August Schell Enterprises, Inc.

August Schell Enterprises, Inc., a small business Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sells enterprise software licensing, cybersecurity tools, cloud computing services, and IT infrastructure support to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) on the Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement V (SEWP V) GWAC and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The vendor competes predominantly under set-asides, with approximately 60% of its federal awards designated as small business set-asides, though it increasingly wins unrestricted (non-set-aside) delivery orders as order values and complexity have grown.

August Schell's federal footprint centers on software licensing renewals and enterprise platform subscriptions—Trellix, Splunk, VMware, CrowdStrike, Box, Okta, Qualys, and specialized cybersecurity and data management tools. Recent representative contracts include a $21.7 million Trellix software delivery order (awarded September 2025, completion September 2030), an $11.4 million Splunk technology recompete under SEWP V (awarded April 2025, completion April 2030), a $6.79 million AvePoint Online Services order from the Internal Revenue Service (awarded November 2025, completion November 2026), and a $3.7 million Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway Management Bundle for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (awarded July 2025, completion July 2029). Smaller orders span hundreds of federal agencies and bureaus: the vendor also carries numerous task orders under $1 million for software renewals, maintenance agreements, and IT infrastructure licensing across civilian and defense organizations.

Customer concentration is moderate but defense-heavy. The top five agencies account for 22% of recent awards by count, led by the Defense Information Systems Agency (159 awards, $427.9 million combined potential value), Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (128 awards, $80 million), the Department of Justice FBI Headquarters Division (66 awards, $65.5 million), Naval Air Warfare Center (40 awards, $14.8 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command (131 awards, $13.9 million). The vendor serves 378 distinct federal agencies, distributed across civilian and defense portfolios. By potential value, DISA, Navy, FBI, and Defense agencies dominate; by order count, DISA and Navy commands lead, but a long tail of civilian agencies (GSA, CDC, NIST, National Endowment for the Arts, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and many others) place one to two orders each.

The vendor's primary vehicle is SEWP V, under which 1,061 task orders have been issued totaling $734.2 million combined potential value. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) hosts 525 task orders worth $171.8 million. IT Schedule 70 accounts for 161 task orders and $7.4 million. An indefinite delivery contract (M6785418D4011) carries 104 task orders and $27.5 million. The vendor also holds positions on the Alliant II GWAC (29 task orders noted). The May 2023 GSA MAS award, valued at $1 million with a May 2028 expiration, shows four delivery orders issued to date, including a $2.5 million Splunk maintenance renewal from DISA and a $935,000 Splunk Enterprise license from DISA.

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years—178 awards in 2022, 173 in 2023, 224 in 2024, 211 in 2025, and 49 in the partial 2026 data—with an aggregate 2,481 awards dating back to September 2002 and combined potential value of $21.92 billion. Obligated dollars total $1.05 billion (5% of combined potential value). A significant recompete exposure sits ahead: 148 awards (combined potential value $163.6 million) carry completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing major renewal opportunities and recompete risk across SEWP V delivery orders and direct agency contracts.

SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing shows $56 million across FY2022–FY2024 in prime contracts (a subset of the vendor's total federal revenue and distinct from software licensing and product sales captured outside SCI). FY2022 recorded $16.8 million across 0.4 FTEs; FY2023 showed zero activity; FY2024 posted $39.3 million across 1.1 FTEs reported at the contract level. Hourly rate posture varies dramatically: government-paid rates ranged from $40.82/hr (10th percentile) to a median of $5,144.97/hr to $24,023.12/hr (90th percentile), reflecting a portfolio heavy in fixed-price software licensing orders alongside professional services task orders. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 5% of total hours; the vendor relies primarily on its own delivery teams, with only two named subcontractors appearing in the SCI dataset.

In its subcontractor role, August Schell performs software licensing, IT infrastructure support, and professional services for major defense integrators including Leidos, General Dynamics Information Technology, CACI Federal, Peraton, Northrop Grumman, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Representative sub-awards include a $25.5 million Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations task order under Peraton (awarded December 2025), multimedia development and engineering support under the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (awarded March 2025, $3.41 million), and Splunk and software procurement support across multiple primes. The sub-award footprint demonstrates August Schell's role as both a standalone IT solutions vendor and a flexible technology partner within larger prime-led federal IT modernization programs, with particular strength in software licensing resale and IT infrastructure component delivery.

August Schell-IT firm specializing in implementing secure identity management solutions(Public Key Infrastructures (PKI)). August Schell also provides software design and development services.