Audacious Inquiry LLC

Audacious Inquiry LLC, based in Catonsville, Maryland, is a healthcare information technology and policy company competing as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) on federal civilian health IT and data systems work, with growing exposure to defense through recent IDIQ positions. The vendor is foreign-owned, operates full-and-open with no consistent set-aside posture, and has recently secured positions on the Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion SHIELD multi-domain defense IDIQ (awarded December 2025) and GSA's OASIS+ Unrestricted platform (awarded December 2024), broadening its addressable market beyond its traditional health IT customer base.

Audacious Inquiry's customer concentration is acute and stable. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration accounts for 89% of combined potential value across all awards (49 awards, $581.3 million), anchored by a $35.2 million Immunization Gateway operations and maintenance delivery order with CDC Pittsburgh (issued September 2021, time-and-materials through September 2026). The next tier comprises CDC Pittsburgh ($49.8 million across three awards including a $1.35 million electronic healthcare data from long-term care patients purchase order issued August 2022), HHS Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources ($9.5 million), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($9.3 million). Remaining awards scatter across NIH, CMS, and other HHS sub-agencies. The vendor holds delivery orders under the HHS Program Support Center IDIQ (seven task orders, $15.9 million), GSA Multiple Award Schedule (11 task orders, $48.1 million), and a Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract vehicle (11 task orders, $28.6 million), with smaller positions on IT Schedule 70 and the Patient Matching Aggregation and Linking Pilot contract.

Representative capability work spans health IT infrastructure, interoperability standards, and data systems operations. Audacious Inquiry delivered a $1.36 million immunization information systems consumer engagement project to HHS ASA (delivery order, July 2024 through July 2026), a $1.2 million health IT systems and data analytics delivery order also to HHS under the Multiple Award Schedule (awarded September 2024, through September 2026), and a $989,903 single sign-on, analytics, and communications task order for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under the HHS Program Support Center IDIQ (April 2023 through March 2025). Supplementary awards include genomic data standards and API development ($519,734, September 2021 through February 2023), health IT certification product development ($999,996, June 2023 through December 2024, both issued as Total Small Business set-asides), and HITAC annual reports ($659,613, July 2022 through April 2025). The vendor also maintains a Treasury Department JIRA Service Desk operations and maintenance contract ($4.35 million ceiling through May 2029, with FY2024 invoicing of $283 thousand at $201.56/hr, self-performed with no subcontractor hours reported).

Activity is modest and episodic: three awards in 2021, two in 2022, two in 2023, four in 2024, and three in 2025. Three awards (combined potential value $37.7 million) reach completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $51.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($24.2 million in FY2022, $13.7 million in FY2023, $13.6 million in FY2024), with supporting federal workforce of 29.3, 25.3, and 28.4 FTEs respectively—a partial snapshot excluding classified contracts, goods, and non-federal revenue. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $138.38/hr to a median of $273.90/hr and 90th percentile of $1,543.53/hr. GSA Schedule labor offerings span 34 unique health IT categories at $59.48–$294.02/hr (Testing Specialist entry level through Senior Subject Matter Expert tier), all unclassified bachelor's-level and above with no security-clearance-required roles. The vendor self-performs the majority of its work across SCI-reported prime contracts, with subcontractors representing roughly 1% of total contractor hours; one named subcontractor relationship appears in SCI records. Audacious Inquiry subcontracts to Chickasaw Federal Health LLC on project management services for the ASTP/ONC Health IT Certification Program (awarded August 2025).

The recent SHIELD and OASIS+ IDIQ positions (both awarded December 2024–December 2025) represent a strategic portfolio expansion into defense systems engineering and integrated services procurement beyond traditional health IT, though no delivery orders against these vehicles have been issued at the time of this summary.

Audacious Inquiry (Ai) is a health information technology and policy company. We are leading the charge to make healthcare smarter and more connected. Our nationally-recognized consultants work with government, private, and non-profit organizations to rethink how health information is shared, managed, leveraged, and protected. Our industry-shaping technology offers more efficient and cost-effective solutions to the healthcare stakeholders we serve.