Bezek-Durst-Seiser, Inc.

Bezek-Durst-Seiser, Inc., doing business as BDS Architects, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Anchorage, Alaska, that provides architectural design, engineering, and construction-support services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across multiple Alaska-focused IDIQ and MATOC vehicles. The firm operates as a Subchapter S Corporation and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, though it holds a growing number of full-and-open competitive awards; all 90 recent awards in the source are prime contracts with no subcontract work.

BDS Architects' portfolio centers on facility design, structural analysis, pre-design assessments, and construction administration for federal infrastructure across Alaska. Representative work includes a $45 million U.S. Coast Guard IDIQ for professional architectural and engineering services across Coast Guard facilities and coastal regions (awarded November 2025, term through November 2035); a $50 million Department of Interior Architecture and Engineering Services MATOC 2022-2027 supporting Interior bureaus and Forest Service facilities; and individual delivery orders such as a $1.29 million Coast Guard Seward Housing Design project (Modification 07, April 2025), a $240 thousand Interior Alaska Region septic systems design order (September 2025), and a $755 thousand Coast Guard Base Kodiak Waste Water Treatment Plant AE services delivery order (March 2024, extended through March 2027).

Customer concentration is dominated by two federal customers. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard anchors the portfolio with 22 awards carrying $86.2 million in combined potential value; the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 9 headquarters holds a single $50 million MATOC award. Together these two customers represent $136.2 million of the firm's $159.8 million combined potential value across all awards. The Department of the Interior National Park Service (National Office) follows with 27 awards and $21.7 million potential value, and the Department of the Army accounts for 23 awards (dollar magnitude not specified in the source). These top four customers cover 89% of recent awards by count.

BDS Architects holds position on five parent vehicles. The Indefinite Delivery Contract 70Z08720DBDSARC01 carries 18 task orders worth $9.9 million in combined potential value; IDC INP14PC00022 carries 18 task orders totaling $908 thousand; IDC 140P2020D0005 (IDIQ A/E Services for the Alaska Region) carries 9 task orders worth $938 thousand; the DOI Architecture and Engineering Services MATOC 2022-2027 carries 7 task orders totaling $878 thousand; and Basic Ordering Agreement DACA8587D0008 carries 7 task orders. The newly awarded Coast Guard $45 million IDIQ represents the largest vehicle ceiling in the recent footprint.

Activity has remained flat to modest over the past five years — five awards in 2022, seven in 2023, five in 2024, and seven in 2025 — with low recompete pressure near term: only eight awards (combined potential value $3.3 million) complete within the next twenty-four months. The firm's award portfolio spans 32 architectural services and 31 engineering services NAICS codes, with 47 awards under PSC Architect and Engineering–General (Other) and 21 awards under PSC Architect and Engineering–General (Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing).

SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing totaled $6 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $1.5 million in FY2022, $1.7 million in FY2023, $690 thousand in FY2024, and $2.2 million in FY2025. SCI-reported FTE delivery showed volatility — 0.3 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 0.2 in FY2023, rising to 0.9 in FY2024, and 1.6 in FY2025 — indicating variable contract intensity. Across prime contracts captured in SCI, the firm subcontracts an average 58% of contractor hours to 14 named subcontractors, indicating moderate reliance on subs for labor delivery. Government-paid hourly rates span a wide range: 10th percentile $43.26 per hour, median $194.85 per hour, and 90th percentile $2,072.87 per hour, reflecting a mix of junior support and senior technical labor on diverse infrastructure projects. SCI data represent only federal service contracts above $150,000 and exclude goods, products, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue — a strict subset of the vendor's total enterprise activity.

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