Design Alaska, Inc.

Design Alaska, Inc., a Fairbanks-based architecture and engineering firm, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on federal facility design, infrastructure rehabilitation, and engineering assessment contracts across Alaska, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on delivery orders and definitive contracts, with a secondary portfolio of unrestricted full-and-open awards.

The vendor's customer concentration reflects a defense and civilian interior-agency split. The top five funding customers account for 56% of awards by count but 83% of combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District dominates by dollars ($279.8 million across 49 awards), followed by the Coast Guard ($66 million across 19 awards) and the Air National Guard ($60 million across 3 awards). Pacific Air Forces places the largest award count (71 awards, $23 million combined potential value), but average task order value is substantially lower than Corps of Engineers work. The Interior Department's National Park Service rounds out the active set with 26 awards valued at $16.1 million. This concentration—particularly the $279.8 million Corps of Engineers position—anchors Design Alaska's dollar footprint to a single customer and vehicle (the $249 million Alaska Multi-Discipline Architect-Engineer IDC awarded September 2024, through September 2029), creating significant customer and vehicle concentration risk.

Design Alaska's capability portfolio centers on Title I, II, and III architectural and engineering services for federal facilities in Alaska's Arctic and subarctic environments. Concrete recent work includes a $6.9 million delivery order (April 2026, ENDIST Alaska) for microreactor synchronization work at Eielson Air Force Base; a $4.2 million definitive contract (September 2025, Pacific Air Forces) for full-length utility system replacement design in Utilidors D and H at Eielson AFB; a $420,034 delivery order (September 2025, National Park Service Alaska Region) for design and rehabilitation of Eielson Visitor Center under the Department of Interior's $50 million Architecture and Engineering Services MATOC; a $481,041 definitive contract (May 2026, Pacific Air Forces) for HVAC direct digital control system design at Eielson AFB; and a $309,708 delivery order (September 2025, ENDIST Alaska) for thaw shed addition design. Work spans facility design, infrastructure assessments, geotechnical exploration, life-cycle cost analysis, hazardous materials surveys, and construction document preparation. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio (eight categories, $89.79 to $237.96 per hour) includes entry-level technicians and surveyors, engineer-in-training and staff roles, and senior engineer and contract manager positions—all without security-clearance requirements—supporting the firm's civilian and military facility design and engineering assessment operations.

Design Alaska holds a substantial portfolio of indefinite delivery contracts across multiple federal agencies. The Army Corps of Engineers $249 million multi-discipline A/E IDC (awarded September 2024, unrestricted, through September 2029) generates the highest concentration, with 40 task orders under its parent vehicle F6550300D0001. The Coast Guard $45 million multiple-award IDIQ (November 2025, Total Small Business set-aside, through November 2035) anchors coastal and Arctic infrastructure work. The Air National Guard $60 million multiple-award IDC (September 2025, partial small business set-aside, through March 2031) supports vertical and horizontal construction programs across Alaska. Pacific Air Forces holds two single-award IDCs—one for $999,999.99 (May 2023 through May 2028) and a second for $500,000 (May 2023 through May 2028), both Total Small Business set-asides, supporting aircraft maintenance facility and air freight terminal repair design. The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service $50 million multiple-award MATOC (September 2022, Total Small Business set-aside, through September 2027) procures architectural and engineering services for Great American Outdoors Act facility work across federal lands in Alaska and nationwide, with recent task orders for visitor center design, heating system design, and septic system and water system improvements. Design Alaska also holds a $9.75 million mechanical and electrical A/E IDC with the Army Corps of Engineers (November 2022, Total Small Business set-aside, through July 2027) and a $5 million single-award Bureau of Land Management A/E IDC (April 2023, Total Small Business set-aside, through April 2028). In aggregate, these vehicles provide Design Alaska with approximately $370 million in active IDV capacity and enable continuous task order issuance across Alaska-focused federal infrastructure programs.

Activity has grown year over year from thirteen awards in 2022 to twenty-two in 2024, with a slight decline to fourteen in 2025 and seven recorded in 2026 through the source date (September 3, 2026). Nine awards with combined potential value of $8 million are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to near-term recompete competition. Combined potential value across all 467 awards (prime and sub) stands at $537.4 million, with $56 million obligated (10% realization rate), reflecting the early-stage nature of the IDV portfolio and the substantial ceiling value versus near-term burn. The vendor's work is distributed across NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services, 252 awards) and 541310 (Architectural Services, 64 awards), with PSC coding emphasizing general architect-engineer landscape and interior design (170 awards) and general architect-engineer other services (92 awards).

Design Alaska operates as a subcontractor on a limited basis (1% of awards, 7 sub-awards), primarily delivering architect-engineer and design services to Patrick Constructors LLC on Eielson AFB elevator and fire protection repair work (September 2024, October 2023) and to the Pond-CDM Smith joint venture on architect-engineer facility sustainment, restoration, and modernization services (March through June 2024). One sub-award to Red Point Construction (October 2022) covered prefabricated metal building storage design for NOAA NESDIS.

Recent set-aside distribution shows a split between Total Small Business set-aside definitive contracts and delivery orders (the firm's historical strength on Pacific Air Forces and Pacific Air Forces delivery orders) and unrestricted full-and-open awards under the Army Corps of Engineers IDC and related Interior Department vehicles, indicating an evolving posture toward larger, less restricted vehicle positions as the firm has scaled its IDV portfolio over the past two years.

Architecture; Structural, Civil, Mechanical, Fire Protection, Electrical Engineering; Landscape Architecture; Land Surveying; Commissioning Services; and Energy Consulting Services