Bailey Edward Design, Inc.

Bailey Edward Design, Inc., doing business as Bailey Edward A/E/C, a Chicago-based SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business and self-certified small disadvantaged business, delivers architectural, engineering, and construction administration services to civilian federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor on delivery orders under indefinite-delivery vehicles. The vendor competes across set-aside and full-and-open designations, with total small business set-asides appearing on several of its held IDIQs and task orders, though the majority of recent award volume is unset or partial small business.

Bailey Edward's federal footprint centers on facility design, renovation, and infrastructure modernization across the Midwest and broader regions. Representative work includes a $1.1 million delivery order from the Department of Agriculture for design of a poultry research facility (March 2025, full-and-open, USDA Midwest Area); a $807 thousand order for headquarters and meeting space design at USDA facilities in Stratford, Wisconsin (August 2024, full-and-open, USDA Midwest Area); a $576 thousand order for architectural and engineering services supporting construction of a new headhouse and greenhouse at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois (September 2023, full-and-open, USDA); a $558 thousand delivery order for Hammond Bay Biological Station renovation and modernization design on Lake Huron, Michigan (October 2022, full-and-open, Department of Interior); and an $807 thousand order for steam vault upgrade studies and design (September 2025, full-and-open, USDA Midwest Area). Scope spans pre-design investigation, schematic design, construction documentation, construction administration, building system assessments, facility envelope studies, fire and intrusion alarm system design, and historic preservation work.

Customer concentration is sharp and geographically anchored. The top five customer agencies account for 61 percent of all awards by count and 56 percent by potential value, with the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 5 dominating both metrics at 187 awards valued at $98.2 million combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Midwest Area ranks second with 108 awards at $30.2 million combined potential. The National Park Service Midwest Region, the Department of Interior Office of Acquisitions and Grants, and the Department of Agriculture Central Program Planning Coordination and Support round out the top five. Bailey Edward's geographic concentration mirrors this customer profile — most work clusters in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, with scattered assignments across the broader federal portfolio.

Bailey Edward holds six primary IDIQ vehicles with multi-million-dollar ceilings. The most recent is a $40 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency on December 12, 2025, for architect-engineer services supporting EPA Regions 5 through 10 across 26 states, carrying a total small business set-aside and running through December 2030. The vendor also holds a $30 million single-award IDIQ with the Department of Labor Job Corps National Office (through December 2028, total small business set-aside); a $25 million multiple-award IDIQ with the National Park Service Midwest Region for multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering design services (through September 2026, full-and-open); a $20 million single-award IDIQ with USDA Midwest Area for architecture and engineering services (through June 2028, full-and-open); a $50 million plus multiple-award IDIQ with GSA Region 5 for supplemental architect and engineering services (through September 2027, total small business set-aside); and a $900 thousand single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Forest Service Region 9 for historic preservation services (through February 2028, full-and-open). The top task-order vehicles by volume reflect GSA Region 5 dominance: IDIQ AG3K15533K1541500 generated 120 task orders valued at $6.7 million combined potential; IDIQ GS05P11SCC0068 produced 82 task orders at $4.9 million combined potential; and the PBS OH IN IL Architect Engineering Services 2017-2022 vehicle yielded 57 task orders at $4.3 million combined potential.

Award activity peaked in 2023 with 34 awards and has declined year over year — 19 awards in 2024, nine in 2025, and six through May 2026. This trajectory reflects the aging out of the PBS OH IN IL 2017-2022 IDIQ (which expired) and the maturation of established vehicles without proportional replacement from newer IDIQs at equivalent volume. Twenty-three awards carrying a combined potential value of $6.8 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure, particularly on GSA Region 5 vehicles and USDA task orders that will cycle off as underlying IDIQs expire or transition.

The vendor operates as a 100-percent prime on federal contracts; the source documents only one sub-award (a $0 value deobligation record under a Burns & McDonnell prime). Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2022–FY2024 shows SCI-reportable invoiced amounts of $1.1 million in FY2022, $540 thousand in FY2023, and $558 thousand in FY2024 across a growing FTE footprint (1.1 FTEs in FY2022–2023, rising to 1.6 FTEs in FY2024). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work show a median of around $216/hour, with senior-level labor reaching $776/hour at the 90th percentile and lower-cost delivery around $54/hour at the 10th percentile, reflecting a mix of professional and support-level staff on federal facility design and engineering tasks. Across all SCI prime contracts, the vendor performed 100 percent of hours in-house with no named subcontractor engagement — Bailey Edward builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on sub-contracting relationships.

The vendor's primary NAICS concentration is 541310 (Architectural Services), accounting for 510 of 587 awards, with 74 awards under 541330 (Engineering Services) and minimal activity in construction or research. PSC concentration aligns: 205 awards under Architect and Engineering–General for landscaping, interior layout, and designing; 139 under Architect and Engineering–Construction for office buildings; and 41 under Architect and Engineering–Construction for laboratories and clinics. This deep specialization in facility design and renovation for civilian agencies positions Bailey Edward as a steady, repetitive performer on GSA and Interior infrastructure modernization work but leaves limited exposure to higher-value construction or specialized research contracts.

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.