Aligned Development Strategies, Incorporated

Aligned Development Strategies, Incorporated, a minority-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Washington, DC, primarily operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) delivering IT professional services, cybersecurity engineering, and business-process consulting to federal civilian agencies under full-and-open and 8(a) procurement channels. The company competes predominantly under set-aside designations — particularly the 8(a) STARS III GWAC — and maintains a small GSA Multiple Award Schedule position under SIN 54151S (IT Professional Services) with a $475,000 ceiling running through May 2029.

Aligned Development's customer concentration is distributed across fourteen agencies with limited dominance from any single customer. The top five by both award count and potential value — the Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ($5 million across 3 awards), the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service ($4.9 million across 3 awards), the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service ($4.7 million across 3 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ($3.7 million across 2 awards), and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency ($2.1 million across 2 awards) — account for 92% of combined potential value. No single agency dominates the portfolio; the top three customers by potential value are separated by less than $300 thousand in ceiling values. The award count distribution (40% coverage across the top five) signals a broad customer base with shallow penetration at any one agency.

On parent vehicles, Aligned Development holds a significant position under 8(a) STARS III with 14 task orders valued at $11.8 million combined potential value, representing the bulk of the vendor's recent prime work. The vendor also places orders under GSA's Information Technology Schedule 70 (7 task orders, $233 thousand combined potential value) and holds single task orders on two indefinite-delivery contracts: 6973GH-25-D-00014 and CSOSA14D008489 ($1 million combined). Aligned Development's capabilities center on custom computer programming services (15 awards) and computer systems design services (13 awards), with secondary work in management support, IT software development, and systems analysis.

The vendor's award trajectory shows episodic activity rather than sustained growth. After initial work dating to 2001, the pace slowed through the mid-2010s (one to three awards per year in 2015–2016, 2018), then nearly stalled before re-engaging in 2024 (one award) and 2026 (one award, most recently a subcontract task order from Science Applications International Corporation in August 2026). No recompete cliff is evident in the near term given the sparse recent award pipeline.

On the GSA Schedule, Aligned Development's labor portfolio spans 13 categories with rates from $65.35/hr (Information Security Engineer entry-level) to $193.77/hr (Principal Consultant), encompassing information security engineering, cyber risk advisory, systems administration, project management, and subject-matter expert roles at the associate- through master's-degree level, with no cleared positions offered. SCI-reported invoicing across FY2022–FY2024 totaled approximately $1.4 million in prime service-contract revenue, with government-paid median hourly rates around $114.35/hr across roughly 1.8–1.9 FTEs per fiscal year on reportable prime contracts. This modest SCI footprint reflects a company delivering selective, project-based engagement rather than large-scale staffed programs. The vendor operates with minimal subcontractor engagement on its own primes (0% average sub-hours share across SCI-reportable records), building internal delivery capacity; conversely, the August 2026 SAIC sub award signals willingness to participate as a named subcontractor on larger integrator-led work.

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