Domestic AE Services

The Department of State Bureau of Administration established this Master IDIQ for architectural and engineering services on May 30, 2024, with ordering authority through May 29, 2029. The vehicle is a multiple-award IDIQ structured as one of up to eight prime contracts under solicitation 19AQMM21R0016, carrying a combined potential value ceiling of $50 million across all primes. Ordering activity remains open with approximately two years and ten months of remaining authority.

Four distinct primes have won awards under this vehicle to date, with no competitive concentration: Karn Charuhas Chapman & Twohey PC holds the largest combined potential value at $1.2 million (80% of the portfolio), while Mtfa Architecture, Inc., M. Arthur Gensler JR. & Associates, Inc., and Whitman Requardt & Associates LLP each hold between $42 thousand and $240 thousand. Four task orders have been issued since award, with ordering momentum slowing to a single order per year in 2025 and 2026 after two orders in 2024.

The scope spans facility assessments, strategic facility planning, building systems engineering, structural surveys, space planning, and design services. Recent orders include generator analysis and energy-efficiency studies at diplomatic facilities in Puerto Rico, security infrastructure renovation design at the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington D.C., and A&E services for Charleston Regional Center Building C in North Carolina. All four awarded task orders are unrestricted (no set-aside), and all are firm fixed price.

Obligated dollars total $1.5 million against a combined task-order potential value of $1.5 million, representing 97% utilization. Work is concentrated at Department of State properties, with the majority of orders funding Bureau of Administration programs in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area and secondary performance locations at U.S. Passport Agencies and regional centers nationwide. Each underlying IDIQ contract carries a $10 million per-year ceiling and a $10 thousand minimum guarantee across its five-year term.

Architectural and Engineering (A/E) services for studies, new construction, and renovation projects at various locations in the United States. Most projects will be in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area; with some work at other Department of State facilities nationwide (e.g. U.S. Passport Agencies, Charleston Regional Center, etc.).