Ardent Management Consulting, LLC

Ardent Management Consulting, LLC (doing business as Ardentmc) is a Vienna, Virginia-based federal IT and geospatial services contractor operating as a prime contractor on 163 of its 164 recent awards (99%), competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no characteristic set-aside posture. The company is a subsidiary of Mission1St Group Inc., a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) certified Subchapter S corporation, and operates alongside sister subsidiaries Ardent Health Enterprise and Response Technologies, LLC and Ardent Cloud, LLC. Ardentmc's federal footprint spans 37 customer agencies across $64.66 billion in combined potential value, though only $428.8 million has been obligated to date, reflecting the ceiling-heavy nature of its indefinite-delivery holdings.

Ardentmc delivers geospatial information systems (GIS) development and support, cloud engineering, data analytics, IT modernization, and management consulting to civilian and defense agencies. Representative work includes a $47.48 million labor-hour BPA call with the U.S. Secret Service for criminal investigative technologies (awarded September 2022, firm fixed price through June 2026); a $15.3 million delivery order from the Department of the Interior for geospatial support services (awarded February 2023, firm fixed price through August 2028); a $7.88 million delivery order from the Social Security Administration for GIS development and support to the Office of Security and Resilience (awarded June 2026, firm fixed price through December 2031, performing in Baltimore); a $3.97 million time-and-materials delivery order from the Office of the Inspector General for geospatial and data-driven capabilities (awarded October 2026, Vienna performance through September 2031); and a $7.88 million geospatial technical support services BPA with the Department of Transportation (awarded September 2023, small-business set-aside through October 2025). SCI-reported invoicing reached $49.4 million in FY2024 across 37.6 FTEs, up from $43.8 million in FY2022, with median government-paid rates around $168/hr and senior technical labor pricing through $401/hr.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Information Officer (27 awards, $253.8 million combined potential value) and DHS U.S. Secret Service (19 awards, $197.3 million), which together account for 51% of Ardentmc's award count. However, the top-five customers by potential value diverge significantly: DHS Chief Procurement Officer anchors $22 billion in combined potential value across only two awards—a structural signal of placeholder or multi-billion-dollar vehicle ceilings rather than obligated work. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants places the third-largest dollar share ($80.6 million across 16 awards), followed by DHS USCIS ($406.3 million across 4 awards), demonstrating a DHS-dominated customer base with civilian IT modernization as the primary mission.

Ardentmc holds positions on multiple federal IT vehicles. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) is its dominant platform, with 109 task orders and $1.16 billion in combined potential value across 59 unique labor categories priced from $72.51/hr (IT Analyst 2) to $294.29/hr (Cloud Architect 3), all requiring bachelor's degrees and spanning 2 to 9 years of experience with no security-cleared roles. IT Schedule 70 carries 46 task orders and $273.9 million. The CIO-SP3 SB (Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3, Small Business) GWAC houses 9 task orders and $69.5 million in potential value, with recent awards including a $8.11 million total-small-business bridge contract with Customs and Border Protection for information security and production monitoring (awarded September 2025, extended through October 2026) and a $128.6 thousand AWS and equipment delivery order with CBP (awarded September 2025). Ardentmc also holds a $220 million Geospatial Support and Services 2.0 (GS&S 2.0) indefinite-delivery contract with the Air Education and Training Command (awarded May 2024, through May 2029) and a $1 billion eFAST BPA with the FAA for management consulting and financial systems modernization (awarded February 2022, expired September 2024 but still used for prior-period adjustments). A new GSA Federal Supply Schedule (SIN 54151S IT professional services, SIN 54151ECOM electronic commerce, SIN 541611 management consulting) was awarded June 2024 with a $1 million ceiling through June 2029.

Award activity has declined year over year since 2022, dropping from 8 awards in 2022 to 3 in 2026 (year to date as of October 2026). Only 5 awards (combined potential value $17.8 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Ardentmc operates predominantly as its own delivery team: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed 89% of contractor hours while engaging 51 named subcontractors for an 11% average sub-hours share. On the single recorded sub award (a May 2024 cybersecurity support call order under Obsidian Global, LLC supporting the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid), Ardentmc performs as a subcontractor. The vendor's GSA labor portfolio emphasizes mid-level technical and GIS roles with no federal security clearance requirements, signaling focus on unclassified IT modernization and geospatial analytics rather than defense or intelligence contracting.

ArdentMC, a HubZone, solver of critical IT challenges

- Agile Software Development

- Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)

- SenseFly OEM certified trainer

- Amazon Web Services (AWS)

- Cloud

- Migration

- GovCloud

- Microsoft

- DevSecOps

- Disaster Response