Groundswell Corporation

Groundswell Corporation (doing business as Groundswell), headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, is a for-profit technology integrator delivering enterprise software implementation, digital transformation services, and IT modernization work to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards). The vendor operates across 62 customer agencies with a footprint spanning $57.82 billion in combined potential value across 315 awards, though only $642.7 million (1%) has been obligated to date. Groundswell competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements with selective total small business set-asides on specific vehicles; the vendor does not hold SBA certifications (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or similar) and operates as a for-profit corporate entity.

Groundswell's capability portfolio centers on software engineering, enterprise application development, operations and maintenance support, and GIS and data processing services. Representative prime work includes a $187.3 million Army BPA call under the Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative Information Technology Asset Management vehicle for agentic auditor software installation and support across DoD and fourth-estate entities (awarded June 2026, performance through June 2031), a $23.3 million Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration BPA call for the National Pipeline Mapping System GIS data processing and maintenance (awarded July 2022, in Option Year 4), and a $17.8 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivery order under the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC for operations and maintenance of the OFR Records Management System (awarded September 2025, total small business set-aside, performance through March 2029). On the civilian side, Groundswell holds a $10.4 million Office of Federal Student Aid BPA for EZ-Audit web application operations and maintenance (awarded March 2023, total small business set-aside), a $7.4 million Peace Corps PEEPS Human Capital Management SaaS delivery contract on time-and-materials pricing, and multiple Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration SWES BPA calls totaling more than $25 million for application development, general support systems, and business intelligence services.

Customer concentration sits with civilian IT agencies rather than defense. The top five funding agencies by award count (covering 54% of awards) are the Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service (59 awards, $19.8 million combined potential value), the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (32 awards, $3.14 billion combined potential value), the Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid (32 awards, $105.4 million), the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (26 awards, $162.5 million), and the Department of Education Office of the Chief Information Officer (22 awards, $27.1 million). The top-five ranking by potential value diverges sharply — NOAA anchors $3.14 billion (7% of the vendor's total potential value) through 32 awards, suggesting a small number of very large orders rather than volume activity. GSA Federal Acquisition Service places a distant fourth by dollars ($218.2 million across 4 awards), and FDA ranks fifth ($146.5 million across 9 awards).

Groundswell's vehicle portfolio spans GSA Multiple Award Schedule (149 task orders, $2.31 billion combined potential value), IT Schedule 70 (68 task orders, $129 million), and agency-specific IDIQs and BPAs. The vendor holds a $151 billion ten-year IDIQ under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 2025, awarded as a multiple-award vehicle), an $11.93 billion DLA J6 Enterprise Technology Services 2.0 (JETS 2.0) IDIQ (awarded October 2024), a $669 million Department of the Navy multiple-award BPA under the DoD Enterprise Software Initiative Information Technology Asset Management vehicle (awarded April 2024), and a $145.9 million Naval Information Warfare Systems Command multiple-award BPA under the DoD ESI Appian program (awarded August 2024). On the civilian side, Groundswell holds a $16.5 million single-award Peace Corps PEEPS HCM SaaS BPA (awarded February 2023 under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule).

Activity has remained flat to declining in recent years — five awards in 2022, fourteen in 2023, sixteen in 2024, fourteen in 2025, and nine through September 2026 — with 17 awards (combined potential value $124.3 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across that window. Service Contract Inventory data capturing invoiced federal services work shows SCI-reported invoicing of $164.4 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $43.5 million invoiced in FY2025 supporting an SCI-captured workforce of roughly 122 FTEs in that year. The SCI dataset is a strict subset of federal service revenue and excludes goods, products, and non-federal work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $131.51 per hour (10th percentile $57.10/hr, 90th percentile $420.00/hr), reflecting a labor spectrum from entry-level testers through senior cloud architects and subject-matter specialists. On the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, Groundswell offers 122 unique labor categories priced from $69.08 per hour (cyber security code reviewers) through $312.37 per hour (IT cloud subject-matter specialists), with all roles requiring a bachelor's degree and no security-cleared labor offerings.

Groundswell operates as a prime with minimal subcontractor engagement — across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs performed 8% of total contractor hours on average, with 38 named subcontractors reported across the prime footprint. Recent sub work shows Groundswell delivering testing support to Peraton ($28.95 million task order for functional testing, awarded July 2026), digital transformation software development to Deloitte Consulting LLP on multiple orders (Ginnie Mae Issuer 360 Portal, MBSOA support), labor support to Salient CRGT on Readiness and Employment System work, and VRE products sustainment services to Govcio LLC. The subcontract pattern suggests Groundswell feeds into larger systems integrators on mission-critical government IT work rather than building a large subcontractor bench of its own.

Groundswell's top NAICS concentration runs Computer Systems Design Services (173 awards), Software Publishers (36 awards), and Custom Computer Programming Services (32 awards), with PSC concentration in IT and Telecommunications Programming, Software, and Professional Support. The vendor operates Telesto Group LLC as a subsidiary with no subsidiary-specific capability framing stated in the source. Recent awards span multiple contract vehicles and federal agencies, with the largest single awards under the SHIELD IDIQ and JETS 2.0 IDIQ, signaling Groundswell's strategic positioning in multi-year defense and civilian IT modernization platforms.

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