Unison Virtual Acquisition Office LLC

Unison Virtual Acquisition Office LLC, doing business as Compusearch Software Systems, operates as a wholly owned division of parent Unison Software Inc. and delivers subscription-based web-based acquisition management software (the Virtual Acquisition Office or VAO platform) to over 50,000 federal acquisition professionals across 128 distinct agencies as a full-and-open prime contractor with no SBA set-aside designations.

Unison competes exclusively on an unrestricted basis. All 447 of its recent prime awards carry no set-aside designation, reflecting the specialized, single-source nature of the VAO platform and related digital acquisition support tools. The vendor is organized under GSA Schedule IT 70 (GS-35F-131GA) and its Multiple Award Schedule, through which most federal task orders flow.

The VAO platform core offering is a subscription-based digital toolkit delivering web-based acquisition support services to federal procurement professionals: templates, acquisition news, electronic procurement data subscriptions, training, and knowledge management resources designed to streamline federal purchasing operations. Unison's concrete capability portfolio centers on this single product line, with variation only in user-license counts, password access tiers (with or without inquiry support), and implementation or customization services. Representative prime work includes a $18.2 million delivery order from the VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick (September 2026, MAS) for VAO platform subscriptions and acquisition knowledge portal services extending through September 2031; a $3.87 billion HHS delivery order (September 2023, MAS) covering 1,000-user VAO subscriptions through September 2028; a $9.49 billion Naval Sea Systems Command delivery order (September 2022, MAS) for VAO subscription services through September 2027; and a $4.5 billion GSA delivery order (September 2024, MAS) for VAO platform subscriptions through September 2029. Unison also delivers subsidiary products including Pathfinder (acquisition knowledge and productivity hub subscriptions) and the Acquisition Knowledge Portal (AKP), a specialized AI-enhanced platform for task automation and acquisition decision support—exemplified by a $892,465 VA purchase order (September 2025) for AKP portal maintenance and a $1.07 billion training development contract from the Shared Services Center (March 2023, MAS, since closed out).

Customer concentration sits heavily with federal civilian procurement operations. The top five customers by award count account for 13% of recent awards but the top five by potential value account for 16% of total dollars, revealing that the Army Acquisition Support Center (15 awards, $22.7 million combined potential value) dominates both volume and spend, while the State Department Bureau of Administration (8 awards, $8.7 million) and DOT's Immediate Office of the Secretary (13 awards, $6.7 million) anchor large multi-year deals despite fewer task orders. FDA, FAA, and IRS round out the active set, all civilian procurement-centric buyers. Defense presence is concentrated in Army, Navy, and DTRA rather than broadly distributed across DoD.

Unison's vehicle footprint is heavily anchored to GSA's Multiple Award Schedule, which carries 215 task orders worth $135.2 million combined potential value across all of Unison's portfolio. The vendor also holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Library of Congress FEDLINK program (awarded October 1, 2023, ceiling $45 million through September 30, 2027), which acts as a government-wide procurement vehicle enabling federal agencies to order VAO subscriptions via delivery orders; recent FEDLINK task orders to the OPM ($431 thousand), SEC ($310.7 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command ($257.9 thousand), and others demonstrate active usage. Unison also holds a single-award $4 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with DOT for the acquisition workforce (September 2024, through September 2029, MAS-based), a single-award $2.5 million BPA from an unnamed office (May 2024, through May 2029, MAS), and a $715,101.71 DOJ IDC (September 2022–September 2025) that has been the delivery vehicle for VAO passwords and subscriptions to DOJ components including the FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals, and Civil Rights Division.

Activity has remained relatively stable year over year—51 awards in 2022 through 65 in 2024, declining to 31 in 2025 and 15 in 2026 (partial-year through late September)—suggesting neither dramatic growth nor contraction. However, 33 awards with a combined potential value of $31.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a meaningful recompete exposure window. These include the DOT BPA's option exercises, HHS and GSA large-value delivery orders, and numerous agency renewals, all of which will require follow-on procurement decisions.

Service Contract Inventory data captures $1.3 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across prime contracts from FY2022 through FY2025 (FY2024 peak at $538 thousand), with FY2024 showing 25.5 FTEs and FY2023 showing 1.4 FTEs—numbers that appear volatile and likely reflect the episodic nature of large delivery order invoicing rather than steady staffing. This SCI subset excludes goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue; the source does not disclose Unison's total federal revenue or enterprise revenue, so SCI figures represent only a slice of federal services activity above the $150,000 threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts span a spectrum from $70.79/hr (Program Support Specialist entry) to $553.13/hr (senior roles), with a median of $189.30/hr, reflecting a mix of implementation, consulting, and program-management labor. GSA Schedule labor categories run from Program Support Specialist ($70.78/hr) through Program Manager ($321.63/hr), all without security-clearance requirements and requiring education credentials from high school through bachelor's degree.

Unison operates as a prime contractor on essentially all of its awards—447 of 448 recent awards are prime, with only one recorded subcontract (a $0-valued DARPA Enterprise Support Services sub-award to Guidehouse Inc. in September 2023 for TruePlanning cost-estimating software). The vendor builds its own delivery teams and does not rely on subcontractors; SCI data shows 0% sub-hours share across prime contracts. Teaming partnerships are minimal. The corporate structure shows Unison Virtual Acquisition Office LLC as a division of parent Unison Software Inc., headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with no named operating subsidiaries or significant subsidiary capability branding beyond the Compusearch Software Systems trade name and the VAO and AKP product lines.