Jensen Hughes, Inc.

Jensen Hughes, Inc., headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, is a for-profit engineering and consulting firm that delivers fire protection engineering, life safety assessments, forensic analysis, and risk-based engineering services to the federal government as a prime contractor on the vast majority of awards (88% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on selected defense and civilian projects. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open across its federal footprint, with no set-aside designations characteristic of its work.

Jensen Hughes maintains a broad federal customer base spanning 95 agencies, but customer concentration skews heavily toward defense and military infrastructure. The top five funding agencies account for approximately 50% of awards by count and 41% by combined potential value. Washington Headquarters Service (a DoD component) leads by dollar magnitude with 24 awards worth $122 million combined potential value, primarily for fire protection engineering and life safety services across defense facilities and headquarters operations. The Office of Naval Research ranks second with 168 awards and $65.7 million combined potential value, reflecting substantial engagement in Navy R&D for survivability and fire protection systems. The Department of Transportation, Department of the Army, and Department of Veterans Affairs round out the top five. The firm's federal customer concentration is split between dollar-heavy DoD work (driven by a single large WHS contract) and high-volume Navy R&D task orders at more modest individual values.

Recent capability work demonstrates the vendor's core competency portfolio. Prime contract examples include a $22.45 million Washington Headquarters Service delivery order for fire protection engineering and life safety services through April 2028; a $4.44 million Air Combat Command delivery order for power system modeling and analysis under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $623,781 Office of Naval Research definitive contract for physics-based modeling of maximum credible events in naval energy storage systems; and a $504,240 Federal Railroad Administration definitive contract investigating alternative fire-performance scenarios for passenger rail car structure and materials to support NFPA 130 standards updates. The vendor also holds a $1.2 million Office of Naval Research delivery order for fluorine-free foam shipboard transition technical support and a $220,570 order for Naval Ships Technical Manual updates and shipboard fire protection equipment evaluations. These engagements reveal a capability set spanning fire protection system design and engineering, hazard analysis and risk assessment, forensic investigation, battery and energy-storage fire safety research, testing and validation, and specialized technical support for maritime and defense applications.

Jensen Hughes holds four significant federal indefinite-delivery vehicles: a multi-agency OASIS+ Unrestricted GWAC (no dollar ceiling specified) awarded by GSA in April 2025 for integrated professional services across civilian agencies; a $150 million Air National Guard architect-engineer contract (January 2024–2029) for fire suppression requirements across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam; a $24.1 million Washington Headquarters Service single-award IDIQ (July 2023–April 2028) for fire protection engineering and life safety services; and a $15 million Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations contract (July 2021–July 2026) for fire protection engineering services at State facilities worldwide. The vendor places work under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and leverages multiple single-purpose IDIQs with the Office of Naval Research for R&D task orders. The Federal Supply Schedule (GSA contract GS23F0107K) represents the largest vehicle by task-order count (95 orders), followed by DOT's IDIQ DTRT5707D30004 (53 orders) and Navy IDIQ N0017315D2002 (44 orders).

Activity has been volatile but sustained. Awards per year peaked at 41 in 2024, following 35 in 2022 and 22 in 2023; 2025 shows 29 awards year-to-date, and 2026 (through May) carries 6 awards. Twelve awards with combined potential value of $28.8 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete opportunity. The vendor's combined potential value across all awards reaches $593.3 million, with $248.7 million currently obligated (42% of potential).

Jensen Hughes operates as a prime contractor on the vast majority of federal work. Subcontractor activity shows the vendor delivering fire protection engineering, life safety consulting, and building code compliance services to prime contractors including Stantec Consulting Services, Eastern Research Group, Steven Kahle Architects, Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations, Assurance Technology Corporation, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Dewberry Engineers, and Black & Veatch. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor shows minimal subcontractor engagement (0% sub-hours share), indicating that Jensen Hughes builds and deploys its own delivery teams for service work. SCI-reported invoicing of $1.9 million across FY2022–FY2024 reflects only the subset of federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold; this understates the vendor's total federal activity. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $160/hr, with senior roles (Partner, Subject Matter Expert, Director) pricing through $441/hr.

The vendor operates subsidiaries including Safety Management Services Inc., Jensen Hughes Korea Co., LTD, and Jensen Hughes Co., LTD., which may reflect international delivery capability or regional operating entities. Federal grant work shows Jensen Hughes as a prime recipient of NIST and National Institute of Justice project grants focused on fire dynamics simulation, pyrolysis modeling for fire growth prediction, advanced sensing and machine learning for fire pattern identification, and law-enforcement crisis response and community engagement training (Community Oriented Policing Services cooperative agreement). The NIST grants emphasize computational tool development using the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to enhance building fire protection and public safety; the NIJ grant supports fire investigation pattern recognition using terahertz spectroscopy and ultrasonic measurement. On federal services, the vendor competes full-and-open without set-aside restrictions, positioning it to compete for task orders across civilian and defense agencies on comparable terms to larger primes.