A.r.e. Design & Build, LLC

A.r.e. Design & Build, LLC, a HUBZone-certified woman-owned small business based in Houston, Texas, operates as a prime contractor delivering federal construction, repair, alteration, design-build, and incidental abatement services exclusively to civilian federal agencies across the south-central and southwestern United States. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, holding twelve active indefinite delivery contracts with GSA Public Buildings Service Region 7 and related vehicles collectively valued at over $420 million in ceiling capacity.

A.r.e. Design & Build's federal footprint concentrates overwhelmingly on GSA's Public Buildings Service Region 7, which accounts for 218 awards carrying $448.9 million in combined potential value—75% of the vendor's total portfolio. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts follows at 57 awards worth $10.3 million, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division, Customs and Border Protection, and the Internal Revenue Service rounding out the top five customer agencies. The top two customers alone represent 96% of combined potential value, signaling tight customer concentration anchored to GSA Region 7's sprawling courthouse and federal facilities infrastructure across Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Recent prime work spans roof replacement at the John Minor Wisdom Court of Appeals in New Orleans ($1.97 million, September 2026), vehicle barrier replacement at the Armendariz U.S. Courthouse in El Paso ($883,583, September 2026), window replacement at the Richard Sheppard Arnold Courthouse in Little Rock ($3.56 million, July 2025), building envelope repairs at the George P. Kazen Federal Courthouse in Laredo ($1.91 million, December 2024), and design-build of a forward operating laboratory at the Donna Land Port of Entry ($1.23 million, February 2026).

A.r.e. Design & Build holds twelve active indefinite delivery contracts with GSA Region 7, spanning geographically distinct zones (Border San Antonio, Border El Paso, Border McAllen, North New Mexico, West Texas, Fort Worth, Louisiana, and Arkansas) with ceiling values ranging from $10 million to $40 million per vehicle. All contracts carry Total Small Business set-aside designations and performance periods extending through 2026 or 2027. The vendor also places orders under legacy GSA Region 7 construction vehicles dating to 2015–2020 and a Construction Services Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) covering Tennessee and Kentucky through 2026. Task orders issued under these vehicles typically range from under $25,000 to $3.5 million and are primarily firm fixed-price, supporting courthouse renovations, HVAC replacements, building envelope restoration, window restoration and replacement, fire alarm system installations, security system upgrades, and critical infrastructure repairs at federal courthouses and administrative buildings.

On SCI-reported federal service contracts, the vendor invoiced $6.3 million cumulatively across FY2022–FY2025, with invoicing concentrated in FY2023 ($4.9 million) and FY2025 ($1.1 million across 17.4 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on these contracts span a wide spectrum—median around $29.52 per hour, with senior labor and specialized services reaching into the thousands per hour, and entry-level or routine labor at $15 per hour or below. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, A.r.e. Design & Build self-performs approximately 95% of contractor hours, engaging an average of nine named subcontractors to handle roughly 5% of labor. Recent SCI-visible work includes the San Antonio lighting modification project (FY2025: $201 thousand across 2.4 FTEs at $39.77/hr, with 2% subcontracted), the Dallas indoor air quality corrections project (FY2025: $38 thousand across 1.1 FTEs at $16.37/hr, with 57% subcontracted to two vendors), the Sam B Hall Federal Building window and envelope repairs in Marshall, Texas (FY2025: $54 thousand across 1.5 FTEs at $17.94/hr, with 56% subcontracted), and the Texarkana Post Office Courthouse historic exterior renovation (FY2025: $61 thousand across 1.3 FTEs at $23.70/hr, with 25% subcontracted).

Activity trajectory shows sustained award volume over the past five years—ranging from 39 to 58 awards annually—with 469 total prime awards in the source data and 16% of combined potential value ($96.4 million) currently obligated. Twenty-one awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $19.9 million and face recompete exposure. The vendor's award footprint is almost entirely prime delivery; no subcontract activity appears in the source. A.r.e. Design & Build operates as a dedicated federal facilities contractor anchored to GSA Region 7's construction and design-build infrastructure, competing under small business set-asides and executing work in-house or through a limited subcontractor network. The company brings substantial relevant experience to courthouse renovations, building envelope restoration, HVAC system replacements, and federal facilities modernization across civilian agencies in the Southwest and South-Central regions.

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