Cepeda Systems & Software Analysis, Inc.

Cepeda Systems & Software Analysis, Inc., a woman-owned, HUBZone-certified, service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, operates primarily as a federal prime contractor (89% of awards) delivering systems engineering, software engineering, process improvement, and technical consulting services to NASA and the Department of Defense. The company holds concurrent SBA certifications as an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), with certifications expiring November 3, 2026. Work is grounded in NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services) and related engineering classifications, with output spanning research and development, technical professional services, and program management support.

Cepeda's customer base is heavily concentrated in NASA, which accounts for 99% of combined potential value across recent awards. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center dominates the portfolio with 80 prime awards valued at $209 million in combined potential value, covering systems engineering and integration support, software engineering, guidance algorithm development, risk management, and digital modernization for the Space Launch System, Human Landing System, and Moon to Mars programs. All work is performed in Huntsville, Alabama, placing Cepeda in the HUBZone and near NASA's primary contracting office. Secondary NASA customers include Glenn Research Center (12 awards, $9.8 million) and Kennedy Space Center (7 awards, $258 thousand). Non-NASA federal work is minimal: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (6 awards, $9.9 million on the OASIS+ vehicles), the Missile Defense Agency (7 awards, $500 combined potential value on the SHIELD IDIQ), and isolated awards from the Army's Air Mobility Command and Shared Services Center round out the federal footprint.

Cepeda competes predominantly under HUBZone set-asides at NASA Marshall, where the majority of its recent awards flow. Of the 80 Marshall awards, the great majority carry HUBZone set-aside designations. A secondary set of awards—chiefly the OASIS+ vehicles and the SHIELD IDIQ—operate under full-and-open or small-business-set-aside posture, reflecting government-wide contract vehicles. This recurrence of HUBZone posture across the prime footprint is decision-flipping: Cepeda's competitive position is anchored to set-aside availability.

Vehicle position is extensive but concentrated. Cepeda holds a seat on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), through which 100 task orders have been issued with $187.1 million in combined potential value, predominantly NASA Marshall BPA calls. Recent MAS BPA awards include a $6.619 million engineering and analysis services task (June 1, 2025), a $1.706 million SLS Systems Engineering and Integration Programmatic Agreements task (June 1, 2025), a $937,574 Human Lander Systems Insight Support task (June 1, 2025), and a $489,222 Space Launch System Guidance algorithm design and development task (June 1, 2025). Cepeda also holds a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (awarded December 29, 2025, performance through December 28, 2035), though to date only a $500 initial delivery order has been placed. In addition, Cepeda sits on three GSA OASIS+ vehicles—the Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ (awarded December 19, 2024, ceiling $999,999,999,999, through December 18, 2029), the Women-Owned Small Business IDIQ (awarded September 30, 2024, ceiling $999,999,999,999, through September 29, 2029), and the HUBZone IDIQ (awarded September 30, 2024, ceiling $999,999,999,999, through September 29, 2029). These latter three vehicles represent broad-access professional services vehicles across seven functional domains but have generated limited task-order activity to date relative to the MAS and NASA-specific BPAs.

Activity has grown unevenly over the past five years: four awards in 2022, seven in 2023, twenty in 2024, and twenty-one in 2025, with three awards to date in 2026. Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $10.5 million and face recompete. The majority of these near-term completions are NASA Marshall HUBZone BPA calls with May or June 2025 or 2026 completion dates.

In its subcontractor role, Cepeda performs process improvement, systems engineering, and technical engineering support under prime contractors. Recent sub work includes system software lifecycle engineering for science applications international corporation (july 2025), technical and engineering services for combat capabilities development command ground vehicle systems center under dcs corporation (multiple awards 2024–2025), missile defense data center operations and sustainment under analytical services, inc. (multiple awards 2024–2025), and lifecycle engineering support for the army's aviation and missile research, development and engineering center under torch technologies inc. (october 2022). The sub footprint represents 11% of the recent award count but operates at lower dollar magnitudes than the prime work.

Service Contract Inventory reporting yields sparse data: no invoiced revenue is reflected in SCI records across FY2022–FY2024, though 43 SCI records (38 prime, 5 sub) span that period. FTE trajectory shows minimal presence in SCI data (5.5 FTEs in FY2022, zero in FY2023, 2.1 in FY2024), a signal that most of Cepeda's federal work either falls below the SCI $150,000 reporting threshold or is exempt from SCI capture. The absence of SCI invoicing data suggests revenue is flowing through BPA and task-order vehicles that may not trigger SCI reporting in the way larger cost-reimbursable contracts do, or that the bulk of Cepeda's federal services activity has not yet reached invoicing maturity in the SCI dataset. GSA labor portfolio spans 38 active categories at hourly rates from $54.98 (Analyst I, bachelor's degree, no experience) to $386.59 (Subject Matter Expert V - Process Improvement, bachelor's degree, thirty years experience), with no security-cleared roles offered. Mid-spectrum categories include Engineer/Scientist II at $94.14/hr, Senior Analyst II at $123.69/hr, and Business Specialist IV at $156.71/hr, positioning Cepeda to field technical staff across systems and software engineering domains without classified-work posture.

Systems and software engineering services including evaluation, verification, and validation from requirements through system acceptance. Process improvement services including process re-engineering,deployment, training and appraisals.