Veteran Design & Construction Inc.

Veteran Design & Construction Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) headquartered in Catonsville, Maryland, delivers architectural, engineering, and construction services to federal healthcare and research agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards). The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and Subchapter S corporation, competing predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides on federal construction and design-build vehicles anchored to the Veterans Affairs and National Institutes of Health.

Veteran Design & Construction's customer concentration is highly concentrated in two agencies that account for the full combined potential value of recent awards. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 leads by award count with 44 awards valued at $783.1 million combined potential, while the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Construction dominates by dollar value with 22 awards totaling $802.8 million combined potential. The two rankings diverge sharply — VISN 5 places many smaller task orders across multiple VA medical facilities in the Mid-Atlantic, while NIH Construction anchors most dollars to fewer, higher-value IDIQs. Three other federal customers round out the portfolio: the Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters ($18.7 million, 2 awards), the National Institute of Standards and Technology ($9.9 million, 5 awards), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 ($6.2 million, 1 award).

Veteran Design & Construction holds three significant IDIQ vehicles. The NIH Architect Engineering MATOC, awarded June 24, 2026, carries a $400 million ceiling through June 23, 2032, with no task orders issued as of the source date but positioning the vendor for future delivery orders supporting NIH design and engineering work across Bethesda facilities. The VISN 5 Multiple Award Task Order Contract for Construction (2022-2028) has a $300 million ceiling set aside 100 percent for SDVOSBs and covers construction, alterations, and repairs at VA facilities in Maryland, Washington D.C., and West Virginia; six delivery orders valued at $26.7 million combined have been issued, including a $13.8 million switchgear replacement at Baltimore VAMC (awarded April 23, 2025, completion June 30, 2028), a $4.09 million bulk oxygen system upgrade at Baltimore VAMC (October 11, 2024), and a $6.81 million electrical vault expansion in Beckley, West Virginia (September 20, 2024). A $35 million SDVOSB-set-aside IDIQ with VISN 5 for construction services at VA medical facilities, awarded April 28, 2025 through April 27, 2030, carries individual task orders ranging from $2,500 to $1 million, with recent activity including a $997,716.25 plumbing cross-connection repair order issued February 6, 2026. Representative delivery-order work under the NIH Architect Engineering MATOC includes a $208,550.66 design order for sprinkler protection in Building 10 (July 7, 2025), a $202,248.16 order for Central Utility Plant pump and piping replacement (July 8, 2025), and a $134,799.18 feasibility study for HVAC R22 split-system upgrade at Building 15K (September 25, 2025). The vendor also holds a $155,871.27 delivery order with the National Institute of Standards and Technology for sediment tank and concrete trough construction at Building 206 in Gaithersburg under a design-build contract.

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years — seven awards in 2022 ramped to fifteen in 2023, then declined to five awards each in 2024 and 2025, with three awards in the current year to date. Over the next twenty-four months, seven awards with a combined potential value of $22.1 million face ultimate completion and therefore recompete exposure, including the $13.8 million switchgear replacement at Baltimore VAMC and smaller NIH and NIST design and renovation orders completing through June 2026.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, Veteran Design & Construction invoiced $52.3 million from FY2022 through FY2024, with $9.1 million in FY2022, $20.9 million in FY2023, and $22.3 million in FY2024 across a growing in-house delivery footprint. SCI-reported FTEs grew from 7.4 in FY2022 to 11.2 in FY2023 and 13.7 in FY2024, reflecting modest scaling of direct-delivery capacity. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged widely — median of $268.58 per hour, with senior rates through $637.12 per hour and lower-scale rates at $3.29 per hour, indicating a mixed portfolio of design-engineering, construction administration, and support labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 28 percent of total contractor hours, with 43 named subcontractors reported, indicating the vendor builds mixed delivery teams rather than operating as a feeder subcontractor. The single sub-award in the source data is a May 14, 2026 mechanical and electrical engineering order under an NIH contract for fume hood exhaust ductwork modification.

Veteran Design & Construction's award footprint clusters on two NAICS categories — Engineering Services (44 awards) and Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (28 awards) — with the balance split among Architectural Services and specialty trades. PSC coding aligns with healthcare facility focus: Architect and Engineering services dominate (45 awards across multiple sub-categories), followed by hospital and infirmary maintenance and construction (22 awards combined). Recent capability work centers on mechanical systems (HVAC, medical gas, bulk oxygen), electrical infrastructure (switchgear, transfer switches, vault expansion), plumbing and utility systems (water mains, steam systems, gas lines), and interior renovations and finishes at federal medical and research campuses in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Architect/Engineering professionals and general contracting company with over 33 years of experience. Well versed in design and construction requirements for commercial, residential, industrial, and institutional facilities.