Setty & Associates International PLLC

Setty & Associates International PLLC, doing business as S A I, is a Washington, D.C.-based minority-owned, Asian-Indian American-owned small business operating as a prime contractor delivering architectural and engineering design services, facility assessments, building systems analysis, and infrastructure modernization work to federal agencies. The firm competes predominantly under small-business set-asides (Total Small Business designations appear on roughly 35–40% of recent awards) and full-and-open procurements in roughly equal measure, with no evidence of 8(a) or HUBZone certifications in the source material.

S A I's customer base is heavily concentrated in civilian infrastructure and research facilities. The top five agencies by combined potential value account for 97% of recent awards and include the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (16 awards, $43.9 million), the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Northeast Area (7 awards, $43.1 million), GSA Public Buildings Service Region 3 (19 awards, $11.7 million), USDA Agricultural Research Service Plains Area (26 awards, $9.4 million), and the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (23 awards, $2.5 million). GSA dominates in potential value; USDA and NIST drive volume. Concrete representative work includes a $2.1 million delivery order from USDA Northeast Area (awarded September 28, 2023) for Building Administration and renovation design at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Pennsylvania, a $1.5 million building engineering report for the Ronald Reagan Complex under GSA National Capital Region (August 1, 2022), a $768 thousand facilities conditions assessment for NOAA (March 4, 2024), a $746 thousand design for a new PFAS research laboratory and support facilities in Orono, Maine (June 18, 2026), and multiple smaller elevator, chiller, cooling-tower, and electrical-system modernization studies across GSA Region 3 facilities in the Mid-Atlantic.

S A I holds three active IDIQs anchoring its federal delivery model. The most recent is a $25 million multiple-award IDIQ with GSA Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (awarded August 22, 2025, expiring August 21, 2027) for architectural and engineering services across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with a $5 million annual order cap per contractor. Prior to that, S A I holds a $9.997 million single-award IDIQ with GSA Region 3 (awarded March 4, 2022, expiring March 3, 2027) designated as Total Small Business, providing full engineering design services across Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; this vehicle has generated 27 task orders totaling $4.4 million in combined potential value, including work on elevator modernization, chiller replacement design, electrical upgrades, and fire-alarm studies. S A I also holds a single-award Smithsonian Institution IDIQ for commissioning provider consultant services (awarded February 7, 2023, technically expiring February 7, 2024, though task orders post that date suggest renewal or extension). The top five parent vehicles across the portfolio span 87 task orders and $13.6 million in combined potential value, with the balance distributed across agency-specific delivery-order vehicles with USDA Plains Area, USDA Northeast Area, NIST, HUD, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, Forest Service, DC Courts, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Award volume has declined sharply over the past five fiscal years — from 21 awards in 2022 to five in 2025 and five to date in 2026 — signaling either a portfolio consolidation toward larger delivery orders or a competitive contraction. Nine awards with combined potential value of $4.1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a near-term recompete exposure. From a capability standpoint, S A I's work is concentrated in architectural and engineering services (100 awards under NAICS 541512 and allied engineering codes) with pronounced specialization in building-systems modernization: 38 awards for office-building A&E work, 37 awards for laboratory and clinic design, and 12 awards for engineering and technical support. The firm's scope spans feasibility studies, design and construction documents, facility-condition assessments, and construction administration, with particular depth in mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and renewable-energy system design.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold shows $3.1 million across fiscal years 2022–2025 (FY2023 peaked at $1.9 million), with reported staffing ranging from 0.4 to 3.7 FTEs depending on the fiscal year. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable 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 mix of junior and senior engineering labor. S A I delivers work entirely as a prime contractor; the SCI dataset shows zero subcontractor engagement, indicating the firm builds internal delivery capacity rather than relying on subcontractors for reported federal service work. The firm has competed and won exclusively on its own, with no evidence of subcontracting relationships in the source material.