HSU Development, Inc.

HSU Development, Inc., doing business as HSU Builders, is an SBA-certified HUBZone firm and minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned general contractor that operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) on federal design-build and design-bid-build construction projects, with recent annual award volume averaging nine to fourteen delivery orders across a portfolio exceeding $4.5 billion in combined potential value.

HSU Builders' customer base concentrates heavily in federal real estate and facility modernization. The top five funding agencies account for 96% of combined potential value, anchored by the National Institutes of Health Construction division (25 awards, $2.53 billion combined potential value), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District (13 awards, $1.08 billion), the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service (49 awards, $404.6 million), the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (26 awards, $270.8 million), and the Smithsonian Institution (55 awards, $93.8 million). When ranked by award count, the Smithsonian leads with 55 orders despite a lower dollar value, while NIH dominates the dollar ranking with generational exposure through its $2 billion General Construction MACC 2019 vehicle. This split signals many small-ticket facility-maintenance orders at Smithsonian offset by fewer but much larger laboratory and infrastructure modernization projects at NIH.

HSU Builders executes work under multiple large indefinite-delivery vehicles: the $499 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ENDIST Baltimore MATOC for design-build and design-bid-build construction (active through September 2028); the $9.8 million NIST General Construction IDIQ (HUBZone set-aside, through September 2026); the $150 million Department of State Worldwide Design-Build Construction and Construction Projects vehicle (partial small business set-aside, through June 2027); and the $300 million Washington Headquarters Service Multiple Award Construction Contract II (HUBZone set-aside, through May 2027). The WHS MACC II has generated 23 task orders worth $65.8 million; the NIH MACC 2019 has generated 22 task orders worth $25.4 million. Recent representative work includes a $10.35 million design-build renovation of Building 370 at Letterkenny Army Depot (July 2025, ENDIST Baltimore), a $7.14 million SCIF swing-space renovation at the Pentagon (September 2024, WHS), a $5.1 million motor pool renovation at the Pentagon (September 2024, WHS), a $4.4 million gallery shell for the Smithsonian's Center for Understanding of Religion in American History (March 2024, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $3.89 million design-build fire alarm systems upgrade at the Hong Kong Wilshire Park Barker Road facility (September 2025, State Department).

Set-aside posture is mixed. HSU Builders wins work across HUBZone set-asides (prevalent on NIST, NIH, and WHS vehicles), Total Small Business set-asides (Smithsonian gallery shell, $4.4 million), Partial Small Business set-asides (State Department overseas vehicle), and full-and-open competitive awards. Across the prime footprint, approximately 40% of awards carry HUBZone or other small-business set-aside designations; the remainder compete without set-aside preference, reflecting the vendor's capacity to win unrestricted task orders on large vehicles where it has established performance records.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (FY2022–FY2024, a $28.1 million subset of federal invoicing), HSU Builders delivered invoiced revenue of $2.2 million in FY2022, $7.8 million in FY2023, and $18.1 million in FY2024, reflecting sustained growth in service-delivery scale. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, the vendor deployed 3.1 FTEs in FY2022, 8.7 FTEs in FY2023, and 7.9 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts median around $323/hr, with senior labor pricing through $1,351/hr; the 10th percentile floor reflects potential fixed-price tasks or partial-year deployments. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, an average of 9% of total contractor hours were performed by named subcontractors (10 named subs reported across the prime portfolio), indicating HSU Builders delivers most work with its own staffing but engages specialized trades on select projects.

Representative Smithsonian work spans facility renovation and maintenance: a $2.4 million cafe establishment at the Sackler Pavilion (September 2024), a $2.17 million 4th-floor south gallery renovation (May 2023), a $523,805 water-infiltration investigation and repair at the National Museum of the American Indian (March 2023), and roof and paving renewal at the National Zoo's lion/tiger exhibit ($3.55 million, April 2022). NIH work emphasizes laboratory and clinical infrastructure: medical air and medical vacuum systems replacement ($2.48 million, July 2024), ground-floor water laboratory modifications with second and third-floor water-damage repairs ($3.2 million, August 2024), boiler controls upgrade for the Clinical Unit Plant ($7.38 million, October 2023), and variable-frequency-drive replacements in Building 37 ($336,453, August 2024). On State Department overseas work, HSU Builders executed drainage survey and stormwater mitigation for the Nassau Chief of Mission Residence compound in the Bahamas ($4.16 million, August 2024, modified to November 2026).

Recompete exposure over the next twenty-four months encompasses twelve awards with combined potential value of $48 million, chiefly single-award or limited-availability vehicles reaching ultimate completion in 2026. The vendor's five-year award trajectory shows growth from eight awards in 2022 to a peak of fourteen in 2023, moderating to twelve in 2024 and nine in 2025, with one award recorded in 2026 year-to-date (data snapshot is July 2026). This pattern reflects multi-year project lifecycles and vehicle maturation rather than declining business momentum; the large IDIQs provide ongoing task-order capacity. HSU Builders was registered in SAM.gov as of 2002, positioning the firm as an established federal contractor with more than two decades of continuous federal engagement.

General Contractor providing design/build & design/bid/build services for federal agencies for over 20 years. Domestic & international projects. Top Secret Facility Clearance, Top Secret cleared employees, and sensitive document handling capabilities.