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 as a prime contractor across federal facility construction, renovation, and design-build services, with a $4.56 billion combined potential value across 416 federal awards and no subcontractor role in recent activity. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, HSU Builders competes predominantly on HUBZone and full-and-open vehicles, with roughly half of recent awards carrying HUBZone or Total Small Business set-aside designations.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on commercial and institutional building construction, mechanical and electrical systems replacement, facility renovation, design-build delivery, and infrastructure upgrades. Representative work spans a $7.54 million design-build office renovation at Raven Rock Mountain Complex under the Washington Headquarters Service Multiple Award Construction Contract II (awarded September 2022), a $7.375 million boiler controls upgrade at NIH in Bethesda under the NIH General Construction MACC 2019 (awarded October 2023), a $10.9 million Letterkenny Army Depot Building 370 renovation under the ENDIST Baltimore MATOC (awarded July 2025), and a $3.89 million Hong Kong fire alarm systems upgrade at an overseas diplomatic facility under the State Department's Worldwide Design-Build Construction vehicle (awarded September 2025). Recent NIST work includes $3.15 million general construction, $717 thousand network closet cooling upgrades, and $370 thousand fume hood installation, all under the $9.8 million NIST General Construction IDIQ (HUBZone set-aside, through September 2026).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward research and defense facilities. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 96% of combined dollars: the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Construction anchors the portfolio with 26 awards and $2.53 billion in combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Baltimore (13 awards, $1.08 billion), the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service (49 awards, $406.1 million), the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (26 awards, $270.4 million), and the Smithsonian Institution (57 awards, $97.3 million). The split between volume and dollars is striking: Smithsonian leads by award count (57 orders, mostly smaller maintenance and renovation tasks), while NIH and Army Corps of Engineers dominate dollar value through larger capital and infrastructure projects.

HSU Builders holds four major prime indefinite-delivery vehicles: the $499 million ENDIST Baltimore MATOC (design-build and design-bid-build construction, North Atlantic Division area, 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 (worldwide diplomatic facility work, partial small business set-aside, through June 2027); and the $300 million Washington Headquarters Service Multiple Award Construction Contract II (HUBZone set-aside, Pentagon and other defense infrastructure, through May 2027). The source also references prior vehicles including the NIH General Construction MACC 2019 and a Smithsonian IDIQ (F16CC10413). Recent task-order activity has concentrated under NIH General Construction MACC 2019 (23 task orders, $26 million combined value), Washington Headquarters Service construction contracts (23 task orders, $65.8 million), and the State Department worldwide construction vehicle (20 task orders, $12.4 million).

Activity has declined moderately from a recent peak. Awards fell from 14 in 2023 to 12 in 2024 and 10 in 2025, with only 3 awards recorded in 2026 (through mid-September). Fourteen awards with combined potential value of $36.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The source does not identify material subcontract relationships; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs account for approximately 8% of total contractor hours, with named subcontractors including Freestate Electric LLC (electrical and fire alarm work), CFP International LLC (fire protection systems), Stanton Engineering Services LLC (fire protection design), and John H. Hampshire, Inc. (drywall and acoustic ceilings). HSU Builders self-performs the majority of delivery.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold) reached $35.9 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2024 as the peak year at $18.1 million. Workforce scale on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from 3.1 FTEs in FY2022 to 9.0 FTEs in FY2025, though this represents only labor activity captured in SCI and does not reflect total company staffing or the full scope of construction delivery on fixed-price task orders. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run a median of $323.38 per hour, with a 90th-percentile rate of $1,298.27 per hour, typical of skilled construction and systems-integration labor. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor in the federal portfolio; the absence of any sub-award activity in the source reflects HSU Builders' positioning as a direct prime to federal agencies rather than a feeder to larger integrators.

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.