VISN 21 Wide A-E Design 2017-2022

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 established this Master IDIQ for architect-engineering services on July 1, 2017, with a June 30, 2022 ordering deadline. Ordering is now closed; the vehicle expired over four years ago. The contract covers architectural design, construction administration, building systems design, interior and exterior renovations, new building design, medical equipment installation, landscape design, space programming, and mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and fire protection engineering.

The vehicle obligated $39.7 million of its $46.5 million combined potential value across 112 task orders, achieving 85 percent utilization. Activity was steady through 2019 at roughly 23 orders per year, then declined to 16 orders annually in 2020 and 2021 before recovering to 19 orders in 2022. The most recent task order award was August 1, 2022.

Competition is concentrated among a small set of primes. Apogee Consulting Group, P.a. captured 19 orders totaling $8.9 million in potential value—nearly double the second-place firm. DAV Energy Solutions, Inc. and Spur Design, LLC each received 10 orders with $7.2 million and $5.4 million in potential value respectively. The top five primes by potential value held 64 percent of the vehicle's combined worth. Across 15 distinct prime awardees, ordering is moderately fragmented; beyond the top five, a longer tail of mid-size A-E firms captured the remaining 36 percent of value.

Customer concentration is extreme: VISN 21 itself funded 109 of 112 orders (97 percent) valued at $44.7 million. Two other VA entities—Technology Acquisition Center Austin and VA Headquarters—split the remaining three orders.

Set-aside activity favors service-disabled veteran-owned small business. About 51 percent of orders (57 total) carried SDVOSB set-asides, with 3 percent designated as SDVOSB sole-source; the remaining 46 percent were unrestricted. Task-order values ranged widely, from minimum guarantees of $2,500 to mega-orders of $4.1 million ceiling value (chilled water infrastructure replacement at Fresno, California VA Medical Center). Typical orders fell in the low hundreds of thousands to low millions range, with multiple orders extending into mid-design and construction-period-services phases. The $10 million shared ceiling was never fully subscribed.

Work concentrated at VA medical centers and health care systems across California, Hawaii, and Nevada within VISN 21's geographic footprint, including facilities in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Fresno, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Mather, Martinez, and Reno.

The purpose of this Master IDIQ is to provide Architect-Engineering (A-E) services related to: architectural design, construction administration services, building systems design, interior and exterior renovations, new building design, medical equipment installation, landscape design, space programming, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, and fire protection engineering.