Grace Design Studios, LLC

Grace Design Studios, LLC, operating as Grace Hebert Curtis Architects, LLC (name changed in 2023), is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based architecture and engineering firm competing as a prime contractor on Department of Defense military facility design, engineering studies, planning, and construction phase support under the partial small business set-aside designation. The firm operates as a for-profit Limited Liability Partnership and has built its federal footprint almost entirely through delivery orders under a single parent vehicle: the $249 million Architect and Engineering Services Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division, Mobile District, Military Design and Construction Program, which runs through April 2026.

Grace Design Studios' customer concentration is anchored by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers, which accounts for 98% of combined potential value across the vendor's recent awards ($251.6 million of $311.7 million total), though this figure is heavily weighted toward the parent IDIQ itself rather than individual task orders. More granular customer concentration shows the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (8 awards, $34.1 million), the Army Corps Mobile District (8 awards, $8.5 million), Air Force Materiel Command (4 awards, $9 million), and the Naval Education and Training Command (2 awards, $1.1 million) as operating customers. The gap between the two rankings reflects the IDIQ's structural dominance: 16 of the vendor's 34 awards are task orders under the parent contract, carrying $17.1 million in combined potential value, while secondary contract vehicles—an Air Force Materiel Command IDC (8 task orders, $4.5 million) and a Navy NAVFAC IDC (7 task orders, $4.1 million)—account for smaller portions of the recent pipeline.

Recent representative work includes a $4.8 million JADC2 and ABMS Test Facility design at Eglin Air Force Base (Air Force, December 2024), a $2.92 million ISRG Mission Operations design-build project at Hurlburt Field (Air Force, April 2023), a $1.58 million USACE Reach Back Operations Center extension at Vicksburg, Mississippi (Army Corps, April 2025), a $1.49 million ADAL Installation ACP Gate 2 project at Arnold Air Force Base (Army Corps, May 2023), and a $1.03 million AFFF containment and facility inspections task at Naval Air Station Joint Base New Orleans (NAVFAC, April 2022). The vendor also holds smaller delivery orders for construction phase services, architectural design, radar signal emulator design, backup power system design, and technical reviews at military installations concentrated in the South Atlantic region—Eglin Air Force Base, Hurlburt Field, Arnold Air Force Base, Anniston Army Depot, and Duke Field.

Activity has grown from one award in 2022 to nine in 2025, with a recent dip to one award in 2026 (through April). The firm has completed only $24.2 million of its $311.7 million combined potential value (8% obligation rate), reflecting the early-stage nature of many delivery orders. Eleven awards carrying $15.8 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards), with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Capability concentration is tight: all 34 awards fall under the Engineering Services NAICS, with 19 awards in PSC A/E General (Landscaping, Interior Layout, Designing) and 6 in A/E General (Other), reflecting the firm's specialization in military facility architecture, design, and infrastructure engineering within the DOD installation footprint of the South Atlantic Division.