Aderas Inc.

Aderas Inc., a Reston, Virginia-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, delivers enterprise IT services—application implementation, software maintenance, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence support—to federal agencies as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards) competing primarily in full-and-open procurements with no recurrent set-aside designations. The vendor operates across 23 federal customer agencies and holds prime positions on significant multi-billion-dollar vehicles including the POLARIS GWAC (small business set-aside, no dollar ceiling specified in the source), a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency SHIELD contract, and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Customer concentration centers on civilian and defense administrative agencies rather than combat-focused DoD. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation dominates by award count (36 awards, $120.1 million combined potential value) and represents 65% coverage of the top five customers. The International Development Finance Corporation, the Defense Health Agency, and the GSA Federal Acquisition Service rank as secondary anchors by potential value. The potential-value distribution is highly skewed: a single award—a National Institutes of Health NITAAC Office of Information Technology Acquisition contract—carries $20 billion in ceiling value, followed by a $1 billion FAA contract. These two awards account for 76% of combined potential value across all 99 awards, a concentration cliff that reflects Aderas' recent seat on large government-wide vehicles rather than mature task-order flow. Obligated dollars (the binding federal commitment) stand at $175.7 million against $27.83 billion potential value, meaning only 1% of the vendor's ceiling has been drawn to date.

Vehicle positioning reflects a mixed portfolio. Aderas holds 27 task orders on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($267.6 million combined potential value), including delivery orders for web hosting services to the Inter-American Foundation, Oracle software support to the Defense Health Agency, and identity proofing services under the Login.gov Next Generation Identity Proofing BPA ($194.5 million ceiling). On the Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ ($151 billion, unrestricted), Aderas received an initial $500 task order (firm fixed price) for defense systems engineering work. The POLARIS GWAC (small business set-aside) carries no stated ceiling and was recently awarded to Aderas on December 30, 2024. Aderas also holds a single-award $300 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the International Development Finance Corporation for Cloud First Enterprise Systems Support Services, under which it has received multiple delivery orders for AI/subject matter expert services ($1.3 million), Security Operations Center support ($12 million ceiling), and AI support development ($628 thousand). PBGC awards span multiple agency-specific IDIQs (16PBGC19D0020, PBGC01D090012, PBGC01D100006), each supporting the agency's actuarial and benefits administration modernization initiatives.

Activity trajectory shows volatility: three awards in 2022, rising to thirteen in 2024, declining to eleven in 2025, and one award in 2026 year-to-date (through May 7). The sharp 2025 drop reflects completion of multiple smaller PBGC sub-awards rather than prime-contract decline. Five awards with combined potential value $21.3 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure principally in PBGC legacy systems modernization and Inter-American Foundation web-hosting services.

The vendor's subcontractor footprint reflects concentrated teaming with three named primes across SCI-reportable work. Salient CRGT Inc. anchors the portfolio with nine sub-awards spanning PBGC benefit calculations and valuations modernization labor across FY2023–FY2024. CGI Federal Inc. issued two digital asset management solution sub-awards in 2024. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Aderas reports 77% sub-hours share, indicating heavy reliance on downstream subcontractors to staff delivery—particularly on the Defense Human Resources Activity enterprise architecture contract under CIO-SP3 SB, where 75% of FY2024 contractor hours flowed to one subcontractor at a blended government-paid rate of $117.13/hr, down from $162.45/hr in FY2022. The SCI dataset shows $8.4 million in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (3 prime records, 9 sub records), with FY2024 spiking to $3.5 million on 14.4 FTEs. SCI is a strict subset: these figures exclude goods procurement, classified work, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue, and do not represent company-wide revenue.

Aderas' GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 138 unique categories, $56.40–$304.38/hr, education levels high school through bachelor's, with no security-cleared positions offered. Median government-paid rate on prime SCI contracts was $128.71/hr; the 10th percentile ran $119.45/hr and the 90th percentile $155.70/hr. Representative labor includes Healthcare Admin roles at $56.40/hr (high school), Security Analyst Level I at $115.30/hr (bachelor's, 2 years), and Senior Program Manager at $149.04/hr (bachelor's, 12 years). This rate spectrum and education posture position Aderas as a mid-market administrative and application-support provider rather than senior defense engineering or highly specialized classified work.

The vendor competes across two NAICS categories—Custom Computer Programming Services and Other Computer Related Services (28 awards each)—with secondary presence in Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (15 awards) and Computer Systems Design Services (11 awards), reflecting capability breadth in enterprise modernization and technical staffing but concentrated presence in application and administrative support rather than core infrastructure or defense systems.

Aderas, Inc. is a company that specializes in Health IT consulting