The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, a large for-profit construction management and general contracting firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, delivers design-build, design-bid-build, and general construction services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across military and civilian facilities nationwide. The company competes under full-and-open, unrestricted procurement with no small business set-asides and operates without SBA designations.

Whiting-Turner's federal footprint centers on military construction and facility renovation. Recent representative work includes a $400 million accelerated design-build order from the Coast Guard for barracks, training facility, galley, and firehouse construction at USCG Training Center Cape May, New Jersey (April 2026); a $173.7 million Base Seattle CERCLA cleanup and homeport Phase 1B project for the Coast Guard in Seattle, Washington (September 2026); a $255.9 million design-build renovation and consolidation of Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics facilities at the GSA Suitland Federal Center in Maryland (December 2022); and a $163.1 million definitive contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command for Hurricane Florence recovery military construction at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina (August 2025). The company also delivers smaller-scale facility work, including a $21.8 million abatement and demolition order from GSA's Public Buildings Service (July 2026) and an $11.164 million 7th Street renovation project for the National Gallery of Art (September 2026).

Customer concentration is pronounced and lopsided toward defense. The top five funding agencies account for 50% of awards but 77% of combined potential value. Naval Facilities Engineering Command dominates by far at 82 awards valued at $45.73 billion combined potential value—representing over 60% of the vendor's entire federal award footprint. The Coast Guard ranks second with 34 awards valued at $7.66 billion. The National Institutes of Health Construction, the Department of the Navy, and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Baltimore round out the top five, collectively carrying $5.84 billion in potential value. This concentration reflects Whiting-Turner's positioning as a tier-one prime for large-scale military and federal facility construction.

Whiting-Turner holds membership on multiple significant indefinite delivery vehicles. The company sits on the National Multiple Award Construction Contract III (NMACC III) with the Coast Guard, a $4 billion vehicle effective through September 2033, from which it has drawn dozens of task orders ranging from $31.6 million to $400 million. It holds a $24 billion unrestricted design-build and design-bid-build IDIQ with Naval Facilities Engineering Command for Hawaii and Wake Island operations (awarded June 2025). In June 2025, NAVFAC awarded Whiting-Turner an $8 billion multiple-award design-build and design-bid-build contract for the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas of responsibility. The company also holds a $10 billion Customs and Border Protection design-build construction IDIQ (awarded May 2026), a $1.999 billion Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast region MACC (awarded June 2025), a $1 billion NAVFAC Northwest MACC covering Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (awarded September 2023), and a $500 million National Gallery of Art small and medium construction projects IDIQ (awarded November 2024). Additional vehicles include a $495 million Hawaii design-build and design-bid-build contract with Engineering District Honolulu (awarded May 2025), a $245 million US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District MATOC (awarded September 2024), and a $1.105 billion Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast Area of Responsibility multiple award contract (awarded November 2021).

Activity has remained stable across the past five years, averaging 18 awards per year (2022–2026), with 15 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Thirty-five awards carrying combined potential value of $1.64 billion reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure for the vendor and recompete opportunity for competitors. The portfolio skews heavily toward construction: commercial and institutional building construction accounts for 358 awards; power and communication line and related structures construction and industrial building construction comprise 25 additional awards. Top PSC codes align with the construction scope—construction of miscellaneous buildings dominates with 68 awards, followed by maintenance of office buildings and construction/alteration of miscellaneous buildings.

Service Contract Inventory reporting captures $1.07 billion in invoiced labor across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold from FY2022 through FY2025 (FY2022: $260.4 million; FY2023: $249.7 million; FY2024: $269.8 million; FY2025: $286.4 million). SCI shows significant subcontractor reliance: across prime contracts, an average of 63% of contractor hours are performed by subcontractors, drawn from a pool of 479 named subs. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts range from a 10th percentile of $86.80 per hour to a 90th percentile of $5,042.16 per hour, with a median of $575.22 per hour, reflecting wide variation across labor categories and delivery models—design-build projects with high sub engagement tend toward lower per-hour rates compared to management-intensive or specialized labor contracts. Whiting-Turner operates in a subcontracting capacity to a limited degree; only four sub-awards appear in the source (The Aerospace Corporation, GE Energy Power Conversion Naval Systems Inc., Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, and The Aerospace Corporation again), representing less than 1% of the portfolio and indicating that Whiting-Turner functions primarily as a self-performing prime rather than a feeder to larger primes.