Ensemble Government Services, LLC

Ensemble Government Services, LLC, a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned SBA 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Hyattsville, Maryland, delivers crowdsourcing services, challenge and prize-competition management, open innovation program support, and digital consulting to federal agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The firm competes predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-asides, though it holds 8(a) certification expiring January 26, 2031 and uses sole-source 8(a) designations selectively on larger awards.

Ensemble's customer concentration is extreme: NASA Johnson Space Center accounts for 75% of all awards and 96% of combined potential value across the vendor's entire portfolio. The top customer by far dominates the two rankings — 25 awards from JSC carry $658.6 million in combined potential value, largely anchored to two government-wide acquisition contracts. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, the second-largest customer by value, holds only 4 awards totaling $12.1 million. This concentration signal is critical: Ensemble's business is fundamentally NASA JSC–dependent, with diversification into HHS challenge-support work and NOAA space weather research providing subsidiary volume.

Ensemble holds three core parent vehicles. The NASA Open Innovation Services 3 (NOIS3) GWAC, awarded June 5, 2025, carries a $474.988 billion ceiling through May 31, 2027, and anchors recent delivery orders including $205,000 for Spot the Station App maintenance and operations (March 2026), $573,363 for freelance Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation open innovation advisor services (August 2025), and $531,925 for MADI and Discovery freelance support (August 2025). The NASA Open Innovation Services 2 (NOIS2) IDIQ, a $175 million vehicle, produced 15 task orders with $5.3 million combined potential value across space technology challenges, climate data solutions, and uncrewed aircraft systems work through 2024. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule, effective September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026, with a $3 million ceiling, has generated six task orders ($4.6 million combined potential value) from civilian agencies for digital strategy, health IT solutions, and challenge management. A new multi-billion-dollar Missile Defense Agency contract, Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), was awarded on January 21, 2026 with completion through December 28, 2035; an initial $500 delivery order was issued same-day, but meaningful MDA work volume remains undetermined from the source.

Ensemble's recent prime award portfolio centers on crowdsourcing and challenge management. Representative contracts include: $4.439 million sole-source 8(a) purchase order from HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration for KidneyX Empower Challenge support (September 2025); $4.075 million sole-source 8(a) purchase order from HHS Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources for the Presidential Fitness Challenge (September 2025); $3.656 million delivery order from HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration for LymeX Initiative and chronic disease innovation (September 2025); $3.441 million sole-source 8(a) purchase order from HHS for data-driven chronic disease and invisible illness innovation (September 2025); and $835,000 delivery order under NOIS2 for the NASA Space Technology Inclusive Innovation Challenge (May 2023). Outside challenge work, Ensemble received $1.124 million in SBIR Phase II funding from NASA for KAMODO Containerized Space Weather Models research (August 2021, completion September 2024); $471,500 from USDA's Livestock Poultry and Seed Program for artificial intelligence–enabled feeder cattle measurement (August 2025); and $247,190 sole-source 8(a) from National Science Foundation for NSF BioHope Challenge meeting facilitation (October 2024, terminated for government convenience March 2025). Grant-funded activity includes NOAA SBIR Phase II ($1.3 million over three years through August 2026) and Phase I ($175,000 completed February 2024) awards for space weather analytics and neutral density monitoring services for satellite operators, and a $81,420 NASA ROSES grant (December 2024) for space weather and space situational awareness research.

Ensemble's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 38 active categories ranging from $93.20 to $239.24 per hour, requiring bachelor's degrees minimum with no security-cleared positions offered. The spectrum includes database analysts and programmers at the entry ($93.20/hr), cloud integration engineers and digital strategists in the mid-range ($142–$166/hr), and senior technology directors at the top ($239.24/hr). This rate structure and education floor support the firm's positioning around digital transformation, innovation program management, and specialized technical consulting rather than cleared-security or staff-augmentation work.

Activity has held flat to modestly positive: 5 awards in 2022, 10 in 2023, 12 each in 2024 and 2025, and 4 awards through April 2026. Twelve awards with combined potential value of $18.3 million reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure primarily concentrated in NOIS2 and NOIS3 delivery orders. The vendor is overwhelmingly a prime (54 of 55 awards, 98%), with only one identified sub-award — a Booz Allen Hamilton subcontract under a NASA Transformational Tools and Technologies task order for innovative concepts support assessment IT services (April 2026). A named subsidiary, Ensemble Abba JV LLC, is identified as a small business joint venture. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $682.3 million, but obligated dollars total only $25.6 million (4% realization rate), reflecting the prevalence of ceiling-value contracts and delivery orders not yet fully drawn.

Ensemble was born in 2017 as an open innovation consultancy and has evolved into a full-service 8(a) SBA-certified digital consultancy. Primarily supporting STEM-focused agencies such as NASA, NSF, DOE, NOAA, and HHS, we are committed to delivering high-quality programs, solutions, and products to meet the needs of the public sector.

OPEN INNOVATION

Our open innovation practice delivers end-to-end ideation programs, prize challenges, and hackathons. .

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

We design, develop, and deploy software technologies using modern cloud and web tools. Our digital services span the Software Development Life Cycle using agile methodology and cloud-certified experts.

COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN

With communications and design services that specialize in scientific communication to non-technical audiences and reaching underserved and underrepresented populations, we excel at communicating complex topics for your target audiences.