The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), responsible for providing facilities abroad for the United States Department of State and the U.S government, at large, has selected 12 Architectural and Engineering (A/E) firms for the Worldwide Architectural and Engineering Support Services Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) from a shortlist of 25. 

As detailed by the U.S. Department of State, the firms will provide program-level process and procedure-improvement support and conduct surveys and analyses for existing facilities. They will also assist with master plans, security mitigation studies, site expansion studies, project phasing analysis, and historic structures survey. 

The selected firms are: 

• AECOM Services, Inc.
• Buro Happold Engineering
• Davis Brody Bond
• Arthur Gensler, Jr. & Associates, Inc. (dba Gensler)
• HDR KCCT JV
• Jacobs Government Services Company
• Lake Flato Architects
• The Mason & Hanger Group, Inc.
• Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners
• ODA-Architecture, P.C.
• SmithGroup, Inc.
• WXY Architecture + Urban Design 

Since the inception of the Department’s Capital Security Construction Program in 1999, a congressionally appropriated program that funds the development of new U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide, OBO has completed 167 new diplomatic facilities. OBO currently has more than 50 active projects, either in design or under construction worldwide. 

As read on the Department’s site, “These facilities represent American values and the best in American architecture, design, engineering, technology, sustainability, art, culture, and construction execution.”