RSP Architects, LIMITED

RSP Architects, LIMITED, a Minneapolis-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, provides multidisciplinary architectural and engineering design services to the Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its footprint. The firm operates as a 375+ person design practice specializing in workspace strategies, facility information management, and experiential design, with a primary NAICS alignment in Engineering Services and Architect-Engineer delivery under PSC codes for general A/E and landscape-architectural-design work.

RSP Architects' customer concentration is severe and stable. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Louisville dominates the portfolio — 201 awards (66% of all awards) carrying $412.8 million in combined potential value (95% of total potential value across the full 303-award footprint). The Department of the Army places an additional 80 awards, while the remaining five customer agencies (United States Special Operations Command, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Services Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of the Interior) account for less than 5% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects RSP's dominant position as the Army Corps of Engineers' primary A/E vendor for Army Reserve facility design and construction nationwide.

RSP holds multiple indefinite-delivery contracts with the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Louisville. The most recent is a $240 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded January 1, 2026, running through December 31, 2030, for pre-design, design, construction-phase support, historic preservation, energy resilience, and anti-terrorism/force-protection services across Army Reserve Centers and facility types in the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Preceding vehicles under the same contracting office carry significant task-order volume: Indefinite Delivery Contract W912QR06D0015 supports 49 task orders ($18.6 million combined potential value), W912QR09D0047 carries 48 task orders ($20.6 million), and W912QR09D0013 holds 39 task orders ($6.7 million). A secondary small-business-set-aside IDIQ with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration runs through July 31, 2026, with a $3.4 million ceiling and multiple delivery orders for Western Region A/E services.

Recent representative work includes a $3.4 million firm fixed-price delivery order (awarded September 2023, modified for additional site-visit support) for the Birmingham, Alabama Army Reserve Center design, performed in Minneapolis with subcontractors Mead & Hunt Inc. (civil, mechanical-plumbing-electrical, and structural), Pinyon Environmental Inc. (a woman-owned small business providing environmental consulting), Bowman Fire & Life Safety Inc. (fire protection engineering), Vaa LLC (structural), Damon Farber Associates Inc. (landscape architecture), US Cost Inc. (cost estimating), Gonzalez-Strength & Associates Inc. (survey), and Evs Inc. (civil); a $3 million Army Reserve Center design for Perrine, Florida (ultimate completion September 2027) with Ayres Associates, US Cost Inc., Evs Inc., Vaa LLC, and Damon Farber Associates as subs; and a $1.19 million NOAA A/E design delivery order for Seattle, Washington (completed March 2026).

Activity has remained flat — four awards in 2020 and 2021, five in both 2022 and 2023, and two in 2026 — suggesting a mature contracting relationship with the Army Corps of Engineers rather than growth trajectory. The recompete cliff presents minimal near-term pressure: only two awards (combined potential value $4 million) complete within the next twenty-four months. RSP operates as a pure prime on federal work (99% of awards), with only one named sub-award on record — a February 2023 design sub to Pacwest-Korte JV for Building 603 renovation. SCI reporting captures minimal activity: two records as a named subcontractor in FY2022 and FY2024, with 1 FTE and 55.6 FTEs respectively, reflecting sub-engagement that lies outside RSP's dominant prime footprint. The vendor subcontracts with established multi-discipline firms (Mead & Hunt, Ayres Associates, Vaa LLC) and specialty consultants (Pinyon Environmental, US Cost Inc., Bowman Fire & Life Safety) to deliver design packages, but remains the prime-contract interface and design lead across its Army Corps of Engineers portfolio.