Backupworks.com, Inc.

Backupworks.com, Inc., doing business as Back Up Works, is a Lake Forest, California–based for-profit Subchapter S corporation that supplies data storage hardware, tape libraries, and storage media to federal agencies as a prime contractor on small-value purchase orders, with no SBA set-aside designations across its footprint. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime (99% of recent awards) and competes full-and-open, not under set-asides.

Back Up Works delivers concrete data storage and archival products: Quantum tape libraries (Scalar I3, Scaler Library 3U, SuperLoader 3), QUALSTAR Q80 tape library hardware, Overland Storage XSR systems, SnapServer NAS appliances, and LTO tape cartridges. Recent representative awards include a $3,458 Office of Naval Research purchase order for a Quantum Scaler Library 3U control module (July 2026, performance in Washington, DC, completion July 28, 2026); a $57,155 Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 order for Archiware P5 storage expansion and upgrade services at the University of Utah (September 2023–September 2028); and a $49,323 Indian Health Service order for QUALSTAR Q80 extended warranty services (September 2022, completion September 25, 2025). The vendor also supplies consumables and storage devices to the National Archives and Records Administration, including LTO tapes, hard drives, and SnapServer systems across multiple orders in 2022 totaling roughly $55 thousand.

Customer concentration is diffuse across 30 agencies, with the top five by award count (National Archives and Records Administration, Naval Sea Systems Command, Office of Naval Research, National Park Service Pacific West Region, and Forest Service Research Station) representing only 32% of awards. However, the top five by potential value—Indian Health Service, NARA, Naval Sea Systems Command, Veterans Health Administration, and ONR—account for 56% of combined potential value. IHS and Veterans Health dominate the dollar ranking despite lower award counts, driven by the two larger contract vehicles noted above. NARA leads in both volume and total value when measured across all awards.

Activity has declined sharply: three awards in 2021, five in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026. Combined potential value across all 88 awards (prime and sub) sits at $754 thousand, with obligated dollars at $796 thousand. The sole subcontract award is a November 2024 sub to Peraton Technology Services Inc. for a Quantum SuperLoader 3 LTO-9 tape library exercise option.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC footprint confirms hardware-focused positioning: 33 awards fall under Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (NAICS 334112), with additional awards in computer peripheral wholesaling and blank media manufacturing. PSC codes cluster around Information Technology Input/Output and Storage Devices (15 awards) and IT and Telecom Storage Products (7 awards). Back Up Works operates as a transactional vendor supplying commodity data storage and archival hardware to research, archival, and defense IT organizations without parent-vehicle relationships or teaming arrangements of material scale.

We specialize in Data Storage Hardware for Data Backup and archiving. Primary products sold include Tape Drives, Tape Libraries, Tape Media/ Cartridges, Snap Server, NAS/ SAN Storage devices, barcode labels and SCSI controllers.