Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.

Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., doing business as V H B, is a for-profit transportation engineering, design, and environmental consulting firm headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, that operates as a prime contractor on federal contracts and IDIQs with no set-aside designations, competing full-and-open across civilian transportation and infrastructure agencies. The firm, which maintains over $100 million in cumulative federal contract awards, specializes in highway safety research, infrastructure design, environmental assessment and remediation, and technical support services for the Federal Highway Administration, National Park Service, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

VHB's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward transportation and interior agencies. The top five funding agencies, covering 99% of combined potential value, are the National Park Service National Office (104 awards, $430.8 million combined potential value), the Federal Highway Administration (227 awards, $339.7 million), the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (2 awards, $50.3 million), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (18 awards, $28.6 million), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $11.3 million). FHWA dominates by award count—227 awards representing 47% of the prime portfolio—while NPS dominates by dollar value, anchored by a $400.030 million multiple-award IDIQ for nationwide architect and engineering professional services awarded March 9, 2026, through March 8, 2031. This ranking divergence signals concentrated, high-value vehicle positions with NPS alongside deep task-order engagement with FHWA.

VHB holds several significant parent vehicles. The $33 million FHWA Highway Research and Development Services Technical Services Support IDIQ (award date March 16, 2022, completion September 15, 2027) has generated at least 52 task orders worth $25.8 million combined potential value for highway safety research, data administration, crash modification factor development, and complete streets implementation analysis. The National Park Service Nationwide General Architect and Engineering Professional Services IDIQ ($400.030 million, March 9, 2026–March 8, 2031) serves as a multiple-award vehicle for facility rehabilitation, historic preservation, and infrastructure design across the park system. VHB also holds an OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-award IDIQ with GSA (award December 17, 2024, completion December 16, 2029) with a ceiling carried in the source, a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources Blanket Purchase Agreement with the National Park Service (award January 28, 2026, completion March 6, 2033), and a $48 million FHWA multiple-award IDIQ for technical expertise and support services for the Office of Safety (award April 1, 2026, completion March 31, 2031). Task-order activity under the FHWA contracts includes a $2.442 million delivery order for Highway Safety Information System VII data administration and analytical services (February 1, 2024), a $1.869 million firm-fixed-price order for data-driven safety analysis communications and technical support (May 26, 2022), a $1.647 million order for EDC 7 safety initiative lighting design support (September 22, 2023), and a $1.533 million hybrid task order for pedestrian and bicycle safety technical support (August 30, 2021, extended through February 11, 2027). Work under the NPS IDIQ includes a $69,625.80 purchase order for Rafinesque Hall Cave Trail redesign at Mammoth Cave National Park (August 26, 2025) and a $28,631.23 delivery order for site planning at Linville Falls Developed Area (July 9, 2026).

Activity has declined year over year—35 prime awards in 2022 to 8 in 2026 year-to-date—reflecting a shift away from smaller task orders toward management of larger vehicles. Thirty-one awards (combined potential value $26.7 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. VHB competes full-and-open across all primary contract vehicles with no SBA set-aside participation evident in the award footprint.

VHB operates predominantly as a prime contractor (93% of awards), with 7% sub-award activity. SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $12.2 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $4 million, FY2023: $3.8 million, FY2024: $4.4 million), with an average federal FTE trajectory of 7.9 FTEs in FY2022 rising to 12.3 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-reportable service contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $70.74/hr to a median of $179.12/hr to a 90th percentile of $497.81/hr, reflecting a mix of professional-level and senior technical labor. Across SCI prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average 4% of total contractor hours, with 5 named subs reported, indicating VHB self-performs the majority of delivery.

VHB subcontracts to larger primes on specialized infrastructure and safety analysis work. Recent sub-awards include Global Benchmarking Program support to Guidehouse Inc. (December 19, 2025), design services for a Hanscom Air Force Base engineering and prototyping facility to HDR Architecture, Inc. (October 9, 2025), architectural services for MIT Lincoln Laboratory operations to MIT (September 10, 2025), international commercial vehicle driver compensation research to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (December 2, 2024), and transportation management system device placement work to Battelle Memorial Institute (October 29, 2024). VHB also acts as a sub-recipient on federal grants through the National Academy of Sciences, including research on safe system approach implementation, quantitative highway safety analysis methods, and areawide roadway safety management (awards May 2026, February 2026, October 2025, September 2024, July 2024, July 2024), as well as grant sub-work on the Move New Haven project (award December 2022, multiple awards).

VHB's capability portfolio, grounded in prime contract work, centers on transportation safety research and infrastructure engineering. Work spans crash modification factor development for pedestrian and roadway departure safety, highway safety information system data administration and analysis, complete streets implementation analysis and technical assistance, pedestrian and bicycle safety programs, speed management and traffic control device research, intelligent transportation systems benefits assessment, site planning and facility rehabilitation at national parks, and environmental assessment and remediation services. The firm's service lines also include training development—the $48 million FHWA Office of Safety IDIQ (April 2026) explicitly targets instructor-led and web-based training delivery in pavement and materials, construction and maintenance, asset management, and financial management. Engagement with FHWA spans thirty-five years of continuous task-order activity, with facility work for the National Park Service covering Lincoln Memorial undercroft rehabilitation, Statue of Liberty ferry operations, and Manitou Islands facility rehabilitation.