Summer Consultants, Inc.

Summer Consultants, Inc., doing business as Summer Consultants Inc., a McLean, Virginia-based small business, provides architectural and engineering design, facility assessment, and construction administration services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 1,152 recent federal contracts and IDIQs, with no meaningful subcontractor role. The firm competes in both total small business set-aside and full-and-open federal procurement, with roughly half its recent award volume carrying total small business designations.

Summer Consultants operates across a broad portfolio of federal facility infrastructure work—mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), fire protection systems, HVAC design and replacement, electrical distribution upgrades, facility modernization, and construction administration—anchored in the Mid-Atlantic and National Capital Region but extending across defense and civilian installations nationwide. Core capability examples include a $757,515 firm fixed-price delivery order from Navy Installations Command (February 2026) for a study to decentralize CNIC facilities from CUP; a $1.98 million total small business set-aside delivery order from the Marine Corps (July 2024) for Building 2001 barracks renovation at Quantico, Virginia; a $906,991 delivery order from NIH Construction (September 2024) for parking garage repairs under the NIH Architect Engineering MATOC; a $1.23 million delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District (October 2024) for the BARC Infrastructure Project at Beltsville, Maryland; and a $3.21 million delivery order from GSA Region 3 (April 2024) for architectural and engineering services supporting the AV Bryan Courthouse repair and modernization project in Alexandria, Virginia.

Customer concentration skews toward Navy and defense infrastructure. The top five customers by award count represent 44% of recent awards, with the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command anchoring volume at 150 awards ($223.4 million combined potential value). However, dollar concentration follows a different pattern: the National Institutes of Health Construction dominates by value ($804.4 million across 42 awards), followed by the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District ($524.8 million across 66 awards) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command ($223.4 million across 150 awards). These three entities account for 42% of Summer Consultants' combined potential value in the source data. The FBI, General Services Administration, and Department of Energy each place material work with the firm, signaling sustained diversification across civilian and defense agencies.

Summer Consultants holds multiple large parent IDIQs. The firm carries a $400 million NIH Architect Engineering MATOC (awarded June 2026, expiring June 2032) for architectural and engineering design services; a $500 million ENDIST Baltimore multi-discipline A/E IDIQ under partial small business set-aside (awarded July 2026, expiring July 2031); a $50 million Naval Facilities Engineering Command single-award IDIQ for MEP-FP services in the Washington area of responsibility (awarded February 2026, expiring February 2031, total small business set-aside); a $30 million FBI Architectural, Engineering and Planning IDIQ (Region 3, awarded August 2024, expiring August 2029); a $25 million GSA National Capital Region A/E IDIQ (awarded August 2025, expiring August 2027, total small business set-aside); and a $9.8 million NIST general architectural and engineering services IDIQ (awarded September 2026, total small business set-aside). The firm also holds positions on air force architect-engineering (AE NEXT) task-order vehicles and agency-specific smaller platforms. The two largest vehicles by issuance activity are Naval Facilities Engineering Command IDIQs: contract N4008014D0451 has generated 202 task orders ($30.2 million combined value), and contract N4008020D0017 has generated 131 task orders ($37.8 million combined value).

Activity has remained steady but shows recent moderation. Over the past five fiscal years, Summer Consultants received 64 awards in 2022, 81 in 2023, 72 in 2024, 57 in 2025, and 32 (partial year) in 2026. This trajectory reflects the normal volatility of delivery-order-driven prime work on large IDIQs rather than sustained growth or contraction. The recompete cliff presents a material but manageable risk: 74 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $33.7 million. This exposure is spread across multiple agencies and vehicles, with the largest concentration in Navy and Army Corps work; recompete success will depend on maintaining relationships on the firm's core IDIQ platforms.

On service contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory, Summer Consultants invoiced $14 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 reaching $4.6 million across 6.5 FTEs. SCI-reported FTE trajectory shows the firm scaled from 1.5 FTEs in FY2022 to a peak of 6.3 FTEs in FY2024, settling at 5.6 FTEs in FY2025. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run around $214.73/hr, with the 90th percentile at $743.29/hr, indicating a mix of mid-level technical and senior professional labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform 11% of total hours on average, and the firm names eight distinct subcontractors across the SCI dataset, signaling moderate reliance on specialty support for design phases and specialized disciplines. Named subs on recent awards include Stantec Consulting Services Inc. (architect-engineer partner on defense facility projects), HGA Mid-Atlantic Inc. (architectural design), Chinook Systems Inc. (women-owned small business, commissioning services), Alpha Construction And Engineering Corporation (woman-owned small business, professional design), and WDP & Associates Consulting Engineers Inc. (electrical and fire protection design). SCI figures represent a small slice of total federal services revenue—the $14 million covers only invoices above the $150,000 threshold and excludes the broader delivery-order portfolio, most of which sits in the design and fixed-price architecture/engineering space rather than reimbursable service contract arrangements.

Summer Consultants competes predominantly as a prime contractor in full-and-open and set-aside federal procurement. Set-asides span total small business (roughly 50% of recent awards) and partial small business designations; the firm does not report 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB certification in the source material. Sub work is minimal (1% of awards by count), concentrated on design-phase support for engineering and construction firms such as DW Solutions LLC, XL Construction LLC, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., and Johnson Controls Building Automation Systems LLC, indicating Summer Consultants serves primarily as a design-support subcontractor on larger construction or systems-integration primes rather than as a core delivery subcontractor.

Mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and fire protection engineering consulting firm also providing commissioning and construction management services. We specialize in sustaining, restoring and modernizing existing buildings for DoD, federal, institutional, and historic facilities. Summer Consultants primarily leads A-E teams in IDIQ contracts, serving as prime consultant on over 70 percent of all work performed.