Bell Architects, P.C

Bell Architects, P.C., a small for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Washington, DC, provides architectural and engineering design, facility assessment, and construction administration services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, with 99 awards across a $321 million combined potential value spanning more than two decades of federal work. The firm operates 100% as a prime and competes predominantly under total small-business set-asides on delivery orders issued against multiple-award IDIQs held by the General Services Administration and other civilian agencies.

The vendor's customer footprint is concentrated among civilian facility-focused agencies, though the dollar landscape is dominated by a single outlier award. By award count, the Social Security Administration leads with 48 awards ($11.5 million combined potential value), followed by the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region with 18 awards ($35.1 million combined potential value), and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons with 11 awards ($4.8 million combined potential value) — accounting for 82% of recent awards. By potential value, however, the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations dominates with a single $250 million award, which represents 78% of Bell Architects' total combined potential value and fundamentally reshapes the portfolio's risk profile. The GSA Public Buildings Service National Capital Region ranks second by dollars, and SSA third, but the State award dwarfs all other activity.

Bell Architects holds two named IDIQ vehicles. The firm recently acquired a $25 million multiple-award IDIQ for architect and engineer services covering the Metropolitan Area of Washington, District of Columbia, with a total small-business set-aside, awarded August 22, 2025, running through August 21, 2027, with task-order caps of $5 million per order and $5 million annually per contractor. The firm also operates under a $6 million GSA A/E services IDIQ for the National Capital Region, which has anchored the bulk of recent delivery orders since at least 2001. The top parent vehicle in recent transaction history is an SSA IDIQ (SS001160039) carrying 47 task orders and $10.7 million combined potential value, alongside the GSA contract (47PF0019D0049) with 18 task orders and $4.7 million combined potential value.

Recent representative work includes a $635,681 small-business-set-aside mission-tile roof design project under the GSA IDIQ (awarded September 20, 2022, ultimate completion July 21, 2026), in which Bell Architects engaged WSP USA Buildings and WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure for building enclosure and roof-component design consulting; a $604,480 small-business-set-aside delivery order for Patient Safety Event Management System modernization at the HHS Humphrey Building (awarded October 3, 2022, ultimate completion February 11, 2028); and two September 2026 delivery orders under the GSA IDIQ for a coffered ceiling study at the Herbert Hoover Building ($161,121) and a water infiltration technical study at the Theodore Roosevelt Building ($327,094), both set aside for small business with completion dates in 2027.

Service Contract Inventory-reported invoicing totaled $4.3 million across fiscal years 2022–2025, with peak activity in FY2023 ($2.1 million across 2.9 FTEs). On SCI-reportable service contracts, Bell Architects self-performs all work — the average sub-hours share is zero percent — and government-paid hourly rates run a median of $259.46 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $577.95 per hour and junior rates at $188.11 per hour. The firm's award activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years (three awards in each of 2022–2024, one in 2025, two in 2026), with five awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $1.5 million. The State Department's $250 million overseas-building-operations award presents acute recompete risk if it matures or faces rebid; absent that single large award, the portfolio is characterized by small, design-focused delivery orders under existing GSA and agency IDIQs, with the firm acting as a general contractor and occasionally engaging specialized engineering subcontractors such as WSP for building science and structural design elements.

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