Design-Build Institute Of America

Design-Build Institute of America, doing business as Dbia, is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that delivers design-build training, certification, and consulting services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor through the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule, with no subcontract footprint — all work is performed directly by the organization. Dbia competes under full-and-open procurement with no socioeconomic set-aside designation across any of its 64 federal awards.

Dbia's capability portfolio centers on instructor-led design-build project delivery methodology training, in-house owner bootcamps, continuing education courses qualifying for professional engineering license renewal credit, design-build certification programs, and design-build coaching and consulting support. Representative work includes a $224,182 firm fixed-price delivery order from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management for a three-day design-build training owners series (awarded October 2023, ultimate completion January 2025); a $231,052 delivery order from the Department of Defense (ENDIST Omaha) for design-build training, certification, and consulting services with performance through January 2027; a $256,098 blanket purchase agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division for design-build training support and consulting (awarded August 2022); and a $69,600 delivery order from the General Services Administration for two instructor-led in-house owner bootcamp training and certification programs (awarded September 2026, completion March 2027). Dbia also holds organizational memberships and registration with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), enabling attendees to earn continuing education credit toward professional license renewal.

Customer concentration skews toward defense and civilian construction-focused agencies. The top five funding organizations account for 45% of award volume but only 75% of combined potential value — a gap driven by a single outlier $1.9 million GSA Federal Acquisition Service award that anchors the potential-value ranking. By count, the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of the Army Maryland Army National Guard lead with seven awards each ($112 thousand and $897 thousand combined potential value, respectively), followed by the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division with six awards ($536 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration with six awards ($98 thousand combined potential value). Activity has accelerated modestly — two awards in 2022 to eight in 2024 — with only two awards (combined potential value $301 thousand) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating stable recompete runway beyond the near term. All 64 awards flow through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which carries 29 task orders totaling $1.9 million in combined potential value. Dbia's category concentration reflects its nonprofit mission: 48 awards fall under Professional and Management Development Training (NAICS 611430), six under Business Associations, four under Professional Organizations, with the balance distributed across administrative consulting and technical education.