Dills Architects PC

Dills Architects PC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, delivers architectural and engineering design services and Title II construction support to the Department of Navy and the Department of Air Force as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on indefinite delivery contracts and delivery orders.

Dills Architects operates as a for-profit corporate entity with one named subsidiary, Dills Architects Raymond JV LLC, also a self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a limited liability company joint venture. The firm's capability footprint centers on Title I architectural and engineering design services, Title II construction support, facility repair and renovation design, structural assessments, environmental impact analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act, stormwater control retrofits, and infrastructure modernization across military installations. Representative work includes a $2.19 million delivery order from Air Combat Command (awarded August 2024, completion June 2026) for architectural and engineering design services at Langley Air Force Base; a $2.33 million delivery order from Navy Installations Command (awarded August 2021, completion June 2027) for full fire-protection repair design at Naval Station Norfolk; a $1.32 million delivery order from Air Combat Command (awarded July 2022) for field investigation and design-bid-build construction documents to repair and renovate Facility 131 dormitory at Langley; and a $842,153 delivery order from Air Combat Command (awarded June 2022) for architect-engineer design to convert Langley Air Force Base Facility 61 into a child development center.

Customer concentration aligns heavily with defense facilities engineering. The top five customer organizations account for 82% of recent awards by count and 83% by potential value. Navy Facilities Engineering Command leads on potential value with 39 awards worth $37.6 million combined; Air Combat Command follows with 18 awards worth $16 million; Navy Installations Command holds 38 awards worth $11.8 million; the Department of Defense Education Activity carries 4 awards worth $10.5 million; and the Navy (parent agency across multiple components) accounts for 57 awards worth $3 million. The divergence between volume and value reflects Air Force concentration in higher-dollar task orders versus Navy's larger count across smaller-value orders.

Dills Architects seats on five major indefinite delivery contracts driving task-order volume: N4008515D0040 (31 task orders, $10 million combined potential value), N4008517D0347 (30 task orders, $10.1 million), N4008511D0002 (25 task orders, $4.9 million), FA480021D0004 (Air Force Air Combat Command, 17 task orders, $8.8 million), and N6247092D7450 (12 task orders). The Air Force vehicle FA480021D0004 is the $7.2 million Joint Base Langley-Eustis indefinite delivery contract awarded August 2021 under Total Small Business set-aside, running through August 2027, from which sixteen delivery orders have issued, totaling approximately $7.2 million in obligations through May 2025.

Activity has remained modest in recent years — three awards in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — with cumulative potential value of $94.9 million across 191 total awards since 1992. Dollars obligated total $44.9 million (47% of combined potential value). Only two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2.3 million, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure. Dills Architects holds one named subcontract, a sub-award to CDM Federal Programs Corporation (awarded July 2024) for full design of the DOL Campus site and infrastructure package and demolition for the Atlanta Job Corps Center. The firm competes predominantly on Navy and Air Force facilities-engineering vehicles under Total Small Business set-asides, with a long-standing partnership anchored to Joint Base Langley-Eustis and Naval Facilities Engineering Command work.

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