In competitive bidding, six firms from around the nation won U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contracts to provide building and landscape architectural services to enhance existing federal building lobbies and landscape designs, as part of the First Impressions Program, GSA announced recently.
Since its creation in 1998, GSA’s First Impressions Program has focused on building lobbies and landscapes, the portions of federal buildings that often shape a visitor’s first impression of federal government.
The Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), five-year, $20 million architecture contracts were awarded in September to the following four small businesses, as qualified by the Small Business Administration:
- Elliott + Associates Architects of Oklahoma City.
- Huff + Gooden Architects of Charleston, S.C.
- Pfau Architecture, San Francisco.
- Joel Sanders Architect, New York, N.Y.
In its first-ever landscape architecture contracts, GSA awarded IDIQ, five-year, $12.5 million contracts in July to:
- Carol R. Johnson Associates, Inc. of Boston.
- Rios Clementi Hale Studio of Los Angeles.
Information on the Public Buildings Service Design Excellence and First Impressions programs is available from GSA.
