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Services to Government Agencies Through GSA--Engineering
GSA Contract GS-23F-0379K

General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 871 makes it easier for federal customers to acquire professional engineering services. Under contract to GSA, MRI provides these services on a delivery-order basis at negotiated prices. We can perform a broad range of engineering services—spanning from chemical, electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering—that assist government agencies in meeting their engineering needs. We can also provide expert advice and assistance through studies, analyses, and documentation of results.

Special Item Numbers

Primary Engineering Disciplines

 

 

Contact:

John Hosenfeld,
Principal Scientist
(816) 753-7600, ext.1336

 
     

Labor Categories and Rates

For additional information on the GSA Schedule or Federal procurement and contracting, click on http://pub.fss.gsa.gov/services/engineering/

MRI also provides services under General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 899, making it easier for federal customers to acquire professional environmental advisory services.


SIN 871-2: Concept Development and Requirements Analysis

Services under this SIN involve abstract or concept studies and analysis, requirements definition, preliminary planning and the evaluation of alternative technical approaches and associated costs for the development or enhancement of high-level performance specifications of a system, project, mission, or activity. Typical associated tasks include, but are not limited to, requirements analysis, cost/cost-performance trade-off analysis, feasibility analysis, regulatory compliance support, technology conceptual designs, training, privatization, and outsourcing.

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SIN 871-3: System Design, Engineering, and Integration

Services under this SIN involve the translation of a system (or subsystem, program, project, activity) concept into a preliminary and detailed design (engineering plans and specifications), performing risk identification/analysis/mitigation, traceability, and then integrating the various components to produce a working prototype or model of the system. Typical associated tasks include, but are not limited to, computer-aided design, design studies and analysis, high-level detailed specification preparation, configuration management and document control, fabrication, assembly and simulation, modeling, training, privatization, and outsourcing.

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SIN 871-4: Test and Evaluation

Services under this SIN involve the application of various techniques demonstrating that a prototype system (subsystem, program, project, activity) performs in accordance with the objectives outlined in the original design. Typical associated tasks include, but are not limited to, testing of a prototype and first article(s) testing, environmental testing, independent verification and validation, reverse engineering, simulation and modeling (to test the feasibility of a concept), system safety, quality assurance, physical testing of the product or system, training, privatization, and outsourcing.

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SIN 871-6: Acquisition and Life Cycle Management

Services under this SIN involve all the planning, budgetary, contract and systems/program management functions required to procure and/or produce, render operational, and provide life cycle support (maintenance, repair, supplies, engineering specific logistics) to technology-based systems, activities, subsystems, projects, etc. Typical associated tasks include, but are not limited to, operation and maintenance, program/project management, technology transfer/insertion, training, privatization, and outsourcing.

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Chemical Engineering

MRI provides planning, development, evaluation, and operation of chemical, biochemical, or physical plants and processes. Changes in composition, energy content, state of aggregation of materials, forces that act on matter, and relationships are examined and new and conventional chemical materials, products, and processes are produced and/or manufactured.

It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluation, or operation of chemical plants and petroleum refineries, pollution control systems, biochemical processes, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and fibers; analysis of chemical reactions that take place in mixtures; and determination of methodologies for the systematic design, control, and analysis of processes, evaluating economics, safety, etc.

Areas of Expertise

  • Biotechnology
  • Ceramics
  • Electronic components and chemicals
  • Environmental control and cleanup
  • Food
  • Petrochemicals
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Pulp and paper
  • Refining
  • Safety engineering
  • Textiles

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Civil Engineering

MRI provides planning, evaluation, and constructed infrastructure of facilities and buildings, transportation systems, water, earthworks, and other structures. It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluation, and operations of bridges, dams, highways, transportation systems, large buildings, power-generating plants, sewage systems, water resources and supply, waste treatment facilities, soil, rock, etc. It also includes the manufacture, production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing, or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental
  • Geotechnical
  • Structural
  • Surveying
  • Transportation
  • Water resources

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Electrical Engineering

MRI provides planning, design, development, evaluation and operation of electrical principles, models, and processes. It includes, but is not limited to, the design, fabrication, measurement, and operation of electrical devices, equipment, and systems (e.g., signal processing; telecommunication; sensors, microwave, and image processing; micro-fabrication; energy systems and control; micro- and nano-electronics; plasma processing; laser and photonics; satellites, missiles, and guidance systems; space vehicles; fiber optics; robotics; etc.)

Areas of Expertise

  • Aerospace and electronic systems
  • Antennas and propagation
  • Broadcast technology
  • Circuits and systems
  • Communications
  • Components packaging and manufacturing technology
  • Computers
  • Consumer electronics
  • Control systems
  • Dielectrics and electrical insulation
  • Education
  • Electromagnetic compatibility
  • Engineering in medicine and biology
  • Engineering management
  • Geoscience and remote sensing
  • Industrial electronics
  • Industry applications
  • Information theory
  • Instrumentation and measurement
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Lasers and electro-optics
  • Magnetics
  • Microwave theory and techniques
  • Neural networks council
  • Nuclear and plasma sciences
  • Oceanic engineering
  • Power electronics
  • Power engineering
  • Professional communication
  • Reliability
  • Robotics and automation
  • Signal processing on social implications of technology
  • Solid-state circuits
  • Systems, man, and cybernetics
  • Ultrasonics, ferroelectronics, and frequency control
  • Vehicular technology

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Mechanical Engineering

MRI provides planning, development, evaluation, and control of systems and components involving the production and transfer of energy and with the conversion of one form of energy to another. It includes, but is not limited to, planning and evaluation of power plants, analysis of the economical combustion of fuels, conversion of heat energy into mechanical energy, use of mechanical energy to perform useful work, analysis of structures and motion in mechanical systems, and conversion of raw materials into a final product, etc. (e.g., thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid mechanics, jets, rocket engines, internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, continuum mechanics, dynamic systems, dynamics fluid mechanics, heat transfer, manufacturing, materials, solid mechanics, reactors, etc.)

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced energy systems
  • Aerospace engineering
  • Applied mechanics
  • ASME heat transfer/K16
  • Bioengineering
  • Design engineering
  • Dynamic systems and control
  • Electrical and electronic packaging
  • Environmental engineering
  • Fluids engineering
  • Fluids power systems and technology systems
  • Fuels and combustion technologies
  • Heat transfer
  • Information storage and processing systems
  • Internal combustion engine
  • International gas turbine
  • Management
  • Manufacturing engineering
  • Materials
  • Materials handling engineering
  • Microchannel flow and heat transfer
  • Noise control and acoustics
  • Non-destructive evaluation engineering
  • Nuclear engineering
  • Ocean engineering
  • Offshore mechanics and arctic engineering
  • Petroleum
  • Plant engineering and maintenance
  • Power
  • Pressure vessels and piping
  • Process industries
  • Rail transportation
  • Safety engineering and risk analysis
  • Solar energy
  • Solid waste processing
  • Technology and society
  • Textile engineering
  • Tribology

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Labor Categories and Rates

Labor Category

Project Manager / Project Engineer- Headquarters (HQ)
Project Manager / Project Engineer - Off-Site Ops.
Principal Engineer/Scientist - HQ
Principal Engineer/Scientist - Off-Site Ops.
Senior Engineer/Scientist - HQ
Senior Engineer/Scientist - Off-Site Ops.
Staff Engineer/Scientist - HQ
Staff Engineer/Scientist - Off-Site Ops.
Associate Engineer/Scientist - HQ
Associate Engineer/Scientist - Off-Site Ops.
Assistant Engineer/Scientist - HQ
Assistant Engineer/Scientist - Off-Site Ops.
Programmer - HQ
Programmer - Off-Site Ops.
Technical Program Coordinator - HQ
Technical Program Coordinator - Off-Site Ops.
Principal Technician - HQ
Principal Technician - Off-Site Ops.
Technician - HQ
Technician - Off-Site Ops.

Government Hourly Rate

152
139
132
111
111
107
96
81
72
69
66
57
75
69
62
69
61
47
40
37

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