Short-Elliott-Hendrickson Inc.

Short-Elliott-Hendrickson Inc., doing business as SEH, is a Denver-based for-profit architecture and engineering firm that provides bridge, tunnel, and culvert inspection services to federal agencies as a prime contractor exclusively, competing in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside participation.

SEH's customer base concentrates sharply on two civilian agencies. The Federal Highway Administration anchors the portfolio with 32 awards totaling $30.2 million in combined potential value (43% of all awards), driven largely by a $15 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract for nationwide bridge, tunnel, and culvert inspections awarded September 28, 2023, with ultimate completion September 27, 2026. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service ranks second with 12 direct awards and an additional 11 awards through its Region 9 Headquarters entity, combining for $14.6 million and $11.6 million respectively. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management contributes volume through its Arizona Region, Colorado Region, and National Office entities across 60 awards totaling $6.9 million. Together, these five customer entities account for 89% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Recent representative work includes a $415,332 delivery order from FHWA (May 2026) for routine bridge and tunnel inspections of 61 National Park Service structures; a $471,065 Fish and Wildlife Service delivery order (August 2024) for bridge inspection services supporting the Division of Facilities Equipment; and a $338,277 Fish and Wildlife Service delivery order (August 2023) for summer bridge inspection trips at federal sites in Denver, Colorado.

SEH's largest parent vehicle is an indefinite-delivery contract (INL16PC00105) carrying 87 task orders and $10.3 million in combined potential value, followed by an IDC (140F0519D0001) with 20 task orders and $6.8 million. The FHWA single-award IDIQ for bridge inspection services nationwide generates the majority of recent FHWA volume through task orders ranging from approximately $41,000 to $415,000 per delivery order, covering routine inspections, load-rating calculations, nonredundant steel tension member inspections, scour evaluations, and structural assessments at National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, and National Cemetery Administration facilities.

Award velocity has trended upward — five awards in 2022 escalated to eleven in 2024 — though the most recent two fiscal years show only three awards combined, a modest pullback. Only three awards (combined potential value $939 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure for this vendor.

The portfolio is entirely prime work; SEH does not subcontract and holds no position as a named subcontractor to larger primes. SCI-reported invoicing data is sparse and dated, capturing only $965 thousand across 1.5 FTEs in FY2022, reflecting the Service Contract Inventory's $150,000 reporting threshold and exclusion of inspection and design work that may be characterized as products or fixed-price deliverables rather than labor-reportable services. Government-paid hourly rates on those limited SCI-reportable prime records ran a median of $318.46/hr with 90th-percentile rates near $319/hr, positioning SEH in the mid-range of federal engineering and architecture compensation. The company's work is concentrated in two NAICS categories — Architectural Services (90 awards) and Engineering Services (62 awards) — and spans multiple PSC codes centered on architect-and-engineering inspection and general services.