Guidon-Charlotte Engineers Sdvosb JV LLC

Guidon-Charlotte Engineers Sdvosb JV LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business joint venture headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, provides architectural and engineering design services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor exclusively under SDVOSB set-asides and full-and-open competition, operating 100% as a prime across its federal footprint with no subcontractor engagement.

The vendor is a child entity of Guidon Design Inc., a veteran-owned Subchapter S corporation also certified as an SDVOSB. Guidon-Charlotte competes under SDVOSB set-asides on most prime work; recent awards span SDVOSB-reserved delivery orders and definitive contracts as well as full-and-open procurements. The vendor's capability footprint centers on healthcare facility design and construction documentation for VA medical centers across the Southeast, including psychiatric renovations, surgical facility expansions, clinical laboratory conversions, community living centers, nutrition facility upgrades, and parking infrastructure. Representative work includes a $1.65 million definitive contract awarded September 2023 by Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 for clinical laboratory-to-operating-room conversion design at Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, a $1.2 million delivery order from VISN 7 in September 2025 for design services at a VA facility in Decatur, Georgia, and a $1.49 million definitive contract from VA Technology Acquisition Center in August 2022 for seismic deficiency correction and hybrid operating room expansion at Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

Customer concentration is extreme. The vendor serves four distinct VA customer agencies, with 100% of recent awards and 100% of combined potential value concentrated across them. The top three customers dominate: Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 holds three awards with $300 million combined potential value (a multiple-award $300 million IDIQ representing the overwhelming bulk of this figure); Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 holds twelve awards with $11 million combined potential value; and Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 holds three awards with $3.8 million combined potential value. The VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin accounts for two awards totaling $3.1 million. The concentration by award count diverges sharply from the concentration by dollars: VISN 7 generates the plurality of orders but minimal dollar value, while VISN 5's single large vehicle dominates the potential-value ranking despite representing just one of three VISN 5 awards.

The vendor holds two parent vehicles. The ATL AE IDIQ is a $6.25 million single-award contract awarded August 2023 by VISN 7, expiring August 2028, reserved for SDVOSB firms and supporting VA healthcare facility architecture and engineering services across Alabama and Georgia; eight delivery orders totaling $3.8 million have been issued under this vehicle as of the source date. The VISN 5 Architecture Engineer 2023-2028 is a $300 million multiple-award IDIQ for A&E services across Maryland, Washington D.C., and West Virginia, with two task orders totaling $14 thousand issued to date, indicating nascent utilization relative to the ceiling.

Activity has been uneven. The vendor received four awards in 2022, six in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and four in 2026 through October, with no consistent trajectory. Twelve awards (combined potential value $7.6 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure; these include the $961,358 fifth-floor psychiatric renovation at Decatur (completion December 2026), the $717,894 Birmingham A&E delivery order (completion October 2026), the $204,858 equipment removal order in Tuscaloosa (completion November 2026), and several smaller design deliveries.

SCI-reported invoicing of service contracts totaled $5 million across FY2022 through FY2025, with labor activity peaking in FY2024 at $2 million across 4.2 FTEs and declining to $1.3 million across 0.5 FTEs in FY2025. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performs 100% of reported labor with zero subcontractor engagement. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts (derived from SCI invoiced dollars and contractor hours) run median around $196/hr, with a spectrum from $0/hr at the 10th percentile (reflecting administrative or zero-labor-hour records) through $250/hr at the 90th percentile, positioning the vendor in the mid-market range for VA architectural and engineering services. The vendor's FTE footprint and invoicing remain small relative to the $300 million VISN 5 ceiling, reflecting limited task-order generation on that large vehicle to date.