Civil Design & Engineering Inc.

Civil Design & Engineering Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Flagstaff, Arizona, provides architecture, engineering design, construction inspection, and environmental support services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements across the Western United States.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward energy and civilian infrastructure. The Western Area Power Administration accounts for 237 of 289 total awards (82% of award count) and $129.9 million of the $222.1 million combined potential value across all awards—a dominant relationship anchored in an $18 million single-award IDIQ for architecture and engineering services running through February 2027. The second-largest customer, the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, holds a single $50 million multiple-award IDIQ for facility sustainment and restoration projects extending through September 2027. The Indian Health Service represents the third-tier relationship with 23 awards totaling $18.6 million, driven by an $8 million single-award IDIQ for architect-engineering services supporting sanitation facilities construction for Native American communities, awarded November 2025 and running through November 2026. These three customers account for approximately 98% of combined potential value. Smaller customers include the National Park Service, GSA, and the Coast Guard.

Cd&E's parent IDIQs and vehicles demonstrate its positioning as a prime on mature, long-running infrastructure contracts. Beyond the three named IDIQs above, the vendor places significant task order volume under GSA's Multiple Award Schedule (154 task orders, $41.9 million combined potential value) and holds positions on at least five WAPA-specific indefinite delivery contracts (DEWA0002918, DEAM6511WG81915, 89503122DWA000004, 75H70120D00025) that collectively account for approximately $28 million in combined potential value across 162 task orders. This vehicle concentration reflects deep institutional relationships—particularly with WAPA, which has issued over 200 task orders across multiple contract vehicles to Cd&E over the source period.

Representative work spans facility design, infrastructure upgrades, and environmental assessments. On WAPA contracts, Cd&E has delivered transmission planning engineer support ($405 thousand), ten-year capital operations and maintenance program engineering support ($598 thousand), preliminary design capital planning ($1.1 million, exercising option year 1), natural resources and construction design support ($637 thousand), and numerous construction inspection services ranging from $8 thousand to $509 thousand for substation, transmission line, and facility projects across the Upper Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, Sierra Nevada, and Desert Southwest regions. For IHS, the vendor has executed water storage tank rehabilitation design ($347 thousand), wastewater treatment plant design ($459 thousand), solid waste improvements ($800 thousand), water and sewer system design ($1.1 million), landfill closure design ($240 thousand), and geotechnical investigations across tribal service areas. Interior Fish and Wildlife Service task orders include facility sustainment and restoration project engineering ($215 thousand). The National Park Service has engaged Cd&E for wastewater treatment plant upgrades and rehabilitation at Grand Canyon National Park ($269 thousand). Coast Guard work includes construction inspection for shoreline erosion remediation at Station Siuslaw, Oregon ($326 thousand) and new fast-response-cutter homeporting facilities at East Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon ($407 thousand).

Activity has declined in the past three years. The vendor received 32 awards in 2022, declining to 27 in 2023, 18 in 2024, and 22 in 2025; only 8 awards appear in the 2026 slice captured by the source. Thirteen awards totaling $5.2 million in combined potential value are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure—notably including several WAPA task orders and IHS delivery orders under vehicles with known expiration dates in 2026–2027.

GSA Schedule labor rates span $84.77/hr to $222.60/hr across eleven categories, covering engineering technicians, construction inspectors, environmental specialists, project managers, electrical engineers, and subject matter experts with no security-clearance requirements and education levels ranging from associate to bachelor's degrees. Service Contract Inventory data shows Cd&E delivered approximately $4.1 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024, with 5.6–6.3 FTEs across prime contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reported contracts median around $139/hr, with the 90th percentile at $175/hr, reflecting labor-hour and professional-services pricing. The vendor performs 100% of reported hours on its prime SCI contracts with no subcontractor engagement recorded, indicating a self-perform delivery model.

The vendor named one subsidiary, Schipansky LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, which does not appear as a separately rated contractor in recent awards. Corporate documentation and award summaries consistently identify Cd&E (also styled as Civil Design & Engineering Inc. Cd&E Division) as the active operating entity.

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