Applied Enterprise Management Corporation

Applied Enterprise Management Corporation, doing business as AEM, is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that operates predominantly as a prime contractor (95% of awards) delivering education data systems, program evaluation, technical assistance, and enterprise IT modernization services to federal civilian agencies. AEM competes full-and-open across a diversified federal customer base without reliance on set-aside vehicles, holding positions on multiple GSA schedules and department-wide IDIQs that anchor its work across the education sector and federal civilian IT infrastructure.

AEM's customer concentration is acute within the Department of Education. The top five funding agencies account for 79% of combined potential value, led by the Institute of Education Sciences (24 awards, $2.38 billion combined potential value) and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (17 awards, $203.4 million). The Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations ranks highest by award count (52 awards) but carries only $15 million in combined potential value — a stark divergence that signals transactional, lower-dollar work routed through that agency against AEM's IT Schedule 70 vehicle. The Institute of Education Sciences dominates the dollar ranking by a wide margin; nearly two-thirds of AEM's total portfolio value concentrates in education data infrastructure work. Outside Education and State, AEM holds smaller footholds with the Navy and GSA Federal Acquisition Service.

AEM holds a $2 billion IDIQ (Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders, or PRESTO) awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences on February 28, 2023, through February 27, 2028. Recent task orders under PRESTO include a $34.4 million delivery order (April 2026 through April 2031) for Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) web-based data collection and helpdesk support; a $26.1 million order (September 2024 through September 2029) for ED Facts data collection and dissemination support; a $19.2 million order (September 2025 through September 2030) for monitoring and technical assistance to Charter Schools Program grantees; and a $5.4 million order (September 2024 through May 2029) for Common Education Data Standards support. AEM also holds positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (44 task orders, $940.1 million combined potential value) and Information Technology Schedule 70 (146 task orders, $492.2 million combined potential value), with notable MAS-based work including a $9.99 million delivery order (August 2026 through August 2027) from the Corporation for National and Community Service for AmeriCorps Information Model modernization and financial data reform, a $3.52 million time-and-materials order (June 2026 through June 2031) from the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education for National Perkins Reporting System IT maintenance, and a $10.1 million order (March 2026 through September 2030) from the Student Privacy Policy Office for privacy technical assistance. AEM also placed $18.2 million (ultimately $26.5 million in blended potential) across four task orders under the Data Analytics and Evaluation Support (DAES) BPA, including a September 2024 order for Civil Rights Data Collection analysis and system design work.

AEM's largest federal contract (by installed base) is a $25.1 million definitive contract with the Institute of Education Sciences (awarded April 24, 2023, through April 23, 2028) for operation and maintenance of the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), a 1.9-million-record education research bibliographic and full-text digital library. SCI-reported invoicing on ERIC totaled $1.4 million in FY2023 (8.0 FTEs), $6.2 million in FY2024 (24.7 FTEs), and $4.4 million in FY2025 (17.9 FTEs), with subcontractors Quality Information Partners, Inc. (woman-owned small business) and Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (woman-owned small business) accounting for 46% of contractor hours in FY2025 for metadata generation and indexing work.

Across SCI-reportable service contracts, AEM invoiced $142.9 million as prime from FY2022 through FY2025, with FY2022 showing $38 million across 109 FTEs, FY2023 showing $37.4 million across 115 FTEs, FY2024 showing $40.3 million across 120 FTEs, and FY2025 showing $27.2 million across 83.7 FTEs — indicating flat or slightly declining labor deployment in the most recent fiscal year. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts cluster with a median around $182.25/hr, spanning from $101.41/hr at the 10th percentile to $271.21/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting a mixed workforce of data analysts, program coordinators, and senior subject-matter experts. On its GSA Schedule offerings, AEM carries 56 labor categories ranging from $56.01/hr (Administrative Assistant) through $314.73/hr (Senior Subject Matter Expert), with no security-cleared roles offered. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 14% of total contractor hours, with 79 named subcontractors engaged over the period — a pattern reflecting moderate sub-reliance for specialized data work. Named subs appearing across multiple awards include Quality Information Partners, Inc. (woman-owned), Sanametrix Inc. (minority-owned small disadvantaged business), Zenius Corporation (HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business), and Westat, Inc. (research and evaluation support).

AEM operates as a subcontractor on seven recent awards routed through Deloitte Consulting and ICF Incorporated, primarily delivering IT and transportation support services on Enterprise Management Information Technology Services and Federal Highway Administration technical-assistance work. As a grant recipient, AEM holds two awards from the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services: a $5.4 million project grant (October 2025 through September 2027) to operate the Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID), an OSEP data center providing technical assistance on IDEA data collection to state agencies, with sub-awardees Westat, Inc., Child Trends, Incorporated, and WestEd; and a prior award (October 2022 through September 2027) for the Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data. AEM also received a $321 thousand DOT SBIR Phase III award (May 2025 through March 2027) for casual carpooling campaign implementation, with Taoti Enterprises Inc. providing consulting support.

Within its corporate structure, AEM operates through two named subsidiaries: Twentybridge LLC and Aem-Westat JV LLC, though the source does not detail their operational scope or capability specialization. Recompete exposure concentrates in the next twenty-four months at $75.8 million combined potential value across ten awards, including the Corp for National and Community Service AmeriCorps modernization order (ultimate completion August 2027), the Privacy Technical Assistance Center order (September 2030), and several education data systems contracts expiring through 2029–2030. Award activity has moderated in the past two years — five awards in 2026 (year-to-date through August) versus eleven in 2024 — suggesting either a shift toward larger, longer-duration task orders on standing vehicles or a portfolio maturation cycle rather than new-customer acquisition.

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