CTA Inc.

CTA Inc., doing business as Cushing Terrell, is a multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Billings, Montana, that delivers federal facility design, engineering, construction administration, and related professional services as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across 62 federal agencies with no set-aside utilization. The firm competes entirely in full and open competition and does not hold SBA certifications; it operates as a for-profit corporate entity registered in SAM.gov since February 2002.

CTA's customer concentration reflects deep penetration in civilian federal real estate and infrastructure portfolios. The top five agencies by potential value account for 67% of combined dollars: the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Headquarters (27 awards, $46.2 million), the Defense Commissary Agency (48 awards, $42 million), General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 7 (37 awards, $20 million), GSA Public Buildings Service broadly (162 awards, $10.6 million), and the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard (39 awards, $4.6 million). By award count, GSA Public Buildings Service leads with 162 awards (39% coverage threshold), followed by the Department of the Air Force (118 awards), the Department of the Interior Departmental Offices (74 awards), and the Defense Commissary Agency (48 awards). The divergence signals that CTA places numerous smaller task orders across GSA's regions while anchoring larger program dollars at APHIS and DeCA.

Capability framing tracks directly to NAICS and PSC concentration: architectural services dominate the portfolio (611 awards), followed by engineering services (210 awards), surveying and mapping (9 awards), and landscape architecture (8 awards). Representative prime work includes a $745 thousand design order for utility relocation at the VA's Acquisition and Logistics Technology Center in Billings through the VA Technology Acquisition Center; a $649.4 thousand architectural services delivery order for the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge headquarters and master plan from DOI Fish and Wildlife Service; a $545.7 thousand designer-of-record and construction inspection delivery order for APHIS hangar rehabilitation at an unspecified location; a $527.7 million traffic, pavement, and project studies order at GSA Region 7 land ports of entry; and recurring task orders across the $15 million USDA APHIS IDIQ ($46.2 million in total potential value across 27 awards) for nationwide architectural and engineering services through June 2026. The firm also holds a $5 million DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Western Regions IDIQ supporting facility projects across western national wildlife refuges.

CTA's primary parent vehicles are five indefinite delivery contracts anchoring the bulk of task order volume: Indefinite Delivery Contract NBCW0C00021 (105 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract GS08P98JCD0037 (89 task orders, $1.1 million), the $15 million USDA APHIS IDIQ 47PH0817D0014 (69 task orders, $11.3 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract GS08P04JCD0019 (67 task orders, $2.1 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract INP07PC60685 (51 task orders, $6.7 million). Recent activity has declined sharply: twenty-eight awards in 2022 contracted to only three in 2026 year-to-date, reflecting either portfolio maturation or reduced contracting velocity. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months stands at five awards totaling $3.8 million in combined potential value.

CTA operates almost exclusively as a prime (99% of awards) with minimal subcontract exposure — nine subcontract awards total across the full source window. Named sub work includes civil engineering support to Hartman And Majewski Design Group for the Santa Teresa Land Port of Entry feasibility study (2023) and electrical engineering services to Bratslavsky Consulting Engineers for a new modular freezer building for the U.S. Geological Survey in Boise (2026). Design services subs to RJS Construction Inc. for SIPI Library renovations and roof/snow-melt work in 2025, and a design-build sub to RJS for the Avalanche Campground comfort station rehabilitation at Glacier National Park (2023), further illustrate CTA's secondary sub role on construction projects.

Service Contract Inventory data (SCI-reportable contracts above $150,000 threshold) covers twenty-three prime records spanning FY2022 through FY2024, showing invoiced revenue of $4.5 million in FY2022 (15.3 FTEs), $1.6 million in FY2023 (7.7 FTEs), and $827 thousand in FY2024 (3.0 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ranged from a 10th percentile of $77.61 per hour to a median of $139.94 per hour and a 90th percentile of $813.05 per hour, consistent with mid-to-senior architectural and engineering labor. CTA performed zero percent of subcontractor hours on these prime contracts, indicating the firm builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on subs.

Total awards across the full source window number 1,146 (1,137 prime, 9 sub) with combined potential value of $183.9 million, of which $87.1 million (47%) has been obligated. The firm's award date range extends from 1981 to March 2026, establishing CTA as a long-tenured federal architecture and engineering contractor with sustained but recently declining activity velocity.