Mdb, Inc.

Mdb, Inc., doing business as Michael D. Baker Inc., is a Washington, D.C.-based small business that provides environmental health research support, workforce training, technical communication, conference planning, and administrative consulting services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of recent awards and as a subcontractor to environmental and research primes on EPA water programs.

Mdb, Inc. competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, though the vendor holds multiple small-business set-aside IDIQs and BPAs with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The company operates across NAICS 541611 (administrative management consulting) with secondary exposure in NAICS 541620 (environmental consulting), drawing 90% of tracked awards across federal health and environmental agencies. Mdb, Inc. maintains GSA Schedule labor rates spanning $68.57 to $481.13 per hour across 78 active categories, covering analyst, consultant, scientist, project manager, and senior strategic roles with bachelor's and master's-level requirements and no security clearance posture.

Customer concentration is extreme and agency-specific: the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) accounts for 423 awards (78% of the prime footprint) with $778.4 million in combined potential value, reflecting a long-standing relationship anchored in worker training, conference support, scientific communication, and research program support services. The Environmental Protection Agency's Office for Water ranks second with 32 awards ($2.6 million), followed by the National Cancer Institute (9 awards, $1.2 million), with the National Cancer Institute, Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command, and GSA Federal Acquisition Service collectively anchoring most of the dollar value outside NIEHS through larger IDIQs and vehicle positions. The potential-value ranking diverges sharply from award count: the Department of the Navy contracts carry $10 billion combined potential value across only 4 awards, and the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences PRESTO contract adds $2 billion across 2 awards, indicating that while NIEHS dominates transaction volume, large systems integration and research framework contracts elsewhere represent outsized dollar exposure.

Mdb, Inc. holds a multi-billion-dollar vehicle position across the government. The vendor sits on the OASIS+ Total Small Business Multiple Award IDIQ (awarded December 2024, through December 2029, ceiling value placeholder) under GSA Federal Acquisition Service, positioning it to pursue integrated professional services across management, technical, research, intelligence, environmental, facilities, and logistics domains government-wide. It also holds a $100 million NIH Conference and Administrative Travel Services IDC (NIHCATS IV, through November 2029, single-award) and carries a $10 million NIEHS Worker Training Program single-award IDC (through August 2028) and a $9.7 million NIEHS Technical, Logistics, and Administrative Support BPA (through August 2026). The vendor participates in the Department of Education's $2 billion PRESTO multiple-award research support IDIQ and holds a $1 million EPA Office of Water partial-small-business-set-aside BPA (through September 2030) for water conservation and reuse market assessment and technical evaluation. Across these vehicles, the Multiple Award Schedule dominates transaction volume with 419 task orders worth $742 million, reflecting Mdb's heavy reliance on GSA as the contracting vehicle for civilian agency work.

Activity has remained steady in recent years — 30 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 27 in 2024 — with a sharp drop to 10 awards in 2025 and 2 awards through mid-2026 in the source snapshot; this decline reflects the source's coverage window rather than a clear recompete cliff. The vendor faces $6.4 million in combined potential value across 15 awards completing in the next twenty-four months, none of which involve the NIEHS mega-vehicles that anchor the portfolio. Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $9.5 million across the FY2022–FY2024 window (prime records), with FY2024 activity at $4.9 million across 9.6 FTEs — a scale suggesting the vendor's true federal services footprint is substantially larger than SCI alone captures, as SCI excludes products, goods, and contracts below the $150,000 threshold. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed 100% of hours with zero subcontractor engagement, and median government-paid hourly rates sat around $150.94 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $290.83 per hour at the 90th percentile.

In its subcontractor posture, Mdb, Inc. feeds primarily to Eastern Research Group and General Dynamics Information Technology on EPA water programs, delivering environmental compliance, wastewater access and lead service line inventory support, conference logistics, and alternative dispute resolution and environmental collaboration services. The sub footprint is minimal (11 sub awards, 2% of the total) and concentrated in EPA engagements, indicating the vendor operates predominantly as a prime and does not systematically use subs to scale delivery. The vendor has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2003, positioning it as an established government services provider with deep institutional knowledge of NIEHS and NIH procurement rhythms and mission priorities.

business and organizational improvement, information technology, policy analysis, research, and outreach; environmental health,

homeland security, telecommunications, under-represented populations, and occupational safety and health.