HDR Architecture, Inc.

HDR Architecture, Inc., doing business as HDR, is a 100% employee-owned architectural and engineering services firm that operates as a subsidiary of HDR, Inc. and serves as a prime contractor across 45 federal agencies, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside protections. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, and classified under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) with primary PSC framing as Architect and Engineering—General, HDR Architecture delivers comprehensive facility design, infrastructure modernization, HVAC systems engineering, post-design and construction administration services, and specialized technical systems work across civilian research institutions, Department of Defense installations, and federal facilities nationwide and overseas.

HDR Architecture's customer base concentrates sharply in civilian research and infrastructure, driven by the National Institutes of Health. Of the combined potential value across all awards, 53% derives from just five customer agencies, with NIH Construction dominating at $820.9 million across 19 delivery orders—the single largest customer by dollar magnitude and the anchor of the firm's portfolio. The Army Corps of Engineers' Kansas City district follows at $118.7 million across 15 awards, and the Middle East district at $40.3 million across four awards (primarily Israel-based military facility design work). By award count, the distribution shifts: the Department of the Army leads with 101 awards ($3 million combined value), followed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology with 86 awards ($8 million combined value), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement with 83 awards. This divergence reflects the portfolio's composition—many small-dollar task orders against broad vehicles and a concentrated set of large-dollar NIH delivery orders.

HDR Architecture holds a substantial vehicle portfolio anchoring its competitive posture. The firm gates much of its federal work through the NIH Architect Engineering MATOC (23 task orders, $28.5 million combined potential value), which supports design, post-design, and construction administration services across NIH's Bethesda campus. Recent representative MATOC work includes a $1.64 million December 2025 delivery order for post-design services on the Multi-Level Parking Garage (MLP-12), a $1.24 million September 2023 order for design services supporting Building 29 and 29A demolition (invoiced $595 thousand in FY2024 across 1.2 FTEs at a $240.54/hr derived rate), a $1.34 million October 2023 order for wheelchair accessibility improvements to Building 38 (invoiced $471 thousand in FY2024 at $542.93/hr), and a $3.08 million September 2023 pre-project planning and bridging documents order for Buildings 102A and B (invoiced $2.7 million in FY2024 across 4.3 FTEs at $306.81/hr). In June 2026, NIH Construction awarded a new $400 million multiple-award IDIQ running through June 2032, the largest single ceiling in HDR Architecture's recent awards, reflecting renewal of the firm's position as a standing provider of NIH facilities services. Beyond NIH, HDR Architecture also seats on a $12 million NASA Glenn Research Center contract for architectural and engineering services across the Eastern Region (Glenn, Goddard, Wallops, Langley), a $20 million Air Force Academy single-award IDIQ (six task orders to date, including a $4.53 million February 2026 order for Title I design services on Dormitory Building 222 renovation at Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, and a $1.48 million September 2025 order for classroom and bathroom repairs at Cheyenne Mountain AFB, Colorado), a $240 million Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District multiple-award contract for Army Reserve facility design (awarded January 2026, running through 2030), a $35 million Army Corps of Engineers contract for general architect-engineering services supporting military facilities in Israel (awarded August 2023, running through September 2028), a $400 million Army Corps of Engineers Ballistic Missile Defense System Mandatory Center of Expertise facility engineering contract (awarded January 2026), a $30 million Tobyhanna Army Depot MATOC (awarded December 2025), and a $999,999,999,999 ceiling OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-award government-wide contract with the General Services Administration (awarded December 2024, running through December 2029). HDR Architecture's vehicle position across these IDIQs is consistent with its operating model: the firm competes as a large prime without set-aside eligibility, leveraging standing master agreements to capture task orders from multiple agencies without repeating full competitions.

Activity has grown year over year, from four awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2025, with nine awards so far in 2026 (as of mid-June). Fifteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $22.2 million—a moderate recompete-cliff signal relative to the portfolio size, reflecting staggered task-order lifecycles under the large standing IDIQs rather than concentration of expiring master agreements. SCI-reportable invoicing on prime service contracts (the subset above $150,000 federal service-contract reporting threshold) totaled $10.5 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2024 showing a significant ramp to $7.7 million across 14.2 FTEs, compared to $1.8 million across 2.6 FTEs in FY2023. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates span a wide range: 10th percentile at $106.96/hr, median around $239.79/hr, and 90th percentile at $472.14/hr, reflecting the portfolio's mix of junior design labor, experienced senior engineers, and specialized HVAC and infrastructure expertise. HDR Architecture self-performs at high rates—across SCI-reportable prime contracts, only 1% of total contractor hours derive from subcontractors, with just two named subcontractors appearing across all SCI records. The firm's delivery model relies on direct staffing rather than a subcontracting supply chain.

HDR Architecture's subcontract footprint is minimal relative to its prime presence. Named subcontractors in SCI records appear sporadically and in low volume; the portfolio shows occasional engagement with firms providing civil engineering, surveying, cost estimating, and fire protection services (Gordon US, LLC; CCS International, Inc.; Stanton Engineering Services, LLC) to supplement in-house expertise on multi-discipline projects, but sub-hours never exceed 1% of reported labor on any individual contract. The vendor operates as a delivery organization rather than a procurement vehicle, integrating specialized engineering capability through direct hire and selective subcontracting for niche disciplines. Prime awards account for 100% of the award count in the source data; HDR Architecture does not appear as a named subcontractor to other large primes.

The source identifies HDR Architecture, Inc. as a 100% employee-owned subsidiary of HDR, Inc., a parent company with a broader federal footprint across environmental remediation, consulting, and infrastructure modernization services. The corporate structure lists 21 named subsidiaries, each carrying the HDR Architecture brand or similar nomenclature, reflecting a unified go-to-market identity under the HDR family. The parent company, HDR, Inc., maintains the master OASIS+ and Army Corps of Engineers vehicle positions, with HDR Architecture, Inc. operating as the contracting vehicle for individual task orders and IDIQs. The parent holds additional federal grant and prime-contractor awards not detailed in the subsidiary-focused dossier; the summary reflects HDR Architecture, Inc.'s discrete award footprint as the operating entity.