Quinn Evans Architects Inc.

Quinn Evans Architects Inc., a woman-owned architectural and engineering firm headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, serves federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering pre-design, schematic design, construction documentation, historic preservation, facility assessments, and infrastructure engineering services across civilian cultural and park properties on a full-and-open, unrestricted competitive basis—no set-asides.

Customer concentration reflects Quinn Evans' dominant position with cultural institutions and parks. The top five customers by award count account for 61% of recent awards, but the top-three ranking by potential value tells a starker story: the National Gallery of Art anchors 40.7% of combined potential value (30 awards, $211 million), the Smithsonian Institution 22.0% (86 awards, $113.9 million), and the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office 19.8% (105 awards, $102.6 million). The National Gallery of Art dominates dollar value while NPS dominates volume (105 awards at lower per-task magnitude), signaling two distinct customer profiles: a concentrated, high-value relationship with NGA and a volume-based partnership with NPS for smaller, discrete facility projects across the Eastern United States and territories.

Quinn Evans holds four active prime indefinite delivery vehicles totaling over $240 million in ceiling value. The National Gallery of Art $200 million multiple-award IDIQ (effective through September 30, 2026) is the largest; Quinn Evans has issued 13 delivery orders under this vehicle ranging from $14,852.63 to $1.9 million-plus for fire protection engineering, cooling studies, cultural landscape work, chilled water system modifications, digital media studio design, and historic structure studies, all performed in Washington, DC on labor-hours pricing. The National Park Service $30 million single-award Eastern IDIQ (June 8, 2022 through June 7, 2027) funds numerous firm fixed-price delivery orders for historic preservation, facility rehabilitation, and infrastructure work across national parks in the Eastern region and territories—representative examples include a $1.9 million order for communications and water/sewer utility infrastructure design at Mammoth Cave National Park and a $1.15 million order for three historic preservation projects at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The Smithsonian Institution holds an unlimited-ceiling IDIQ (effective through February 18, 2031) funding habitat revitalization, mechanical system replacements, and major special construction projects; recent awards include a $1.24 million habitat revitalization project and an $815,426.70 air-handling-unit replacement. A newer General Services Administration Region 5 multiple-award IDIQ worth $10 million (January 16, 2025 through January 15, 2027) covers repair, alteration, sustainable building, and facility assessment work in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Recent representative prime work includes a $676,189.52 delivery order from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for design and cost-estimating services on the Everett M. Dirksen Lobby Hardening Project in Chicago (delivery order, January 26, 2026, completion March 18, 2027); a $1.9 million delivery order from an unnamed federal office (labeled "National Office") for historic structure rehabilitation and water-line replacement in Washington, DC (September 24, 2025); and a $435,560.24 delivery order for schematic design services for the Dennison S project in Washington, DC (June 10, 2025). All awards carry firm fixed-price or labor-hours pricing with no set-aside designation, reflecting Quinn Evans' capacity to compete in the open marketplace.

Activity has remained steady across the past five years—15 to 18 awards annually (2022–2024), with 14 awards in 2025 and three to date in 2026. Fourteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $12.6 million, a modest recompete exposure relative to the firm's total portfolio. The vendor's service delivery is concentrated in architectural services (249 awards) and engineering services (100 awards), with work framed primarily under PSC codes for architect-engineering general landscaping and interior design (173 awards) and general architect-engineering (113 awards).

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows minimal activity: SCI captured 38 records across FY2022–FY2024 (30 as prime, 8 as named subcontractor), with $0 invoiced amount reported and nominal FTE delivery (1.9 FTEs in FY2022, 0.0 in FY2023, 1.7 in FY2024). This sparse SCI signal reflects the firm's delivery model—the vast majority of Quinn Evans' federal work flows through indefinite delivery vehicles and delivery orders issued against them, which SCI captures at the parent IDIQ level rather than as discrete service-contract invoicing records above the $150,000 threshold. SCI is a partial accounting of federal services work and does not capture the full scope of Quinn Evans' federal activity; the $517.4 million combined potential value across 420 prime awards is the operative measure of federal footprint.

Quinn Evans operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract awards in the source data, indicating the firm builds and fields its own delivery teams for historic preservation, design, engineering, and cultural resource management rather than serving as a feeder to larger primes.