Indigenous Design Studio + Architecture, LLC

Indigenous Design Studio + Architecture, LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business and American Indian-owned entity headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivers architectural design, engineering, planning, and structural assessment services to the federal government as a prime contractor (83% of awards) and selectively as a subcontractor, with a concentration in facilities design and infrastructure projects for tribally affiliated education and community assets.

The vendor operates under multiple SBA designations — minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, and Native American-owned — and competes predominantly full-and-open on non-set-aside delivery orders against the BIA's National Multiple Award Architect-Engineering Contract 2020-2021, though it also holds a separate $150.01 million Indian Affairs Architect Engineer MAC awarded March 18, 2024, reserved for Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise. The two parent vehicles represent the backbone of the prime footprint: the 2020-2021 BIA A/E MAC carries ten task orders worth $2.1 million in combined potential value, while the newer Indian Affairs AE-MAC carries one task order valued at $3.9 million and has generated additional work such as an August 18, 2025 Cottonwood School planning and 20% design delivery order worth $3.85 million with a completion date of April 3, 2031.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office anchors 13 of 18 total awards (100% coverage) with $236.8 million in combined potential value, representing 99.9% of the vendor's potential-value footprint. Secondary customers — the Navajo Region, Bureau of Indian Education, Bureau of Reclamation, and the Albuquerque Acquisition Office, each with sub-million awards — account for the remaining slice. Recent prime work includes a $3.85 million delivery order for Cottonwood School planning and design services (August 2025), a $123 thousand structural assessment of BIA Buildings 40 and 251 in Albuquerque (May 2026), and a $572 thousand Chooshgai Community School fire and rescue facility design contract (September 2022). Architectural and engineering services dominate the category mix, with 13 awards under Engineering Services NAICS and nine under Architect and Engineering–Construction, Other Conservation and Development Facilities PSC.

The vendor operates as a solo prime across its SCI-reportable service contracts, contributing zero sub-hours share on the contracts captured above the $150,000 reporting threshold; invoiced revenue in the SCI dataset totaled $429 thousand across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2023 peak at $202 thousand across 0.4 FTEs), with median government-paid rates running $257.58/hr and senior labor through $353.40/hr. In its subcontractor capacity, Indigenous Design Studio performs architectural services for Jacobs Project Management on the San Juan Lateral Water Treatment Plant project (two sub-awards in April and August 2025) and provided handbook revision support to Seven Generations Architecture & Engineering on a BIA School Facilities Design Handbook update (October 2023). Activity shows volatility — three awards in 2022, five in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and one thus far in 2026 — with minimal recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months (one award worth $123 thousand completing by year-end 2026). The gap between combined potential value ($237 million) and obligated dollars ($4.8 million) reflects that the $150 million Indian Affairs AE-MAC is a ceiling vehicle with limited task-order execution to date.

Indigenous Design Studio + Architecture is a Navajo Native American women owned company located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company provides planning, design/build, architecture, master planning, land use planning, feasibility studies, sustainable design, programming, facility assessments, LEED Design, interior design, project management, construction administration, record drawings, site analysis, Navajo Design and Planning, culture consulting, building information modeling, 3D modeling and sketching, economic development training, and community participatory design and facilitation. Licensed in the states of NM, CO, AZ, NV, and OK. The owner holds the following credentials: Architect, LEED AP BD+C, CDT, AIA, AICAE and NCARB.