Design Partners, Incorporated

Design Partners, Incorporated, a for-profit subchapter S corporation headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, provides military architect-engineer services—design, planning, construction administration, and modernization support—to the Department of Defense across Pacific-region installations, competing exclusively as a full-and-open prime contractor with no small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Design Partners operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (100% of 280 recent awards). The firm's capability portfolio centers on military construction phase services, preliminary design, construction management, and facility modernization for housing, infrastructure, and institutional projects. Representative work includes a $2.43 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District for Tower B743 Army Family Housing renovation at Camp Zama, Japan (awarded September 2025, completion November 2027); a $18.9 million delivery order from Naval Facilities Engineering Command for architect-engineer services supporting the FY30 Waterfront Production Facility at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii (awarded March 2024, completion December 2026); and a $6.7 million NAVFAC order for architect-engineer services for the FY25 Aircraft Hangar and Parking Apron at Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe (awarded December 2022, completion March 2031).

Customer concentration is extreme and geographically bifurcated. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District (ENDIST Japan) dominates both volume and dollars—85 awards with $622.9 million combined potential value—and Naval Facilities Engineering Command places the second-largest portfolio at 65 awards and $394.4 million combined potential value. Together these two customers account for 89% of awards and represent roughly $1.017 billion of the $1.03 billion combined potential value across all awards. The remaining 130 awards distribute across nine other customer agencies (the Department of the Navy, Department of the Army, Department of the Air Force, and smaller presences elsewhere), none individually material to the footprint.

Design Partners holds two large indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring task-order activity. The firm received a $249 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from ENDIST Japan on October 15, 2024, running through October 2031, for architect-engineer services supporting military engineering planning, design, and construction across multiple locations in Japan, including Military Construction, Sustainment Restoration & Modernization, Host Nation Construction, and Foreign Military Sales programs. Under this vehicle, Design Partners executes delivery orders for project values ranging from approximately $140,000 to $2.67 million. The firm also holds a $49 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command, awarded August 25, 2022, running through September 2027, for architect-engineer services supporting housing and lodging projects at Pacific locations including Naval Support Activity Andersen and Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe Bay, and other installations. Under this NAVFAC vehicle, Design Partners has executed multiple delivery orders for housing replacement phases, facility modernization, and infrastructure projects valued between $248,000 and $3.18 million.

Activity trajectory is modest and flat. Awards per year over the past five years show eight awards in 2022, three in 2023, eight in 2024, seven in 2025, and two in 2026 (year-to-date as of May). Twelve awards with combined potential value $41.2 million carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure in that window. Design Partners has obligated $169.7 million (17% of combined potential value) across its footprint, indicating that most of its $1.03 billion in ceiling value remains available for drawdown. The firm subcontracts minimally—one sub-award on record, a $0 HVAC commissioning support task under Asmd LLC (awarded November 2025)—and operates as a standalone prime rather than as a member of larger consortia or teaming structures.