Ellumen, Inc.

Ellumen, Inc., doing business as CPS Healthcare, is a small business prime contractor based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that delivers federal healthcare information technology services, emergency medical systems support, and IT modernization work across civilian and defense agencies, with 96% of recent awards as prime contractor and a posture that mixes Total Small Business set-asides with full-and-open competition. The vendor competes predominantly under set-asides — 42 of 56 total awards carry Total Small Business or other set-aside designations — and holds a $249 million Basic Ordering Agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as a $13.3 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response for National Disaster Medical System support.

Ellumen's customer base is concentrated in civilian health and defense health agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response leads by award count with 15 awards ($25.3 million combined potential value), followed by the Defense Health Agency with 11 awards ($142.1 million). By potential value, however, the concentration shifts dramatically: a single NITAAC Office of Information Technology Acquisition award under the Alliant II GWAC carries a $20 billion ceiling, anchoring 93% of the vendor's total announced potential value; the Air Force ($985.3 million across two awards) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense ($249 million on the AI TALENT 2.0 BOA) comprise most of the remaining dollars. The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin (4 awards, $38.9 million) and the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (3 awards, $42.3 million) round out significant customers. This dollar concentration in mega-vehicles suggests a pipeline posture tilted toward large ceiling IDVs rather than operational execution volume.

Ellumen's vehicle portfolio emphasizes government-wide acquisition contracts and GSA schedules. The vendor holds 12 task orders under the Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB) GWAC with $169.2 million combined potential value, including a $13.3 million Customs and Border Protection delivery order for the ELLUMEN, INC BRIDGE OP10 program and a $7.6 million Coast Guard Electronic Health Records Acquisition Program Management Office sustainment delivery order. The Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) accounts for 38 task orders with $113.7 million combined potential value, anchored by the ASPR-NDMS MTSS single-award BPA. Ellumen also holds seats on Alliant II and the AFMS Consultant Advisory and Technical Services vehicle.

Concrete recent work spans healthcare IT operations and emergency response. On the Defense Health Agency side, Ellumen delivered a $36.7 million definitive contract (awarded June 2023) for Continuous Service Improvement Support Services through November 2027, performed in Falls Church, Virginia, with subcontractors Integration Resolve, Inc. (Logicole system architecture and QA) and RB Continuum, Inc., an SDVOSB (technical writing and product support); a $6.8 million service desk and system monitoring contract for JOMIS modern products through October 2026 (Chantilly, VA); and a $2.2 million Theater Blood Training Support contract completed April 2025. Under the ASPR-NDMS MTSS BPA, Ellumen has executed a mix of time-and-materials and firm fixed-price calls ranging from sub-thousand-dollar emergency medical response kit rehabilitation and deobligation orders through a $11.8 million mission support call (awarded June 2022, extended through June 2028). For the Coast Guard, Ellumen holds a $9.5 million CIO-SP3 SB delivery order for EHRA PMO IT contractor support (awarded September 2022, extending through September 2026). Customs and Border Protection placed a $13.3 million CIO-SP3 SB delivery order for the BRIDGE OP10 program (July 2024, completion December 2026) and a $7.3 million option exercise for Passenger Application Multimedia Support through September 2028.

Activity has grown modestly in recent years — two awards in 2020, ramping to ten in 2024 and five through mid-2025 — suggesting steady pipeline expansion without explosive volume. However, seven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $85.9 million and face recompete exposure, primarily concentrated in the Defense Health Agency and Coast Guard EHRA PMO work streams.

Service Contract Inventory data shows Ellumen delivered $39.8 million in invoiced federal service-contract revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (prime records only), with FY2024 showing $11.7 million across 75.4 FTEs — a workforce trajectory that spiked in 2024 after a contraction in FY2023. Government-paid median hourly rates run around $117/hr on SCI-reportable contracts, with a range from $36.72/hr (entry-level technical admin) through $149/hr (senior technical management), reflecting mixed labor tiers from entry technician to subject-matter-expert work. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs represent an average 18% share of contractor hours, with 14 named subcontractors engaged across the reporting period. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio comprises 91 unique categories, ranging from $55.54/hr (entry technical administrator) through $258.24/hr (senior IT subject-matter expert/consultant), with bachelor's degree minimum across all categories and no security-cleared roles offered. Ellumen's teaming pattern as prime favors sub-engagement at moderate depth — the vendor builds its own core delivery capacity but uses specialized subcontractors for system architecture, QA, and technical documentation.

Sub-work with Ellumen centers on Mantech Advanced Systems International, Inc., where Ellumen performed custom computer programming services for technical refresh to the Logicole system (May and March 2024). The 4% sub-award share reflects Ellumen's dominant prime-contractor posture in its recent footprint.

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