Applica Solutions, Inc.

Applica Solutions, Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and SBA HUBZone-certified firm headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering office furniture procurement and installation services alongside IT modernization, database administration, and data analytics support to civilian federal agencies. The company is a Subchapter S corporation and veteran-owned small business that competes across both set-aside vehicles (SDVOSB, HUBZone, Total Small Business) and full-and-open deliveries, with set-aside posture varying by customer and vehicle.

Applica's customer concentration skews heavily to civilian IT and health-services agencies. The top five funding entities account for 67% of awards by count but less than half of potential-value dollars due to the presence of a large GSA vehicle: the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center leads by award volume (25 awards, $1 million combined potential value), followed by the Internal Revenue Service (13 awards, $16 million), NASA Shared Services Center (5 awards, $103 thousand), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin (4 awards, $2.5 million). By potential value, however, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates at $6.1 billion combined potential value across 3 awards — a signal that at least one IDV carries a large ceiling. The NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations ranks second at $100.5 million across 3 awards, followed by the IRS at $16 million.

Applica holds two primary contract vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (46 task orders, $104.1 million combined potential value) and the Veterans Technology Services 2 (VETS 2) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (22 task orders, $44.7 million). The MAS vehicle anchors most of the company's furniture and space-planning work with NIH and other civilian agencies; the VETS 2 GWAC, reserved for SDVOSB firms, carries the bulk of IRS and VA IT modernization and database support orders. Applica also holds a $100 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with NIH Clinical Center under the GSA MAS, effective through April 2025, which has generated numerous task orders for office furniture, workstations, nursing-station equipment, and space renovation across NIH facilities.

Concrete named work spans both furniture and IT service lines. On the furniture side, recent delivery orders include a $308.7 thousand HUBZone-set-aside order from NASA Kennedy Space Center (September 2024) for Space Systems Processing Facility seating, a $93.1 thousand HUBZone-set-aside delivery order from the Fogarty International Center (September 2025) for logistical and technical support for space design and reconfiguration, and multiple smaller orders from NIH Clinical Center for inpatient nurse station furniture, office refresh, and lobby furnishings (ranging from $10 thousand to $72 thousand). On the IT side, Applica won a $9.4 million SDVOSB delivery order from the SBA Office of the Chief Information Officer (July 2023) for the MySBA Unified Experience Structure IT platform, a $5.2 million delivery order from the USDA Farm Production and Conservation (August 2023) for data analytics support through October 2025, and a $4.4 million IRS task order (September 2022) for analysis-of-alternative roadmap support with a completion date extended to March 2026. The IRS CADE2 (Customer Account Data Engine 2) program saw a $960.5 thousand award (September 2023) for database services and tax processing engine support. More recent activity includes a $481.1 thousand IRS delivery order (July 2024) for information systems contingency planning and testing automation, and a $605 thousand SDVOSB definitive contract (September 2022) for data-at-rest encryption services.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold) shows significant growth trajectory. FY2022 invoicing was $2.5 million across 6.3 FTEs; FY2023 rose to $2.1 million across 10.1 FTEs; FY2024 jumped to $14.2 million across 52.0 FTEs, signaling substantial workforce scale-up in large IT modernization and data analytics engagements. Median government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts run $133.76/hr, with a 10th percentile floor of $101.29/hr for junior roles and a 90th percentile ceiling of $208.83/hr for subject-matter experts and senior managers. GSA Schedule labor rates span from $35.63/hr (junior computer operators) to $217.14/hr (senior IT managers), with security-clearance requirements common across mid-to-senior roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, named subcontractors performed roughly 16% of contractor hours, indicating that Applica builds substantial internal delivery capacity rather than relying heavily on subs; 13 named subcontractors appear across the SCI records.

Activity has modulated in recent years: 9 awards in FY2022, 19 in FY2023, 17 in FY2024, dropping to 7 in FY2025 and 3 through mid-2026. Within the next twenty-four months, only 6 awards (combined potential value $279 thousand) face ultimate-completion deadlines, indicating relatively light recompete exposure in the near term compared to Applica's installed base. The company maintains one named subsidiary, Applica JV LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and joint-venture entity holding matching SDVOSB and HUBZone credentials. Award-category concentration is pronounced: 41 awards fall under Wood Office Furniture Manufacturing NAICS, 24 under Computer Systems Design Services, and 6 under Office Furniture (except Wood) Manufacturing, with PSC codes split between Office Furniture (33 awards) and IT and Telecom labor categories (19 awards combined across application development and program-management support).