HDR Architecture, Inc.

HDR Architecture, Inc., doing business as HDR, is a 100% employee-owned architecture and engineering firm operating as a subsidiary of Omaha-based HDR, Inc., and competing full-and-open with no SBA set-asides across federal architecture, engineering, and infrastructure consulting work. The Arlington, Virginia-based firm serves as a prime contractor exclusively, delivering facility design, infrastructure planning, value engineering, risk assessment, and technical consulting services to defense and civilian agencies with a recent portfolio spanning $2.14 billion in combined potential value across 565 prime awards since the early 1980s.

Customer concentration anchors to defense infrastructure and Army Corps of Engineers work. The top five customer agencies by potential-value share account for 67% of the combined value: the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville leads with $592 million across twelve awards; DOD Washington Headquarters Service follows with $276 million across seventy-four awards; the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth carries $238.4 million across 155 awards; the Treasury Department's Internal Revenue Service represents $170.9 million across forty-four awards; and the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command holds $168.8 million across five awards. By award count, the Fort Worth District dominates with 155 awards, followed by Washington Headquarters Service with seventy-four, and Treasury IRS with forty-four. The divergence between the two rankings—Huntsville's high value on few awards versus Fort Worth's high volume on lower average values—reflects HDR's dual role providing both large design-build infrastructure work and smaller task-order delivery against standing IDIQs.

HDR Architecture holds six named parent IDIQs generating the bulk of recent task-order activity. A $66 million single-award contract with Washington Headquarters Service (awarded September 2025, completion March 2031) procures comprehensive architecture and engineering services for Department of Defense headquarters infrastructure; a $120 million multiple-award contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District (awarded July 2024, completion July 2029) covers architect-engineer services for the Intelligence and General Military Design Communities; a $33 million single-award contract with Washington Headquarters Service (awarded May 2024, ultimate completion November 2024, extended through ongoing task orders) supplies architecture and engineering services across multiple Pentagon facility projects; a $10 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (awarded September 2022, completion September 2027) provides value engineering and risk assessment support for overseas diplomatic facility construction and modernization; a $27 million DOD Washington Headquarters Service contract (awarded April 2023, completion March 2024) delivered architecture and engineering services through multiple delivery orders; and a $9.8 million Army Corps of Engineers multiple-award vehicle (awarded February 2023, completion February 2028) supports architect-engineer multidisciplinary design services for Civil Works and Military Planning and Design programs. Within the largest vehicles by task-order count, Indefinite Delivery Contract W9126G07D0010 carries eighty-six task orders worth $47.2 million, DACW6303D0001 holds seventy-six task orders valued at $18.1 million, and W9126G10D0039 comprises forty-one task orders at $41.9 million.

Recent representative work spans Pentagon facility modernization, overseas diplomatic infrastructure, and Army facility design. On the Pentagon side, HDR delivered a $3.98 million roof interior design upgrade, a $1.08 million seismic condition assessment study, a $1.67 million River Terrace structural repair project, and a $7.17 million 35% design phase for a Metro entrance upgrade, all under Washington Headquarters Service delivery orders priced firm fixed-price with no set-asides. For the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, HDR completed a $700,390 scheduling and risk/value engineering task for the New U.S. Embassy Compound in Beirut, Lebanon, a $387,315 risk and value engineering effort for the Bogota Consular Support Unit (completion December 2030), a $801,533 risk and value engineering study for the new embassy compound in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and smaller value engineering orders supporting facilities in Cairo, Sarajevo, Adana, and Ouagadougou. Under the Army Corps of Engineers intelligence and military design IDIQs, HDR delivered a $6.1 million design-bid-build contract for administrative facility interior renovations and a $2.6 million architect-engineer task for the Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters Consolidation and Expansion project. A separate definitive contract with the Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management awarded September 2023 ($6.63 million ceiling, completion September 2028) procures VA space planning criteria updates and SEPS data development services.

Activity has oscillated in recent years—twelve awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, twenty-two in 2024, nine in 2025, and eight year-to-date in 2026—with nineteen awards carrying combined potential value of $104.6 million and ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data shows modest SCI-reportable invoicing of $1.1 million in FY2022, $1 million in FY2023, $1.1 million in FY2024, and $1.8 million in FY2025, with contractor FTE delivery ranging from 1.6 to 3.8 FTEs per fiscal year; these figures capture only service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and exclude the product, design, and construction work that dominates HDR's portfolio. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $143.94/hr, with senior labor pricing through $306.17/hr, and HDR self-performed all recorded hours without subcontractor engagement.

HDR Architecture engages subcontractors extensively on individual delivery orders to enhance specialized capabilities, routinely naming firms including Arcadis U.S., Inc. (value engineering and risk analysis), CCS International, Inc. (a minority-owned small disadvantaged business providing cost estimating and capital project management), Stanton Engineering Services, LLC (fire protection and life safety design), Gordon US, LLC (a small disadvantaged business delivering civil engineering and surveying), Brierley Associates Corporation (architecture and engineering), Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (structural engineering and seismic analysis), and Terracon Consultants, Inc. (geotechnical and environmental engineering). The subcontracting footprint reflects HDR's practice of pairing its core architecture and engineering delivery with specialized small business and technical expertise—minority-owned firms, service-disabled veteran-owned enterprises (Ocmi Inc., Rha LLC), and women-owned firms—to enhance project delivery and support federal contracting participation goals on Pentagon renovation, infrastructure assessment, and overseas diplomatic facility work. However, HDR operates as a prime on all recorded federal awards; it carries no subcontractor role in its federal portfolio as presented in this source.