Kittelson & Associates Inc.

Kittelson & Associates Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Portland, Oregon, provides transportation planning, safety engineering, and technical consulting services to the Department of Transportation and related federal agencies as a prime contractor (61% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on larger DOT programs. The vendor operates without set-aside designation and competes in full-and-open federal procurement, with primary NAICS positioning in All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (21 awards) and Engineering Services (3 awards), supported by PSC codes emphasizing professional support and transportation research and development.

Kittelson's customer concentration is extreme and narrow: the Federal Highway Administration accounts for 34 of 38 recent awards representing $140 million of the $140.6 million combined potential value across all active federal awards — 97% by count and 100% by dollars. The remaining three awards are split between the Department of Transportation's Immediate Office of the Secretary (a $199,954 SBIR Phase I award for the Complete Streets AI Initiative: Generating, Integrating, and Activating Data for Mobility), the Smithsonian Institution ($50,000 for Independence Avenue SW urban design support), and the Department of the Interior National Park Service. Recent prime work includes a $48 million multiple-award IDIQ with FHWA for technical expertise and support services to the Office of Safety, awarded April 1, 2026 with performance through March 31, 2031; delivery orders under that IDIQ are structured as firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, or labor-hour contracts with individual task-order minimums of $25,000 and per-contract ceilings of $10 million, with instructors required to obtain National Highway Institute certification within one year of award. Additional prime awards include a $50,000 delivery order on the same FHWA IDIQ for safety office technical support (April 2026, completion March 2031) and the $199,954 DOT SBIR Phase I for AI-powered mobility network analysis tooling.

Activity accelerated from 2023 to 2024 (one award in 2023 to eleven in 2024), followed by softening to four awards in 2025 and three in 2026 year to date. Only $9.1 million of the $140.6 million combined potential value has been obligated — a 6% draw rate reflecting the recent award of large-ceiling IDIQs with minimal near-term task-order activity. Kittelson operates primarily as a subcontractor to Leidos Inc. on FHWA Office of Safety programs; the vendor holds five recent sub awards to Leidos covering pedestrian safety research on urban arterials, intersections accessibility for blind and low-vision pedestrians, part-time shoulder-use technical reference, and multimodal integration for traffic systems management and operations. The vendor also subcontracts to Alpha Construction and Engineering Corporation on a transportation-planning investigation and to The Cadmus Group LLC on DOT Reconnecting Communities Institute support.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, the vendor deployed minimal staffing: the Service Contract Inventory dataset captures zero FTEs as a prime in FY2022 and FY2024, and 0.4 FTEs total as a named subcontractor in FY2024 across four records. This reflects Kittelson's positioning as a specialized expert-consultant practice rather than a labor-intensive services provider. In its subcontract role under the National Academy of Sciences, Kittelson acts as a sub-recipient on nine federal grant projects spanning pedestrian signal design, roadway cross-section reallocation, speed management strategies, and traffic signal performance measurement, with awards dating from March 2024 through April 2026. The vendor's capital concentration in transportation safety, multimodal accessibility, and arterial-roadway planning creates both competitive moat and customer dependency — FHWA accounts for virtually all dollar potential, and recompete activity will cluster on the April 2031 IDIQ expiration.