DCM Architecture & Engineering, LLC

DCM Architecture & Engineering, LLC, based in Camden, New Jersey, is a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned construction, architecture, and engineering firm that operates as a prime contractor on federal facility modernization and design-build projects under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company holds a $45.5 million single-award IDC with the Army for facility modernization at Picatinny Arsenal and Benet Labs (awarded September 2026, running through September 2031), a $75 million multiple-award IDIQ with GSA Public Buildings Service Region 3 for general construction and design-build across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware (awarded May 2026), and historic positions on GSA Region 2 and Region 3 construction vehicles that anchor the bulk of its recent task-order volume. DCM competes predominantly as a prime — 99% of recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs — and operates across 31 distinct federal customer agencies.

DCM's customer concentration is heavily weighted to civilian facility agencies. GSA Public Buildings Service Region 2 dominates both award count and potential value: 33 awards worth $586.1 million combined ceiling (57% of total potential value across the prime portfolio). GSA Region 3 holds 28 awards ($185.1 million), followed by the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (32 awards, $18.4 million), Social Security Administration (15 awards, $21.2 million), and GSA's National Capital Region (18 awards, $6.7 million). These five customer groups account for 65% of all awards and 90% of combined potential value. The Army's recently awarded $45.5 million IDC and Air Mobility Command's Dover Air Force Base construction contract ($43 million across nine orders) represent the only sustained defense-agency footprint; most work flows through civilian facility and administrative agencies.

DCM's capability portfolio centers on design-build and design-bid-build construction, HVAC system replacement and renovation, building envelope and facade repairs, mechanical system upgrades (chillers, boilers, condensers), security hardening and perimeter upgrades, elevator modernization, plumbing system work, and general construction administration. Recent representative prime awards include a $4.9 million design-build delivery order for elevator modernization at Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Office Building in Newark (Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, May 2024, under GSA Region 2); a $3.2 million delivery order from Air Mobility Command for AFFF fire suppression system removal and wet-pipe installation in Building 714 at Dover AFB (August 2025); a $3.18 million GSA Region 2 delivery order for chiller replacement in Newark (May 2024); a $2.28 million USDA definitive contract for replacement of two air handling units at the National Agricultural Library (July 2026); a $10.6 million definitive contract for third-floor refurbishment of Brieant Federal Courthouse in White Plains (June 2023); and a $2.1 million Administrative Office of U.S. Courts delivery order for repairs to the fifth-floor courtroom at White Plains Courthouse (June 2024).

Activity has remained stable at 7–11 awards per year over the past five years, with most recent awards in September 2026. Combined potential value across the 195-award portfolio stands at $1.03 billion, of which $195 million (19%) has been obligated to date. Nine awards with combined potential value of $23 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, positioning these as near-term recompete opportunities. The top five parent vehicles are PBS Region 2 (26 task orders, $53.7 million combined value), two GSA IDIQs (13 and 12 task orders respectively), and Dover AFB's Multiple Award Construction Contract (7 task orders, $7.3 million).

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows DCM invoiced $69.1 million across SCI-reportable prime service contracts from FY2022 through FY2025 — $19.7 million in FY2022, declining to $16 million each in FY2023 and FY2024, then rising to $17.5 million in FY2025. Across these contracts, FTE workforce scaled from 8.0 in FY2022 down to 1.9 in FY2025, reflecting the shift from workforce-intensive labor on a major White Plains courthouse project to lighter staffing on task-order-based work. Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts show median rates around $700/hr, with 10th-percentile labor at $439/hr and senior or specialized labor pricing through $3,902/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 41% of total contractor hours on average, with 78 named subcontractors reported across the portfolio; this indicates DCM maintains in-house delivery capacity while leaning on specialist subs for mechanical, electrical, structural, and specialized trade work.

Top NAICS concentrations are Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (115 awards), Engineering Services (26), Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (14), Architectural Services (6), and Facilities Support Services (6). PSC profile is dominated by Repair or Alteration of Office Buildings (94 awards) and Architect and Engineering—General categories. DCM also holds a $1-ceiling single-award IDC with the Smithsonian Institution (awarded September 2025) structured to enable future task orders. The company subcontracts to other primes only minimally — two recent sub-awards under PBSR JV, LLC for ceiling tile and lighting replacement and architectural design at Howard T. Markey National Courts (awarded November–December 2025) — confirming DCM's prime-contractor posture as the dominant business model.

We provide commercial construction, architectural design and engineering services: Architectural Design, Interior Design,MEP Engineering,Fire Protection Engineering, Sustainable Design (LEED/Energy Star), Structural and Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture