, positions Jacobs as a major federal architecture-engineering and remediation incumbent competing on broad, unrestricted vehicles rather than set-aside categories.