Creative It Solutions LLC

Creative It Solutions LLC, a tribally-owned, SBA 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Oklahoma City, competes predominantly as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering professional staffing, administrative support services, IT solutions, and program management to federal agencies across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio. The company is owned by Delaware Nation Economic Development Authority LLC, a federally recognized tribal government entity.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations alone accounts for 97 awards and $522.4 million in combined potential value—nearly half of the vendor's entire portfolio. Four additional State Department bureaus (Educational and Cultural Affairs, Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, and Democracy Human Rights and Labor) collectively represent another 98 awards and $122.9 million. The vendor's remaining spread across 51 distinct customer agencies—including the Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Sea Systems Command, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Army Training and Doctrine Command—is meaningful but secondary to the State Department concentration, which accounts for 56% of awards by count and exceeds $700 million in combined potential value.

Creative It Solutions holds major indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its federal footprint. The company sits on the 8(a) STARS III GWAC ($50 billion ceiling, multiple awards) and the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ ($999.999 billion placeholder ceiling, no set-aside). More critically, two State Department IDIQs—19AQMM21D0001 and 19AQMM21D0050, both supporting professional services to OBO and related bureaus—carry 143 and 101 task orders respectively, with combined potential values of $389.8 million and $159.4 million. Additional vehicles with the Air Force Research Laboratory ($200 million ceiling for IT and cyber services), Naval Sea Systems Command ($91.2 million IDIQ for IT enterprise support), and the Missile Defense Agency's new SHIELD contract ($151 billion, awarded December 2025) round out a diverse IDV portfolio exceeding $52 billion in aggregate ceiling value.

Work footprint is fundamentally professional staffing and administrative services. Across State Department bureaus, Creative It Solutions fills roles ranging from junior analyst and program coordinator to senior program officer, senior advisor, management analyst, project manager, and regional analyst—predominantly labor-hour task orders priced between $400 thousand and $10.9 million per delivery order. Skill mix spans program management, budget analysis, policy support, regional coordination, and administrative operations. The vendor also executes IT support services (exemplified by a $6.4 million Air Force Research Laboratory order for 711th Human Performance Wing IT support and a $3 million Naval Sea Systems Command IT services delivery order) and specialized advisory roles (Leahy advisor, water program advisor, climate adaptation expert, speechwriter). Award dates cluster in June 2026 through September 2026, with 95 prior OBO awards and multiple batch recompetes visible across State bureaus in spring and summer 2024.

Set-aside posture is overwhelmingly 8(a): the majority of State Department work executes under 8(a) Sole Source designations, reflecting Creative It Solutions' established incumbent position and tribal ownership. Competitive 8(a) set-asides appear on larger vehicles (8(a) STARS III orders, OASIS SB delivery orders for Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and Army training logistics). A material share of recent awards—particularly from State bureaus in late 2024 and 2025—carry no set-aside, indicating either competitive open market awards or renewal orders structured outside set-aside vehicles. The vendor competes effectively in both channels.

On federal services contracts captured in Service Contract Inventory (SCI-reportable prime contracts above $150,000 invoicing threshold), Creative It Solutions reported $470.6 million in cumulative invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 invoicing reaching $139.5 million across 642 FTEs. Median government-paid hourly rates run $92.23 per hour, with 10th percentile at $63.12/hr (entry-level administrative roles) and 90th percentile at $135.94/hr (senior technical and program management staff). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for approximately 12% of contractor hours on average, with 137 named subcontractors reported. The vendor self-performs the majority of labor, indicating a primary reliance on organic staff augmentation rather than subcontracting depth.

The vendor's GSA Schedule footprint encompasses 123 active labor categories priced from $32.09/hr (Data Specialist I) to $180.19/hr (Subject Matter Expert), reflecting a broad span from data entry and administrative support through systems security engineering and senior advisory roles. No security-cleared positions are offered on the Schedule; clearance-bearing work appears to flow through classified contract vehicles not visible in commercial schedules.

Activity trajectory shows growth through FY2024—from 83 prime awards in 2022 to 67 in 2024—followed by a drop to 10 awards in FY2025 (likely a data lag or collection cutoff) and a partial recovery to 35 awards in FY2026 year-to-date. A significant recompete cliff looms: 74 awards with ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $404.3 million. Most are State Department delivery orders under IDIQs 19AQMM21D0001 and 19AQMM21D0050, with completion dates concentrated between April 2026 and September 2027. The vendor's December 2025 award to the Missile Defense Agency for the SHIELD contract (a new $151 billion IDIQ with initial $500 firm-fixed-price task order) signals entry into defense infrastructure and homeland layered-defense domains previously absent from the portfolio.

Teaming is minimal: Creative It Solutions subcontracts to Deloitte Consulting LLP, Guidehouse Inc., Serco Inc., and Peraton Inc. on select work (CDC data policy support, F-35 program management, SITEC 3 engineering support, FMS logistics). The vendor does not maintain a developed subcontractor ecosystem; partnerships appear opportunistic and task-specific rather than strategic. This posture limits scalability on large, capital-intensive programs but aligns with the company's staffing-centric service model.

Corporate ownership as a subsidiary of Delaware Nation Economic Development Authority LLC carries implications for 8(a) eligibility, affiliation rules, and tribal set-aside compliance. The parent's status as a federally recognized tribal government entity anchors the vendor's Native American-owned certification and tribally-owned business designation, which are material to 8(a) participation and increasingly relevant to federal contracting incentives (Executive Orders on tribal economic development, procurement preference language in State Department awards). No separate subsidiary structure documentation is visible in the source; the operating entity and parent appear tightly integrated administratively.

Recompete exposure is substantial but not crisis-level. The 74 awards reaching completion in the next twenty-four months represent real termination risk, but the portfolio's size (346 total awards) and customer diversification—though concentrated—suggest that loss of a portion of OBO's staffing delivery orders would not catastrophically compress revenue. However, State Department budget volatility, interagency competition from larger primes on STARS III and OASIS vehicles, and the vendor's limited geographic and mission diversification outside State operations create vulnerability. The December 2025 Missile Defense Agency SHIELD award may signal deliberate diversification strategy, but execution and staffing depth will be tested early in the contract lifecycle.

Creative IT Solutions, LLC, a tribally-owned subsidiary of Delaware Nation Industries (DNI), has relevant strengths and experience providing enterprise IT, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and other professional services of the highest quality to the federal government. Creative IT is an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 appraised Indian-owned business.