The Department of Homeland Security awarded total contract funds of $13.5 billion in FY ’15, with the construction joint venture of McCarthy Mortenson topping the list of prime contractor recipients with $843 million.
McCarthy Mortenson is a combination of McCarthy Building Companies and Mortenson Construction, received the funds to build the new National Bo and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Kansas. The joint venture broke ground on the final and largest phase of the NBAF last May.
Taking the second spot was Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC], with $603.1 million followed by shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII], which builds the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutters. HII received $519.5 million in DHS contracts in FY ’15.
The top products or services that DHS contracted for were guard services for $.14 billion followed by laboratory construction, $835 million, which is for the NBAF work.
The top awarding agencies within DHS, excluding the Federal Emergency Management Agency, were the Coast Guard at $2.7 billion, DHS headquarters and related directorates at $2.6 billion, Customs and Border Protection at $2.1 billion and the Transportation Security Administration at $1.7 billion. FEMA’s awards, which totaled $11 billion, are excluded in the prime contractor totals.
A list of the top 25 contractors based on data contained in USAspending.gov follows:
Contractor $ in millions
McCarthy Mortenson NBAF JV $843 million
CSC $603.1
Huntington Ingalls $519.5
Lockheed Martin $327
Securitas AB $276.3
IBM $260
Unisys $213.7
The GEO Group $187.1
L-3 Communications $186.8
Safran Group $186
Mythics Inc. $180.6
Leidos $175
Hewlett Packard $153.6
PAE $134.8
General Dynamics $131
Covenant Aviation Security $109.7
MITRE Corp. $103.3
SAIC $102
G4S Plc $98.9
Booz Allen Hamilton $98
Sterling Parent Inc. $97.7
ESCgov Inc. $96.4
AKAL Security $95.4
Dell $91
CSI Aviation Services $90.1