Civil Design & Engineering Inc.

Civil Design & Engineering Inc. (Cd&E Division), a Flagstaff, Arizona-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, operates as a small business prime contractor delivering architecture, engineering design, construction inspection, and environmental support services to federal civilian agencies, competing exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides across its active portfolio. The vendor is 100% prime-focused with no subcontractor or sub-award activity; it self-performs all federal work with internal technical resources.

Cd&E's customer base concentrates sharply on the Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), which accounts for 242 awards (82% of recent prime awards) and $146.6 million in combined potential value (61% of the total). The Indian Health Service follows as a distant second with 23 awards ($18.7 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service ($50 million single IDIQ), the National Park Service Intermountain Region, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Across 294 recent prime awards, Cd&E serves 16 distinct federal agencies, with the top five funding sources accounting for 95% of award volume.

Cd&E's work splits between transmission and power infrastructure support for WAPA (construction inspection, transmission planning, capital planning, substation upgrades, environmental investigations) and water, sewer, and solid waste facility design for the Indian Health Service serving Native American communities. Representative WAPA contracts include a $7.5 million single-award BPA for construction inspection services in the Upper Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, and Sierra Nevada regions (issued against GSA MAS, running through December 2025) and an $18 million single-award IDIQ for architecture and engineering services (through February 2027), from which WAPA has issued 21 task orders totaling $5.2 million. For IHS, Cd&E holds an $8 million single-award IDIQ for sanitation facilities design and engineering (awarded November 2025, running through November 2026, Total Small Business set-aside). The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $50 million multiple-award IDIQ for architectural and engineering services on September 21, 2022, running through September 30, 2027. Specific delivery orders span fixed-price construction inspection ($2.2 million with WAPA for electrical protection support through 2032), wastewater treatment design ($459 thousand with IHS for San Carlos), water storage tank rehabilitation ($393 thousand with IHS), and transmission planning support ($1.6 million with WAPA through 2031).

Cd&E places most task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (158 task orders, $58.5 million combined potential value), where it holds an active vendor position. The vendor also executes work under multiple single-award and indefinite-delivery IDIQs with WAPA and IHS, and has delivered sub-$50 thousand construction inspection and engineering task orders across regional power infrastructure projects.

Activity has declined from 32 awards in 2022 to 13 awards in 2026 (through mid-September), with 22 awards in 2025 representing a partial rebound. Eleven awards (combined potential value $4.2 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure tied mainly to WAPA task order vehicles and an IHS sanitation facilities delivery order.

SCI-reported invoicing across prime service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $6.5 million across FY2022–FY2025 ($1.2 million in FY2022, $1.2 million in FY2023, $1.7 million in FY2024, and $2.3 million in FY2025), with a workforce trajectory ranging from 5.2 to 6.3 FTEs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $139/hr, with the 90th percentile at $175/hr. Cd&E self-performed 100% of SCI-reportable hours across prime contracts with no subcontractor engagement.

GSA Schedule labor categories span 11 roles from Construction Inspector ($115.77/hr, high school education, 16 years' experience) through Subject Matter Expert ($222.60/hr, bachelor's degree, 10 years' experience), covering engineering technicians, environmental specialists, project managers, and systems electrical engineers without security-clearance requirements. The vendor's NAICS concentration centers on Engineering Services (182 awards) and Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (104 awards), with PSC framing dominated by Architect and Engineering–General categories (109 awards).

Cd&E's corporate structure includes a named subsidiary, Schipansky LLC (limited liability company). The vendor competes on an unrestricted basis where set-asides allow, but historically has anchored its federal footprint to Total Small Business designations across WAPA and IHS vehicles, reflecting a small-business-first market positioning in civilian infrastructure and tribal facility domains.

We provide Civil Engineering, Survey, LiDAR, Project Management, Construction Inspection, Transmission Line Inspection, Drafting, Construction Management and Architectural Services in Arizona, California and Nevada.