Strata Architecture Inc.

Strata Architecture Inc., a Kansas City-based Women-Owned Small Business, provides multi-disciplinary architectural and engineering design services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price delivery orders and IDIQs, with 99% of recent awards held as prime contracts. The firm operates across architectural services (NAICS 541310), historic preservation, facility condition assessments, and construction administration, competing predominantly full-and-open without reliance on set-aside designations, though the vendor holds WOSB certification and qualifies for set-aside vehicles.

The National Park Service Midwest Region dominates Strata's customer concentration, accounting for 63 awards and $43.7 million in combined potential value—nearly 45% of the firm's entire award footprint. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 6 places 38 delivery orders valued at $4.4 million combined, and the National Park Service National Office funds 16 awards worth $18.5 million, reflecting a split between regional and headquarters work. The two customer rankings diverge: GSA Region 6 ranks second by award count but trails sharply in dollars because individual orders average under $115 thousand, whereas the National Office captures outsized dollars through fewer, larger design and stabilization contracts—notably $1.6 million for USCIS National Records Center design-phase services, $1.3 million for Indiana Dunes restoration, and $1 million for Hot Springs National Park bathhouse rehabilitation.

Strata holds two active IDIQs anchoring most task-order activity. The National Park Service Midwest Region IDIQ, a $25 million five-year vehicle awarded in September 2023 and expiring September 2026, feeds 32 task orders worth $10 million combined and covers multi-disciplinary design across 13 Midwest states. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 6 IDIQ, a $32.3 million five-year vehicle from February 2021 covering Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, generates 47 delivery orders worth $7.5 million combined. A third vehicle—a $20 million five-year Army Corps of Engineers Architect-Engineer MATOC for historic preservation and miscellaneous civil and military works design awarded January 2026 as a Total Small Business set-aside—represents a recent competitive win positioned for future task orders through 2031. Representative delivery orders include $912 thousand for Hot Springs National Park multi-disciplinary services (September 2025, TSB set-aside), $860 thousand for Harry S. Truman National Historic Site headquarters replacement design (September 2024, no set-aside), $638 thousand for Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve planning and design (July 2024, no set-aside), and $375 thousand for Whittaker Federal Courthouse elevator design (April 2025, no set-aside). The vendor also executes smaller task orders ranging from $10 thousand to $250 thousand for facility assessments, chiller replacements, facade restoration, and construction administration across federal properties in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.

Activity has declined year over year: 22 awards in 2022 contracted to 8 awards in 2026 (through mid-July), with 26 awards in 2023 and 17 in 2024 marking the peak. Thirteen awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4 million and face near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing (federal services contracts above $150 thousand) totaled $4.9 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2023 peaking at $3.5 million across 4.3 FTEs. Government-paid rates on SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $157/hr to a median of $362/hr and 90th percentile of $828/hr, reflecting a blend of junior design staff and senior architectural leadership. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed 100% of labor with zero subcontractor hours reported, indicating a fully captive delivery model rather than a teaming strategy. The vendor carries a single prime-only subcontract (1% of the award base) under Leidos on a Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency courthouse buildout (February 2026, $132 thousand).

Strata's footprint is tightly concentrated within the National Park Service ecosystem, particularly the Midwest Region's preservation and facility-management agenda. The vendor has not secured direct Department of Defense prime contracts, serves no intelligence agencies as a prime, and exhibits no goods-procurement activity. Recent wins under GSA and NPS vehicles span design-development, construction administration, historic documentation, Section 106 cultural resource compliance, and condition assessment work at national parks, national historic sites, federal courthouses, and civilian agency facilities. The firm's specialization in historic preservation and federal facility stewardship, combined with women-owned certification and demonstrated performance on large NPS IDIQs, positions it to pursue additional park infrastructure modernization and courthouse renovation delivery orders while facing intensifying recompete pressure as the initial NPS IDIQ approaches expiration in September 2026.