Shalom Baranes Associates, P.C.

Shalom Baranes Associates, P.C., a Washington, D.C.-based architectural and engineering firm, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering design, construction management, building evaluations, feasibility studies, and cost estimation services to federal agencies on the open market, with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The firm is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing full-and-open on GSA and USDA vehicles in the National Capital Region.

Shalom Baranes concentrates its customer base heavily within GSA's Public Buildings Service, which accounts for 83% of awards by count and 91% of combined potential value. GSA Public Buildings Service awards total 47 across the firm's recent footprint ($169.4 million combined potential value), with the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region anchoring six awards valued at $42.1 million. Department of Agriculture work (Office of Operations and Assistant Secretary for Departmental Management combined) represents nine awards totaling $3.8 million. The Department of the Treasury Departmental Offices brings five awards at $571 thousand. Across 72 total prime awards, eleven distinct customer agencies appear, but the concentration is acute: GSA's share of both volume and dollars is decisive, reflecting the firm's specialized positioning in federal facilities capital projects in the National Capital Region.

The firm holds two parent indefinite-delivery contracts: a $125 million single-award GSA Public Buildings Service IDIQ for architectural and engineering services in Zone D (running through September 21, 2027) and a $25,000 single-award USDA Office of Operations IDIQ for large architect/engineer services (running through September 29, 2027). Recent delivery orders under the GSA vehicle include a $21.0 million Phase 2 core and shell design and courtyard modification order for 1800 F Street NW (ultimate completion September 4, 2027), a $1.32 million abatement demonstration and construction design order at the same address (completion May 30, 2027), and a $782,904.61 feasibility study for GSA headquarters (completion August 17, 2026). The firm also awarded a $399,978.10 delivery order for a Blair House moisture investigation technical study (completion September 9, 2026). Under the USDA vehicle, recent orders include a $1.62 million building evaluation for the Whitten and South Buildings (completed August 29, 2025) and an $869,651 construction management and cost estimation order for the Lot 9 Project (completion August 31, 2027). All recent work carries firm fixed-price terms and performs in Washington, D.C.

Activity has accelerated modestly: one award per year in 2022, 2023, and 2024, rising to three in 2025 and six in 2026. Six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $25 million and face recompete. The firm operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontractor awards in its recent footprint; across SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor reported 0.8 FTEs in FY2025 and zero invoiced revenue in FY2024 and FY2025, indicating that most work routes through fixed-price delivery orders rather than labor-hour service contracts subject to SCI reporting thresholds. With NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services) dominating the portfolio and 62 of 72 awards under the PSC category for architect and engineering—general landscaping, interior layout, and design work, Shalom Baranes maintains a highly specialized federal facilities design and construction-management capability targeting capital projects managed by GSA and USDA in Washington, D.C.