Aspen Systems, Inc.

Aspen Systems, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of high-performance computing hardware and servers based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, operates as a prime contractor on federal IT procurement, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its recent award portfolio. The vendor sells specialized computing infrastructure — GPU servers, Linux clusters, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) systems, and extended hardware warranties — to civilian research agencies and defense commands through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and direct purchase orders.

Aspen's customer base is diffuse across 47 distinct federal agencies, with concentration in research and technical computing. The top five customers by award count account for 35% of recent awards: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Central Office leads with 14 awards ($1.8 million combined potential value), followed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (11 awards), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (10 awards), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (10 awards), and the Smithsonian Institution Office of the Chief Information Officer (8 awards). The top-five ranking by potential value diverges slightly: NRC remains dominant at $1.8 million, but the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ranks second at $1.7 million (reflecting MAS management overhead), the Naval Air Warfare Center third at $1.3 million, and NIDDK fifth at $709 thousand, accounting for 63% of combined potential value across all awards.

Recent prime work demonstrates the vendor's core capability. In June 2026, the NRC awarded a $299.7 thousand delivery order for expansion of the agency's CFD cluster — CPU core expansion and out-of-warranty hardware replacement with migration to the Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia. In December 2024, the Naval Air Warfare Center procured $356.2 thousand in NVIDIA Tesla Hopper H100 GPUs. In August 2024, the NRC issued a $362.1 thousand delivery order for CFD servers and hardware under the MAS. Aspen's software licensing work includes a $43.6 thousand award to the Smithsonian OCIO (August 2024) and a $18.2 thousand order to the same customer for software license renewal (September 2023).

Aspen places 66 task orders under GSA Schedule 70 (Information Technology Schedule 70) generating $3.3 million in combined potential value, the single largest vehicle in the portfolio, with 14 additional task orders under the Multiple Award Schedule itself worth $1.9 million. The vendor also holds seats on GSA OASIS Small Business, Indefinite Delivery Contract 80ARC018D0010, and a BPA with the Navy.

Activity has declined in recent years: five awards in 2022 and 2023 each, nine in 2024, four in 2025, and two awards recorded year-to-date in 2026 as of June. Five awards (combined potential value $610 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore recompete risk. In its subcontractor capacity, Aspen supplies hardware components and technical support to Torch Technologies (on GSA OASIS Small Business pool 5B for Army Combat Capabilities Development Command engineering and simulation), Inuteq (on the NASA Advanced Supercomputing center task orders), Colorado State University (on a USGS BAA for groundwater characterization), General Dynamics Information Technology, and Agile Decision Sciences. The vendor's portfolio spans electronic computer manufacturing (99 awards), computer repair and maintenance (14 awards), and systems configuration services (34 awards by PSC code).

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