Axle Informatics, LLC

Axle Informatics, LLC, an SBA-certified women-owned small business and minority-owned company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, delivers professional, scientific, and technical support services to the National Institutes of Health as a prime contractor (100% of prime awards). The company operates as a limited liability partnership and holds SBA certifications as a Women-Owned Small Business, Subcontinent Asian American-Owned entity, and Minority-Owned Business. Its subsidiary, Gama-1 Technologies, LLC, is a Subchapter S Corporation.

Axle Informatics' customer concentration is heavily tilted toward NIH institutes. The top five customer agencies account for 99% of recent awards, dominated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA; 406 awards, $3.84 billion combined potential value) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID; 420 awards, $507.2 million combined potential value), followed by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS; 70 awards, $742.2 million), the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The potential-value ranking differs materially from the award-count ranking: NIDA's 406 awards anchor the largest dollar volume, while NCATS and NIAID deliver comparable totals through smaller average order sizes.

The company's core capability portfolio, grounded in the work named in the source, centers on biomedical research support, health informatics, data science, translational research, clinical research operations, bioinformatics, laboratory operations, and scientific program management. Representative contracts include a $30.8 million time-and-materials delivery order with NIDA for Scientific and Technology Program Support spanning February 2025 through September 2026; a $22.16 million delivery order with NCATS for N3C Dynamic Workspaces support issued September 2025; a $18.3 million delivery order with NCATS for the Unified NCATS Authority Managed Service (total small business set-aside) issued April 2025; and a $11.6 million BPA call with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for software maintenance support in the IT Advisory Committee environment, awarded January 2025. Across NIAID, the vendor holds hundreds of delivery orders under the master NIAID Professional, Scientific and Technical Support Services IDIQ, with individual task orders ranging from $25,000 to $2.94 million for roles such as staff scientists, research chemists, biologists, laboratory managers, and program support specialists serving the Vaccine Research Center, Division of Intramural Research, Division of Clinical Research, Division of AIDS, and other organizational units.

Axle Informatics competes across no set-aside categories in its prime footprint; all recent awards are full-and-open (non-set-aside) competitions, reflecting competitive strength in unrestricted procurement despite holding women-owned small business certification. The vendor sits on two landmark GSA OASIS+ indefinite delivery vehicles: the OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ (ceiling $999,999,999,999, awarded December 2024, through December 2029) and the OASIS+ SBA-Certified Women-Owned Small Business IDIQ (ceiling $999,999,999,999, awarded September 2024, through September 2029). It also holds a $49 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for professional, scientific, and administrative support services in clinical operations (through March 2030). The NIAID Professional, Scientific and Technical Support Services IDIQ generated 424 task orders totaling $213.8 million in combined potential value; the Scientific, Operations, and Administrative Resources to the National Institutes of Health (SOAR) master IDIQ generated 399 task orders worth $163.9 million combined. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle carried 93 task orders valued at $575.9 million, making it the single largest contributor to the vendor's portal when measured by potential value, though delivery orders under NIAID and SOAR IDIQs dominate the award-count metric.

Activity has grown substantially year over year—143 awards in 2022 to 186 in 2024—though 2025–2026 activity in the source data is partial-year capture. The vendor faces a recompete cliff: 245 awards (combined potential value $282.8 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will require recompete. SCI-reported invoicing reached $144.5 million in FY2024 across 452 FTEs, up from $89.2 million in FY2022 across 215 FTEs, reflecting rapid workforce scaling. Median government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts hovered around $90 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $62.36 per hour and the 90th percentile at $169.09 per hour; senior scientific and technical roles commanded rates up to $422.96 per hour per GSA Schedule labor portfolio. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Axle Informatics achieved zero sub-engagement, self-performing 100% of reported labor hours with no subcontractor involvement; this profile characterizes the vendor as an owner-operator that builds internal delivery capacity rather than leaning on subcontractor networks.

The source records one named sub-award: a contract with Gap Solutions, Inc. for general software enhancements, representing minimal subcontractor footprint and confirming the vendor's predominantly prime-contractor posture. On its primary NIAID and NCATS vehicles, Axle Informatics acts as a direct service provider and does not anchor subcontracting chains. GSA Schedule labor spans 121 active categories across health IT, scientific programming, systems engineering, program management, and cyber specialties, with bachelor's-degree education requirements and no security-clearance positions—reflecting federal civilian R&D and IT infrastructure support focus rather than cleared defense or intelligence work. The company competes across primary NAICS codes 541712 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; 448 awards) and 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services; 400 awards), with secondary representation in computer systems design and R&D services.