Special Operations Forces Core Support

USSOCOM established this Master IDIQ on May 1, 2020, to provide subject matter expertise and knowledge-based services supporting U.S. and globally assigned Special Operations Forces missions across education, training, management support, program management, engineering, technical services, and administrative functions. Ordering authority extends through March 14, 2030, leaving 3 years 7 months remaining. The vehicle succeeded the SOCOM Wide Mission Support contracts awarded in 2015 and carries a combined task-order potential value of $780.6 million, with $587.4 million (75 percent) already obligated.

The vehicle remains active but with decelerating award momentum. Task-order pace peaked in 2023 at 143 orders, then declined to 110 in 2025 and 31 through May 2026, suggesting either funding constraints or maturation of the award pipeline. Scope spans training events including lethal robotics courses, signal intelligence instruction, survival-evasion-resistance-escape programs, and regional education engagement in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Recent orders show heavy concentration in time-and-materials episodic training support and firm-fixed-price international education programs, with place of performance spanning MacDill Air Force Base (Florida headquarters), overseas training sites, and subordinate SOCOM commands.

Competition concentrates among a small group of primes. Threat Tec, LLC leads by combined potential value at $206.4 million across 151 orders, followed by Prescient Edge Corporation at $105.5 million and Spathe Systems LLC at $89.6 million; these three hold roughly 40 percent of total vehicle value. Spathe dominates by order count at 236 awards, but its lower average order size reflects episodic contract structure. Core One Solutions, K2 Solutions, and T3I follow with smaller but material portfolios. Forty-seven distinct primes share the vehicle, but the top five capture 64 percent of potential value, indicating moderate concentration with a viable tail of boutique operators.

Customer concentration is dispersed. USSOCOM headquarters holds 250 orders worth $123.4 million, while Air Force entities (Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Air Mobility Command) and Marine Corps together command comparable or greater volume. This multi-customer distribution reduces single-agency risk but reflects SOCOM's enterprise-wide nature.

The set-aside structure shifted markedly mid-vehicle lifecycle. Early awards were predominantly total small business (106 of 549 orders, 19 percent), but recent task orders from late 2025 onward show a growing unrestricted pipeline alongside continuing small-business awards. Representative recent orders range from $9,097 (firm-fixed-price planning support) to $9.1 million (time-and-materials training series), with most falling in the $200,000 to $2 million band. Pricing spans firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, cost-no-fee, and labor-hours models depending on work type and customer preference.

The purpose of this contract vehicle is to provide subject matter expertise and knowledge based services in support of USSOCOM's enterprise requirements for U.S. based and globally assigned Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions. The requirements include supporting the government in the following areas: Education and Training Services, Management Support Services, Program Management, Engineering, Technical and Professional Services, and Administrative and Other Services.