J.c. Chang & Associates, Inc.

J.C. Chang & Associates, Inc., a Torrance, California-based architectural and engineering firm, operates exclusively as a prime contractor to the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, delivering infrastructure assessment, design, environmental compliance, and construction administration services across federal correctional facilities nationwide under total small business set-asides. The Subchapter S corporation holds a forty-year track record as the Bureau's preferred A&E contractor, with no identified subcontractors across its federal work since entering federal contracting in 1987.

Customer concentration is extreme and deliberate. The Bureau of Prisons accounts for 63% of recent award volume (172 awards across the Central Office, Western Regional Office, and Field Acquisition Office), commanding $63 million of the $83.4 million combined potential value across all 609 awards in the source dataset. The remaining customer base—the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Veterans Affairs—represents historical institutional activity; the Navy alone carries 148 awards but only $100 thousand in combined potential value, a signal of small, legacy task orders. The vendor's dollar footprint is almost exclusively Bureau of Prisons (92% of combined potential value when the five largest customers are aggregated, with BOP Central Office and BOP Western Regional Office comprising $63 million of the $76.8 million subtotal).

J.C. Chang & Associates holds two primary IDIQ vehicles with the Bureau of Prisons. The $15.5 million single-award contract with BOP Central Office (awarded March 23, 2022, expiring March 22, 2027) carries 34 task orders totaling $10.5 million in potential value and provides nationwide A&E support under a total small business set-aside. The $4 million multiple-award contract with BOP Western Regional Office (awarded March 22, 2021, most recently recompeted on April 2, 2026, with a $3 million ceiling through April 1, 2031) carries delivery orders for regional correctional facility work. Recent representative orders include a $923,880 TDG update for FCI/FPC Letcher County, Kentucky (November 2025), a $748,244 generator upgrade at FCC Lompoc (March 2025), a $747,734 chiller and cooling tower upgrade at FCC Victorville (February 2025), and a $620,038 National Historic Preservation Act compliance support order across multiple BOP locations (June 2026). Older vehicles from the 1990s and 2000s (contract 15B60021D00000004, DJBP060000000016, FA461007D0004) continue to generate occasional task orders but at declining frequency, reflecting legacy vehicles that have not been actively recompeted.

The vendor's award activity has grown unevenly over the past five years—7 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, a sharp drop to 4 in 2024, then recovery to 17 in 2025 and 15 in 2026 year-to-date—reflecting both BOP spending cycles and recompete timing. The source dataset shows 13 awards (combined potential value $4.9 million) with ultimate completion dates falling within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's capability scope spans facility condition assessments, environmental site assessments (Phase 1 and Phase 2 ESA), electrical and mechanical infrastructure upgrades (fire detection systems, chillers, generators, building automation systems), construction administration, cost estimating, NEPA compliance, and emergency infrastructure investigation and repair. Work is performed throughout the federal correctional system—FCI and FPC sites in the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico—with administrative and performance headquarters in Torrance, California. The vendor operates with extremely limited federal service contract reporting (SCI data shows 17 records, all prime, across FY2022–FY2025, with $0 invoiced revenue and near-zero FTE trajectory), a pattern consistent with a firm that delivers project-based A&E work on firm fixed-price delivery orders rather than cost-plus labor services and is either not required to report under SCI thresholds or reports invoicing through non-SCI channels.

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