Oculus Inc.

Oculus Inc., doing business as Oculus Architect Midwest, is a women-owned small business (WOSB) and SBA-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) providing architectural and engineering design services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The firm is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with a subsidiary, Oculus-Imeg JV, LLP, a joint-venture limited liability company also designated as WOSB and self-certified SDB. Oculus competes across a mix of set-asides and full-and-open procurements; recent work skews toward total-small-business set-aside delivery orders but excludes NAICS-based 8(a) competition.

Oculus's core capability is facility assessment, architectural design, engineering studies, and construction administration for federal real property — roof replacements, building envelope evaluations, asbestos and lead-based paint surveys, mechanical system upgrades, fire alarm replacements, parking lot design and repaving, accessibility compliance, and renovation project management. Representative work includes a $40 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Administration and Resource Management for architect-engineer services across EPA Regions 5 through 10, awarded December 2025 and running through December 2030; a $418,787 delivery order from EPA for roof replacement design at the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan; a $363,395 construction administration delivery order from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse restack project in St. Louis; and a $332,862 delivery order from the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 6 for chiller replacement design at the Robert Young Federal Building in St. Louis.

Oculus concentrates its customer base in two agencies that together account for approximately 75% of combined potential value. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 6 leads by award count (41 awards, $56.6 million combined potential value), followed by the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Administration and Resource Management (10 awards, $42.1 million), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management (24 awards, $41.4 million). The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration account for a smaller share. This concentration reflects Oculus's geographic footprint in the Midwest and its established relationships with GSA and EPA on long-standing facility improvement contracts.

Oculus holds positions on five major parent vehicles: a $30 million VA IDIQ (37 task orders) with the Department of Veterans Affairs; a GSA Multiple Award Schedule IDIQ ($3.2 million combined potential value across 31 task orders); an Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts IDIQ (25 task orders, $5.8 million combined potential value); an EPA IDIQ (13 task orders, $2.2 million); and a VA health-system IDIQ (7 task orders, $1.1 million). These vehicles provide steady task-order flow for facility-related work. Recent activity shows modest award velocity — 10 awards in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 through mid-October — with only 4 awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal near-term recompete exposure.

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing totaled $694 thousand across FY2022–FY2025, with $132 thousand in FY2022 and $562 thousand in FY2024; FY2023 and FY2025 carried no SCI-reportable invoicing. The SCI dataset reflects only federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue, making it a strict subset of Oculus's federal activity — the firm's full award footprint of $190.9 million in combined potential value dwarfs the SCI view. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $131/hr at the 10th percentile to $812/hr at the 90th percentile, with a median around $472/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average of 15% of total contractor hours, with 2 named subcontractors reported; this limited sub-engagement suggests Oculus builds most delivery capacity internally rather than relying on subcontractor networks.

Oculus subcontracts minimal work; the source identifies one federal contract sub award — an ADA accessibility consultant role under Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. on a General Services Administration second and third floor renovation at One White Flint North in Rockville, Maryland. On prime contracts, Oculus names Imeg Consultants Corp. (an employee-owned engineering firm) and Oates Associates Inc. (a small disadvantaged business) as recurring engineering subcontractors for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and building systems work. The prime-dominant profile and low sub-hours share indicate Oculus operates as a lead architect-engineer firm with selective use of specialized engineering subs rather than as a feeder to larger defense or IT primes.

Oculus Inc. is a full-service architecture firm w/national reach; licensed in 43 states and DC; offices in St. Louis, MO, Dallas, TX & Portland, OR; WOSB & nationally WBE & DBE-certified; 100% BIM capable; & licensed architects, NCIDQ interior designers, LEED AP's, Facility Condition Assessors & move managers.