QA Engineering LLC

QA Engineering LLC, an SBA 8(a)-certified American Indian-owned small disadvantaged business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering construction, renovation, repair, and infrastructure services to federal government facilities, with heavy concentration on military installations and Native American healthcare infrastructure in the Southwest. The company holds active 8(a) certification through July 27, 2026, and is registered as an Indian Economic Enterprise and Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise.

Customer concentration is pronounced and geographically anchored. The top five funding agencies account for 81% of recent awards by count and 98% by combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Albuquerque dominates both dimensions with 38 awards valued at $141.4 million combined potential value, followed by the Air Force Global Strike Command with 15 awards valued at $119.4 million, and the Indian Health Service with 26 awards valued at $39.2 million. The National Nuclear Security Administration ($5.5 million), Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($2.1 million), Air National Guard, Bureau of Indian Education, and Air Force Research Laboratory round out the active set. The vendor has worked with 16 distinct customer agencies.

QA Engineering's capability portfolio centers on design-build and design-bid-build construction, renovation, and repair for federal facilities. Representative work includes a $9.713 million total small business set-aside definitive contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for design and construction of Building 592, a Science and Technology On-Orbit Research Mission Operations Center at Kirtland Air Force Base (ultimate completion April 2027); a $12.4 million competitive 8(a) contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for asbestos insulation removal and mechanical equipment renovation at the same installation (completion December 2026); a $10.988 million competitive 8(a) delivery order for the Satellite Assessment Laboratory for Space Situational Awareness at Kirtland (completion May 2026); a $2.21 million total small business set-aside for Santa Fe Indian Hospital pharmacy renovation (completion February 2025); and a $1.67 million total small business set-aside for site preparation and modular facility construction at Kirtland (completion April 2025). Work spans commercial and institutional building construction (56 awards), HVAC contracting (17 awards), electrical contracting (13 awards), and specialized infrastructure including hospital and healthcare-facility construction (15 awards), office-building repair and alteration (11 awards), and facility maintenance.

Vehicle position reflects heavy reliance on agency-specific IDIQs and delivery orders. The Kirtland Air Force Base Multiple Award Construction Contract ($95 million IDIQ) carries 12 task orders valued at $16.5 million combined potential. The Army Corps of Engineers' Indefinite Delivery Contract W912PP19D0035 supports 6 task orders worth $42.6 million combined potential. An unnamed Army Corps IDIQ (75H70120D00021) carries 11 task orders worth $4.6 million combined. QA Engineering also holds a Basic Ordering Agreement with Air Force Special Operations Command at Cannon Air Force Base for sustainment, maintenance, repair, alteration, and minor construction services valued between $25,000 and $5 million per task order. Recent IDV vehicles include a single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Indian Health Service established August 1, 2026, with a $5.309 million ceiling for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services across seven New Mexico IHS service units (completion July 2027); a single-award 8(a) sole-source indefinite-delivery contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration valued at $5.5 million for design-build construction services at the John A. Gordon Complex (completion July 2031); and a multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Indian Health Service valued at $10 million for design-build and design-bid-build construction nationwide across nine IHS geographic regions (completion November 2031, awarded June 2026).

Activity has declined year over year from 16 awards in 2022 and 15 in both 2023 and 2024 to 6 in 2025 and 5 in 2026 (year to date as of mid-July). Five awards totaling $28.7 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure. The company's combined potential value across all 113 awards totals $314.2 million, with $121.1 million obligated to date (39% of potential). First award in the source data dates to September 28, 2016.

Set-aside posture is mixed but tilted toward set-asides. Of representative recent awards, roughly one-third carry no set-aside designation (full and open), one-third are awarded under 8(a) sole-source or competitive set-asides, and one-third are set-aside for total small business, Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise, or ISBEE classifications. The vendor's SCI-reported service-contract footprint is small relative to its construction and repair portfolio: SCI invoicing totaled $3.3 million in FY2024 across 5.4 FTEs delivered and $1.8 million in FY2023 across 3.2 FTEs, indicating that SCI-reportable services work (consulting, engineering, program management) is a minor revenue stream. On federal service contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ran median around $314.66 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $770.89 per hour. QA Engineering performs substantially all work with direct employees; the SCI dataset shows zero average sub-hours share across prime contracts, and all 113 awards in the portfolio are prime awards with no subcontractor role.

QA Engineering provides Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil Engineering and construction, including Commissioning and Energy Services, HVAC & Plumbing, Power & Lighting, utilities, Construction Management, Building Systems Inspection, Energy Modeling.