Elevar Design Group Inc.

Elevar Design Group Inc., doing business as SFA Architects, Inc., is a Cincinnati-based, minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business that provides architectural and engineering design services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with a 526-award footprint spanning facility modernization, infrastructure upgrades, and specialized design work across 27 customer agencies. The firm competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open designations on GSA Region 5 and EPA indefinite delivery contracts.

Elevar's core capability is federal facility architecture and engineering — design services for courthouse renovations, mechanical and HVAC system replacements, domestic water and piping upgrades, ADA compliance assessments, electrical and structural work, and construction inspection and project management services. Representative prime awards include a $214,271.90 delivery order from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for design services on Courtroom 305 and chambers renovation at the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati under the PBS OH IN IL Architect Engineering Services 2017-2022 IDIQ; a $241,747.39 total small business set-aside delivery order from GSA Public Buildings Service for basement slab stabilization design at the Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio; and a $117,576.50 EPA delivery order for space planning services at EPA facilities in Cincinnati under the $23 million EPA strategic planning and facility services IDC.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward civilian facility stewards. The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Administration and Resource Management anchors 129 awards worth $83.5 million in combined potential value (58% of the portfolio's dollar share), reflecting Elevar's position as the single-award contractor on a $23 million strategic planning, space analysis, design, and project management IDIQ running through September 2028. GSA Public Buildings Service Region 5 places 84 awards worth $21.9 million, covering Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, and the EPA's Office for Air and Radiation complete the top five by potential value. Together, these five agencies account for 77% of combined potential value across the award portfolio.

Elevar holds two named parent vehicles: the $23 million EPA Office of Administration and Resource Management single-award IDC (NAICS 541611, awarded September 2023, runs through September 2028) and the $3.75 million GSA Region 5 Total Small Business multiple-award IDIQ for professional A/E design and related services (awarded September 2023, completion September 2026). The EPA vehicle has generated 129 task orders; the GSA Region 5 vehicle has generated 84 orders. Elevar also sits on five additional EPA architect-engineer IDIQs (68C03114, EPC06043, EPC08040, EPC13042, and others), which together account for over 300 task orders valued near $20 million. These EPA vehicles are the backbone of Elevar's award history, with the largest covering architectural and engineering services for EPA facilities nationwide across 170 buildings.

Award activity has declined sharply: 21 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 4 in the first half of 2026. Twelve awards with combined potential value of $1.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure on the GSA Region 5 IDIQ (expiring September 2026) and several EPA vehicle task orders.

Elevar operates as a prime contractor on 100% of its awards; no sub-award activity appears in the source data. Service Contract Inventory reports minimal federal service-contract revenue — $173 thousand invoiced in FY2022 and $77 thousand in FY2023 across contract-level staffing below one FTE per year — indicating that SCI-reportable work captures only a small slice of Elevar's delivery model. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI records ran a median of $209.88/hr, with a range from $198.58/hr to $221.18/hr, consistent with design-labor pricing in the federal A/E services market. The firm performs work directly without named subcontractors; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, 0% of hours were subcontracted, indicating Elevar builds its own delivery teams for the work it wins.

The vendor was founded in 1967 and operates from headquarters at 555 Carr Street in Cincinnati, Ohio 45203. Its award history reflects deep institutional relationships with GSA Region 5 and the EPA, particularly on courthouse and research-facility design projects in the Midwest, and positions it as an established federal A/E services provider competing in the small business space.