Bailey Edward Design, Inc.

Bailey Edward Design, Inc., doing business as Bailey Edward A/E/C, is an SBA-certified women-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Chicago, Illinois, that delivers architectural and engineering design services, facility assessment, construction administration, and related professional services to civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor. The company is a Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly under total small business and partial small business set-asides, with 100 percent of recent awards held as prime positions (594 of 595 total awards in the portfolio).

Customer concentration sits heavily with the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 5, which accounts for 187 awards carrying $98.2 million in combined potential value—29 percent of the portfolio dollar total. The Department of Agriculture Midwest Area (Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery and Central Program Planning Coordination and Support combined) represents 126 awards and $53.9 million in combined potential value across facility design, HVAC systems, mechanical and infrastructure improvements at research centers in Peoria, Madison, Ames, Morris, and Stratford, Wisconsin. The Department of the Interior, through the National Park Service Midwest Region and National Office, anchors 20 awards valued at $38.2 million for entrance stations, campground infrastructure, boardwalk and culvert replacement, and facility modernization across parks including Badlands and Cuyahoga Valley. These five customer segments account for 363 awards (61 percent of the portfolio) and $190.2 million in combined potential value (56 percent of total dollars). GSA Region 5 and USDA Midwest Area dominate both volume and dollars; the National Park Service Midwest Region places fewer task orders but at higher dollar magnitude per order, signaling a concentration on larger infrastructure modernization and historical preservation work.

Bailey Edward Design holds multiple active parent vehicles positioned across the customer base. The EPA awarded a $40 million multiple-award IDIQ for Architect-Engineer services covering EPA Regions 5 through 10 on December 12, 2025 (newly awarded). The Department of Labor's Job Corps National Office awarded a single-award $30 million IDIQ through December 31, 2028, supporting architectural and engineering services nationwide at Job Corps facilities. The National Park Service Midwest Region issued a $25 million multiple-award IDIQ through September 20, 2027, under which Bailey Edward is one of ten awardees. The USDA Midwest Area maintains a single-award $20 million IDIQ through June 28, 2028. GSA Region 5 issued a $3.75 million multiple-award IDIQ through September 6, 2027, and a $50 million multiple-award contract (now expired at July 31, 2024, but with associated task orders active through mid-2027). The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 awarded a $50 million multiple-award MATOC through September 30, 2027. The Forest Service holds a $900 thousand single-award BPA for historic preservation services in Region 9 through February 2028. Recent activity shows Bailey Edward placing high-value task orders against these vehicles: a $1.167 billion ceiling delivery order under the USDA Midwest IDIQ for NCAH data network expansion design (May 24, 2024, extended through September 30, 2027), a $807 thousand delivery order for USDA facilities design in Stratford (August 19, 2024), and a $592 thousand NCAH-NBAF COOP site study (July 14, 2026).

Activity trajectory accelerated from 2022 through 2023 (23 to 34 awards), then declined in 2024 and 2025 (19 and 9 awards respectively), with a partial recovery in 2026 (14 awards through September). Over the next twenty-four months, 33 awards carrying combined potential value of $9.8 million reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure. The portfolio is heavily concentrated in NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services) at 510 awards, with 82 awards in Engineering Services (541330 and allied codes). PSC-level concentration centers on Architect and Engineering–General landscape and design work (205 awards), followed by building construction project support at 143 awards.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold) reached $3.7 million across FY2022–FY2025, with the trajectory rising from $1.1 million in FY2022 to $1.5 million in FY2025. The FTE count grew from 1.1 FTEs in FY2022 to 2.2 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts span a median of approximately $216 per hour, with junior labor at the 10th percentile around $54/hr and senior labor at the 90th percentile running $776/hr. Bailey Edward performed 100 percent of SCI-reportable hours in-house with zero subcontractor engagement, and maintains that posture across the broader prime portfolio—the company operates as a full-service, self-performing prime rather than as a vehicle for managing subcontractor networks. The vendor holds a single sub-award (one Burns & McDonnell sub task under a program of requirements development in August 2024), representing negligible sub volume and confirming an almost exclusive prime-execution model.

A WOSB architecture, engineering, and interior design firm that delivers highly responsive customer service through measurable project management, creative solutions that transform challenges into opportunities, and an ardent focus on client success.