ECH Architecture PS

ECH Architecture PS, a Seattle-based Subchapter S Corporation, operates as a prime contractor delivering architectural and engineering design services, facility studies, and construction administration to federal agencies, primarily the U.S. Coast Guard. The firm is a small business competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements on federal infrastructure and facility modernization work, with selective Total Small Business set-aside designations on recent Coast Guard task orders.

ECH Architecture PS has established a deeply concentrated customer base anchored by the Coast Guard. Of 329 total awards spanning prime and sub relationships, 245 awards (74% by count) fund Coast Guard programs representing $126.3 million in combined potential value—92% of the top-customer concentration threshold. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 10 represents the distant second customer at 43 awards ($38.3 million potential value), reflecting ECH's regional strength in Pacific Northwest and Alaska facility work. The firm has worked with the Department of the Navy, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but these relationships account for minimal dollars and awards.

Capability framing derives from concrete recent work: architectural and engineering design for the $909 thousand Barracks Windrider Phase 2 barracks project (Coast Guard, Kodiak; Total Small Business set-aside delivery order, January 2024); $777.7 thousand fire suppression system design for Hangar 3 (Coast Guard, Kodiak); $861.5 thousand Peace Arch erosion and corrosion study (GSA Region 10, Blaine, Washington); $571.6 thousand Honolulu Weather Forecast Office relocation design and construction management (NOAA; definitive contract, September 2025); construction administration for the $23.2 thousand 6th Floor Chambers Renovation at the Richland U.S. Courthouse (GSA Region 10, Total Small Business set-aside, November 2025); and a $30.8 thousand limited construction administration delivery order for the Richland VHA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (Veterans Affairs, April 2026). Work encompasses facility design, structural repairs, life safety upgrades, fire suppression system design, HVAC and seismic code remediation, courthouse security station design, and waterfront infrastructure studies.

ECH holds a multi-year position on two major Coast Guard IDIQs: a $30 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for professional architect-engineering services in coastal Alaska (active), and a newly awarded $45 million Coast Guard Multiple Award IDIQ designated Total Small Business set-aside, effective November 2025 through November 2035. The firm also maintains a $20 million GSA Region 10 Indefinite Delivery Contract for architectural and engineering services across eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Idaho. Recent task-order volume under these vehicles is modest—60 task orders under the older Coast Guard IDIQ (HSCG5008D643F61, $12.6 million potential value), 34 under the GSA Region 10 vehicle (GS10P14LTD0072, $6.5 million), and 25 under the prior-period Coast Guard Environmental A-E Services Alaska vehicle (2014–2019, $9.8 million)—reflecting a mature, steady-state customer relationship rather than growth trajectory.

Activity shows stability rather than growth. Awards averaged 6.4 per year over the past five fiscal years (2022–2026), with no directional change. Eight awards (combined potential value $5.5 million) complete within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure beginning mid-2026 for Coast Guard and GSA Region 10 task orders.

On the sub side, ECH performs as a subcontractor to Reid Middleton, Inc. on Coast Guard facility design work—including a July 2024 award for lighthouse and guest cottage design at Diamond Head, Honolulu, and an October 2023 award for boat haulout pier and mooring replacement design at USCG Station Tillamook Bay, Oregon—and appears on Electric Boat Corporation subcontracts (September and November 2023) with scope descriptions limited in the source. These six sub awards (2% of the portfolio) signal occasional alignment with larger primes on Coast Guard and naval infrastructure work but do not represent a material revenue stream or strategic positioning.

The Service Contract Inventory captures a small slice of ECH's federal work: $3.6 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 on 20 prime records, with FTE scale declining from 3.9 in FY2022 to 0.6 in FY2024. This compression reflects the portfolio's structure—the majority of ECH's award value sits in fixed-price task orders and IDIQs that may not trigger SCI reporting thresholds or may be classified, captured as goods rather than services, or awarded as single-delivery-order rather than ongoing staffing arrangements. Across SCI-reportable records, government-paid hourly rates ranged from $133/hr at the 10th percentile to $1,661/hr at the 90th percentile (median $646/hr), positioning the firm in the mid-to-senior consulting band for federal architectural and engineering work. Sub-engagement across SCI prime contracts was zero, confirming ECH builds its own delivery teams on reported service work.

ECH Architecture provides Architectural & Engineering services for a wide range of public and private clients. Additional information regarding our services, portfolio and clients is available on our website at http://www.ech-ps.com.