Urban Engineers, Inc.

Urban Engineers, Inc., doing business as Urban Engineers Of Erie, is a Philadelphia-based professional engineering and consulting firm that provides project management oversight, construction management, and engineering design services to federal transportation agencies as a prime contractor on both contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles, competing without set-asides in full-and-open procurements. The firm is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation registered in SAM since 2002, with 94% of recent awards held as prime.

Urban Engineers' customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of Transportation. The Federal Transit Administration accounts for 67 awards worth $977.5 million in combined potential value—83% of the vendor's total potential-value footprint. The Federal Railroad Administration holds 2 awards worth $113 million. The top five customer agencies span the Department of Transportation, GSA Public Buildings Service Region 3, the Department of the Army, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of the Navy, covering 99% of combined potential value. The concentration within FTA is stark: 67 of 141 awards reflected in the top-customers listings belong to FTA alone, with the next-largest customer (GSA-PBS Region 3) holding 43 awards but only $895 thousand in potential value, signaling that Urban Engineers' pipeline is almost entirely transportation-sector project management.

Urban Engineers' core work centers on transit infrastructure project management oversight under cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders issued against two principal IDIQs. The Federal Transit Administration's 2024 Project Management Oversight Program IDIQ, awarded September 20, 2024, carries a $670 million ceiling with an ultimate completion date of September 19, 2029. The second master contract is the Federal Railroad Administration's Support, Technical, Oversight, Review, and Monitoring (STORM) Blanket Purchase Agreement, awarded August 1, 2025, against GSA Schedule GS-10F-0292T under SIN 541330ENG (engineering services), with a $60 million ceiling through September 25, 2029. Recent task-order activity under the FTA IDIQ reflects the scope: a $16.05 million delivery order for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Region 1 project management (awarded August 15, 2025, completion March 14, 2030), an $8.30 million order for Region 9 East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor oversight (awarded September 25, 2025, completion March 31, 2030), a $7.26 million order for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Westside Purple Line Extension Sections 1–3 (awarded September 25, 2025, completion September 24, 2029), a $7.68 million order for Bay Area Rapid Transit Transbay Corridor Core Capacity Project oversight (awarded April 30, 2025, completion March 29, 2030), and a $14.82 million order for programmatic FTA project management oversight services (awarded September 20, 2024, completion September 19, 2029). The FRA STORM BPA has generated approximately $23.5 million in task orders to date.

Urban Engineers places work predominantly under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (118 task orders, $114 million combined potential value) and The Professional Services Schedule (112 task orders, $886 thousand combined potential value), alongside the FTA Project Management Oversight Program IDIQ and other agency-specific indefinite-delivery contracts. The vendor's NAICS profile is weighted toward Engineering Services (130 awards) and Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (42 awards), with PSC codes dominated by Support—Professional: Other (111 awards) and Support—Professional: Program Management/Support (41 awards).

On Service Contract Inventory, Urban Engineers reported $18.5 million in invoiced federal services revenue across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2024 representing the high point at $6.2 million across 9.5 FTEs. The vendor self-performs substantially all labor across SCI-reportable prime contracts; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share is 0%, with no subcontractors reported on recent task orders. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-covered work run a median of $265.92/hr, with rates spanning from $115.57/hr at the 10th percentile to $362.08/hr at the 90th percentile. GSA Schedule labor categories range from Technician/Drafter/Designer at $70.95/hr through Managing Engineer at $235.60/hr, with no security-cleared roles offered; education requirements span associate to bachelor's degree.

Award activity has accelerated in recent fiscal years—three awards in 2022 and 2023 combined, growing to seven awards in 2024 and eleven in 2025, with eight awards logged as of September 2026. The vendor subcontracts to Transystems Corporation on FTA risk-review support work and appears as a sub-recipient on National Transit Institute federal grants across multiple funding-year cycles (FFY2020, FFY2021, FFY2022, FFY2023). Combined with the large FTA and FRA IDIQs anchoring the pipeline, Urban Engineers' federal footprint is almost exclusively rooted in transportation infrastructure project oversight delivered from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.