Setty & Associates International PLLC

Setty & Associates International PLLC, doing business as S A I, is a minority-owned, Asian-Indian American-owned architectural and engineering services firm based in Washington, D.C., that operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) on federal building design, facility assessment, and infrastructure modernization projects. The firm holds multiple small-business set-aside IDIQs with the General Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, anchoring most of its recent work to set-aside vehicles.

S A I's customer base concentrates heavily within civilian federal agencies managing federal infrastructure. The top five funding organizations account for 81% of recent awards by count, driven by the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (16 awards, $43.9 million combined potential value) and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Northeast Area (7 awards, $43.1 million potential value). However, the dollar rankings diverge significantly from volume: GSA's National Capital Region anchors the largest dollar exposure, while USDA's Northeast Area contributes the second-largest share despite fewer awards. GSA Region 3 (19 awards, $11.7 million) and USDA's Plains Area (26 awards, $9.4 million) round out the top tier. The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology represents the sole non-GSA, non-USDA major customer (23 awards, $2.5 million), but contributes a much smaller dollar fraction. Combined, these five customers represent 98% of potential value across 91 total awards.

S A I holds four named parent vehicles. The GSA Public Buildings Service Region 3 small-business set-aside IDIQ ($9,997,500 ceiling, expiring March 3, 2027) has generated 19 delivery orders worth $11.7 million, primarily for elevator modernization studies, chiller and cooling tower replacements, electrical system upgrades, and facility assessments across Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The USDA Agricultural Research Service Northeast Area small-business set-aside IDC ($40,000,000 ceiling, expiring August 31, 2026) has produced 7 task orders valued at $43.1 million for architectural and engineering services across northeastern research facilities, including ventilation system upgrades, wastewater treatment assessments, and electrical generator modernization. A new GSA Public Buildings Service Region 11 small-business set-aside IDIQ ($25,000,000 ceiling, awarded August 22, 2025, expiring August 22, 2026) covers architectural and engineering services in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and surrounding regions; individual task orders may reach $5 million. A single-award Smithsonian Institution IDIQ for commissioning provider consultant services remains active. Across these vehicles, S A I's capability portfolio centers on feasibility studies, design and construction documents, facility condition assessments, building systems analysis, commissioning services, construction administration, and infrastructure design for federal buildings, laboratories, and research facilities.

Representative prime work includes a $2,121,296 firm fixed-price delivery order from USDA Northeast Area for BARC PA Administration services (awarded September 28, 2023, completing September 24, 2028); a $1,500,283 building engineering report for the Ronald Reagan Complex issued by GSA National Capital Region (August 1, 2022); a $769,887 wet lab facility design for USDA Plains Area in Edinburg, Texas (September 16, 2021); and a $746,370 delivery order for PFAS research laboratory renovation design in Orono, Maine awarded by Central Program Planning Coordination and Support (June 18, 2026). Smaller but recurring task orders span elevator studies, chiller replacements, boiler designs, electrical upgrades, and transformer installations at federal courthouses and administrative buildings across the Mid-Atlantic and Plains regions.

Activity has declined sharply over the past five years — from 21 awards in 2022 to 2 awards in 2026 year-to-date — signaling either market-share loss or a shift toward higher-dollar but lower-volume task orders under existing IDIQs. Ten awards with combined potential value of $2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure on these delivery orders as they close out.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (which capture only service work above $150,000 and exclude goods, products, and classified contracts), S A I invoiced $2.4 million cumulatively in FY2022 through FY2024, with peak invoicing of $1.9 million in FY2023 across approximately 3.7 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on these prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $232.53/hr to a median of $347.38/hr and a 90th percentile of $1,006.67/hr, reflecting a labor-intensive architectural and engineering services footprint. The firm does not use subcontractors on its SCI-reportable work (0% average sub-hours share), maintaining full delivery staffing in-house. This SCI dataset represents a partial view of federal services activity only and does not include goods, grants, classified work, or non-federal revenue; the firm's total federal contracting footprint and enterprise revenue are substantially larger.