Audacious Inquiry LLC

Audacious Inquiry LLC, a foreign-owned healthcare information technology company based in Catonsville, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor delivering health IT infrastructure, data systems, interoperability standards, and federal compliance engineering to civilian federal agencies, with recent expansion into defense through multiple-award IDIQs. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside posture and has established positions on GSA's Multiple Award Schedule, the HHS Program Support Center, the Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD platform, and OASIS+ Unrestricted.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration accounts for 48 awards representing $581.3 million (88%) of combined potential value across all 65 recent awards. The remaining customer concentration splits among HHS subagencies: the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources ($15.5 million across 4 awards), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh ($53 million across 3 awards), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ($392 thousand across 2 awards). GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($9.3 million across 3 awards) and the National Institutes of Health round out the active set. The top five customers account for 100% of combined potential value, making this one of the most concentrated vendor portfolios in the federal health IT space. Audacious Inquiry's expansion into defense is nascent: the Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ awarded December 29, 2025, carries a $151 billion ceiling with one $500 delivery order issued to date; the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ awarded December 17, 2024, has generated no task orders.

On parent vehicles, the Multiple Award Schedule anchors thirteen task orders worth $57.4 million, followed by the Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC) at eleven task orders and $28.8 million, the HHS Program Support Center at seven task orders and $15.9 million, and IT Schedule 70 at five task orders and $6 million. Representative recent prime work includes a $5.27 million delivery order from HHS Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (awarded September 15, 2026) for ONC Certified Health IT Product List development, maintenance, and improvement through September 2031; a $4.85 million MAS delivery order (June 1, 2024) for JIRA Service Desk infrastructure maintenance and operations through May 2029, which invoiced $283 thousand in FY2024 at a derived hourly rate of $201.56/hr; a $1.36 million delivery order for immunization information systems consumer engagement (July 29, 2024); and a $989.9 thousand delivery order for ONC single sign-on, analytics, and communications work (April 1, 2023) that invoiced $495 thousand in FY2024 at $220.37/hr. A CDC purchase order for electronic healthcare data from long-term care patients ($1.35 million, August 2022) completed in August 2024.

SCI-reported service-contract activity shows $51.5 million invoiced across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2022 delivering $24.2 million across 29.3 FTEs, declining to $13.7 million in FY2023 (25.3 FTEs), and stabilizing at $13.6 million in FY2024 (28.4 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run a median of $273.90/hr, with the 10th percentile at $138.38/hr and the 90th percentile at $1,543.53/hr, reflecting senior architecture and health IT policy expertise at the top end. Audacious Inquiry self-performs substantially all delivery — across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 1% of total contractor hours. The vendor operates a 34-category GSA Schedule labor portfolio spanning entry-level testing specialists at $59.48/hr through senior subject-matter experts at $294.02/hr, with all roles pitched to bachelor's-degree health IT and systems engineering skill sets and no security-cleared categories offered. The single subcontract award on record (August 2025) is project management services on an ASTP/ONC Health IT Certification Program Support task under Chickasaw Federal Health, LLC.

Awards per year have declined from four in 2024 to three in 2025 and two in 2026 to date. Two awards totaling $38.7 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Recent expansion into the Missile Defense Agency and broader defense ecosystem through SHIELD and OASIS+ suggests potential trajectory shift, though current and near-term revenue concentration remains overwhelmingly with HHS civilian health IT customers.

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.