Cq-Roll Call, Inc.

Cq-Roll Call, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business subsidiary of FiscalNote, Inc., delivers legislative tracking, congressional news, and policy analysis subscriptions to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor on standardized subscription purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements, with a $4 million EOP BPA and a $60 million Library of Congress FEDLINK indefinite delivery contract anchoring its federal footprint.

Cq-Roll Call operates as a pure software-as-a-service provider in the legislative intelligence space. The company's core offering is subscription access to the CQ Roll Call platform and related FiscalNote/Knowlegis databases, which deliver real-time congressional tracking, bill text, floor proceedings videos, committee reports, member profiles, customizable legislative alerts, budget and appropriations trackers, Congressional Research Service reports, and hearing transcripts. Work is performed in Washington, DC, with web-based delivery. The business model is standardized and transactional: agencies procure annual or multi-year licenses for a defined number of user seats. Representative contracts include a $2.165 million Library of Congress delivery order for enterprise-wide CQ.com access to up to 900 users across the federal government (FY2024), a $484.8 thousand Department of State delivery order for CQ Roll Call subscriptions (FY2023), a $445.968 million Missile Defense Agency definitive contract for legislative tracking subscriptions (FY2023), a $317.7 thousand FEMA purchase order for congressional online subscriptions (FY2024), and a $260.1 thousand Department of Defense purchase order for CQ subscriptions (FY2026).

Customer concentration is broad but not deep. The top five customer agencies by award count account for only 14 percent of all awards; by potential value, the top five account for 6 percent. Executive Office of the President Office of Administration and Department of State Bureau of Administration lead on both metrics—31 and 104 awards respectively—but the customer base spans 336 distinct federal agencies, reflecting the subscription model's accessibility to any agency with budget authority. No single customer drives more than $4.8 million in cumulative potential value. This distributes risk but also signals absence of large program dependency.

Cq-Roll Call holds or operates under three primary vehicle positions. The company's flagship vehicle is a $4 million single-award BPA with the Executive Office of the President Office of Administration, awarded September 2022 and running through September 2026, with six task orders totaling $290 thousand issued to date. More significant in dollar terms is participation in the Library of Congress FEDLINK program: a $60 million indefinite delivery contract (LCFDL23D0031 and related predecessors) that enables federal agencies government-wide to order CQ.com and FiscalNote database access. Task orders under FEDLINK IDCs account for over $47 million in combined potential value and represent the backbone of Cq-Roll Call's largest individual orders (the $2.165 million Library of Congress Option Year 2 delivery order being representative). Beyond EOP and FEDLINK, individual agencies issue direct purchase orders and delivery orders for subscriptions; there are no other recurring multi-agency vehicles.

Activity has declined materially. Cq-Roll Call registered 66 awards in FY2022, 56 in FY2023, 37 in FY2024, 11 in FY2025, and 8 through June 2026. This contraction reflects the mature, stable nature of subscription business: once agencies procure annual or multi-year licenses, renewal orders arrive as predictable reprocurements rather than new awards. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months stands at 39 awards with combined potential value of $4.8 million—manageable risk given the non-compete character of most renewals (agencies typically re-award to the incumbent). Average contract ceiling values have stabilized in the $40–80 thousand range for single-office subscriptions and $150–300 thousand for enterprise or multi-bureau awards, with outliers (such as the $60 million FEDLINK IDC) representing government-wide access rather than single-customer scope.

SCI reporting shows minimal federal services activity above the $150 thousand threshold: the vendor reported $727 thousand in invoiced revenue across five SCI records in FY2024, with zero reported in FY2022–2023. FTE data is absent (0.0 FTEs across all years), consistent with software delivery model and absence of labor-intensive service provisioning. No subcontractor hours were reported across prime SCI contracts, confirming Cq-Roll Call operates as a self-contained software platform provider with no material sub-team delivery.

Cq-Roll Call operates as a pure prime contractor (100% of awards); it does not subcontract to others, nor does it operate as a subcontractor to larger primes except in two minor instances: a $2.35 million task order under a Booz Allen Hamilton prime and an unnamed order under the same BAH contract (both related to legislative tracking and member information for U.S. Cyber Command). These sub-tier positions are negligible to the overall footprint and appear to be specialized intelligence/analysis variants rather than core CQ subscription work.

The vendor is structured as a subsidiary of FiscalNote, Inc., based at the same address (1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC). FiscalNote is the parent holding company and operates across the full legislative intelligence and government technology stack; Cq-Roll Call, Inc. is the branded front-end for subscription-based congressional tracking and news products. The source also names Capitol Advantage LLC as a FiscalNote subsidiary, though no federal awards are attributed to it in this dossier. Cq-Roll Call's self-certified small disadvantaged business status enables participation in SBA set-asides, but the vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open (no set-aside) designations; roughly 94 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, with the remainder scattered among total small business set-asides. This posture suggests the vendor's competitive advantage lies in product exclusivity and subscription model fit rather than SBA preference.

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