Burns Wald-Hopkins Shambach Architects, Inc.

Burns Wald-Hopkins Shambach Architects, Inc., doing business as Burns & Wald Hopkins Architects Inc., a Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, provides architectural and engineering design services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, predominantly under total small business set-asides for healthcare facility modernization, military base infrastructure, and research facility projects. The firm is a Subchapter S corporation self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and has been active in federal contracting since at least 1982, with recent work concentrated in 2022–2024 before a marked slowdown in 2025–2026.

Burns & Wald Hopkins operates across three primary customer agencies that account for 90% of awards by count. The Indian Health Service dominates the portfolio with 67 awards valued at $27.2 million combined potential value, focused on architectural and engineering services for healthcare facility renovations, HVAC system design, dental clinic renovation, pharmacy infrastructure, and water treatment systems at tribal health facilities nationwide, including Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Jicarilla, Taos-Picuris, Supai, and Parker clinics. The Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command represents the second-largest customer with 11 awards totaling $13.8 million, concentrated on facility renovation and infrastructure design at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, including dormitory renovation, building redesign, HVAC repairs, electrical distribution surveying, and command post facility design. The Smithsonian Institution rounds out the top three with 10 awards valued at $4.9 million, primarily for Architectural & Engineering IDIQ work supporting the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Base Camp in Arizona, including hantavirus remediation, equipment shed construction, and special use permit updates for forest service easements. The Department of the Army and Department of Veterans Affairs each account for smaller shares.

Burns & Wald Hopkins holds three active indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring the bulk of task order volume. The firm operates a $10 million single-award IHS IDIQ for nationwide architect-engineering services (established March 5, 2024, through March 4, 2027), with four active delivery orders totaling approximately $568,391 in firm fixed-price work. A $9.4 million multiple-award Air Combat Command IDIQ for architectural and engineering services at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (January 5, 2022, through January 4, 2027) has generated approximately $3.7 million in task orders. Most recently, the firm was awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Smithsonian Institution on November 20, 2024, for architect-engineer services supporting the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's facilities in Amado, Arizona, with a December 1, 2034 completion date and task order cap of $7 million each; this vehicle carries a $1 ceiling value (placeholder). The firm also places orders under five additional IDIQs identified in the portfolio block, including contracts 75H70118D00003 (23 task orders, $3.6 million) and 75H70124D00004 (4 task orders, $576 thousand). Representative prime awards include a $1.1 million Air Combat Command delivery order (March 2024) for complete dormitory renovation with interior wall, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection system upgrades; a $778,494 Air Combat Command order (June 2026) for Building 261 redesign; a $542,037 delivery order (July 2026) for HVAC repair at Permanent Party Dormitory B4224; a $513,227 Indian Health Service task order (September 2025) for architect-engineer services; and a $427,714 IHS order (March 2023) for ABQ area roofing and fall protection design with June 2027 completion.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years. The firm averaged 13 awards in 2022, dropped to 7 in 2023, 9 in 2024, then fell to 4 in 2025 and only 2 in 2026 (as of July 20). Combined potential value across all 112 awards totals $46.9 million, with $18.5 million (40%) obligated to date. Eight awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $3.5 million, presenting modest recompete exposure. The firm is almost entirely a prime contractor, with only 1 of 112 awards (less than 1%) representing sub-award work—a federal grant sub-award for design and engineering on San Manuel Community Center rehabilitation issued April 8, 2025.

Burns & Wald Hopkins' capability footprint centers on architectural services (49 awards) and engineering services (41 awards) under primary NAICS codes 541310 and 541330, with work concentrated in hospital and infirmary design (59 awards by PSC code), general landscape and interior layout services (12 awards), museum and exhibition building design (10 awards), and airfield structures (4 awards). The firm delivers Title I investigative/pre-design, design, and construction administration services for federal healthcare facilities serving Native American communities, military base infrastructure modernization, and research facility improvements. Geographic scope spans Arizona (Tucson, Phoenix, Davis-Monthan AFB, Amado), New Mexico (Dulce, Santa Fe, Taos), Washington State (Seattle), and nationwide IHS facility locations. All identified work operates under firm fixed-price delivery orders with total small business set-aside or no set-aside designations; the vendor does not compete on unrestricted full-and-open contracts in the source data.

BWS Architects consists of a highly trained professional staff of 13, which includes six registered architects. The firm is led by principals Robin Shambach and Frank Slingerland, who carefully select projects so that they can stay fully engaged in key roles from start to finish. Arthur Stables, who has been with BWS for over 20 years, is the firm's specification writer, cost estimator and sustainability coordinator. Susan Gray, formerly a principal for the DLR Group in Phoenix, is now a senior project manager for our firm and leads our Phoenix office. Our staff also includes seasoned project architects, dedicated construction administrators, and enthusiastic graduate professionals all committed to the success of our projects and the satisfaction of our clients.