Applied Enterprise Management Corporation

Applied Enterprise Management Corporation, doing business as AEM, is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that delivers data management, education analytics, and IT modernization services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) across full-and-open competitions. AEM operates three named subsidiaries: Twentybridge LLC and Aem-Westat JV LLC, the latter positioning the firm for large-scale education data and research initiatives through a joint venture with Westat, a data collection and evaluation specialist.

AEM's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in the Department of Education, which accounts for the overwhelming majority of its dollar value and strategic vehicle positions. The Institute of Education Sciences alone represents 24 awards and $2.37 billion combined potential value—roughly 68% of AEM's total $3.5 billion portfolio—driven by AEM's position on the $2 billion Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) IDIQ (multiple award, through February 2028) and the $60 million Data Analytics and Evaluation Support (DAES) Blanket Purchase Agreement. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education contributes 17 awards and $203.4 million, while the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development adds 8 awards and $95.9 million. Outside Education, customer concentration drops sharply; the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations places 52 awards but only $15 million in combined potential value (small task orders), and the Department of the Navy registers 18 awards at $85 thousand. This concentration—79% of combined potential value flows to four Education-focused offices—reflects AEM's strategic positioning as a subject-matter provider to the department's research, data, and program-evaluation apparatus.

AEM holds a dominant seat on GSA Schedule IT—Information Technology Schedule 70—with 146 task orders worth $492.2 million in combined potential value, and a secondary position on the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) with 43 task orders worth $930 million. The Schedule 70 volume, paired with the PRESTO and DAES IDV/BPA holdings, signals that AEM's growth strategy pivots on reusable vehicles and task-order depth rather than individual contract wins. On PRESTO alone, AEM has issued or completed multiple task orders: a $29.9 million delivery order for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) web-based data collection platform (April 2026, performance through April 2031), a $19.2 million delivery order for monitoring and technical assistance to Charter Schools Program grantees (September 2025, performance through September 2030), and a $22.8 million delivery order for EDFacts data collection and dissemination support (September 2024, performance through September 2029). Under DAES, AEM operates the Data Products System for the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development ($2.69 million, April 2024–April 2029) and the Civil Rights Data Collection support for the Office for Civil Rights ($18.13 million, September 2024–September 2029). Outside ED vehicles, AEM holds a notable $24.9 million definitive contract with the Institute of Education Sciences for operation and maintenance of the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), an online research library spanning 1.9 million education research records and 385,000 full texts (April 2023–April 2028, with 24.7 FTEs deployed in FY2024 across 51,425 contractor hours).

AEM also maintains a secondary customer footprint in civilian IT modernization. The Corporation for National and Community Service awarded a $10.87 million enterprise-wide data modernization delivery order under MAS (January 2023–August 2026, time-and-materials pricing), and the Department of Transportation issued a $321 thousand SBIR Phase III definitive contract for a casual carpooling campaign implementation (May 2025–March 2027, fixed-price level-of-effort). The Smithsonian Office of the Chief Information Officer procured $1.05 million in software support services under MAS (September 2021, completed April 2025). These awards establish AEM as a capable data and IT services provider to non-Education civilian agencies, but they represent a small fraction of the overall book.

Nine awards with combined potential value of $73.2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting significant recompete exposure—principally on PRESTO and MAS delivery orders that will require competitive renewal or task-order refresh.

AEM's capability portfolio, grounded in its recent contract work, centers on federal education data systems engineering, program evaluation support, technical assistance delivery, and enterprise data modernization. Representative skill clusters include Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) platform development and operation, K-12 education data collection via EDFacts, civil rights data collection and analytics, education research library maintenance and indexing (ERIC), charter schools program monitoring and technical assistance, and data governance infrastructure support. AEM's GSA Schedule labor offering spans 56 categories at hourly rates from $54.96 (administrative assistant, high school education, zero years experience) through $308.87 (senior subject matter expert, master's degree, five years experience), with a median government-paid rate of $182.54/hr across SCI-reportable federal service contracts. No security-cleared labor categories are offered.

SCI-reported invoicing across service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $115.7 million over FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $38 million across 109 FTEs; FY2023: $37.4 million across 115 FTEs; FY2024: $40.3 million across 120 FTEs). This flat-to-modest growth trajectory reflects the steady-state invoicing on large, multi-year education contracts rather than year-over-year award growth; the underlying award pipeline shows 11 new prime/sub awards in 2024 and 8 in 2025, but the 2026 count remains low at 4 awards as of mid-June, suggesting incomplete data capture or a narrowing recent pipeline after the robust 2024 activity spike. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, AEM performs 87% of contractor hours internally and engages 61 named subcontractors for an average 13% sub-hours share per contract, indicating a mixed-delivery model in which AEM builds core teams and selectively sources specialized or supplementary labor.

AEM's subcontracting footprint as a prime contractor reflects education-domain expertise. On the $24.9 million ERIC contract, Quality Information Partners, Inc. (woman-owned small business) and Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. perform 47% of the reported work, primarily metadata generation, indexing, and documentation for education research records. On the $22.8 million EDFacts delivery order, Quality Information Partners, Inc. and Sanametrix Inc. (minority-owned small disadvantaged business) provide subcontractor support. On the $5.384 million Common Education Data Standards support task order (September 2024–May 2029 under PRESTO), Quality Information Partners, Inc. subcontracts for stakeholder engagement. On the $5.37 million Electronic Application System for Indian Education (EASIE) data management support call (July 2024 under MAS), AEM engaged Quality Information Partners, Inc., Zenius Corporation (HUBZone-certified small business), and Sanametrix Inc. for consulting and stakeholder support. This pattern—repeated engagement of Quality Information Partners, Inc., Sanametrix, and Zenius across multiple education data contracts—reveals AEM's reliance on a core circle of SBA-certified subcontractors to deliver specialized analytics, minority and HUBZone small-business utilization compliance, and technical assistance components.

As a subcontractor, AEM operates at a much smaller scale. Recent sub work includes traffic incident management program support to ICF Incorporated for the Federal Highway Administration (January 2026), crowdsourcing technical brief development to ICF (September 2025), and IT enterprise management services to Deloitte Consulting LLP on multiple EMITS Bridge modification orders (January 2025–July 2024). This sub footprint is minimal relative to the prime business and spans transportation and enterprise IT—outside AEM's core education-data domain.

AEM's federal grant position includes two named Project Grants from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) under CFDA 84.373 (Special Education Technical Assistance on State Data Collection). The Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID) grant, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, carries $2.7 million and engages three sub-awardees: Westat, Inc. (contract support); Child Trends, Incorporated (consulting on child and youth development research); and WestEd (consulting and technical assistance on educational research). A second OSERS grant, the Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data (the Weiss Center), ran from October 2022 through September 2026 and funded technical assistance to states on IDEA data collection and compliance. AEM also operates as a sub-recipient on multiple education-focused grants: a capacity-building technical assistance (CBTA) coordination sub-award to ICF Incorporated (February 2025), a Parent Information Center sub-award under Sri International supporting IDEA Part C and Part B preschool special education data systems (February 2025), and National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction (NCADEMI) sub-awards under Utah State University (December 2024, October 2025). These grant roles position AEM as both a direct recipient and a sub-recipient of technical assistance and program evaluation funding from OSERS and other ED offices, reinforcing its specialization in special education data systems and state-level capacity building.

AEM competes predominantly under full-and-open (non-set-aside) contract vehicles and does not carry SBA certifications beyond its woman-owned small business designation; all recent contracts examined show "no set-aside" applied, reflecting competition on GSA Schedules, IDIQs, and BPAs that are open to all qualified vendors rather than restricted 8(a) or HUBZone set-asides. This posture aligns with AEM's scale (120 FTEs on federal services work in FY2024) and its position as a prime on large, competitive federal vehicles where its subject-matter expertise in education data and analytics—rather than SBA small-business preference—anchors its win probability.

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