Empirical Corporation

Empirical Corporation (doing business as Empirical), a minority-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Forest Heights, Maryland, provides financial management consulting, accounting operations support, cost documentation services, and analytics tool implementation to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards), with occasional subcontracted work on audit and compliance engagements.

Empirical's capability portfolio centers on financial management support services, cost accounting consulting, and audit compliance support, delivered predominantly through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and recently through the OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ. Representative work includes a $854 thousand delivery order with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for cost documentation packages and indirect rate development under MAS (ultimate completion April 2029), a $828 thousand delivery order with the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for financial management support services under MAS (modified through May 2026), and a $738 thousand delivery order with USCIS for financial management support to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer under MAS (completion January 2028). The most recent award, a $190 thousand purchase order from DHS for analysis tool licenses and support services to USCIS, closes March 2027. Empirical holds a GSA Schedule position with labor categories spanning junior consultant ($92.20/hr), database analyst, consultant, supervising senior, and senior IT principal roles ($353.57/hr), predominantly requiring bachelor's education with no security clearances.

Customer concentration sits with civilian financial operations and compliance shops. The top five customer agencies account for 70% of awards by count, led by NOAA (7 awards, $6.2 million) and USCIS (7 awards, $5.6 million), followed by GSA Federal Acquisition Service (3 awards, $14.4 million, primarily driven by Empirical's OASIS+ vehicle position). When ranked by potential value, GSA ($14.4 million), the Securities and Exchange Commission ($13.7 million), the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service ($7.5 million), NOAA ($6.2 million), and USCIS ($5.6 million) account for 84% of combined potential value. The dollar concentration in GSA and SEC reflects the larger ceiling values of those vehicles rather than per-contract scale parity.

Empirical competes primarily on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (20 task orders, $31.2 million combined potential value) and holds awards on the Professional Services Schedule (4 task orders, $1.5 million) and OASIS+ Total Small Business (2 task orders). The OASIS+ vehicle, awarded December 19, 2024, carries a multi-year governmentwide ceiling and covers seven functional domains (Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, Research and Development, Intelligence Services, Environmental Services, Facilities, and Logistics), positioning Empirical for broader federal reach beyond its current NOAA and USCIS concentration.

Activity has been sparse and uneven. Awards cluster in 2008, then gap to 2021 (1 award), 2023 (3 awards), 2024 (2 awards), 2025 (3 awards), and 2026 (2 awards as of August). Combined potential value across all 30 awards (prime and sub) stands at $56.5 million, with $24.6 million obligated (44% burn). Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $929 thousand — a minimal recompete exposure relative to overall portfolio, though the USCIS work wraps in mid-2026.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on prime service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold shows fluctuation: $1.6 million in FY2022 (6.7 FTEs), $1.2 million in FY2023 (5.0 FTEs), $1.4 million in FY2024 (6.9 FTEs), and $691 thousand in FY2025 (2.0 FTEs). These figures reflect a subset of federal service-contract activity only and exclude goods, micro-purchases, and classified work. Government-paid median hourly rates on prime SCI contracts run $95.33/hr, with the spectrum ranging from $75.10/hr (tenth percentile) to $145.74/hr (ninetieth percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform approximately 9% of contractor hours; Empirical reports twelve named subs, including Sikich CPA LLC (accounting and cost documentation support to NOAA) and Kearney & Company, P.C. (audit and compliance support to Treasury on RESTORE Act work).

Empirical also subcontracts to Deloitte Consulting LLP on accounting and financial operations support services (two orders, both dated March 2025) and to Kearney & Company on Treasury RESTORE Act compliance work (July 2023). The vendor's category concentration reflects its accounting-operations focus: 19 awards span Other Accounting Services (NAICS 541219), 5 cover Offices of Certified Public Accountants (NAICS 541211), and 4 address Computer Systems Design Services, with PSC coding clustered around Support–Management: Accounting (11 awards) and Support–Management: Financial (6 awards).

Empirical provides Federal Financial Management, Financial Statement Preparation and Reporting, Account Reconciliation, General Ledger Support, Data Analytics and Data Mining, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) reviews, Budget Planning, Forecasting, and Execution, A-123 Internal Controls Compliance Support, Accounting, Audit Liaison and Remediation Resolution and Corrective Action Plans, Improper Payment Review and Recovery Audit, Enterprise Risk Management Reviews, OMB Circular A-11, Estimated/Actual Cost Analysis, Obligation and Recovery Analysis, Business Process Improvement and Reengineering, Business Transformation Assessment, Project Management, FISMA Information Security Reviews, General and Application Control Reviews (FISCAM), Customized Tools and Databases (Systems Development), Share Point Configuration and Web-base Support, and Technical Financial Advice, as well as, Automated Information Technology and Business Intelligence Solutions.