Otak, Inc.

Otak, Inc., doing business as Otak, a Portland, Oregon-based foreign-owned architecture and engineering firm, serves the federal government as a prime contractor delivering architectural design, engineering services, landscape architecture, and infrastructure planning for national parks and federal lands, primarily through indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Park Service and Department of the Interior. Otak operates entirely in the full-and-open competitive space, with no set-aside designations across its prime footprint (99% of awards), and builds most delivery work through its own staff rather than subcontractors (94% of SCI-reportable prime hours on-staff).

Otak's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in the National Park Service. The Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office accounts for 248 awards carrying $603 million in combined potential value—roughly 95% of the company's disclosed federal work. The top-five customer agencies (NPS National Office, BLM National Office, NPS Intermountain Region, BLM Oregon-Washington, and NPS Pacific West Region) represent 64% of award count and 97% of potential value. Recent representative prime work includes a $2.17 million delivery order for Lodgepole Housing final design at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (awarded February 2026, performing through September 2027), a $1.62 million order for rain shed and water treatment system design at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (awarded June 2024, extended to May 2026), a $2.99 million order for predesign and schematic design services for Grant Grove historic cabin rehabilitation and water utility upgrades at Sequoia Kings Canyon (awarded May 2023, performing through July 2025), and $530,815 for Title III services at Dinosaur National Monument (awarded March 2026). Otak holds two primary indefinite-delivery vehicles: the $30 million WEST LARGE IDIQ with the NPS (awarded January 2022, running through January 2027) for nationwide architectural, engineering, construction, and program support services, and a $400.03 million nationwide general architect and engineering professional-services IDIQ awarded by GSA on behalf of NPS in March 2026 (running through March 2031). The WEST LARGE IDIQ has issued 82 task orders worth $24.8 million combined potential value; the new GSA vehicle positions Otak to scale delivery across federal agencies beyond Interior.

Otak's capability portfolio spans architectural design, engineering design development and construction documents, Title III construction administration, historic building preservation, utility system improvements, facility rehabilitation, landscape architecture, visitor studies, socioeconomic research and analysis, transportation planning, and infrastructure assessment. The firm's labor categories on its GSA Schedule span from Landscape Technician I ($58.99/hr) through Senior Project Manager roles ($296.01/hr), all without security-clearance requirements, reflecting a civilian-infrastructure focus. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue grew from $2.9 million in FY2022 to $8.3 million in FY2024, supporting a contractor workforce that scaled from 3.6 FTEs in FY2022 to 8.1 FTEs in FY2024. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $320/hr, with senior roles pricing through $926/hr, consistent with A/E firm posture in the design and pre-construction phase market.

Activity per year has held steady at 27–35 awards annually from 2022 through 2024, declining to 13 awards in 2025 and 6 in 2026 (reflecting a partial-year snapshot through May). Twenty-two awards are completing or recompeting within the next twenty-four months, carrying $14.1 million in combined potential value—a moderate recompete exposure concentrated in NPS task-order volume. Otak's prime award distribution sits at 99% prime, 1% sub (4 subcontractor positions), and the firm's own SCI data show 6% average sub-hours share across reportable contracts, indicating a self-delivery posture. Subcontractor engagement is minimal in the source data; named subs include Bratslavsky Consulting Engineers (structural engineering support for roof design and wetlands office work under Forest Service primes in 2024–2026). The company competes full-and-open against other A/E firms in the NPS and Interior vendor ecosystem, with no reliance on set-aside vehicles to drive volume.