The Schemmer Associates Inc.

The Schemmer Associates Inc., an Omaha, Nebraska-based architecture and engineering firm, delivers design, engineering, and construction management services to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly under full-and-open and total small business set-aside vehicles. The firm holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts across its customer base and serves a highly concentrated customer portfolio anchored by National Park Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and General Services Administration accounts.

The vendor's core capability portfolio spans architectural design, mechanical-electrical-plumbing engineering, construction administration, site surveys, infrastructure assessments, and facility renovation support for federal research installations, military airfields, and civilian federal buildings. Representative work includes a $852,101 delivery order for Fargo NCSL Greenhouse Complex Remodel design services under the USDA Agricultural Research Service Plains Area IDIQ (completed September 2023), a $459,117.68 order for Badlands National Park propane distribution lines and roads rehabilitation design (August 2024), multiple airfield obstruction surveys for the Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District ranging from $121,655.74 to $380,845.47 (executed 2024–2025), a $281,310 U.S. Marshals Service tenant improvement renovation delivery order for the Pierre Federal Building in South Dakota (March 2025), and ongoing HVAC, laboratory remodel, and water infrastructure design work across the Plains Area-North region under the $20 million USDA ARS single-award IDIQ.

Customer concentration is moderate but regionally concentrated. The top five customer agencies (by award count and combined potential value) collectively represent 56% of all awards and 81% of combined potential value. The National Park Service Midwest Region leads by volume (86 awards, $38.4 million combined potential value), followed by the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 8 in dollar magnitude (6 awards, $45.7 million combined potential value) and the USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area (47 awards, $30.9 million combined potential value). The Department of the Air Force (Air National Guard and Air Combat Command combined) contributes 51 awards, and the Department of the Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Region and broader NPS) adds substantial volume across multiple regional offices. This split between volume-driven (NPS Midwest) and value-driven (GSA PBS R8) customers reflects the vendor's positioning across both recurring facilities maintenance work and larger design-build and renovation projects.

The vendor holds five primary parent vehicle positions. The National Park Service Midwest Region's $25 million multiple-award IDIQ (awarded September 2023, ultimate completion September 2027) anchors the largest recent work, with task orders for HVAC upgrades, structural assessments, and facility design across 13 Midwest states performed from Omaha. The USDA Agricultural Research Service Plains Area single-award $20 million IDIQ (awarded August 2023, through August 2028) provides the largest set-aside vehicle, designated Total Small Business, covering architect-engineering and construction management services across Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District holds a $10 million multiple-award IDIQ (awarded August 2023, through August 2028) also designated Total Small Business for military airfield project support, under which the vendor has delivered six airfield obstruction surveys at Fort Liberty, Fort Campbell, Godman Army Airfield, Davison Army Airfield, Muldrow Army Heliport, and Butts Airfield. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 8 Architecture and Engineering 2020–2025 vehicle (approximately $45 million multiple-award) supports tenant improvement, emergency generator replacement, and accessibility design projects for federal courthouses and office buildings. The National Park Service broader MWR Maintenance AE IDIQ also contributes work. Five additional IDIQs (INA11PC60062, 140P6018D0002, C6000970010, VA263P1226, INP07PC60648) collectively account for 189 task orders across the vendor's portfolio, though with lower individual task-order values.

Activity has grown from 16 awards in 2022 to a peak of 31 in 2024, with 29 awards issued in 2025 and 11 in the first three-quarters of 2026. Eighteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $3.6 million in combined potential value and moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's set-aside posture is split: approximately 45% of recent awards carry Total Small Business designations (particularly under USDA, Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Marshals Service vehicles), while 55% compete full-and-open, reflecting its positioning across both protected and unrestricted federal procurement channels.

Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable invoicing ($115 thousand in FY2025 across 0.3 FTEs), indicating that the vendor's federal work is predominantly products and services below the $150,000 reporting threshold or structured as fixed-price delivery orders outside SCI scope. On the limited SCI records, government-paid rates cluster at $180.10 per hour across all percentiles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 3% of total contractor hours, with one named subcontractor identified, signaling that The Schemmer Associates Inc. builds its own delivery teams and does not rely on subcontractor-heavy models.

The vendor subcontracts minimally to larger primes. Two sub-awards appear in the source: design and pre-design services to Firelake Construction Inc. for the Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge bunkhouse project in South Dakota (February 2025 and August 2026), involving demolition, new construction design, and construction administration work. This limited sub-award footprint reflects the vendor's nearly exclusive prime-contractor posture across its federal portfolio.

Schemmer is a full-service architectural, engineering and planning firm, providing services for projects across 37 states. We are grounded in our past, which began in 1959, but remain fully committed to the future.