National Institute Of Building Sciences

National Institute Of Building Sciences, a congressionally chartered non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC, provides building-related technical information, infrastructure standards development, facilities criteria management, and web-based collaboration platforms (primarily PROJNET and associated design review systems) to 112 distinct federal agencies as a prime contractor on a competitive, non-set-aside basis.

NIBS operates across a diverse federal customer base dominated by defense and civilian infrastructure agencies. The top five agencies by award count account for 39% of recent awards and span the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (289 awards, $143.7 million combined potential value), Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management (86 awards, $28.4 million), Federal Emergency Management Agency (72 awards, $23.8 million), General Services Administration Public Buildings Service (65 awards, $29.1 million), and Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (56 awards, $3.6 million). However, the top-potential-value ranking reveals a different concentration: NAVFAC remains dominant ($143.7 million), followed by FEMA's Mitigation Section ($74.5 million in 32 awards), Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations ($66.3 million in 39 awards), Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command ($64.1 million in 16 awards), and Defense Health Agency ($45.6 million in 49 awards). This split reflects NIBS' portfolio breadth—many small task orders from NAVFAC and Veterans Affairs sit alongside larger, fewer awards from State and Air Force.

NIBS' core capability portfolio centers on unified facilities criteria development and maintenance (particularly Unified Facilities Criteria and Unified Facilities Guide Specifications revisions for DoD), seismic and earthquake resilience standards (through National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program support with FEMA), web-based project collaboration and design review platforms (PROJNET, DR Checks, bidder inquiry systems), cost-benefit and resiliency analysis (debris management, mitigation assessments), building code standards subscriptions, and post-occupancy evaluations. Representative contract work includes a $9.79 million Air Force delivery order for Sentinel design criteria and infrastructure design manual development (awarded December 2025), a $11.46 million Air Combat Command delivery order for Criteria Management System design, development, testing, and data migration (awarded December 2025), a $4.82 million Federal Emergency Management Agency delivery order for Scientific Resolution Panels contractor support (awarded September 2021), and multiple Naval Facilities Engineering Command delivery orders for UFC and UFGS revisions, whole building design guide support, natural infrastructure criteria, and disaster resilience assessments, individually valued between $100,000 and $2.1 million.

NIBS holds five named Indefinite Delivery Contracts totaling approximately $95.8 million in ceiling value: a $49.5 million single-award IDC with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (awarded May 2024, extending through May 2029) for multi-discipline architect-engineer services supporting criteria management on the Whole Building Design Guide; an $8.65 million single-award IDC with General Services Administration (awarded August 2025, through July 2027) for nationwide architect-engineer professional services to support Public Buildings Service strategic initiatives; a $9.21 million single-award IDC with Federal Emergency Management Agency (awarded September 2021, through September 2024) for 2026 NEHRP provisions development and earthquake resilience support; a $2.0 million single-award IDC with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (awarded May 2022, through April 2027) for PROJNET Design Review and Checking System access and support; and a $1.36 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Environmental Protection Agency Office of Land and Emergency Management (awarded April 2024, through April 2027) for cost-benefit analysis services on debris management and resiliency. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count show NIBS' heavy reliance on Naval Facilities Engineering Command relationships: IDC N6247014D3006 (90 task orders, $13.9 million), N6247006D6005 (64 task orders, $7.4 million), N6247010D2009 (62 task orders, $10.5 million), N6247019D5013 (55 task orders, $17.1 million), and GSA IDC GS11P04MKD0012 (45 task orders, $4.6 million).

NIBS' recent activity shows stable engagement with award counts of 46–47 per year from 2022–2024, declining to 43 in 2025 and only 2 awards recorded in early 2026 (reflecting the data snapshot date of mid-July 2026). Across all 1,474 prime awards in the source, NIBS carries a $721.5 million combined potential value with $378.4 million obligated (52% utilization rate), and 49 awards totaling $40.6 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling recompete exposure on that magnitude in the near term.

Service Contract Inventory (SCI) data covering federal service contracts above $150,000 captured $34.5 million in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $15.1 million, 57.8 FTEs; FY2023: $8.1 million, 7.8 FTEs; FY2024: $11.3 million, 9.7 FTEs), reflecting significant fluctuations in staffing scale and potential project phase transitions or contract portfolio composition changes. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run a median of $399.02 per hour, with a 90th percentile rate of $3,111.64 per hour, indicating a tiered labor model spanning lower-cost technical support and higher-value senior subject-matter expertise. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 5% of total contractor hours, and NIBS named three subcontractors in its SCI reporting, suggesting NIBS builds most of its delivery capacity in-house rather than relying on subcontracting networks.

NIBS competes and wins on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis across all observed award activity—no set-aside designations appear in the federal contract and grant awards listed. The vendor's federal footprint is 100% prime contractor and grant recipient activity with no federal contract sub-award or grant sub-award presence in the source data, reflecting NIBS' role as an authoritative, congressionally mandated technical resource that federal agencies source directly for specialized infrastructure, building science, and facilities management expertise rather than as a tier-two supplier or subcontractor to larger integrators.