VA + DHS IT Contracting Landscape

Headline

What the data says

Combined IT obligations

$57.55B

VA + DHS · FY2025

Went through SB set-asides

24%

$14.05B of the pool

SB IT contracts awarded

3,276

VA + DHS · FY2025

Named top-10 SB recipients

Across both agencies

In FY2025, the two agencies combined obligated $57.55B against IT-services NAICS codes ($35.46B at VA, $22.09B at DHS). The small-business set-aside share was 27% at VA and 20% at DHS — $14.05B legally reserved for small-business prime contractors. The recipient landscape is concentrated: the ten largest small-business recipients at each agency capture a meaningful share of that pool. The contract-size profile below shows where a specialized principal-led firm is structurally competitive versus outgunned.

Market size

Annual IT-services obligations, three years

Total contract obligations at each agency for NAICS 541511 / 541519 / 541512 / 518210, broken into small-business set-aside (solid) and non-set-aside (light).

Small-business set-aside All other contract actions

queryPOST /api/v2/search/spending_by_category/naics/ — filters: agency toptier = VA or DHS, NAICS require=541511 / 541519 / 541512 / 518210, award types = A/B/C/D. Two passes per (agency, FY): unfiltered for total; set_aside_type_codes = SBA/8A/HUBZone/SDVOSB/WOSB/VSA variants for the small-business portion. Totals sum across NAICS rows.

Addressable slice

Small-business set-aside share, FY2025

The portion of each agency's IT obligations that flowed through a small-business set-aside in the most recent completed fiscal year.

VA · small-business share

DHS · small-business share

querySame filter pair as above, restricted to FY2025. Share = SB obligations ÷ total obligations.

Competitive landscape

Top small-business recipients, FY2025

Who is actually winning this work. For each agency, the ten largest small-business recipients of IT-NAICS set-aside contracts in the most recent fiscal year.

VA top small-business IT recipients

FY2025 · ranked by obligations

	Recipient	Obligations
01	V3GATE, LLC	$1.14B
02	FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.	$863.5M
03	MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC	$558.6M
04	COLOSSAL CONTRACTING LLC	$535.6M
05	METGREEN SOLUTIONS INC	$426.3M
06	SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION	$397.8M
07	SPREZZATURA MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, LLC	$344.7M
08	BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC	$330.4M
09	IT CONCEPTS, INC.	$283.8M
10	MAVERIS LLC	$282.7M

DHS top small-business IT recipients

FY2025 · ranked by obligations

	Recipient	Obligations
01	FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.	$240.3M
02	DEV TECHNOLOGY GROUP INC	$184.0M
03	FCN, INC.	$171.6M
04	UNISSANT INC.	$159.3M
05	THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC	$154.3M
06	EKAGRA PARTNERS, LLC	$147.5M
07	PANAMERICA COMPUTERS, INC.	$118.9M
08	OCTO METRIC LLC	$89.5M
09	COMPQSOFT, INC.	$89.1M
10	BLUE TECH INC.	$88.3M

queryPOST /api/v2/search/spending_by_category/recipient_duns/ — limit=10, filters as above + small-business set-aside codes. Ranked by total obligations. (Endpoint name is historical — DUNS was deprecated in favor of UEI, but the URL stayed.)

Contract size profile

Where the dollars land, FY2025

Distribution of award sizes (count of awards per bracket) in the combined VA+DHS small-business IT pool. Brackets match FAR procurement thresholds relevant to a principal-led firm: micro-purchase ceiling ($15K), simplified acquisition ceiling ($350K), and the bands above where competitive RFPs dominate.

Across the two agencies in FY2025, 3,276 small-business-set-aside IT contracts were awarded. 65% of those (2,138 awards) landed at or below $1M — the band where a principal-led firm competes on delivery speed and past performance, not team size. 1,433 fell in the simplified-acquisition sweet spot ($15K–$350K). The $1M+ band (35%, 1,138 awards) is typically incumbent-favored or clearance-gated. The number that matters for a new entrant is the first one: the addressable pool is wider than the top-10 recipient tables suggest.

queryPOST /api/v2/search/spending_by_award_count/ — one call per (agency, bracket), 10 calls total. Each call adds an award_amounts filter with lower_bound/upper_bound scoping to the bracket. Response: {contracts, idvs, loans, ...}; we sum contracts + idvs (both procurement vehicles). This is the true count of awards in each bracket, not a sample.

Methodology & caveats

Data pulled from the public USASpending.gov v2 API — the Treasury's DATA-Act-mandated federal spending transparency feed. No API key, no authentication. All obligations are in nominal dollars, filtered to procurement-contract award types (A/B/C/D) and the four NAICS codes Jota Systems is registered under at SAM.gov.

The small-business share metric uses set-aside codes, not recipient business-size flags. This understates actual small-business participation on full-and-open competitions where a small business won against unrestricted competition. The set-aside view is the right one for a principal-led firm sizing its addressable direct-bid pool — it reflects contracts legally reserved for SBs.

The size-distribution histogram counts procurement contracts (award types A/B/C/D) and IDVs that scope to each bracket via USASpending's award_amounts filter. Grant and loan counts are excluded; they're zero for IT-NAICS SB set-asides anyway. A single contract that spans fiscal years is counted in the FY its action date falls within.

Build script and full query payloads: build_usaspending_report.py. This page is regenerated by running the script; no server component, no caching layer, no build pipeline — the HTML file served is the exact artifact.

VA & DHS small-business IT contracting: a three-year landscape