Otak, Inc.

Otak, Inc., doing business as Otak, is a foreign-owned, for-profit architecture and engineering firm based in Portland, Oregon, that delivers architectural design, engineering services, landscape architecture, infrastructure planning, and socioeconomic research to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards) operating entirely in full-and-open competition with no small-business set-asides. The firm competes without SBA designations and has built a substantial federal footprint across 681 awards with combined potential value of $639.4 million.

Otak's federal customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of Interior. The National Park Service National Office dominates across both award count and dollar volume, accounting for 255 awards (37% of total) worth $608.3 million (95% of combined potential value)—a decisive concentration signal. The Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service account for the remaining early-ranking customers, collectively representing 160 awards but minimal dollar share. This customer concentration is stable; the top five customers by award count and by potential value track closely, with NPS National Office anchoring both rankings.

Otak holds three active prime IDV positions. The WEST LARGE IDIQ, a $30 million single-award vehicle awarded January 2022 through January 2027, is the core vehicle, with 82 task orders worth $24.6 million in combined potential value as of May 2026. A second $30 million single-award socioeconomic research and analysis IDIQ was awarded April 2026 through May 2031 and has generated one $108,989 task order to date. A third vehicle—the NPS Nationwide General Architect and Engineering Professional Services multiple-award IDIQ with a $400.03 million ceiling (awarded March 2026, running through March 2031)—has been the source of recent delivery orders, including a $2.32 million order for Big Oak Flat Contact Station design at Yosemite National Park (September 2026) and a $499,994 delivery order for the Romo Holzwarth Cultural Landscape Report (September 2026). These three vehicles, particularly the WEST LARGE IDIQ and the NPS Nationwide A/E vehicle, anchor Otak's task-order pipeline.

Representative recent prime work reflects Otak's core capability in facility design, infrastructure rehabilitation, and historic preservation. A $2.32 million delivery order for Big Oak Flat Contact Station and emergency services design and build at Yosemite (awarded September 2026, completing August 2028) exemplifies the firm's architectural and engineering scope. A $1.98 million delivery order for architectural and engineering design services at Chickasaw National Recreation Area (awarded September 2026, completing July 2027) and a $1.62 million order for rain shed and water treatment system design at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (awarded June 2024, completing May 2026) demonstrate sustained work in utility systems and facility rehabilitation. Smaller orders for Title I scoping, visitor surveys, economic analyses, and landscape recovery planning round out the portfolio.

SCI-reported invoicing shows Otak scaling federal services work. FY2022 invoiced $2.9 million across 3.3 FTEs; FY2025 reached $9 million across 16.1 FTEs—a three-fold increase in both dollars and workforce scale over three years. Median government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts run around $305.68/hr, with senior roles priced through $923.19/hr and entry-level technical labor near $91.37/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors represent 7% of total contractor hours—Otak predominantly self-performs. Named subcontractors on federal work include Bratslavsky Consulting Engineers (structural and civil engineering support on Timberline Lodge roof design, West Eugene Wetlands office building, and Eastside fungal survey mitigation work, all awarded 2024–2026), Burns & McDonnell Engineering, and Jacobs Engineering Group, cited in source descriptions of past NPS infrastructure projects. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 95 categories from Landscape Technician I at $58.99/hr through Senior Project Manager roles at $296.01/hr, reflecting the breadth of in-house technical depth.

Activity has remained flat over the past five years (27 awards in 2022, 35 in 2023, 35 in 2024, declining to 13 in 2025 and recovering to 20 in 2026), with no material growth trajectory. Twenty-eight awards worth $19.6 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure. Within this window, the WEST LARGE IDIQ expires January 2027, requiring recompete in 2027 or earlier depending on NPS scheduling. Otak operates as an internally resourced delivery organization—performing substantially all work with its own staff, maintaining a disciplined subcontractor posture, and competing on capability and design quality rather than on cost leadership or ecosystem partnerships. The firm's competitive position rests on its established relationship with NPS, sustained track record across dozens of parks and recreation areas, and in-house depth across architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and socioeconomic research functions.