KOO LLC

KOO LLC, a Chicago-based minority-owned and woman-owned small business certified under the SBA 8(a) Business Development Program and as a small disadvantaged business, provides architectural and engineering design services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor across GSA Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin). The firm competes predominantly under total small business and partial small business set-asides on its primary vehicle and in full-and-open competition on delivery orders against larger indefinite delivery contracts.

KOO LLC's federal footprint is highly concentrated in GSA Region 5 facility-support work. The top five customer agencies account for 88% of recent awards by count, with the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service Region 5 dominating at 79 awards and $71.4 million in combined potential value — a 97% share of the total portfolio. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts follows at 14 awards and $798 thousand. This concentration reflects KOO's deep regional positioning: nearly all work involves architectural and engineering design for federal building repair, alteration, security upgrades, and facility assessments within the five-state Midwest footprint. Representative work includes a $615 thousand delivery order from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (awarded February 2022, ultimate completion February 2025) for design services at the Indianapolis facility; a $223 thousand delivery order from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (awarded January 2024, completion December 2026) for renovation design of the Birch Bayh U.S. Courthouse in Indianapolis; and a $220 thousand delivery order from GSA Region 5 (awarded June 2023, completion November 2027) for exterior perimeter lighting upgrades and post-construction services at the Stanley J. Roszkowski U.S. Courthouse in Rockford, Illinois. Additional recent work includes $96.7 thousand (GSA, June 2026) for smoke atrium upgrade design at the Federal Building in Chicago and $88.4 thousand (GSA, June 2024, terminated for convenience) for IRS forced-move design services in Youngstown, Ohio.

KOO holds two parent IDIQ vehicles with GSA Region 5. The primary vehicle is a $1.875 million total small business set-aside IDIQ for Chicagoland-area A/E services (awarded September 2023, completion February 2027), under which KOO has issued multiple recent delivery orders for building projects in Chicago. The second is a position on the GSA Region 5 Supplemental Architect and Engineering Services IDIQ 2020-2025, a $50 million multiple-award vehicle through which 28 of KOO's recent task orders have been issued. The latter carries a partial small business set-aside designation and enables work across the five-state region. Older parent vehicles include the PBS Region 5 Architectural Engineering Services 2016-2021 (37 task orders, $2.7 million combined value) and predecessor GSA Region 5 IDIQs. Task orders under these vehicles are firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from $2,680 to $615 thousand, with completion dates extending into 2027.

Activity declined year over year from a recent peak of 15 awards in 2022 to 11 in 2024, with only one award in 2025 and four in 2026 (reflecting a two-month reporting lag). Twelve awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $1.2 million, representing modest recompete exposure. KOO operates exclusively as a prime contractor — 113 of 113 recent awards are prime, with zero sub awards. SCI-reported invoiced revenue was $105 thousand in FY2023, $118 thousand in FY2024, and $99 thousand in FY2025, reflecting a fractional FTE footprint (0.1 to 0.2 FTEs annually) on service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ranged from a median of $424.76/hr to a 90th percentile of $532.34/hr. The vendor performs no subcontract work on its SCI-reportable prime contracts.

KOO's portfolio is tightly specialized: all 113 awards fall under NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services), with 82 delivery orders classified under PSC Architect and Engineering–Construction: Office Buildings and 27 under Architect and Engineering–General: Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing. The geographic footprint is narrow — nearly all work is performed in Chicago or within the five-state GSA Region 5 territory, with place-of-performance entries heavily weighted to Chicago, Illinois addresses.

KOO LLC is a full-service architectural, interior architecture and urban planning firm that delivers design excellence. KOO has worked on numerous GSA, Civic and Private sector projects.