G.h. Forbes Associates Architects, P.C.

G.h. Forbes Associates Architects, P.C., a Royal Oak, Michigan-based architectural and engineering firm, delivers design, engineering, construction management, and inspection services exclusively as a prime contractor to federal agencies, with a strong footprint on General Services Administration regional IDIQ vehicles covering federal facility repair, alteration, and modernization projects across the Midwest. The firm competes across both partial small business set-asides and full-and-open designations, with roughly equal distribution between the two postures across its recent award portfolio.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward GSA. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 5 dominates, accounting for 160 awards and $41.4 million in combined potential value—representing 79% of all dollars across G.h. Forbes' portfolio. The next tier—The Judicial Branch (16 awards, $2.1 million), the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (22 awards, $1.5 million), and the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service Western Michigan (4 awards, $1 million)—collectively account for only 11% of potential value. The rankings diverge slightly: by award count, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ranks third with 22 awards; by dollars, it falls to third but carries far lower per-award magnitude. GSA Region 5 drives both volume and dollars, illustrating near-complete customer concentration.

G.h. Forbes holds a seat on five named GSA Region 5 indefinite-delivery vehicles. The most heavily used is Indefinite Delivery Contract GS05P06SVD3030, from which 134 task orders have generated $6.7 million in combined potential value. Three other GSA IDIQ vehicles—GS05P99GAD0118 (96 task orders, $1.7 million), 47PF0019D0019 (75 task orders, $6.5 million), and GS05P13SVD0030 (61 task orders, $5.2 million)—round out the vehicle portfolio. Most recently, the firm was awarded a $10 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with GSA Public Buildings Service Region 5 on January 16, 2025, carrying a partial small business set-aside, with a one-year base period and four one-year option periods through January 15, 2027, covering architect-engineer services for federal facilities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan with estimated construction costs between $50,000 and $500,000. Delivery orders issued under this vehicle since award total approximately $854,185.

Concrete recent capability examples include a $134,019.75 delivery order (June 17, 2026, GSA) for fire alarm replacement design at the Sault Ste. Marie Land Port of Entry; a $148,526.45 delivery order (September 24, 2025, DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for architect-engineering services at Waters Building 161 in Grand Rapids; and a $121,658.26 delivery order (April 2, 2025, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) for management and inspection services supporting elevator modernization at the Ford Federal Courthouse in Grand Rapids. Work spans design development, construction documents, construction management, inspection services, and specialized technical studies such as electrical arc flash analysis, environmental assessments, asbestos and lead abatement monitoring, and HVAC evaluations at federal buildings and courthouses throughout the three-state region.

Activity was relatively steady at 10–18 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with only four awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date; the portfolio shows 408 total prime awards since 1996, with $51.4 million in combined potential value and $29.3 million obligated. Eighteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.7 million, representing moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's NAICS footprint is tightly concentrated: 389 of 391 awards fall under Architectural Services (NAICS 541310), with only one each in Engineering Services and Building Inspection Services. PSC coding aligns with the architecture-centric profile, with 174 awards coded to Architect-and-Engineering General (Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing) and 98 to Architect-and-Engineering Construction (Office Buildings).

SCI-reported invoicing for federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $692 thousand across FY2022–FY2024, with peak activity in FY2022 ($485 thousand across 1.0 FTEs) and a sharp decline by FY2024 ($207 thousand across 0.4 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $243.67/hr at the tenth percentile to a median of $268.43/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $753.99/hr. The vendor performs delivery using its own staff; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero percent of hours were subcontracted, indicating a fully organic delivery model. The firm operates as a pure prime—all 408 awards in the portfolio are prime contracts or IDIQ vehicles; no subcontract activity is recorded.

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