Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, operating through its Accounting Division as Dulles International Airport, is a U.S. government entity and airport authority that provides facility-support services and infrastructure to federal agencies as a prime recipient on federal grants and as a prime contractor on federal purchase orders — not a competitive for-profit vendor. MWAA operates Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and does not compete under set-aside designations; it serves the federal government as the airport operator providing parking, telecommunications, utilities, and facility access to tenant agencies and as the grant recipient for airport capital infrastructure projects.

MWAA's federal footprint splits sharply between modest transactional purchase orders for facility services and substantial multi-year federal grant awards for airport infrastructure. On the purchase-order side, the Transportation Security Administration anchors the portfolio with 32 awards worth $80.2 million in combined potential value, followed by the Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region (54 awards, $30 million), the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service (65 awards, $4.2 million), the Drug Enforcement Administration (18 awards, $161 thousand), and the U.S. Coast Guard (17 awards, $375 thousand). These purchase orders reflect recurring fiscal-year appropriations for parking passes (DEA, Coast Guard), telecommunications accounts (DEA, TSA), utilities (Smithsonian), and network infrastructure (Coast Guard). On the grants side, the Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region has awarded MWAA recipient funding under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116), Airport Infrastructure Grants Program (CFDA 20.117), and Airport Terminal Program (CFDA 20.118) for major capital projects: a $119.7 million grant awarded July 10, 2025, to construct a new 400,000 square-foot concourse at Dulles; $52.25 million awarded June 25, 2026, under the Airport Terminal Program for the same concourse project; $29.5 million awarded July 24, 2026, under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program; $24.5 million awarded June 11, 2026, to reconstruct runways 15/33 and 1/19; and $20 million awarded May 21, 2026, to construct new connector taxiways and reconfigure existing taxiway infrastructure. Representative earlier-phase grants include $63.2 million awarded January 31, 2023, for Phase 1 of the concourse project, $43.75 million for Phase 3, and $25 million for Phase 2. MWAA also received $14.1 million in runway reconstruction and rehabilitation funding and multiple smaller grants for taxiway work, pavement reconstruction, and airfield equipment acquisition. MWAA received $10.2 million under the American Rescue Plan Act for economic relief to airport concessions through December 2025 and $9.9 million in similar relief. In a distinct role, MWAA received a grant from the Department of Transportation Office of Procurement Operations for Operation Allies Welcome (Afghan evacuee reception at Dulles in August–September 2021), completing May 9, 2023.

The vendor's federal award portfolio comprises 525 total awards spanning 20 customer agencies, with 523 prime awards (100%) and only 2 sub-awards. The portfolio reflects 11 awards in 2026 (the most recent year captured), 8 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 9 in 2023, and 7 in 2022 — a relatively flat trajectory with slight growth. Only three awards face completion inside the next twenty-four months, carrying a combined potential value of $48 thousand, indicating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. MWAA sits on five GSA Basic Ordering Agreements for lease and rental services (GS11B01404, GS11B01537, GS11B01569, GS11B02003, GS11B01769), placing 64, 55, 49, 44, and 41 task orders respectively; these vehicles anchor $75 thousand to $2.2 million in combined potential value each. The category concentration of the award portfolio reflects MWAA's core business: 332 awards in NAICS 532100 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings), 41 awards in airport operations, 11 in parking facilities, 7 in electric power distribution, and 4 in telecommunications. PSC-level detail shows 190 awards for lease/rental of office buildings, 11 for parking facilities, 9 for utilities–electric, and 14 in other professional support.

Service Contract Inventory data capture MWAA's federal services activity above the $150,000 threshold from FY2022 through FY2025. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $412 thousand across four prime records (FY2023–FY2025, zero FTEs recorded at the contract level), with $137 thousand invoiced in each of FY2023, FY2024, and FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable federal service contracts ran a median of $8,840 per hour, ranging from $6,760 at the 10th percentile to $10,920 at the 90th percentile. SCI captures only a narrow slice of MWAA's federal work — primarily the large grant awards and recurring facility-services purchase orders exceed or fall below the $150,000 reporting floor — and therefore does not represent MWAA's total federal revenue or full scope of federal engagement. The vendor engages no subcontractors; 100% of work is performed in-house across both its prime contracts and grants.

MWAA's structure as a non-profit government entity and airport operator places it outside the competitive federal contracting market. It does not pursue IDIQs, GWACs, or set-asides, does not team with other contractors, and does not sub to larger primes. Its federal role is statutory — it operates the airports and receives federal grant funding for infrastructure capital projects and transactional purchase orders from agencies with operations or tenancy at its facilities. This profile is not that of a vendor competing for federal work; it is that of a federal infrastructure asset serving federal agencies as an end-user partner and grant recipient.