Fierce Software Corp

Fierce Software Corp, doing business as Fierce Software, is a woman-owned small business based in Ashburn, Virginia, that operates as a value-added reseller of enterprise open-source software licenses, subscriptions, and technical support services to federal civilian and defense agencies, functioning predominantly as a subcontractor (68% of 192 recent awards) to large defense and IT primes and as a GSA Schedule prime on direct federal software procurement orders.

Fierce Software's capability footprint centers on commercial off-the-shelf open-source platforms — Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cloudera Data Platform, GitLab, and MongoDB — supplied with government-vendor support tiers, annual renewals, perpetual licenses, and technical consulting. Representative prime contracts include a $712,435.97 definitive contract with CDC Pittsburgh for Red Hat licenses (July 2024, woman-owned small business set-aside, running through June 2029), a $2,588,633.60 Social Security Administration delivery order for Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud subscription renewal (February 2022, exercising option periods through February 2024), and a $1,085,251.28 CDC Pittsburgh definitive contract for Cloudera renewal (August 2023, completing February 2026). Recent GSA Schedule orders span the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention ($77,490 for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, July 2026), the Naval Air Warfare Center ($401,312.79 for MongoDB perpetual licenses, May 2025), and the Smithsonian Office of the CIO ($285,492.42 for software maintenance, August 2025). As a subcontractor, Fierce Software supplies GitLab, Red Hat, MongoDB, Ansible, and related licenses to large primes including Accenture Federal Services LLC (recurring task orders on the Digital and Customer Care Solution and Title IV student-aid platform modernization), Leidos Inc. (GSM-O II infrastructure maintenance and Future Flight Services Program), Booz Allen Hamilton (cloud services support, ISR programs, and Air Force nuclear weapons center research), KBR Wyle Services LLC (Mission Systems Operations Contract and space-ground systems), and others across defense and civilian agencies.

Customer concentration reflects Fierce Software's dual posture as both a direct federal vendor and a sub-supplier to systems integrators. The Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid leads by award count with 31 recent awards, concentrated in Accenture-led student financial-aid modernization sub-work. The Defense Information Systems Agency accounts for 17 awards, anchored in infrastructure and cyber-services sub-tasks. When ranked by potential value, the CDC Pittsburgh dominates with $2.4 million across six awards (Cloudera and Red Hat), followed by EPA Office of Research and Development with $642 thousand, and the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center and Naval Sea Systems Command together accounting for $725 thousand. GSA Federal Acquisition Service contributes $475 thousand across five awards, primarily through Fierce Software's own GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle. The top five customer agencies by value account for approximately 47% of combined potential value, with the remainder dispersed across 64 distinct customer agencies — a signature pattern of sub-reliance on primes that control downstream agency relationships.

Fierce Software holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (MAS) with $475,000 ceiling, active through December 2025, which serves as the parent vehicle for 28 task orders worth $5.4 million in combined potential value. The vendor also participates in Indefinite Delivery Contract HC102820D0001 (17 task orders), Alliant II (17 task orders), Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3 (21 task orders, vehicle not specified with dollar ceilings in source), and Information Technology Schedule 70 (4 task orders). These vehicles enable Fierce Software to place both direct-buy and sub-supplied software, infrastructure support, and engineering services across civilian and defense agencies, though the source does not detail which agencies have used Fierce against non-MAS vehicles.

Activity has accelerated year over year, from ten awards in 2022 to 65 in 2024 and 50 through mid-2025, driven primarily by sub-award volume under systems-integrator contracts. Only three awards with combined potential value of $764 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, suggesting limited recompete exposure relative to the vendor's recent growth trajectory. The vendor's prime-award footprint, while smaller than its sub-work, remains concentrated in GSA Schedule orders to civilian agencies and a handful of definitive contracts anchored by the CDC and Social Security Administration.

Fierce Software's NAICS and PSC profile centers on Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512, 42 awards), Software Publishers (31 awards across NAICS 511210), and Computer Facilities Management Services (18 awards). Top PSC codes reflect the product-and-license character of the work: IT and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software) accounts for 26 awards, with IT and Telecom - Platform Products (Database, Mainframe, Middleware) and Application Development Software following.

Service Contract Inventory records capture minimal invoiced activity: five total SCI records spanning FY2022–FY2024, with zero prime-contract invoicing reported and zero FTE trajectory, reflecting the goods-and-license nature of Fierce Software's federal work. SCI does not capture software license sales or perpetual-software deliveries; the $41.5 million in combined obligated dollars across the 192-award portfolio vastly exceeds the $9 million combined potential value, indicating significant exercise of option periods and modifications on existing orders rather than new award volume.