The Urban Collaborative, Llc: Master Planning, Urban Design, And Architecture

The Urban Collaborative, LLC: Master Planning, Urban Design, And Architecture, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, delivers master planning, urban design, architecture, and facility assessment services to the federal government exclusively as a prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without recurring small-business set-asides despite its VOSB designation. The company holds a portfolio of $4.68 billion in combined potential value across 153 prime awards spanning over a decade, with recent activity concentrated in delivery orders and task orders issued against multiple indefinite-delivery contracts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and specialized contracts with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and NASA.

Customer concentration tilts heavily toward USACE. The top five funding agencies account for 57% of awards by count: USACE's National Capitol Region (35 awards, $15.9 million), USACE Engineering District Fort Worth (18 awards, $214.9 million), USACE Engineering Support Center Huntsville (15 awards, $319.7 million), USACE Engineering District Baltimore (11 awards, $36.5 million), and NIST (8 awards, $21.7 million). By dollar value, however, the portfolio exhibits extreme concentration: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors 97% of combined potential value with two awards totaling $3.96 billion, while the remaining 151 awards generate $721 million—a structural anomaly indicating that the two Navy awards are either parent IDIQs or fixed-price requirements of unusual scale. USACE Engineering Support Center Huntsville represents the second-largest dollar customer at $319.7 million across 15 awards, followed by USACE Engineering District Fort Worth at $214.9 million.

The Urban Collaborative operates from five parent contract vehicles. The USACE Planning and Programming Architect-Engineer IDIQ (ultimate completion February 15, 2028, $160 million ceiling) generates 15 task orders worth $24.5 million and covers master planning, facility requirements analysis, engineering studies, programming documents, and facility assessments at domestic and overseas locations. The $200 million Architect-Engineer Contract for Master Planning Services Support (RPEC, USACE Southwestern Division, completion February 24, 2031) supplies 15 task orders valued at $12.9 million and covers master planning across Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, South Korea, and Guam. A $160 million USACE Engineering Support Center Huntsville planning and programming contract (completion February 15, 2028) carries 17 task orders generating $5.9 million. A $15 million NIST multiple-award architectural services IDIQ (completion July 9, 2027, set aside for total small business) has supplied recent task orders of $1.145 million for the Table Mountain Field Site Master Plan in Boulder, Colorado (completion April 21, 2027) and $10,000 for Gaithersburg, Maryland facility work. A $15 million USACE Louisville District small-business multiple-award IDC (completion May 28, 2029) is also in the portfolio.

Recent representative work includes a $15.56 million firm fixed-price delivery order from USACE Engineering Support Center Huntsville (July 29, 2024) for a Barracks and Bachelor Officer Quarters utilization assessment; a $3.86 million order from Air Education and Training Command (September 27, 2024) for FY24 master planning at Fort Bliss, Tyndall Air Force Base, and Nellis Air Force Base under the RPEC vehicle; a $2.54 million Pentagon Reservation and Mark Center Installation Development Plan delivery order from USACE Baltimore District (September 27, 2024, completion March 27, 2028); a $2.22 million master planning delivery order for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces (September 28, 2024); a $2.13 million delivery order from the Department of the Army Pacific Region for various Hawaii Army installation master planning (September 28, 2024); a $1.93 million Yokota Air Base master planning task order from Pacific Air Forces (September 27, 2024); and a $1.434 million FGAV ADP Museum Enclave delivery order from the Department of the Army (April 17, 2025). Most recent awards include a $2.181 million FY25 Norfolk District project planning delivery order from USACE Engineering and Support Center (September 30, 2025) and a $1.333 million USMC MCSS project planning delivery order from USACE Engineering and Support Center (April 9, 2026).

Activity has held steady in recent years—2023 and 2024 each carried 16 awards, 2025 carried 16 awards, and 2026 has recorded 2 awards to date as of July 15, 2026. Twenty-seven awards (combined potential value $46.4 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting immediate recompete exposure. NAICS concentration leans toward Landscape Architectural Services (40 awards), Engineering Services (40 awards), and Architectural Services (37 awards). The vendor does not report subcontractor engagement under the Service Contract Inventory: across seven SCI records covering FY2022–FY2024, no invoiced revenue is reported, and recorded FTE activity totals 1.1 in FY2022 (from 2 prime and 1 sub record) with zero FTEs reported in FY2023 and FY2024, indicating that SCI-reportable service contracts above the $150,000 threshold are minimal or absent from the vendor's current federal portfolio. The absence of invoiced SCI revenue and minimal FTE reporting suggest that The Urban Collaborative's federal work flows predominantly through firm fixed-price delivery orders and task orders rather than time-and-materials or cost-reimbursement service contracts.

The Urban Collaborative provides master planning, urban design, and concept design services to public and private clients worldwide. We also write planning and design policies and conduct professionally certified planning and urban design training.