Black Canyon Consulting LLC

Black Canyon Consulting LLC, a women-owned small business headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is the prime contractor on 61 of 62 recent federal awards and delivers project, program, and portfolio management support services, software development, data management, and IT modernization across the National Institutes of Health enterprise and government-wide IT procurement vehicles. The company competes predominantly in the open market (no set-aside restrictions on its largest vehicles) but leverages its WOSB designation on set-aside task orders and holds a woman-owned small business IDC with NIH.

The National Institutes of Health dominates Black Canyon Consulting's customer base, accounting for 97% of recent awards by volume. Within NIH, the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations issues the plurality—46 awards worth $336.4 million combined potential value—funding delivery orders and task orders across dozens of NIH institutes, centers, and offices including the National Library of Medicine (7 awards, $299.7 million), the Office of the Director, and individual divisions conducting intramural research. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's single SEWP VI GWAC award ($20 billion ceiling, awarded November 2026) dominates the potential-value ranking by an order of magnitude, though no task-order activity against that vehicle is detailed in the source. The Department of the Interior's Chief Information Officer placed two awards ($90.5 million combined potential) for AI modernization and data management services. Black Canyon Consulting's customer footprint demonstrates narrow but deep concentration in NIH research administration, with occasional civilian IT modernization work elsewhere in the federal government.

Concrete representative work grounding the capability portfolio: a $30.1 million delivery order from the National Library of Medicine for ClinicalTrials.gov operations, maintenance, and IT support (awarded August 2025, runs through August 2026); a $22.5 million firm fixed-price delivery order for ClinicalTrials.gov information operations and modernization (September 2024); a $20.5 million BPA call from the Office of the Chief Information Officer for AI modernization, data management, and infrastructure services priced on labor hours (September 2026, through March 2030); a $19.9 million WOSB set-aside delivery order from the National Library of Medicine for professional and technical services (September 2026); and a $18.8 million delivery order for scientific portfolio management at the NIH National Library of Medicine Division of Intramural Research (September 2025). Task orders under the $144.8 million NIH IDC (single-award, woman-owned small business set-aside, running through May 2026) span program and logistics management support, leadership coaching and organizational development, website modernization, software development, and subject matter expertise across NCATS, NIAID, NIEHS, NCCIH, and other NIH institutes.

Black Canyon Consulting holds positions on two parent vehicles anchoring task-order placement. The most active is an Indefinite Delivery Contract (75N98022D00019) under which 47 task orders carry $194.9 million combined potential value; sources indicate this is the NIH $144.8 million P3 Support IDC awarded May 2022. The General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule supports 11 task orders worth $411 million, the largest being the $117.3 million software engineering and support delivery order from the National Library of Medicine (awarded September 2023, runs through September 2028). Beyond the NIH IDC and GSA MAS, the company secured a position on the SEWP VI GWAC (NASA, November 2026, $20 billion ceiling) and a $70 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Office of the Chief Information Officer under GSA MAS (September 2026). Black Canyon Consulting also sits on OASIS+ Unrestricted (GSA, awarded September 2026, no specified ceiling, runs through December 2034), a multi-agency IDIQ for integrated services.

Activity has remained steady with year-over-year fluctuation: 17 awards in 2022, declining to 10 in 2023, then rising to 13 in 2024 and 11 in 2025, with 9 awards captured in 2026 to date. Ten awards (combined potential value $267.8 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing the primary recompete exposure window.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a strict subset excluding goods, products, and classified work), Black Canyon Consulting invoiced $210.8 million from FY2022 through FY2025 as prime contractor. FY2025 invoicing reached $90.3 million across 124 FTEs (up from FY2024's 205 FTEs recorded, reflecting either delivery scaling or data-capture variation); FY2024 invoiced $70.1 million across 300 FTEs; FY2023 invoiced $38 million across 110 FTEs; FY2022 invoiced $12.4 million across 41.4 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median around $220.80/hr, with the 10th percentile at $74.02/hr and the 90th percentile at $6,547.46/hr, indicating a mix of junior software-development labor, mid-level consultants, and high-rate senior subject-matter experts. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 24 active categories ranging from $54.51/hr (Data Analyst I, bachelor's degree, two years' experience) through $297.70/hr (Senior Subject Matter Expert, master's, fifteen years' experience), with no security-cleared roles marketed. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractor labor averaged 20% of the total contractor-hour footprint, with 103 named subcontractors engaged, indicating Black Canyon Consulting maintains an internal delivery backbone while routinely layering subcontractor support for specialized technical and subject-matter tasks. A single named sub award (A-Tek, Inc., February 2024) shows Black Canyon Consulting as subcontractor on system administration and management support for biomedical and bibliographic information resources at the NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information, underscoring its role primarily as prime contractor and occasional feeder to larger primes.