Columbia Telecommunications Corporation
Bethesda, MD Doing business as CTC Technology & Energy
- UEI
- GVJXGATFVKF1
- CAGE
- 1LU36
- Primary NAICS
- 541330 Engineering Services
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Not Tax Exempt)
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
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- 541340 Drafting Services
- 541370 Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services
- 541490 Other Specialized Design Services
- 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services
- 541512 Computer Systems Design Services
- 541519 Other Computer Related Services
- 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- 541614 Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 5000 Battery Ln APT 601, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
- Website
- ctcnet.us
- Founded
- 1983
- Employees
- 11-50
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1M-$10M
- Industry
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- Industrials
- Capital Goods
- Construction & Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- SIC code
- 87 Engineering & Management Services
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $0 |
| FY2025 | $0 |
| FY2024 | $0 |
| FY2023 | -$33,730 |
Contract vehicles
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant awards
| Award | Agency | Obligated | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rural cooperative development initiative grants | Community Facilities (RHS) | $246,576 |
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Of Montana | 3020B062 | $4,585,000 |
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About the company
Columbia Telecommunications Corporation, doing business as CTC Technology & Energy, is a woman-owned small business based in Bethesda, Maryland that operates as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) and grant recipient, delivering professional services including expert witness testimony, broadband consulting, real estate appraisal, and engineering services to federal civilian agencies. The vendor is organized as a Subchapter S corporation and holds woman-owned business designations; it competes in full-and-open procurements rather than under set-aside vehicles.
CTC's recent federal footprint is narrow and dated. The vendor served four customer agencies across fourteen awards spanning 2001 to 2020, with only one award placed in the past five years (March 2020). Combined potential value across all awards is $4.5 million, though obligated dollars total $5.2 million, indicating favorable execution relative to estimates. The Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service dominates by award count, accounting for ten awards with $325 thousand in combined potential value; however, the dollar rankings shift sharply when GSA Federal Acquisition Service's single award appears as a $4 million task order that comprises 96% of the vendor's total potential value. The remaining two customer agencies — the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service Community Facilities and the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration — account for single awards each with no stated dollar values.
CTC's capability portfolio centers on expert witness and professional analysis services. Nine of fourteen awards fall under the PSC "Support—Professional: Expert Witness" and NAICS "All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services." Representative work includes a $4 million GSA Federal Acquisition Service award for unspecified services and recurring IRS-funded expert witness engagements. The vendor maintains a GSA Schedule with twelve active labor categories spanning broadband help desk support through senior consulting roles, with hourly rates from $63.86 to $368.39 and education requirements ranging from high school to master's degree; no security-cleared positions are offered on the schedule. This labor-rate spectrum suggests bench strength in broadband infrastructure consulting and technical analysis, consistent with the expert witness and engineering service profile.
Activity has been dormant since 2020. The awards-per-year pattern shows a single award in 2019, one in 2020, and no awards recorded in the five-year window thereafter. This trajectory signals either market withdrawal, agency customer loss, or pause in federal business development. The absence of prime contract vehicles or active task-order placement on government-wide IDIQs limits CTC's current federal positioning. The vendor's sole recent dollar anchor — the $4 million GSA award — is six years old, making current contract-vehicle and active-customer assessment difficult.
SBA capabilities narrative
More than three decades of experience in fiber network architecture, infrastructure, business planning, and grant management
Full range of services for broadband network planning, design, engineering, and oversight
Expertise across full range of communications technologies, including fiber, wireless, and fixed wireless
Extensive experience planning, negotiating, designing regional and statewide fiber networks for higher ed, government, K-12, public safety, tribal government, and non-profits
Woman-owned business
Singular experience designing partnerships to secure fiber for public and non-profit users
Quick answers
Is Columbia Telecommunications Corporation registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Columbia Telecommunications Corporation's SAM.gov registration is active through September 8, 2027.
Which contract vehicles does Columbia Telecommunications Corporation hold?
Columbia Telecommunications Corporation holds a place on 2 federal contract vehicles, including IT-70 and MAS.
What is Columbia Telecommunications Corporation's most recent federal award?
Columbia Telecommunications Corporation's most recent federal grant award is Rural cooperative development initiative grants (CPAP000000598754), from Community Facilities (RHS), on August 28, 2019.
On GovTribe
See Columbia Telecommunications Corporation's full federal record
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- IDV awards
- Contract vehicles
- Federal grant awards
- Funding analysis by agency, NAICS and set-aside
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