Chartis Consulting Corporation

Chartis Consulting Corporation, a Leesburg, Virginia-based small business S corporation, operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) delivering systems engineering, integration services, tactical communications infrastructure, and IT modernization support to federal agencies across civilian, defense, and DHS portfolios. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open on large GWACs and mission-critical infrastructure vehicles; small business set-asides appear on a subset of task orders under Tactical Communications II and CIO-SP3 SB, but do not characterize the company's primary posture.

Chartis's capability portfolio centers on tactical communications maintenance and sustainment, fiber-optic border infrastructure deployment, spectrum management, federal IT services delivery, and mission-critical systems engineering. Representative work includes a $64.8 million Customs and Border Protection delivery order (awarded September 2025, through September 2027) for Linear Ground Detection System fiber-optic cable installation along the U.S. border under TACCOM II; a $35.9 million Office of the Chief Information Officer delivery order (March 2025, through March 2029) for tactical communications support services under TACCOM II, which generated $6.4 million in SCI-reported invoicing across 25.3 FTEs in FY2025; and a $26.3 million CBP engineering services order (March 2025, through May 2029) under TACCOM II with time-and-materials pricing, delivering $2.7 million in FY2025 labor across 9.3 FTEs at a blended rate of $139.01 per hour.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward DHS. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 71% of the combined $74.34 billion pipeline, anchored by NASA ($40 billion across two SEWP VI GWAC awards, effective November 2026 through October 2036), the Navy ($3.96 billion), Customs and Border Protection ($3.19 billion across ten awards), the U.S. Secret Service ($3 billion), and Interior's Interior Business Center ($3 billion). By award count, CBP leads with ten orders, followed by GSA Federal Acquisition Service (four awards), Federal Emergency Management Agency (four), and Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget (three). The dollar-volume ranking diverges sharply from the count ranking—the two NASA SEWP VI awards dwarf all others—signaling that CBP represents steady operational volume on infrastructure vehicles while NASA and Navy anchors represent multi-billion-dollar growth engines.

Chartis holds positions on five major government-wide vehicles. Tactical Communications II (TACCOM II) is the primary workhorse: 16 task orders carry $243.5 million in combined potential value, covering tactical communications support, engineering, ILS support, spectrum management, and border infrastructure work across FEMA, CBP, and the Interior. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule contains nine task orders worth $25.8 million, mostly budget formulation and IT support services to Interior and VA. The original Tactical Communications vehicle holds eight task orders valued at $77.1 million. Newly awarded in November 2026, the SEWP VI GWAC (both Partial Small Business and Total Small Business variants) carries a $20 billion ceiling each (through October 2036) and positions Chartis to compete governmentwide for IT solutions, communication, and audio-visual systems. OASIS+ Total Small Business, awarded December 2024 with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling through December 2029, provides access to seven functional domains (management and advisory, technical and engineering, R&D, intelligence, environmental, facilities, logistics) across the federal government. POLARIS (GSA FAS, total small business set-aside, January 2030 expiration) carries a multi-billion-dollar ceiling for IT services and IT-based solutions.

Activity has remained steady at five to seven awards per year over the past five years (2021–2026), with 62 total awards in the source spanning 2012 to November 2026. Four awards (combined potential value $68.4 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure. The recompete cliff is modest relative to the $74.34 billion combined potential value—largely because the newly awarded SEWP VI and OASIS+ vehicles extend through 2029 and 2036 respectively.

Across SCI-reported prime service contracts (a subset capturing invoiced labor on contracts above $150,000), Chartis reported $67.4 million in federal invoicing from FY2022 through FY2025, with workforce ranging from 51 to 74 FTEs by fiscal year. FY2025 invoicing ran $18 million across 68.0 FTEs; FY2024 was $18.4 million across 74.1 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ran a median of $122.33 per hour, with rates spanning from approximately $73 per hour at the tenth percentile to $150 per hour at the ninety-fifth percentile—a spectrum consistent with junior engineering labor and senior technical management roles. On prime contracts captured in SCI, subcontractors accounted for an average 32% of contractor hours across 38 named subcontractors, indicating moderate sub engagement; the vendor self-performs the majority of delivery and uses subs for specialized capability fill-in.

Chartis subcontracts to large primes on two recent awards: a March 2026 task order to Knight Point Systems LLC supporting U.S. Coast Guard IT infrastructure modernization and integration, and an October 2025 delivery order to Salient CRGT, Inc. for MAVERICK Prime work under the GSA OASIS+ vehicle. The sub footprint is minimal, representing 3% of recent awards by count and suggesting Chartis operates predominantly as a prime and systems prime rather than a feeder to larger integration contractors.

The vendor's corporate structure includes a named subsidiary, Periscope Aviation LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and manufacturer of goods—a capability that may support communications hardware or specialized aviation equipment for federal customers, though the source does not detail its role in the prime contract portfolio. Chartis itself does not carry visible SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB designations; the small business posture derives from size rather than ownership or military-veteran status.

Chartis Consulting Corporation (doing business as Chartis Federal) is a systems engineering and integration firm that specializes in mission-critical communications for public safety, law enforcement, and homeland security.