Richter Associates Architects Inc.

Richter Associates Architects Inc., a woman-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and Asian-Pacific American-owned firm based in Corpus Christi, Texas, delivers federal facility architectural and engineering services as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across design, construction management, and inspection work for courthouses, border infrastructure, and civilian agency facilities. The firm operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services), competing full-and-open without set-aside designations across its entire recent prime footprint.

Richter's customer concentration centers on GSA and border-security infrastructure. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of recent awards by count but 96% of combined potential value, driven by a single large IDV: GSA Region 5's $125 million National Architecture, Engineering, and Interiors IDIQ (awarded November 10, 2022, valid through November 9, 2027) dominates the dollar ranking with one award. Regional work through GSA Region 7's $15 million single-award IDIQ (awarded August 25, 2022, running through August 24, 2026) anchors volume across South Central Texas, with 54 task orders totaling $46 million combined potential value. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection contributes 27 awards worth $62.7 million combined potential value, concentrated in land port of entry design and construction management at Pharr, Laredo, El Paso, and McAllen. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, US Marshals Service, and Internal Revenue Service round out the active set. Representative work includes an $886,618 delivery order from GSA Region 7 for architect and engineering design services for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration site upgrades at the Tornillo land port of entry (including procurement and construction phase options, due October 21, 2027); a $1.01 million delivery order for design services supporting the Columbia Land Port of Entry Border Roadway Improvement project in Laredo (due December 8, 2026); and a $317,002 delivery order from CBP for management and inspection services on the Forward Operating Lab design-build project at Juarez and Lincoln Land Ports of Entry.

Activity has remained relatively flat — six awards in 2022, eleven in 2023 and 2024, ten in 2025, four so far in 2026 — reflecting task-order consumption under existing IDVs rather than new prime awards. Combined potential value sits at $244.4 million, with $31.3 million obligated (13% of potential). Within the next twenty-four months, thirteen awards (combined potential value $3.8 million) reach ultimate completion, representing recompete exposure. Richter's task-order vehicles operate under GSA Region 7's $15 million IDIQ (93 task orders, $13.1 million combined potential value) and a $47 million combined portfolio under Region 7 delivery order contracts 47PH0822D0008 (36 task orders, $5.9 million) and 47PH0817D0017 (21 task orders, $3.2 million), plus Region 5's $125 million national IDIQ.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $1.3 million across FY2023–FY2024, with $783 thousand in FY2023 (1.5 FTEs) and $549 thousand in FY2024 (0.2 FTEs); SCI represents a narrow slice of Richter's federal contracting footprint and excludes goods, products, and smaller orders. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from approximately $78/hr at the tenth percentile to a median of $452/hr, with senior labor priced through $1,725/hr. The vendor does not engage subcontractors on its SCI-reportable prime contracts (0% sub-hours share), indicating direct staff delivery on larger service engagements. Across its 170-award prime portfolio, Richter operates as a direct prime with no sub awards, building its own delivery teams for design, construction oversight, and facility assessment work across the South Central Texas region and nationwide.

Richter Architects is a national award-winning full service architectural firm providing services for architectural design, programming, site analysis, master planning, space planning, construction documents and construction admin.