HDR Architecture, Inc.

HDR Architecture, Inc., doing business as HDR, is a 100% employee-owned architecture and engineering firm that operates as a prime contractor providing comprehensive facility design, infrastructure planning, value engineering, risk assessment, and technical consulting services to federal agencies across the Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of State, Department of Treasury, and civilian departments. The Arlington, Virginia–based subsidiary of Omaha-based HDR, Inc. competes full-and-open on architecture and engineering services, holding no SBA set-asides across its recent prime contracting footprint.

HDR Architecture's federal work concentrates on three concrete capability streams. The first is Pentagon and Defense headquarters infrastructure: design and renovation of facility systems including chilled water plants, heating and refrigeration systems, roof upgrades, window and door security enhancements, parking and access infrastructure, and structural repairs—exemplified by a $3.98 million contract to upgrade Pentagon roof interior design, a $7.17 million 35% design contract for Metro entrance pedestrian access control upgrades in Arlington, and a $1.68 million Pentagon River Terrace repair project spanning multiple specialized engineering disciplines. The second is overseas diplomatic facility support: HDR holds a $10 million Bureau of Overseas Building Operations IDIQ for value engineering and risk assessment work at U.S. embassy and consular compounds worldwide, with recent delivery orders for security upgrades at the Muscat embassy ($248,530), the Bogota Consular Support Unit ($387,315), and the Ulaanbaatar New Embassy Compound ($801,534), with Arcadis U.S., Inc. and service-disabled veteran-owned firm Ocmi Inc. as recurring subcontractors. The third is federal civilian facility and infrastructure planning: work supporting the Treasury's IRS modernization, Department of Veterans Affairs space planning criteria updates ($6.63 million definitive contract through 2028), and Army Corps of Engineers military design community projects including a $6.1 million administrative facility interior renovation and a $2.6 million Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters Consolidation and Expansion design effort.

Customer concentration centers on defense infrastructure work. The Department of Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville anchors the largest dollar share at $592 million (27% of combined potential value) across twelve awards, while the DOD Washington Headquarters Service represents both high volume and substantial dollars at 71 awards totaling $272.2 million. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth drives the highest award count at 155 delivery orders totaling $238.4 million, and the Department of Treasury IRS accounts for 44 awards at $170.9 million. These five customers cover 67% of the combined potential value across the full portfolio, indicating tight customer concentration.

HDR Architecture holds seven primary indefinite delivery vehicles. The most active is IDC W9126G07D0010 (Army Corps of Engineers), carrying 86 task orders valued at $47.2 million combined potential. DACW6303D0001 and W9126G10D0039, both Army Corps vehicles, host 76 and 41 task orders respectively totaling $18.1 million and $41.9 million. The DOD Washington Headquarters Service $33 million single-award IDC (recently renewed for $66 million through March 2031) and the parallel $27 million contract have seeded numerous Pentagon facility design and upgrade task orders. The Army Corps $120 million multiple-award IDIQ for Architecture-Engineer services supporting Intelligence and General Military Design Communities hosts task orders for complex defense facility projects. A $10 million Bureau of Overseas Building Operations IDIQ for value engineering and risk services supports the overseas diplomatic footprint.

Recent activity has grown materially: 22 awards in 2024 versus 12 in 2022, though the 2025 run-rate (9 awards year-to-date as of early 2026) reflects typical award phasing rather than decline. Twenty-two awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $105.6 million, representing a substantial recompete cliff for facility design and infrastructure modernization task orders across Army Corps, Washington Headquarters Service, and Treasury vehicles.

The vendor operates as 100% prime—561 awards in recent activity carry no sub-award footprint. Across SCI-reportable service contracts (a subset covering agreements above $150,000), HDR Architecture invoiced $3.1 million in FY2022–FY2024 combined, averaging roughly 3.8 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 1.6 FTEs in FY2023, and recovering to 6.1 FTEs in FY2024 when the vendor expanded sub-engagement reporting. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ran at a median of $143.94/hr, with senior labor through $306.17/hr. When subcontracting on individual delivery orders, HDR regularly engages minority-owned firms (CCS International for cost estimating, Gordon US for civil engineering, Soil and Land Use Technology for geotechnical work), service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (Ocmi Inc.), women-owned firms (Rha LLC, Colorado Network Staffing), and specialized consultancies (Arcadis for value engineering, Terracon for environmental engineering, Stanton Engineering for fire protection design, Beyer Blinder Belle for historic preservation architecture). This subcontracting approach is consistent across Pentagon, Corps, and State Department awards, reflecting a practice of layering specialized technical expertise rather than relying on a fixed sub-bench.

HDR Architecture is a subsidiary of the larger HDR, Inc., the Omaha-based 100% employee-owned parent company, which holds a multi-billion-dollar OASIS+ GWAC with the General Services Administration and additional significant IDIQs across multiple federal agencies, positioning the subsidiary to access broader organizational resources for complex infrastructure programs.