DCM Architecture & Engineering, LLC

DCM Architecture & Engineering, LLC, a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned limited liability company based in Camden, New Jersey, delivers general construction, design-build, mechanical-electrical-plumbing systems engineering, and architectural services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on 189 of its 190 recent awards (99% prime posture). The firm competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across GSA Region 2 and Region 3 vehicles, with a smaller footprint on full-and-open awards through the General Services Administration and Department of Transportation Maritime Administration.

DCM's customer concentration is heavily anchored to GSA's Public Buildings Service regional offices. GSA PBS Region 2 alone represents 33 awards and $586.1 million in combined potential value (66% of the top-customer portfolio by revenue), driven primarily by task orders under the PBS R2 General Construction and Design-Build Construction Services parent IDIQ. GSA PBS Region 3 follows with 28 awards and $185.1 million, and the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration contributes 32 awards valued at $18.3 million. Together, these three customers account for 93% of DCM's combined potential value across all 190 awards. The Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command (9 awards, $43 million) and the Social Security Administration (15 awards, $21.2 million) round out the active set. The top five customers account for 96 awards covering 66% of award count but represent 93% of dollar value, signaling high concentration in large delivery orders under GSA regional construction vehicles.

DCM's capability portfolio centers on building infrastructure renovation, facility modernization, and MEP systems replacement. Representative work includes a $2.28 million USDA definitive contract awarded in July 2026 for replacement of two air handling units at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, under a Total Small Business set-aside; a $3.2 million Air Mobility Command delivery order at Dover Air Force Base for removal and replacement of aqueous film-forming foam fire suppression systems and installation of a wet pipe system throughout Building 714; and a $4.9 million design-build delivery order from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for elevator modernization at the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Office Building in Newark, New Jersey. DCM also holds a $75 million multiple-award IDIQ with GSA PBS awarded in May 2026 for general construction services with design-build capabilities across select Pennsylvania and New Jersey counties and all of Delaware, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside through April 2027. On the Maritime Administration side, DCM executes architectural and engineering design work: a $1.22 million definitive contract for professional architectural and engineering services supporting renovation of Samuels Hall at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York, awarded in September 2025 under no set-aside.

DCM sits on three primary parent vehicles. The PBS R2 General Construction and Design-Build Construction Services IDIQ (GSA Public Buildings Service) carries 24 task orders valued at $49.9 million combined potential value. The indefinite delivery contract GS02P17PED0001 carries 13 task orders worth $12.5 million, and GS03P14DXD1015 carries 12 task orders worth $7.8 million. The Dover Air Force Base Multiple Award Construction Contract, a $30 million vehicle running through February 2028, has generated 7 task orders worth $7.3 million. Beyond the named vehicles, DCM holds a single-award IDC with the Smithsonian Institution (awarded September 2025, completion September 2025, ceiling value $1).

Award activity has been generally flat to declining in the recent snapshot: 11 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 11 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 5 year-to-date in 2026. However, the recompete cliff presents manageable near-term risk — only 5 awards (combined potential value $17.6 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing roughly 1.8% of DCM's combined portfolio value. Across NAICS classification, DCM concentrates in Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (110 awards), with secondary work in Engineering Services (26 awards) and Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (14 awards).

Service Contract Inventory data captures a subset of DCM's federal service-contract work above the $150,000 reporting threshold. SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $51.7 million across FY2022 to FY2024, with FY2022 invoicing of $19.7 million supported by an average of 16.1 FTEs, declining to $16 million in FY2023 (10.4 FTEs) and holding at $16 million in FY2024 (10.7 FTEs). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates median around $677.52/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching the 90th percentile at $6,785.14/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, DCM subcontracts 38% of total contractor hours to an average of 56 named subcontractors, indicating meaningful sub-engagement for specialized disciplines while maintaining core delivery capability in-house. DCM reported one sub-award in the source data: a December 2025 engagement under Pbsr JV, LLC for design-build ceiling tile and lighting replacement and architectural-engineering construction administrative support at the Howard T. Markey National Courts.

DCM established federal contractor registration in SAM.gov since 2006, with continuous presence across GSA regional construction vehicles and defense installation IDIQ programs in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic corridor.

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