Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc.

Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc., based in Forest, Virginia, manufactures and sells mission-critical communications equipment—dispatch consoles, radio systems, IP gateways, encryption modules, and interoperability products—to the federal government as a prime contractor on 99 percent of its awards, operating predominantly on small business set-asides and sole-source procurements. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and small business with over 25 years of federal contracting experience registered in SAM.gov since 2003.

Customer concentration is highly regional and agency-specific. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management dominates the award footprint across multiple regional offices: the Nevada Region (16 awards, $2.4 million combined potential value), the California Region (15 awards, $3.4 million), and the Idaho Region (7 awards, $1.7 million) together account for 38 of the vendor's 91 total awards and represent 64 percent of award count. The National Park Service Northeast Region (16 awards, $312 thousand) adds further Interior Department concentration. However, potential-value rankings diverge sharply: the Department of Homeland Security US Secret Service anchors 2 awards worth $3 billion in combined potential value, though the source does not detail the nature or status of these awards. The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (1 award, $3 million) and DHS Science and Technology Directorate (4 awards, $2.3 million) round out the top five by potential value. This concentration in Interior Department regional offices for equipment and maintenance work versus large government-wide potential values at DHS signals a two-tier customer base: high-volume, low-to-mid-dollar equipment orders from Interior operating regions, and specialized system-integration or infrastructure work at DHS.

On parent vehicles, Catalyst places work through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (22 task orders, $2 million combined potential value) and the Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0878N (3 task orders, $59 thousand). Sole-source and small business set-aside purchase orders dominate the award population; the company does not hold position on large government-wide IDIQs or GWACs. Representative recent work includes a $210,576 delivery order from the Department of the Interior California Region for communications infrastructure support under GSA MAS (September 2026), a $221,631 National Park Service purchase order for radio dispatch console replacement with training and warranty at Page, Arizona (July 2026), and a $280,000 five-year maintenance contract with BLM California Region for 24/7 helpdesk support and annual site optimization on Catalyst dispatch consoles and transportable units (September 2024). A $999,950 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from DHS Science and Technology Directorate (May 2023, with completion date May 2025) developed an interoperable communications interface for broadband push-to-talk services and represents the company's largest non-equipment award.

Activity has declined year over year from seven awards in 2022 and eight in 2023 to two in 2025 and four in 2026 year-to-date; combined potential value sits at $3.02 billion, though this figure is dominated by the two DHS Secret Service awards of uncertain status and does not reflect typical order sizes. Only two awards (combined potential value $432 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure relative to the vendor's active contract base. Service Contract Inventory data shows sparse SCI-reportable invoicing ($1 million across FY2023–FY2025 with 1.7 to 6.0 FTEs annually), reflecting that the vast majority of Catalyst's federal work consists of product sales and equipment maintenance rather than labor-intensive services. On labor-based work that does cross the $150,000 SCI threshold, government-paid rates ranged from $28.82/hr at the 10th percentile to median $144.12/hr, with senior positions at $155.42/hr. The vendor operates without named subcontractors across its prime-contract footprint, building its own delivery teams for equipment delivery, installation, training, and maintenance support.