Fourfront Design Inc.

Fourfront Design Inc., doing business as 4 Front, a woman-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business (WOSB/SDVOSB) headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering architect-engineering, facility design, construction management, and infrastructure assessment services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The vendor competes predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides across its prime footprint, with recurring designations including Competitive SDVOSB, SDVOSB Sole Source, and total small-business set-asides on a smaller share of awards.

Fourfront's customer concentration is extreme and structurally dependent on a single vehicle. The Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for the vast majority of awards — 73% of the top-customer-by-count ranking (70 awards across Veterans Integrated Service Network 23, 52 across the National Cemetery Administration, and 52 across VISN 19) — but the dollar concentration is even more pronounced: the VA Technology Acquisition Center's $5 billion National Architect-Engineer IDIQ Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Contract, awarded September 25, 2025, and set 100 percent for SDVOSB, represents $5.01 billion of the vendor's combined $5.32 billion potential value across all 291 awards. This contract, with a ten-year ordering period through September 25, 2035 and a minimum guarantee of $2,500 per awarded contract, dominates the portfolio; the first task order under it (awarded September 25, 2025, for a $2,500 kickoff meeting) carries completion to November 30, 2025. Outside the VA, Fourfront has placed 24 awards with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha ($35.3 million combined potential value) and 13 with the Air Force Air Combat Command ($4.4 million). The National Cemetery Administration anchors the second-largest customer by dollar value at $71 million across 52 awards, a distinct secondary concentration within VA. Representative prime work includes a $16.4 million definitive contract from VA's Office of Construction and Facilities Management for seismic mitigation design services at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico (awarded September 25, 2024, SDVOSB set-aside, NAICS 541310 architectural services), a $1.87 million delivery order for data center electronic health record infrastructure upgrades at a VA facility in Fresno, California under the VA Program Contracting Activity Central Architecture Engineer IDIQ 2025-2035 (awarded July 8, 2026, SDVOSB set-aside, ultimate completion February 17, 2027), and a $1.99 million Building Information Modeling Legionella study at the Sheridan VA Health Care System in Wyoming issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District (awarded August 15, 2024, no set-aside, ultimate completion February 18, 2026).

Fourfront holds two parent vehicles as a prime: the VA's $5 billion National Architect-Engineer IDIQ MATOC (September 25, 2025 award, 100% SDVOSB set-aside, 10-year term through 2035), from which the first kickoff delivery order was issued September 25, 2025; and a $1.5 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded March 5, 2024, running through March 4, 2029, covering Geographic Information Systems services, management consulting, acquisition and grants management support, program management, and engineering services. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 15 categories at rates from $101.84 to $282.44 hourly, with entry-level roles (Project Management Assistant, EIT) at the lower bound and master's-level principals at the upper end; no security-cleared positions are offered. Fourfront's prior vehicle footprint includes the VISN 19 Architect Engineering Services 2016-2021 IDIQ (32 task orders, $10 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract VA786AP0423 (38 task orders, $30.5 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract VA259P0484 (27 task orders, $51.2 million). The category concentration reflects this focus: 123 awards under Engineering Services NAICS, 109 under Architectural Services NAICS, and 40 under Landscape Architectural Services NAICS. Top PSC codes are Architect and Engineering–Construction (Hospitals and Infirmaries) with 71 awards and Architect and Engineering–General (Other) with 71 awards.

Activity has been volatile year to year — 14 awards in 2022, declining to 8 in 2023, recovering to 12 in 2024, then dropping sharply to 4 in 2025 and 1 in 2026 through July — but the September 2025 $5 billion IDIQ award reshapes the near-term pipeline entirely. Seventeen awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $27.8 million), presenting recompete exposure on facility design and infrastructure work across VISN regions and Army Corps regional offices. On the service-contract side, Fourfront self-performs the vast majority of delivery; SCI-reported invoicing totaled $8.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $2.4 million, 5.8 FTEs; FY2023: $2.7 million, 5.4 FTEs; FY2024: $3.4 million, 8.6 FTEs), and across prime SCI records the vendor reports an average subcontractor-hours share of only 5 percent, with 10 named subcontractors. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts median around $159.78/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching the 90th percentile at $359.15/hr. The vendor holds a single named subsidiary, Calibre-Fourfront Joint Venture LLP, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and service-disabled veteran-owned business joint venture structured as a for-profit organization. As a subcontractor, Fourfront operates in a minimal capacity (1% of recent awards): a June 30, 2025 sub engagement with AECOM Technical Services for architect-engineering and construction management services on the renovation of Sijan Hall at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado represents the only current named sub relationship in the source.

SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABLED VETERAN OWNED. ARCHITECTURAL, MECHANICAL & ELECTRICALENGINEERING. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, PLANNING.