Berners-Schober Associates, Inc.

Berners-Schober Associates, Inc., a small disadvantaged business based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, delivers architectural and engineering design services exclusively to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor, with a $5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract anchoring its federal footprint. The firm competes under total small business set-asides on roughly half its delivery orders and full-and-open on the remainder, reflecting its posture as a small-business-eligible vendor with recurring VA work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) design, facility master planning, infrastructure assessment, and construction-period commissioning services for VA medical centers. Representative work includes a $651,951 delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (awarded November 2021, ultimate completion December 2026) for Special Purpose Space facility renovation design at Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan; a $230,368 order (December 2021, completion August 2026) for chiller plant replacement design; a $388,706 order (February 2023, completion December 2027) for boiler plant commissioning services; and a $282,875 order (January 2026, completion March 2029) for electrical branch facility equipment upgrade design. Recent awards from April 2026 include a $210,177 delivery order for CCTV security system upgrade design.

Customer concentration is total: 100% of 66 awards split between two VA networks. Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 placed 37 awards worth $11.5 million combined potential value, while Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 placed 29 awards worth $14.2 million. Both networks service the same Iron Mountain facility, making geographic and customer concentration extreme. The vendor holds position on two primary IDCs: Indefinite Delivery Contract VA69D16D0007 (28 task orders, $3.1 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C25220D0030 (26 task orders, $4.3 million combined potential value).

Award activity shows sharp decline from historical levels. The vendor received ten awards in 2022, then dropped to two awards each in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 (through April), signaling either customer consolidation, internal constraints, or recompete outcomes favoring competitors. Six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.5 million, representing modest recompete exposure. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); it maintains zero subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable contracts and does not sub to other primes.

SCI-reported invoicing covers only nine records from FY2022 through FY2024, with $370 thousand invoiced in FY2024 alone across 0.8 FTEs. This reflects the subset nature of SCI data—service contracts above $150,000 excluding goods and products—and is not the vendor's total federal revenue. On those SCI-reportable contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $162.90/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $233.47/hr. The vendor carries NAICS concentration in Architectural Services (39 awards) and Engineering Services (27 awards), with PSC coding heavily weighted to Architect and Engineering–Construction for Hospitals and Infirmaries.

At Berners-Schober, our collaborative process leverages the skills, creativity and passion of every staff person to provide the optimal solution to our clients' design needs. We utilize design charettes to promote dialog with the client, and facilitate the early involvement of our integrated architectural, engineering and interior design departments.

Our design team's knowledge of evidence-based design and sustainability meshes with our technical staff's skills with BIM and other technologies to create safe, efficient, comfortable and inviting design solutions. We listen to users, observe the context, and address the functions to provide truly unique architecture for healthcare, higher education, commercial, corporate, religious, institutional and community focused buildings.