VA Program Contracting Activity Central Architecture Engineer IDIQ 2025-2035

The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin awarded a 100% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) multiple-award Master IDIQ for architect-engineer services on September 25, 2025, with ordering authority extending through September 25, 2035. The vehicle carries a 5 billion dollar combined capacity and minimum guarantee of $2,500 per awarded contract.

The vehicle is actively ordering. Fifty-six task orders have been awarded since establishment, with ordering accelerating sharply: 17 orders in 2025 (establishment year) and 39 orders in 2026 through mid-July. Combined task-order potential value stands at $27.2 million, of which $25.1 million (92%) is obligated. The most recent order—for architect-engineer services to design a hybrid operating room at Hampton VA Health Care System—was awarded July 17, 2026, with a ceiling of $740,237.84.

Scope spans investigative and feasibility design, schematic and design development drawings, construction documents, specifications, cost estimates, bidding support, and construction period services for VA medical facility projects nationwide and in U.S. territories. Recent awards span hybrid operating room design, facility condition assessments, building system upgrades (chillers, boiler controls, fire protection, sprinkler systems), window replacement, and multi-year master planning efforts.

Eighteen SDVOSB primes hold awards. The top four by potential value—AE Works LTD ($6 million across 3 orders), Toland Mizell Molnar LLC ($5.1 million across 9 orders), Awen Solutions Group, LLC ($3.3 million across 9 orders), and Above Group Inc. ($3.1 million across 4 orders)—hold 74% of combined potential value. Competition is moderately concentrated. The remaining field of smaller firms spreads the remaining 26% across 14 firms, with Northeast Infrastructure LLC at $2.7 million (6 orders) representing the largest among the long tail.

Customer concentration is high. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 (VISN 6) drives $10.1 million (37% of potential value) across 10 orders; the VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin accounts for $4.2 million across 19 orders; and VISN 16, 23, and 20 together represent an additional $7.1 million. About 82% of task orders flow to the top five customer organizations within VA.

The set-aside mix reflects the vehicle's SDVOSB reservation: 68% of orders are SDVOSB competitive, 30% carry no set-aside (likely reserved-pool awards to SDVOSB firms), and 2% are SDVOSB sole-source. Task-order values range from under $3,000 (third-party fire protection reviews, ALTA surveys) to $5.2 million (VISN 6 master planning). Typical performance periods extend 12 to 36 months from award; longer engagements including the Minneapolis chilled water study and multi-year master planning reach into 2027–2031. The VA reserves the right to reopen competition via on-ramp during the contract term.