Kimley-Horn And Associates Inc.

Kimley-Horn And Associates Inc., a for-profit planning and design engineering consulting firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, delivers transportation planning, infrastructure design, traffic engineering, environmental consulting, and project management services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) on a full-and-open basis, holding no SBA socioeconomic certifications. The firm operates six named joint-venture and subsidiary entities, including RGD Consulting Engineers Orlando LLC (self-certified Small Disadvantaged Business), and competes across multiple parent vehicles ranging from GSA Schedules to large federal IDIQs.

Kimley-Horn's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in civilian transportation and infrastructure. The top five customer agencies by combined potential value account for 87% of the total award portfolio: the Federal Highway Administration leads with 97 awards totaling $159.9 million combined potential value, followed by the Federal Transit Administration (17 awards, $93.6 million), the USDA Forest Service (1 award, $50 million as a recently awarded Blanket Purchase Agreement), the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (11 awards, $49.3 million), and the Federal Railroad Administration (5 awards, $22.1 million). The FHWA dominates both award count and dollar concentration; the FTA's high-value position reflects recent multi-year transit system planning and design work. Agency diversity remains broad across 27 distinct customer agencies, but the FHWA-FTA-NAVFAC-FRA axis accounts for the majority of deliverable work.

Capability framing is grounded in recent named contracts. Representative prime work includes a $14.8 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Federal Railroad Administration (awarded September 2025, completion January 2029) for the New York Penn Station Service Optimization Study, which covers service optimization analysis for Amtrak operations; a $7.245 million FRA delivery order (awarded September 2026, completion December 2028) for critical infrastructure improvements and operational efficiency assessment at a Washington DC rail station, issued under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $60 million multiple-award IDIQ from FHWA (awarded October 2024, completion October 2027) for transportation planning, pavement design, performance management, traffic monitoring, safety reports and studies, asset management, environmental compliance, and engineering services supporting federal land management agencies, with 23 task orders at $14.7 million combined potential value already issued; a $40 million architect-engineer traffic engineering and transportation planning IDIQ from NAVFAC (awarded May 2024, completion May 2029) covering traffic engineering analyses, roadway design, intelligent transportation systems, and pavement studies at the Mid-Atlantic Area of Responsibility; a $50 million USDA Forest Service Blanket Purchase Agreement (awarded July 2025, completion March 2033) for Land Management Integrated Resources services including project management, natural resources consulting, restoration, and road work; and a $3.566 million firm fixed-price delivery order from US Pacific Fleet Forces (awarded March 2026, completion September 2033) for a roads and utilities site investigation at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Kimley-Horn holds seats on multiple high-value parent vehicles. The firm is a contract holder on two FHWA indefinite delivery contracts: the Transportation Planning, Pavement Design, Performance Management, Traffic Monitoring, Safety Reports and Studies, Asset Management, Environmental Compliance, and Engineering Services IDIQ (DTFH7113D00003, $60 million ceiling, 23 task orders at $14.7 million combined potential value), and a second Transportation Planning Reports and Studies IDIQ (DTFH7109D00001, 17 task orders at $4.2 million combined potential value). The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 11 task orders totaling $22.4 million combined potential value. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command architect-engineer IDIQ ($40 million ceiling) supports multiple task orders including the Wallace Creek Service Road project at Camp Lejeune ($1.931 million, completion April 2026) and traffic and transportation studies across the Mid-Atlantic region. The recently awarded USDA Forest Service LMIR BPA anchors a $50 million ceiling through March 2033.

Recent activity shows moderate volatility: the firm received 6 prime awards in 2022, 4 in 2023, a spike to 22 in 2024 (driven by FHWA and FTA delivery orders and IDIQs), 9 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 year-to-date. The recompete cliff for the next twenty-four months is minimal — only 3 prime awards (combined potential value $6.5 million) face ultimate completion by October 2026, suggesting stable vehicle tenure and low near-term recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 208 awards (prime and sub combined) is $430.1 million, with $98.6 million (23% of potential value) obligated to date, indicating the portfolio remains largely unexercised or in early execution.

Kimley-Horn's subcontractor footprint is limited but strategically placed. The firm subs to large defense primes on specialized work: Booz Allen Hamilton (Federal Railroad Administration Monitoring and Technical Assistance Support orders for Amtrak grant oversight, awarded July and August 2024), Mantech SRS Technologies (environmental assessment and consulting engineering task orders, October 2024 and earlier), Guidehouse (technical assistance for the National Scenic Byways Program, October 2024), RQ Construction (civil and electrical engineering design for Coast Guard runway recapitalization and NPS facility modernization, June and November 2025), Noblis (Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office safety program technical support, July 2025), and Huntington Ingalls (A-E design for USS Boise Shipyard Repair Berthing building complex, March 2024). The sub-award share is 13% of recent awards (27 sub-awards against 181 prime awards), reflecting a prime-focused business model with selective subcontracting to large systems integrators and specialized defense contractors.

Kimley-Horn acts as a sub-recipient on federal grants routed through state and local pass-through entities. Named grant work includes sub-awards from the Georgia Department of Transportation (Southeast Region System Plan Update, September 2025), the County of Chatham (railroad crossing elimination study for Garden City and Savannah, March 2025), the City of Oklahoma City (Vision Zero safety action plan development, December 2023), and the National Academy of Sciences (research implementation on barriers to adoption, March 2024). These sub-grant awards reflect advisory and planning support roles complementary to the firm's prime transportation and infrastructure design work.

GSA Schedule labor offerings span seven categories from $117.40/hr (Support Staff with high school education and seven years' experience) through $337.49/hr (Senior Professional II with bachelor's degree and twelve years' experience), with mid-spectrum pricing around $170–$270/hr for designers, analysts, and professionals holding bachelor's degrees and four to eight years' experience. No security-cleared positions are offered through GSA Schedules. The breadth of labor categories reflects the firm's capacity to staff multi-discipline infrastructure and transportation planning projects with mixed-seniority technical and support staff.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold carries minimal visibility: across fiscal years 2022–2025, prime records show zero invoiced amounts, with only 0.4 to 1.8 FTEs reported in any single fiscal year (FY2024 showed the highest at 1.8 FTEs), and 18 sub-contractor records reflecting small sub-engagement shares. This sparse SCI footprint is consistent with a firm whose bulk federal revenue is delivered through delivery orders against large-ceiling IDIQs and BPAs rather than through SCI-reportable service contracts, indicating that most Kimley-Horn work is either fixed-price design and engineering deliverables (not SCI-reportable service contracts) or classified and therefore outside SCI scope.