Benham Design, LLC

Benham Design, LLC, doing business as Benham, A Haskell Company, is a large for-profit architectural and engineering firm that operates as a prime contractor on federal infrastructure and facility design projects across defense and civilian agencies, competing exclusively in full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurements. The company is a subsidiary of The Haskell Company Federal Division, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, with Benham Design operating from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The firm's work centers on architectural services, engineering design, and design-build delivery for federal buildings, military installations, and infrastructure projects, spanning NAICS 541320 (Architectural Services) and 541330 (Engineering Services) with dominant PSC activity in A-E general and construction support.

Benham Design's customer concentration reflects a split between high-volume and high-dollar customer relationships. The top five funding entities by award count—Air Education and Training Command (24 awards, $29.8 million), GSA Region 7 (8 awards, $25.9 million), FAA Franchise Acquisition Services (7 awards, $18.9 million), FAA Headquarters (7 awards, $2.5 million), and Army Medical Command (7 awards, $4.9 million)—account for 41% of recent awards. However, by potential-value ranking, FAA Southwestern Region anchors 87% of combined potential value with three awards valued at $544.1 million. This divergence reflects Benham Design's positioning: a steady volume of smaller courthouse and facility-maintenance orders against Air Education and Training Command, balanced by a handful of large indefinite-delivery vehicles dominating the dollar picture. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville and Mobile contribute $101.8 million and $72.8 million respectively, driven primarily by Range and Training Land Program architect-engineer task orders.

Benham Design holds a portfolio of large multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts that anchor its federal work. The Federal Aviation Administration awarded two parallel $271.953 million TIER 1 and TIER 2 IDIQ vehicles on May 19, 2025 and February 21, 2025 respectively (both expiring February–May 2036) for Architecture and Engineering Services under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Facilities & Environment recompete, covering FAA Eastern, Central, and Western Service Areas. A $49 million Range and Training Land Program Architect-Engineer IDIQ with Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville was awarded September 26, 2025, expiring September 25, 2030. GSA Region 7 awarded a $15 million single-award supplemental A/E IDIQ on September 25, 2023, extending through September 24, 2027, which has generated recent courthouse and facility-renovation delivery orders. These vehicles generate task orders across the award portfolio: the FAA recompete IDIQs have produced 3 task orders to date; the RTLP IDIQ, 7 task orders; the GSA Region 7 IDIQ, multiple task orders for courthouse design and renovation work at Oklahoma City, Muskogee, and Lawton courthouses. Below these, smaller IDIQs with Air Education and Training Command ($20 million), Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District, and other agencies support ongoing delivery-order activity.

Recent award activity is stable but modest by volume. Over the past five years, Benham Design averaged 8 awards per year (2022: 10; 2023: 4; 2024: 14; 2025: 10; 2026: 3, with three awards recorded through mid-September). The combined potential value across 128 recent awards stands at $894.1 million, with only $77.9 million obligated (9% of ceiling), reflecting the indefinite-delivery vehicle structure and early-stage drawdown. Eight awards carrying $8.7 million in combined potential value will reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a moderate recompete exposure for the contractor. Representative recent work includes a $2.305 million delivery order for design of an Automated Infantry Platoon Battle Course at Yakima Training Center, Washington (issued May 15, 2025, under RTLP A-E IDIQ); a $2.194 million delivery order for 100% design at White Sands Missile Range under the same IDIQ (August 14, 2024); a $3.995 million order for power generation and microgrid design at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, with Stanley Consultants and Davenport Electric providing subcontracted services (October 27, 2023); and a $1.627 million GSA order for TPS renovation in Oklahoma City with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026.

Benham Design operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards are prime; no subcontract footprint in the source data). Service Contract Inventory data show limited SCI-reportable activity: only $431 thousand invoiced in FY2025 across 1.3 FTEs from a single SCI-captured prime contract, growing from effectively zero in FY2022–FY2024. The FTE trajectory across the SCI dataset shows expansion from zero FTEs in FY2022–FY2023 to 4.6 FTEs in FY2024 and 10.5 FTEs in FY2025 (blending two prime records and subcontractor reporting). The limited SCI footprint reflects the prevalence of firm-fixed-price delivery orders and design-phase work that may not cross the $150,000 SCI threshold individually, even though the aggregate ceiling values are substantial. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran at a median of $207.84 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average subcontractor hour share was 14% (one named subcontractor: Komatsu Architecture, providing historical preservation and architectural design support on courthouse projects). The broader award portfolio shows Benham Design subcontracting specialist firms such as Stanley Consultants for microgrid design and Davenport Electric for power-monitoring systems on large design-build programs, indicating selective subcontracting on technical-specialty work rather than a reliance on teaming partners.

Benham Design is part of a corporate structure under The Haskell Company Federal Division and operates alongside five named subsidiaries: Benham-WSP (joint venture), Benham-Stanley LLC, Benham-Transystems LLC, Benham-COWI LLC, Benham–Mead & Hunt, and Benham-PAE Joint Venture. These subsidiary entities likely house joint-venture arrangements and specialized capability partnerships (Stanley Consultants, WSP, Mead & Hunt, PAE, and COWI are established A-E and infrastructure firms), though the federal award portfolio is consolidated under the Benham Design, LLC prime entity. This structure positions Benham Design to deliver integrated infrastructure services spanning architectural design, engineering, environmental consulting, and construction management without formally subcontracting to external primes—a capability posture characteristic of a tier-one A-E holding company. Benham Design's federal footprint reflects a mature, stable prime contractor focused on defense and civilian federal facility design and renovation, with strong market position in FAA infrastructure modernization and Army Range and Training Land Program work, competing in full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designations.