Wold Architects Incorporated

Wold Architects Incorporated, doing business as Wold Architects and Engineers, delivers architectural and engineering design services, construction documentation, and facility modernization studies to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards), competing in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations across most of its footprint. The firm is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with two subsidiaries: VPS Architecture, Inc. (self-certified small disadvantaged business) and HFR Inc.

Wold's customer concentration is extreme and durable. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 5 anchors 87 of the firm's 117 total awards (74% of count) and commands $43.8 million of the $45.4 million combined potential value across all awards (96% of dollars)—a concentration that reflects Wold's embedded role as a trusted architect-engineer vendor for federal facility repair, alteration, and modernization work across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The remaining five customer agencies (Social Security Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Courts, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and GSA's Office of the Chief Information Officer) collectively account for 18 awards worth $1.3 million. Wold operates almost entirely on GSA Region 5 delivery orders, making it functionally a single-customer vendor with minimal diversification.

The firm's capability portfolio centers on feasibility studies, design services, construction documentation, and construction management for federal building systems and infrastructure repair—HVAC modernization, roof and wall replacements, sprinkler system design, window and door upgrades, structural repairs, security upgrades, and building envelope work. Representative work includes a $278.3 thousand delivery order for stucco atrium air shaft repairs at 536 S. Clark Street Federal Building in Chicago (awarded May 2022, under PBS Region 5 IDIQ); a $253.3 thousand award for art wall renovation design at 11 West Quincy Court in Chicago (awarded January 2022); a $186.8 thousand order for supplemental cooling replacement design at 536 S. Clark Street (awarded September 2023, funded by USCIS); and a $177.7 thousand design award for ICE security system upgrades at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota (awarded August 2024, under partial small business set-aside).

Vehicle position is narrow. Wold places 46 of its task orders under the PBS Region 5 Architectural Engineering Services 2016-2021 IDIQ ($5.6 million combined potential value), 40 orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract 47PF0019D0042 ($2.7 million), and 17 orders under the MN WI Service Center Architect Engineering 2016-2021 vehicle ($599 thousand). All three vehicles are GSA-managed indefinite delivery contracts for architectural and engineering services in the Region 5 footprint, indicating that Wold's business model rests on task-order volume under a handful of parent IDIQs rather than on prime IDIQ awards or multiple vehicle seats.

Activity has declined materially. The firm received 11 awards in 2021, 14 in 2022, 17 in 2023, 7 in 2024, and 1 award year-to-date in 2026, reflecting a steep drop-off after 2023. The recompete cliff shows 11 awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term revenue exposure. The firm's total obligated dollars across all awards stand at $9 million against a $45.4 million combined potential value ceiling—a 20% obligation rate typical of design-phase delivery orders on federal building projects where final construction may be unfunded or delayed.

Wold competes full-and-open on most work; however, secondary awards in the portfolio carry partial or total small business set-aside designations—notably orders worth $177.7 thousand (ICE security upgrades, August 2024), $82.4 thousand (boiler flue design, April 2022), and $70.9 thousand (vehicle barrier repairs, May 2022)—suggesting occasional access to set-aside vehicles or targeted small business reserve opportunities within GSA's Region 5 portfolio. The firm's self-certified small disadvantaged business subsidiary, VPS Architecture, Inc., is named in the corporate structure but does not appear as a contracting entity in the awards listed; integration of that subsidiary into Wold's pursuit strategy is not evident from the source.

Geographically, work is concentrated in the Chicago federal building corridor (536 S. Clark Street, 11 West Quincy Court, John C. Kluczynski Building, Everett M. Dirksen Courthouse, Wellstone Federal Building, and Metcalf Garage) and Minnesota and Wisconsin courthouses and federal buildings, with place of performance predominantly St. Paul and Palatine, Illinois. The firm has held SAM registration since 1999 and brings Midwest-regional depth to GSA's federal facility modernization mission in its service area, but has generated no prime IDIQ awards and carries zero subcontract exposure, making it a single-vehicle, single-region architecture vendor with limited federal diversification and no evident role in larger systems integration or defense work.