Chakra Consulting, Inc.

Chakra Consulting, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Clarksburg, Maryland, delivers advanced technology and IT services to the federal government exclusively as a prime contractor, with a narrow but deep customer footprint concentrated almost entirely at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The company is a Subchapter S corporation registered in SAM.gov since November 2014, operating across NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services) and related IT labor and research-development codes.

Chakra's federal work centers on specialized technical support for NIST's research infrastructure—artificial intelligence and machine learning evaluation, 5G and wireless communications testbed operations, quantum networking protocols, cybersecurity standards development, multimodal AI testing, medical device communication standards, and data pipeline and image analytics support. Representative prime work includes a $623,712.30 delivery order for 5G networks and wireless communications testbed support (awarded August 2023, performance through February 2027), a $499,476.00 delivery order for 5G testbed support services to NIST's Engineering Laboratory (awarded July 2023), and a $180,035.72 delivery order for multimodal AI testing and evaluation technical contractor support under the NIST Information Technology and Database Applications Support Services IDIQ (awarded April 2026). Chakra also holds two smaller delivery orders from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency totaling $332 thousand for human language technology evaluation infrastructure engineering support, both executed under the NIST IDIQ vehicle.

Customer concentration is absolute: NIST accounts for 120 awards and $106.8 million of combined potential value (99.7% of the portfolio), with DARPA representing the remaining 2 awards and $332 thousand. Chakra operates entirely on the NIST Information Technology and Database Applications Support Services $45 million small-business set-aside IDIQ, which serves as the parent vehicle for 118 delivery orders and purchase orders carrying $21.8 million in combined potential value. The IDIQ itself is the sole vehicle in the top-parent-vehicles ranking, with 77 task orders valued at $14.4 million across the dataset snapshot.

Award activity has contracted sharply in recent years: ten awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, seven in 2024, three in 2025, and two in the first half of 2026. Combined potential value across all 122 prime awards is $107.1 million, with $21.5 million obligated to date (20% utilization). Seven awards carrying $1.7 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure under the parent NIST IDIQ vehicle, which itself runs through June 2026 and faces recompete or renewal in that window.

Service Contract Inventory data are sparse: SCI captures only three records spanning FY2022–FY2024, with $164 thousand in invoiced revenue across prime contracts in FY2024 and roughly 0.9 FTEs delivered in that year. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reported prime contracts averaged $88.11/hr. Chakra does not subcontract on its SCI-reportable work. This SCI footprint is a strict subset of the company's federal services activity—the majority of Chakra's NIST work appears to fall below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or is structured as firm-fixed-price purchase orders outside SCI's labor-hour reporting scope.

The vendor operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Chakra's capability set is research-support intensive: multimodal AI evaluation lab engineering, wireless and 5G communications research infrastructure, quantum networking protocols development, machine learning algorithm modeling and evaluation, medical device communication standards testing, and information technology laboratory operations. Work is performed primarily at NIST facilities in Gaithersburg and Clarksburg, Maryland. The company's narrow customer base and single-vehicle reliance, combined with contraction in annual award volume and the NIST IDIQ's scheduled expiration in June 2026, represent both concentration risk and a recompete dependency.

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