Federal contractor · BERWYN, PA

TUNNELL CONSULTING INC

TUNNELL CONSULTING INC received $60M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (+25% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $500.5M. Its largest customer was Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response ($36.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$60M
New awards
9
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.4MFY2017
  2. 22.8MFY2018
  3. 31.3MFY2019
  4. 45.1MFY2020
  5. 59.2MFY2021
  6. 61.8MFY2022
  7. 91.1MFY2023
  8. 79.8MFY2024
  9. 48MFY2025
  10. 60MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$36.4M61%
    1 awards
  2. Food and Drug Administration$27.1M45%
    6 awards
  3. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration-$247.1K0.0%
    1 awards
  4. Federal Acquisition Service-$3.2M0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$60.2M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$33.2M55%
  2. Montgomery County, MD$27M45%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · -$247.1K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$247.1K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. PROVIDE ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE (SMES) PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES IN R&D/AR&D OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPHARMACEUTICALS WITH AN ADVANCED UNDERSTANDING OF THE LICENSURES/APPROVAL OF PRODUCTS THROUGH THE FOOD$91.4M
    Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jun 5, 2025 – Sep 29, 2026· 75A50125F80006
  2. SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL CAPACITY TO SUSTAIN REGULATORY REVIEW$27.9M
    Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Apr 3, 2026 – Aug 6, 2026· 75F40126F19009
  3. PROVIDE THE CDRH WITH UP TO THIRTY-TWO (32) ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANTS TO ASSIST CDRH?S OFFICES WITH PROJECT/PROGRAM AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH CDRH'S MISSION.$14.9M
    Food and Drug Administration· Chester County, PA· Professional services· Jul 28, 2025 – Feb 26, 2026· 75F40125F19008
  4. HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COORDINATION OPERATIONS AND RESPONSE ELEMENT FUNCTIONAL DOMAIN 2:TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC, CLINICAL, AND PHARMACEUTICAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE$8M
    Federal Acquisition Service· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Mar 29, 2024 – May 26, 2026· 47QFDA24F0021
  5. TO ACQUIRE A HUMAN FACTORS/USABILITY ENGINEER AND AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST$1.9M
    Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Aug 1, 2022 – Jun 15, 2026· 75F40122F19004
  6. CONSULTANT FOR AD-HOC TOXICOLOGISTS FOR CDRH.$638.6K
    Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Jan 5, 2023 – Jun 15, 2026· 75F40123F19006
  7. PROVIDE EXPERT CONSULTANTS TO ASSIST THE CDRH WITH THE REGULATORY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CDRH.$255.8K
    Food and Drug Administration· Prince George's County, MD· Professional services· Aug 30, 2022 – Jun 16, 2026· 75F40122F19005
  8. COVID-19 LAB STAFFING SERVICES$86.8K
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Health & medical· Jun 10, 2020 – Jun 25, 2026· 75P00120F80135

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

2 companies · $390.5K reported

  1. ABSOLUTE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, INC.$299.1K
    MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. GOLDBELT FRONTIER, LLC$91.4K
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 1 subaward · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. EAGLE HILL CONSULTING, LLC$61.9M−90% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 22% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesFederal Acquisition Service · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. KAIVA STRATEGIES, LLC$118.9M−1.4% in FY2026
    IVINS, UT · 26% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. PN-HEITECH, LLC$31M−80% in FY2026
    BALTIMORE, MD · 16% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.