Flexion Inc.

Flexion Inc., a Madison, Wisconsin-based small business IT services provider, operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) delivering agile software development, systems integration, data management, and user experience design services to federal civilian agencies under GSA Schedule vehicles, with a portfolio of 151 recent awards totaling $2.29 billion in combined potential value.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which accounts for 14 awards and $1.77 billion (77% of combined potential value) of Flexion's active portfolio. This concentration reflects Flexion's flagship engagement: a $1 billion single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement under the Agile Collaboration and Modernization Endeavors (ACME) program awarded by CMS on March 16, 2023, extending through April 11, 2029. Against this parent vehicle, Flexion has exercised delivery orders including a $42.77 million End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System (EQRS) Scoring and Feedback II contract (July 8, 2024, Total Small Business set-aside), a $51.07 million Modern Claim Adjudication Development Services (MCADS) contract (May 1, 2023, Total Small Business set-aside), and an $11.1 million Information Systems Group provider-data management order (March 20, 2025, firm fixed price). Beyond CMS, the top five customer agencies account for 93% of Flexion's combined potential value and include GSA Technology Transformation Service (21 awards, $105.3 million including an $37.6 million DevSecOps Support for AROS call and a $16 million Solutions Development Support call), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ($100.6 million under a $100 million Total Small Business BPA), GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($55.3 million), and CDC's Pandemic Ready Interoperability Modernization Effort (PRIME) and Data Modernization Initiative ($96.4 million through a multiple-award BPA). The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants carries 87 awards but only $38 million combined potential value—a high-volume, low-dollar pattern that contrasts sharply with the outsized CMS and consumer-protection concentrations.

Flexion's vehicle positioning centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The MAS hosts 135 task orders worth $2.36 billion combined potential value, anchored by the four large-ceiling IDVs the vendor holds: the $1 billion CMS ACME BPA (single-award), the $100 million CFPB design-and-development BPA (single-award, Total Small Business), a $96.4 million CDC PRIME/DMI BPA (multiple-award, no set-aside), and a $15 million GSA Technology Transformation Service BPA for software development and research (single-award, no set-aside, awarded January 12, 2022, extending through January 11, 2027). Flexion also holds a $750,000 Federal Supply Schedule contract issued by GSA on July 16, 2025, covering 14 labor categories at rates from $71.35 to $244.33 per hour across IT Delivery Manager, Engineer, Product Manager, Subject Matter Expert, and UX Researcher roles at levels I through III; no security-cleared positions are offered, and education requirements span associate to bachelor's degrees.

Activity trajectory shows significant volume decline from 2022 onward. Flexion placed 10 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 2 in 2026 through mid-June—a pronounced contraction in award frequency that suggests either concentrated task-order activity against existing parent vehicles or reduced new-business volume. Seven awards carrying $88.3 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure concentrated among smaller-value contracts and one modest-sized task order against the TTS BPA.

Service Contract Inventory reporting captures $95.2 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across prime contracts from FY2022 through FY2024: $25.9 million (FY2022), $28.6 million (FY2023), and $40.7 million (FY2024), reflecting growth in federal services work driven by scaling delivery against major CMS and GSA accounts. The FTE trajectory shows corresponding expansion from 80.5 FTEs in FY2022 to 114 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts median at $154.56 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $135.52 per hour and the 90th percentile at $194.25 per hour—a narrow range consistent with Flexion's specialist IT labor portfolio (developers, data engineers, UX designers, product managers) and the absence of cleared or executive-level roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, an average 12% of contractor hours are subcontracted to 38 named subcontractors, indicating Flexion augments its delivery staff with specialized technical providers but maintains primary responsibility for staffing and execution. The vendor operates predominantly non-set-aside (full-and-open) across its prime work, though several CMS and RRB delivery orders carry Total Small Business designations, reflecting individual agency preferences rather than a company-wide set-aside strategy.

Flexion competes within a tightly defined niche: custom computer programming services (150 of 151 awards under NAICS 541512) delivered through GSA's MAS schedule to civilian health, financial-regulation, and digital-services agencies. The portfolio carries minimal diversity—no Department of Defense prime awards, no IDIQ vehicles outside MAS, no international or classified work. Success in this market depends on maintaining seats on the three large single-award BPAs (CMS ACME, CFPB DDCM, GSA TTS) and sustaining task-order flow against them; recompete risk on the $1 billion CMS vehicle carries material significance given its 77% share of Flexion's total potential value and an expiration date of April 2029.