Ascellon Corporation

Ascellon Corporation, doing business as Ascellon Corp, is an SBA-certified women-owned small business that operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering healthcare facility assessment, survey, and compliance evaluation services to federal agencies. Headquartered in Hyattsville, Maryland, Ascellon is a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business organized as a Subchapter S corporation, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its active federal portfolio.

Ascellon's core capability centers on conducting comprehensive surveys and quality assurance inspections at Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Centers and State Veterans Homes nationwide, evaluating quality of care, resident rights, facility environments, and adherence to healthcare standards through on-site and virtual inspections, resident interviews, medical record reviews, and compliance reporting. The company holds a $61.6 million single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with the VA (36C10G22D0009, awarded January 7, 2022, extending through January 6, 2027) that authorizes annual surveys, quarterly inspections, for-cause evaluations, and recognition surveys across 153 VA facilities, specifying approximately 105 on-site and virtual visits annually for Community Living Centers and 5 on-site visits for Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder centers. Recent delivery orders under this IDIQ include a $2.9 million fourth-quarter survey order (completion September 30, 2026), a $3.3 million third-quarter order (completion June 30, 2026), and a $3.2 million Q2 FY2026 order (completion March 31, 2026), with smaller recognition and for-cause surveys ranging from approximately $36,000 to $229,000 issued quarterly and monthly. Ascellon also holds a $31.1 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract for IT professional services and IT-enabled healthcare assessment capabilities, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and VA have leveraged to procure life-safety code surveys and facility assessment services; a $3.3 million CMS delivery order issued May 12, 2023 (ultimate completion May 11, 2028) for life-safety code surveys of Medicare and Medicaid-certified healthcare facilities carries no subcontractor involvement and has invoiced $1.677 million through FY2025 at government-paid rates declining from $140.08/hr in FY2023 to $82.56/hr in FY2024.

Ascellon's customer concentration is extreme and heavily concentrated in VA work. The Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters dominates at 64 awards (61% of total awards) with $270.2 million in combined potential value across the VA IDIQ and its task orders — this represents 59% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service follows distantly with 4 awards and $129.9 million in combined potential value, driven almost entirely by the $31.1 million Multiple Award Schedule vehicle. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services accounts for 18 awards with $49.3 million combined potential value, predominantly life-safety code surveys and sub-award work. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command and Department of the Treasury Departmental Offices round out material activity with $648 thousand and $114 thousand respectively, accounting for less than 1% of dollars. The top five agencies account for 89% of awards by count and 98% of combined potential value — the VA's dominance creates significant recompete exposure and customer concentration risk.

Activity has grown steadily across the past five years, from 9 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2025, with 10 awards recorded in 2026 to date. Only 1 award carrying $3.3 million in combined potential value faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a shallow recompete cliff and minimal near-term contract replacement pressure. Ascellon's parent vehicle footprint is narrow: the VA IDIQ (36C10G22D0009) underlies 59 task orders with $55.8 million combined potential value, the GSA Multiple Award Schedule spans 21 task orders with $184.8 million combined potential value, and the Federal Supply Schedule GS35F5105H carries 4 task orders with $17.5 million combined potential value. All other vehicles are immaterial.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $33.5 million from FY2022 through FY2025, with marked volatility: $4.7 million (FY2022), $913 thousand (FY2023), $12.8 million (FY2024), and $15.1 million (FY2025). SCI-reported FTE deployment fluctuated similarly, from 18.7 FTEs in FY2022 to 2.9 in FY2023, 159 in FY2024, and 49.1 in FY2025 — the FY2024 spike reflects a discrete large-scale engagement, likely a quarterly or annual survey surge order under the VA IDIQ. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $116.97/hr, with the 10th percentile at $36.00/hr and the 90th percentile at $149.21/hr, reflecting a mix of administrative, specialist, and senior management labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 2% of total contractor hours, with 5 named subcontractors reported — Ascellon predominantly self-performs survey and assessment work. The company's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 27 active categories ranging from Administrative Assistant at $47.29/hr through Senior Executive at $294.96/hr, covering education levels from associate through MA with no security-clearance requirements.

Ascellon subcontracts minimally: one $3.2 million sub award with the National Quality Forum (February 20, 2026) for fraud-waste-and-abuse services supporting CMS, and one sub-award under a Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services grant (August 19, 2024) for federal recertification surveys and complaint surveys of long-term care facilities. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor or direct recipient, without material engagement as a feeder to larger primes.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES, COMPUTER DATABASE DESIGN, COMPUTER PROCESSING & DATA PREPARATION, Survey, COMPUTER INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DESIGN, COMPUTER SOFTWARE DESIGN, OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES, MANAGEMENT SERVICES, MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES.