Cohen Hilberry Architects Incorporated

Cohen Hilberry Architects Incorporated, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, delivers expert litigation consulting and expert witness services to the Department of Justice as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across a narrowly focused federal customer base.

The vendor's award footprint comprises 78 purchase orders spanning the past fourteen years, with 96% of combined potential value obligated. All work flows through the Civil Rights Division (75 awards, $1.6 million combined potential value) and U.S. Attorney's Offices (3 awards, $45 thousand). The work centers on civil rights litigation support: expert witness testimony, litigation consulting, case research, and analytical services across housing discrimination, voting rights, employment, and disability rights matters. Representative recent work includes a $21,875 time-and-materials purchase order from the Civil Rights Division (April 2026) for litigative consulting services under Executive Order 14398; a $26,000 purchase order (April 2025) for expert litigation consulting on unspecified complex civil rights cases; and a $59,370 purchase order (May 2023) for litigative consultant services on the Tesla, Inc. discrimination case (DJ# 202-76-304). Older engagements include $67,149 (October 2021) for litigative consulting on U.S. v. Dominion Management and $62,987 (August 2021) for expert witness services on U.S. v. Parry. Most contracts carry time-and-materials pricing structures and one-year performance periods with Washington, DC performance locations.

Customer concentration is extreme: Civil Rights Division awards account for 100% of combined potential value across 75 of 78 total awards. No parent contract vehicles, BPAs, or IDIQs appear in the source data; all work issues as individual purchase orders. The vendor does not subcontract and has no named subcontract footprint.

Activity volume has declined from a peak of seven awards in 2023 to four in 2025 and six year-to-date in 2026. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $100 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will require recompete. NAICS distribution reflects the litigation-focused model: 55 awards under "All Other Legal Services" (NAICS 541990) and 19 under "Architectural Services" (NAICS 541310), with the remainder scattered across management consulting and technical services categories. Professional services legal support and expert witness services dominate the PSC coding (63 and 14 awards respectively).