Interactive Design Inc.

Interactive Design Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Chicago, Illinois, delivers architectural and engineering design services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, operating exclusively under the GSA Region 5 Supplemental Architect and Engineering Services IDIQ vehicle and related GSA A&E contracts spanning 2014 to 2025.

The firm competes predominantly full-and-open on federal facility design work rather than under set-aside categories, though a minority of recent task orders carry partial small business set-aside designations. Interactive Design holds a historic IDIQ position within GSA Region 5 that anchors its entire federal portfolio: of 113 prime awards in the source data, 59 awards (88% of total awards by count, covering $100.6 million of $109 million combined potential value) flow through the GSA Region 5 Supplemental Architect and Engineering Services IDIQ 2020-2025. The vendor's service footprint concentrates on courthouse and federal building design, renovation, and infrastructure work across the Midwest: recent representative work includes a $1.67 million delivery order for building security improvements at the E. Ross Adair Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana; a $1.19 million task order for health and human services facility backfill project design in Chicago; a $331.8 million delivery order for 26th and 27th floor chambers and circuit executive office suite renovation at the Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago; and a $241 thousand delivery order for DFAS site operations and Joint Data Analysis Center build-out design support in Indianapolis, both awarded in January 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme. The top five customer agencies account for 88% of awards; GSA Public Buildings Service Region 5 dominates the portfolio at 59 awards and $100.6 million combined potential value, followed distantly by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (18 awards, $2.1 million), GSA Public Buildings Service (11 awards, $241 thousand), the Judicial Branch (8 awards, $1.1 million), and Social Security Administration (4 awards, $1.1 million). The two value rankings converge—GSA Region 5 leads both count and dollars—and reflect Interactive Design's structural dependence on a single GSA vehicle serving multiple judicial and federal facility agencies downstream.

Activity has decelerated sharply. The vendor received five awards in 2022, seven in 2023, two in 2024, four in 2025, and one in early 2026, suggesting either pipeline contraction or depletion of work-share allocations under the aging GSA vehicle. The recompete cliff is modest: seven awards carrying combined potential value of $1.4 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, but the broader portfolio risk is structural—the GSA Region 5 IDIQ expires at the end of 2025, and nearly all of Interactive Design's federal revenue flows through that vehicle.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Interactive Design invoiced $3.3 million from FY2022 through FY2024 ($1.3 million in FY2022, $1.4 million in FY2023, $625 thousand in FY2024), delivering approximately 2.6, 2.2, and 0.8 FTEs respectively. The workforce decline in FY2024 aligns with the award activity drop. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $293/hr, with senior labor pricing through $387/hr. The vendor performs 100% of its delivery team in-house—no subcontractor hours are reported across SCI prime contracts—and operates exclusively as a prime, with zero sub-awards in the portfolio. Interactive Design's federal footprint is architecturally specialized, geographically concentrated in the Midwest, and vehicularly dependent; competitive exposure and recompete urgency center on GSA Region 5 IDIQ renewal or replacement scheduled for 2025–2026.