Architectural Resources Group, Inc.

Architectural Resources Group, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in San Francisco, delivers architectural design, historic preservation, engineering, and cultural resource management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on indefinite delivery and delivery order vehicles. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open, holding no set-aside positions across its prime portfolio, though it qualifies as a self-certified small disadvantaged business and woman-owned business.

ARG's customer base concentrates heavily with the Department of the Interior National Park Service. NPS accounts for 197 of 546 total awards (36% of the portfolio by count) with $110.1 million in combined potential value across three regional offices — the National Office holds $63.5 million across 82 awards, the Intermountain Region $30.9 million across 36 awards, and the Pacific West Region $15.7 million across 134 awards. The split between regional and national-office awards reflects ARG's position on multiple NPS vehicles: a $15 million single-award nationwide IDIQ for architect and engineering services supporting prior designer-of-record projects (71 task orders, $17 million combined potential value), and larger multiple-award IDIQs managed by the Intermountain Region ($4.9 million across 50 task orders) and Pacific West Region ($3.5 million across 58 task orders). ARG also holds a $900 thousand single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region for historic preservation services. The Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region and the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration round out a long tail; together with smaller agency relationships, the top five customers by potential value account for 95% of combined dollars.

Capability work centers on Title III architect and engineering services, historic structures reports, design development and construction documents, seismic assessments, and cultural landscape documentation for national parks and recreation areas. Representative delivery orders include a $4.4 million Big Bend National Park Chisos Basin design-and-construction order (NPS National Office, FY2023, now in Title III construction administration), a $1.1 million Chateau Stabilization order for structural engineering and historic preservation planning (NPS National Office, FY2025), a $1.0 million Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Title III construction administration order spanning FY2023–FY2026 (NPS National Office; SCI data show $522 thousand invoiced in FY2024 at a derived rate of $368.33 per hour), and a $407 thousand China Beach Title III services order for Golden Gate National Recreation Area (NPS Pacific West Region, FY2025). Smaller work includes landscape management planning for Zion National Park, visitor center foundation design for Chaco Culture National Historic Park, rock art and mining structure 3D documentation for the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region, and a chancery façade assessment for the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations in Ljubljana.

ARG operates as a near-pure prime contractor — 545 of 546 awards are prime positions; a single sub-award appears under HDR Engineering for a historic structure report on the Balclutha sailing ship at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Across SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor self-performed all work with zero sub-hours share. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $6.0 million across FY2022–FY2025, with peak delivery in FY2024 ($3.8 million across 3.2 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts run a median of $477.48 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $627 per hour at the 90th percentile, positioning ARG in the mid-tier of architectural and engineering services market. Recent activity has declined — ten awards in FY2024 versus three in FY2026 — and only six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $3.7 million in combined potential value, suggesting limited near-term recompete exposure compared to the vendor's longer-tail portfolio maturity. The vendor's award history spans from 1991 to the present, with 117.6 million in combined potential value and 67.5 million obligated to date across all 546 awards.

Architectural Resources Group (ARG) is a full-service architecture, historic preservation, planning, and conservation practice with offices in San Francisco, Pasadena, and Portland. As a firm, we have spent close to four decades helping clients realize opportunities in the historic built environment, to create great spaces, enhance investment, and enliven communities.

To reach our Northern California office, call 415-421-1680

To reach our Southern California office, call 626-583-1401

To reach our Oregon office, call 971-256-5324