Forum One Communications Corp

Forum One Communications Corp, doing business as Forum One, is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Arlington, Virginia that delivers web design, software development, digital marketing, content strategy, and user experience solutions to civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards). The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and holds no SBA set-aside certifications, though some task orders under its vehicles carry total or partial small business set-asides. Forum One has operated as a registered federal contractor since 2001 and brings substantial scale across a portfolio of indefinite delivery vehicles anchored by multi-million-dollar blanket purchase agreements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of the Interior bureaus, and National Archives and Records Administration.

Customer concentration is extreme and dominated by CFPB. The top five customers account for 57% of awards by count but 69% of combined potential value, led by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (23 awards, $168.5 million combined potential value) — a single agency that accounts for roughly 41% of Forum One's total federal pipeline. The Smithsonian Institution ranks second by award count (21 awards, $5.8 million) but represents a much smaller dollar footprint. Peace Corps, the Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, and the National Endowment for the Humanities round out the top-five by volume. The divergence between the two rankings is striking: CFPB dominates dollars through large blanket purchase agreements, while transaction volume spreads across institutional customers with smaller individual task orders. A secondary concentration emerges around Department of Interior components — the Office of the Secretary, Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3, and Bureau of Reclamation — which together hold roughly $52 million in recent Acquia Platform-as-a-Service and web hosting ceilings awarded in 2025.

Forum One's vehicle portfolio is anchored on GSA schedules. The Multiple Award Schedule carries 101 task orders (combined potential value $283.8 million), the Information Technology Schedule 70 holds 36 task orders ($17.8 million), and several agency-specific BPAs round out the holdings. Key vehicles include the $100 million CFPB Design, Development, Content, and Marketing BPA (total small business set-aside, through February 2028), the $40 million Office of the Chief Information Officer Acquia PaaS BPA (no set-aside, awarded March 2025 and running through March 2030), the $15 million CFPB Editorial Support Services BPA (total small business, through November 2028), the $6.5 million National Archives and Records Administration Digital Design and Development BPA (no set-aside, through September 2026), and a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract ($500 thousand ceiling, awarded September 2024) spanning IT professional services and marketing disciplines. Representative work includes a $2.73 million Department of Interior Drupal development and operations-and-maintenance delivery order (through August 2028), a $2.87 million Department of Justice National FOIA Wizard delivery order (through September 2027 under MAS), a $2.40 million Environmental Protection Agency Drupal 8/9 web content management system upgrade (through March 2025 under MAS, total small business), and an $11.1 million Fish and Wildlife Service BPA call for comprehensive digital services (partial small business, through April 2030).

Activity trajectory shows moderate decline. Awards per year dropped from a peak of 12 in 2024 to 10 in 2025 and 3 through mid-2026 (a snapshot constrained by the current date of July 15, 2026). Five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $6.8 million — a modest recompete exposure relative to the vendor's scale. The portfolio spans 35 distinct customer agencies, suggesting diversification beyond the CFPB concentration, though institutional customers like Smithsonian, NEH, and NARA place smaller individual orders across larger IDIQ vehicles rather than anchoring large dollars.

Service Contract Inventory captures a partial view of federal service-contract invoicing above the $150 thousand threshold and excludes goods, products, and non-federal revenue. SCI-reported invoicing declined year over year: $9.5 million in FY2022 (29.2 FTEs), $3.8 million in FY2023 (10.8 FTEs), and $2.6 million in FY2024 (6.8 FTEs). The FY2024 FTE count represents roughly 7.8 FTEs across all SCI-reportable prime service contracts — a significant drop from FY2022. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts run median around $162.84/hr, with senior labor pricing through the 90th percentile at $372.31/hr and entry-level work at roughly $133.63/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Forum One subcontractors performed 15% of total contractor hours on average, with 35 named subs recorded across the dataset — signaling that the vendor builds its own delivery teams for the majority of work but regularly engages specialized subcontractors.

Forum One operates predominantly as a prime, with sub engagement limited to government-sponsored international development programs. Named subcontractors include Research Triangle Institute (supporting National Postsecondary Student Aid Study work through multiple option periods) and DAI Global LLC (supporting international technical assistance and web analytics work), both anchored by performance on U.S. Agency for International Development cooperative agreements and EPA environmental consulting. This subcontract footprint accounts for 4% of recent awards by count and is isolated from the vendor's primary civilian-agency digital services business.

The vendor's award portfolio concentrates heavily on custom computer programming, web development, and digital infrastructure services: 99 awards fall under the "Other Computer Related Services" NAICS, 20 under Internet Publishing and Broadcasting, and 9 under Custom Computer Programming. Primary performance site is Arlington, Virginia for most contractual work, with several delivery orders specifying Washington, DC. The portfolio signals sustained demand for Drupal platform development and maintenance, Acquia PaaS hosting, Google Ad Grants management, analytics and technical audit services, and website redesign and migration projects across institutional and civilian agencies — core services for which Forum One holds standing on multiple framework agreements with repeat customers.

Forum One brings together Internet strategy & technology to expand outreach on policy issues, foster collaboration among key constituents, and improve internal operations with custom Web sites & database tools.For more information please email us at https://forumone.com.