Aver LLC

Aver LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) based in Washington, DC, operates as a prime contractor on government-wide acquisition contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles, delivering technical management consulting, cybersecurity, data analytics, program management, and IT services to federal civilian and defense agencies. The company competes predominantly under small-business set-asides—primarily SDVOSB, total small business, and full-and-open designations—and holds prime positions on five major GSA GWACs and IDIQs as of late 2024 and early 2026.

Aver's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Department of Homeland Security components, which account for the plurality of recent prime awards. The U.S. Secret Service leads by award count with 15 orders (combined potential value $130.9 million), followed by the DHS Office of the Under Secretary for Management (9 awards, $75.4 million) and CISA (8 awards, $52.7 million). However, Aver's potential-value rankings are anchored by two massive IDIQs: the VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick's VECTOR program ($50 billion), awarded November 2022, and the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health NITAAC Office of Information Technology Acquisition vehicle ($40 billion). These two awards alone represent 80 percent of Aver's combined potential value across all 78 prime and sub awards, though obligated dollars to date total only $225.1 million across the entire portfolio. The divergence between award count and potential value reflects Aver's positioning on large enterprise vehicles carrying substantial ceiling values but modest near-term task order activity.

Aver holds prime positions on five major vehicles: the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ ($999 billion ceiling, awarded December 2024), the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ ($999 billion ceiling, awarded December 2024), the OASIS+ SDVOSB IDIQ ($999 billion ceiling, awarded September 2024), the POLARIS GWAC in both the SDVOSB pool ($999 billion, awarded February 2026) and the Total Small Business pool ($999 billion, awarded December 2024), the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ ($151 billion, awarded December 2025), and the VA's VECTOR IDIQ ($25 billion, awarded November 2022). Under active task-order vehicles from the prior generation, Aver carries 15 task orders on the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II (EAGLES II) infrastructure, 12 delivery orders on the CIO-SP3 Small Business GWAC ($133.9 million combined potential value), 11 on the OASIS SB vehicle ($171 million), and seven on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($25.3 million). The portfolio reflects a deliberate strategy of accumulating seats on GSA-managed small-business and set-aside vehicles.

Recent prime contract work exemplifies Aver's capability footprint. A $23.7 million SDVOSB delivery order from ICE for adjudication and compliance support (ultimate completion September 2029) follows a $7.1 million firm-fixed-price task from ICE for business process re-engineering, program control, and change management supporting the Chief Financial Officer (ultimate completion September 2028). The U.S. Secret Service awarded a $58.1 million labor-hour CIO-SP3 order for HUM and CID project tasking (through June 2028), which invoiced $10.4 million in FY2024 across 33.7 FTEs and 70,081 contractor hours at a derived government-paid rate of $148.23/hr. CISA placed a $22.4 million time-and-materials order for Vulnerability Management program support (ultimate completion September 2025) and a $13.6 million delivery order for Technology Development and Deployment Program support (ultimate completion September 2025, though option periods 1–5 totaling $14.6 million were not exercised per White House radical transparency directives). A $43 million biometric support contract with DHS's Office of the Under Secretary for Management covers fingerprint analysis and latent examiner services (through March 2027). The Army awarded a $2 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract for AI-enabled portfolio management (completion October 2027). Place of performance for DHS work is predominantly Washington, DC; the MDA's SHIELD vehicle specifies Huntsville, Alabama for the initial $500 task order.

Aver's activity trajectory shows sustained volume across the past five years (eight awards per year in 2022–2024, rising to ten in 2025, with three awards through April 2026 in the source). SCI-reported invoicing across prime federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold reached $42.1 million in FY2024 across 114 FTEs (up from $34.4 million and 83.4 FTEs in FY2023), reflecting growth in billable headcount and contract execution. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates run around $112.06/hr, with the 10th percentile at $71.92/hr and the 90th percentile at $177.32/hr. On the CIO-SP3 Secret Service order cited above, subcontractors performed 39 percent of contractor hours; across all SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 30 percent of total hours, suggesting Aver builds approximately 70 percent of delivery internally. On the OBIMS biometric examiner contract, one subcontractor supplied 47 percent of contractor hours in FY2024. The vendor subcontracts to International Business Machines Corporation on multiple CDS Bridge contract tasks (nine sub-award modifications dated February through March 2026, with period of performance September 2023 to September 2025).

Aver's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 113 categories with hourly rates from $27.96 (Junior Data Analyst, high school education, 2 years' experience) to $234.88 (Cloud SME III, bachelor's degree, 12 years' experience), covering data analysts, identity management specialists, testers, cybersecurity application programmers, project managers, and IT subject matter experts. No security-cleared positions are offered on the schedule. A recompete cliff of $173.6 million in combined potential value arrives within the next twenty-four months, driven primarily by the completion of multiple OASIS SB and Secret Service delivery orders, signaling near-term recompete exposure and competitive opportunity.