U.p. Engineers & Architects, Inc.

U.P. Engineers & Architects, Inc., a for-profit professional services firm headquartered in Houghton, Michigan, delivers civil engineering, architectural design, surveying, and environmental consulting services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor, competing under small business set-asides on cadastral survey work and full-and-open on bridge design and infrastructure projects. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and holds two active indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity vehicles with the Forest Service's Eastern Region—a $5 million single-award IDIQ for architectural, engineering, and design services and a $2 million small-business-set-aside IDIQ for cadastral survey services valid through August 2028.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency. The USDA Forest Service R9-Eastern Region accounts for 90% of awards (71 of 92 in the source dataset) and $25.1 million of the $25.9 million combined potential value across all recent work. Secondary customer exposure is negligible: the Department of the Air Force holds 7 awards with no dollar value specified in the source, the Forest Service Research Service Northern Research Station holds 3 awards ($212 thousand), and the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection holds 1 award ($9 thousand). This concentration reflects U.P. Engineers' embedded role as the primary A&E and surveying services contractor supporting Forest Service infrastructure across Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and adjacent states under Great American Outdoors Act funding and related resource management programs.

The top parent vehicles are Forest Service regional IDIQs. Contract 1256A120D0012 (the $5 million architectural and engineering IDIQ) supports 16 task orders valued at $3.8 million combined; Contract 12569R18D0013 (the $2 million cadastral survey IDIQ for Hiawatha National Forest) anchors 14 task orders at $1.1 million combined; and Contract 12569R18D0039 feeds 9 task orders ($874 thousand). Representative prime work includes a $924,565 delivery order for bridge designs across multiple Region 9 forests under the Great American Outdoors Act (awarded September 2022), a $756,125 delivery order for bridge design conversions from FP-14 to FP-24 specifications (September 2025), a $603,995 delivery order for regional bridge design work (September 2025), a $203,533 task order for cadastral boundary surveys in the Hiawatha National Forest's East Zone under the small-business-set-aside survey IDIQ (September 2023), and a $59,380 fixed-price contract for design of four permanent fishing piers under the Great American Outdoors Act (July 2026, the most recent award in the source).

Activity has contracted year over year—4 awards in 2022 to 1 in 2026 (a partial-year snapshot)—with only 3 awards (combined potential value $1.4 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the immediate pipeline. The vendor's NAICS footprint splits across Engineering Services (43 awards), Surveying and Mapping Services (17 awards), and Architectural Services (14 awards), with PSC coding concentrated on Architect and Engineering—General (35 awards) and Architect and Engineering—Construction for highways, roads, bridges, and railways (21 awards). SCI-reported invoicing appears episodic: $918 thousand across 2.6 FTEs in FY2023, with $0 reported in FY2022 and FY2024, and a median government-paid hourly rate of $166.90/hr. The vendor carries no subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable records and operates entirely through direct labor delivery on prime contracts.

U.P. Engineers & Architects, Inc. has served the upper Great Lakes Region since its founding in 1957. We have 70 employees at our five offices across the Northern Michigan and Northern Wisconsin. Among the professionals are licensed engineers, architects, and surveyors. UPEA is a leading firm in the region because it has the knowledge and experience to design cost-effective solutions for construction in this northern climate.