N.k. Bhandari, Architecture & Engineering, P.C.

N.K. Bhandari, Architecture & Engineering, P.C., doing business as N K Bhandari Architect Engineers P C, is a small business architectural and engineering firm based in Liverpool, New York, that operates as a prime contractor on federal facility design, modernization, and construction-support projects, predominantly under total small business set-asides. The firm is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing across 40 distinct federal customer agencies, with a career footprint exceeding $295 million in combined potential value across 443 awards spanning federal buildings, courthouses, research facilities, and infrastructure projects.

The firm's customer concentration sits heavily with the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service (135 awards, $44.1 million combined potential value), the Department of Veterans Affairs (45 awards, $84.6 million), and the Food and Drug Administration (58 awards, $8.8 million). By potential value, however, the Department of Veterans Affairs anchors the top tier at $84.6 million, followed by GSA's central office at $60.7 million and the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service at $50 million under a single indefinite-delivery vehicle. The two rankings diverge meaningfully: GSA-PBS Region 2 places many small to mid-size task orders, while VA and central GSA hold fewer but substantially larger awards. Recent representative work includes a $292,388 delivery order from GSA-PBS for vehicle security barrier design at federal facilities in St. Thomas and St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (September 2026; completion May 2028); a $747,444 delivery order from GSA-PBS for HVAC repairs and design services at the Ron de Lugo Federal Office Building in St. Thomas (August 2025; completion October 2027); a $679,122 delivery order for fire alarm replacement design and management and inspection services at the Charles L. Brieant Federal Courthouse in White Plains, New York (January 2024; completion December 2026); and a $4.67 million delivery order from GSA for construction manager services on a new FDA laboratory building at the Denver Federal Center in Colorado (November 2022; completion June 2029).

N.K. Bhandari holds three major IDIQs: a $50 million multiple-award vehicle with the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (awarded September 2022, expiring September 2027); a $5 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded July 2022, expiring July 2027) for structural, civil, and architectural services in the Northeast and Midwest; and a $25 million GSA Public Buildings Service IDIQ (vehicle GS07P16UCD7008) supporting architectural and engineering services in the Northeast and Caribbean Region, which anchors 160 task orders and $32.2 million in combined potential value. Activity has remained steady, with 24 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 24 in 2025, and 12 in 2026. Thirty-two awards (combined potential value $15 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure.

The firm's capability portfolio spans pre-design, design, cost and project controls, post-construction services including management and inspection, mechanical and electrical system upgrades, HVAC replacements, asbestos abatement and air monitoring, roof structural assessments, fire protection and life safety design, security hardening, and building envelope repairs. Work is performed across multiple regions, with primary activity concentrated in the Northeast (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania) and secondary activity in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Maryland, and Colorado.

N.K. Bhandari operates as a prime contractor on all recent awards (100% prime split) and engages a consistent roster of specialized subcontractors across its work. Named recurring subs include C & S Engineers Inc. (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, security, and IT/communications services), Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company Inc. (mechanical, electrical, fire protection, and structural engineering), Axias NY LLC (cost estimating), and Karagozian & Case, Inc. (blast and structural engineering on courthouse hardening projects). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform approximately 64 percent of contractor hours on average, with 61 distinct named subcontractors reported across the service-contract inventory. The firm's SCI-reported invoicing totaled $7.9 million across FY2022–FY2025, peaking at $3.1 million in FY2024 and declining to $2.5 million in FY2025. The SCI dataset shows roughly 2.5 FTEs delivered to the federal government in FY2024, with 1.9 FTEs in FY2025. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $196.57 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching toward $403.31 per hour and entry-level work starting near $119.14 per hour.

The firm's posture is strongly set-aside-oriented; the top awards by count and value are predominantly or exclusively total small business set-asides, particularly under GSA and VA vehicles. Full-and-open competition appears in roughly one-third of recent awards, typically on larger or specialized efforts such as courthouse hardening design, FDA laboratory work, and construction management roles. The firm has no federal grant or sub-award footprint in the source data; all activity is prime contract delivery orders and IDIQs.

CONSULTING ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, CPM SCHEDULING, A/E DESIGN SERVICES, CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION.