Aesus Design Group LLC

Aesus Design Group LLC, doing business as GC Engineering, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) headquartered in Tempe, Arizona that provides architectural, engineering, and construction management services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service as a prime contractor on multiple indefinite-delivery contracts and task orders. The vendor is minority-owned and self-certified as a small disadvantaged business; both SDVOSB and VOSB certifications expire December 17, 2027.

Aesus operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The firm's capability footprint centers on multi-discipline architectural and engineering design services for federal healthcare facility infrastructure modernization, including design packages, construction documents, specifications, cost estimates, construction period services, HVAC system upgrades, electrical distribution improvements, fire protection, plumbing and telecommunications engineering, and civil and structural engineering. Representative work includes a $308,060 delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (June 2026) for exterior refresh at the Viera Campus facility in Melbourne, Florida; a $1.15 million order from VISN 21 (January 2026) to update spaces and develop as-built plans at the Mather VA facility in California; and a $1.36 million order from VISN 8 (July 2023) for roof and HVAC replacement at two Community Living Center buildings at Bay Pines, Florida.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Veterans Affairs across multiple regional networks. VA accounts for 84 of 90 total awards (93% of award count) and approximately $5.46 billion in combined potential value, dominated by two national IDIQ vehicles and five regional VISNs. The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center awarded a multi-award $5 billion National Architect-Engineer IDIQ MATOC in September 2025 (set-aside for SDVOSB, through September 2035); this single contract accounts for $5 billion of the vendor's portfolio. VISN 8 (Florida and Puerto Rico) follows with 31 awards totaling $308.5 million in potential value. VISN 21 (Northern California and Nevada) carries 19 awards at $26.1 million, VISN 20 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) holds 13 awards at $23.3 million, and VISN 22 (Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California) awarded a $45 million single-award IDIQ in September 2025. The Indian Health Service accounts for 15 awards totaling $11.7 million. This concentration reflects a deliberate VA-centric strategy executed across set-aside and full-and-open vehicles.

Aesus holds five major parent vehicles: the National Architect-Engineer IDIQ MATOC with VA Technology Acquisition Center ($5 billion, 2 task orders awarded as of June 2026); the VISN 8 Architect Engineering MATOC ($280 million, 24 task orders); the VISN 21 Wide A-E Design IDIQ ($3.85 million, 14 task orders); a VISN 20 IDIQ ($530 million combined across related awards); and the VISN 22 IDIQ ($45 million, single award). The $280 million VISN 8 MATOC (set-aside for SDVOSB, running through November 2028) is the most active vehicle in terms of task-order volume and represents the core of the vendor's delivery footprint in Florida and Puerto Rico healthcare infrastructure.

Activity expanded from 2022 through 2023 — 19 awards in 2022 to 22 in 2023 — then contracted sharply to 1 award in 2024 before recovering to 6 awards each in 2025 and 2026. This pattern reflects the maturation and renewal of major IDIQ vehicles rather than sustained organic growth. Twenty-two awards totaling $13.1 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete risk and opportunity across regional VA networks.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $10.3 million across fiscal years 2022–2024 ($7.3 million in FY2023, $3.1 million in FY2024, zero in FY2022). Workforce scale from SCI data shows 12.7 FTEs on average in FY2023 and 10.3 FTEs in FY2024 — a small, project-based delivery organization aligned with task-order design work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run a median of $142.33 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $267.09 per hour and a 10th percentile floor at $0.00 per hour (reflecting administrative overhead allocations on some records). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for roughly 10% of total contractor hours on average; the vendor names 29 distinct subcontractors across its SCI footprint but retains most delivery in-house, supporting its positioning as a design-led prime rather than a pass-through integrator.

Aesus competes predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides on VA task orders and full-and-open competition on IHS and national IDIQ vehicles. The firm's federal footprint is tightly aligned with VA regional healthcare modernization and IHS facility infrastructure; no Department of Defense, civilian agency, or commercial client exposure appears in the recent award record.