Oculus Inc.

Oculus Inc., doing business as Oculus Architect Midwest, a St. Louis-based women-owned small business (WOSB) and SBA-certified small disadvantaged business, delivers architectural and engineering services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), with a $40 million EPA IDIQ and a $25 million GSA Region 6 IDIQ anchoring a portfolio concentrated in federal facility assessment, design, and modernization work across the Midwest and broader regions.

Oculus operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 541512 (Architectural Services), competing predominantly in full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside solicitations rather than 8(a)-reserved vehicles. The firm has a named subsidiary, Oculus-Imeg JV, LLP, a joint-venture small disadvantaged business and women-owned small business that reflects deeper capacity on complex facility engineering. Across its recent footprint, Oculus has executed 131 prime and sub awards with combined potential value of $190.4 million, of which $26.5 million has been obligated to date. Activity has accelerated modestly — from five awards per year in 2022–2023 to ten in 2024 — with only four awards (combined potential value $2 million) reaching completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in that window.

Customer concentration is acute and geographically clustered. The top three agencies account for 75% of combined potential value: the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 6 (41 awards, $56.6 million), 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). Within GSA Region 6, Oculus holds a $25 million multiple-award IDIQ for A/E services in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, with 31 task orders against it carrying $3.2 million in combined potential value. Against the EPA's $40 million IDIQ (awarded December 2025, running through 2030 and set aside for total small business), Oculus has placed 13 task orders valued at $2.2 million. The VA's primary vehicle for Oculus, Indefinite Delivery Contract VA101F12D0009, has driven 37 task orders with $30 million in combined potential value. Representative recent work includes a $235,387 delivery order from EPA for roof replacement A/E services at the Ann Arbor National Vehicle Fuel and Emissions Laboratory (April 2026), a $96,232 task order for asbestos survey services at EPA facilities in Cincinnati (September 2024), and a $363,395 construction administration contract with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for the Eagleton Courthouse restack project in St. Louis (February 2024, set aside for total small business).

Oculus's capability portfolio centers on federal facility assessment, design, and construction administration — roof and envelope investigations, lead-based paint and asbestos inspections, ADA accessibility design, electrical and HVAC system upgrades, parking lot and exterior work, and fire alarm and building automation system design. Work is performed predominantly on courthouse, laboratory, and administrative facilities, with most delivery orders in the $20,000–$250,000 range on a firm-fixed-price basis. The firm has established a pattern of subcontracting engineering services to specialized design firms: Imeg Consultants Corp. (mechanical, electrical, and fire protection systems design) appears across multiple Eagleton Courthouse and federal building projects; Oates Associates Inc. (small disadvantaged business, Air Force-focused) has supported parking and facility work; and Geotechnology Inc. and S&B Christ Consulting LLC have supported lead and asbestos field verification work.

Service Contract Inventory data captures only a narrow slice of Oculus's federal services activity — $694 thousand in invoiced revenue across five prime and three sub records from FY2022–FY2024, with median government-paid hourly rates around $471.90/hr and senior labor rates through $812.77/hr. Across those SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 18% of total hours, signaling a build-your-own-team delivery model with selective use of specialized subs for engineering disciplines. FTE trajectory shows 0.6 federal SCI-reportable FTEs in FY2022, zero in FY2023, and 0.6 in FY2024 — a partial view that does not reflect total company capacity, which the source does not quantify. The single named sub-award in the source is a $0-value ADA accessibility consultant placement on a Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum prime for second and third floor renovations at One White Flint North in Rockville, Maryland (August 2024), reflecting downstream teaming on larger A/E primes. Oculus's competitive posture is regional and set-aside-adjacent — the firm wins on GSA and VA multiple-award vehicles where the firm has standing, often under Total Small Business set-asides, and rarely competes full-and-open against larger national firms.

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.