Zias Architecture & Engineering, PLLC

Zias Architecture & Engineering, PLLC, a minority-owned, 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business, provides architectural, engineering design, and construction monitoring services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (89% of recent awards), with near-total customer concentration in African infrastructure and public health projects. Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, and structured as a limited liability partnership, Zias operates under primary NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services) and competes predominantly under full-and-open designations rather than set-aside vehicles — recent awards carry no set-aside flags despite the firm's 8(a) certification status.

The Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs dominates Zias's customer base, accounting for 100% of customer agency count and 99% of combined potential value across the vendor's footprint. Zias's work concentrates on CDC-supported public health infrastructure in Ethiopia and related facility assessments, permitting, and design supervision across West Africa. Representative prime work includes a $198,676 design services delivery order for the Ethiopian Public Health Institute electrical upgrade (Department of State, September 2024), a $220,000 delivery order for Option Year 3 of a larger architectural and engineering design indefinite delivery contract (Department of State, November 2023), and a $144,385 purchase order for construction monitoring of the same Ethiopia electrical upgrade works (Department of State, September 2026). The Bureau of African Affairs maintains a $4.99 million indefinite delivery contract vehicle through September 2025 from which multiple task orders have been issued; Zias also holds task orders under a Department of State A-E and Construction Monitoring Ethiopia IDC (15 task orders, $2.7 million combined potential value) and participates in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract (3 task orders, dollar magnitude not specified).

Recent activity shows decline. Awards per year averaged two to four through 2022, then dropped to single awards in 2023 and 2024, with one award recorded in 2026. Combined potential value stands at $13.2 million across 27 total awards (prime and sub combined), though only $5.9 million (44%) has been obligated. In its subcontractor role, Zias delivers design supervision and assessment support to Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. on laboratory construction and biosafety work in Senegal and Liberia (November 2022 and April 2022 sub awards, specific dollar values not provided). Zias's footprint remains narrowly focused on international public health and laboratory infrastructure design and supervision, with no active presence in domestic federal contracting or non-African regions.

Extensive Experience in providing Architecture and Engineering to the US Federal Government Agencies world wide.