Four LLC

Four LLC, doing business as Four, is a software licensing and IT solutions provider that operates as a prime contractor on federal IT procurement vehicles, delivering software subscriptions, maintenance renewals, and enterprise platform support to civilian and defense agencies. The company competes predominantly full-and-open across its prime footprint, though approximately 50 percent of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, indicating Four is either a small business or leverages small business vehicles for competitive advantage.

Four is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, and structured as a limited liability company. The company was registered in SAM.gov in December 2006. Primary NAICS categories are 5812 (Software Publishers), with secondary activity in 5415 (Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers) and 5415 (Computer Systems Design Services). Place of performance typically centers on Herndon, Virginia, with subordinate delivery locations across the federal government as directed by individual task orders.

Four's federal capability portfolio centers on software licensing renewals, annual maintenance subscriptions, and technology platform provisioning. Representative work includes IBM Storage Scale subscription and support for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ($74,160, NASA BPA call, July 2026); a $5.1 million delivery order from the Department of Justice Criminal Division for Nuix Neo Foundations software under SEWP V (June 2026); a $1.59 million delivery order from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for IBM Maximo Application Suite system licensing under SEWP V (May 2026); a $4.39 million delivery order from Defense Security Cooperation Agency for Blackboard Learning Management System under GSA MAS (May 2026); and a $2.79 million Social Security Administration delivery order for Trellix malware device maintenance under SEWP V (April 2026). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Four invoiced $502.7 million across FY2022–FY2024, with $360.4 million in FY2023. The SCI dataset captures 159 prime records and 2 sub records; FTE trajectory shows 1.0 FTE in FY2022, 1.7 in FY2023, and 1.0 in FY2024, reflecting a delivery model that relies on named vendor quotes and pass-through licensing rather than full-time workforce. On federal service contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of roughly $557/hr to a median of approximately $14,954/hr and a 90th percentile around $77,930/hr—a wide spectrum reflecting software-licensing, per-user, and annual-subscription contract structures priced at vastly different scales. Four's GSA Schedule labor offering is modest, with four unique categories spanning Junior Developer through Solutions Architect at $120–$249/hr, all requiring a bachelor's degree and no security clearance.

Customer concentration is heavily tilted to Department of Defense and federal civilian IT buying. The top five customers by award count are NASA Shared Services Center (319 awards, $109.3 million), Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (241 awards, $48.5 million), Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (199 awards, $29.2 million), Defense Information Systems Agency (183 awards, $268.1 million), and Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (170 awards, $1.39 billion). By potential value, the ranking shifts: Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Enterprise Information Systems dominates at $13.05 billion across 91 awards, followed by Navy Information Warfare Systems Command at $1.39 billion, DISA at $268.1 million, Marine Corps at $117.1 million, and NASA Shared Services at $109.3 million. That $13.05 billion anchor to Army PEO Enterprise Information Systems is a single large-ceiling vehicle; most individual orders are in the $5,000–$7 million range.

Four's vehicle portfolio is dominated by SEWP V (2,270 task orders, $2.35 billion combined potential value), a NASA-administered government-wide IT acquisition contract; the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (767 task orders, $3.29 billion); a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement W52P1J14A0003 with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (454 task orders, $156.2 million); the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-Software 2 IDIQ (443 task orders, $223.6 million); and the older ITES contract (427 task orders, $64 million). Four also holds a $35 million single-award BPA with NASA established June 25, 2026, and a $9.25 million BPA call with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for HCL Domino Security Bundle (June 2025). The NAVWAR relationship is particularly significant: Four holds a stated $669 million Blanket Purchase Agreement covering IT products and services for the DOD Enterprise Service Integration IT Asset Management program running through July 2029, making NAVWAR a critical anchor customer. A $1.35 billion Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Office of Personnel Management is referenced in multiple award summaries but does not appear as a named vehicle in the top-five list, suggesting it may be a learning-systems or unrelated vehicle.

Four operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (98% of awards prime, 2% sub). SCI records show sub-engagement averaging 3 percent of total contractor hours across prime contracts, with four named subcontractors reported. Named subcontracting relationships include work under Peraton Inc. (Operational Planning Implementation and Assessment Services), Amentum Technology, Inc. (Missile Defense Agency IT capabilities and IBM Maximo), General Dynamics Information Technology (Technical Support Services and Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System), Mantech Advanced Systems International (NOAA Cyber Security Center software renewal), Peraton Enterprise Solutions LLC (DC3 support services and Federal Student Aid virtual data center), and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (National Security Campus management). These relationships are sparse, indicating Four primarily builds its own delivery model around software licensing pass-through rather than large subcontracting teams.

Activity grew significantly through FY2024 (456 awards), then declined sharply in FY2025 (242 awards) and nearly flattened in FY2026 year-to-date (42 awards as of July 2026). This trajectory suggests either pending recompetes, delays in task-order funding, or a shift in federal buying patterns. Recompete exposure is material: 210 awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $770.9 million, representing roughly 1.8 percent of Four's total portfolio but a significant concentration of near-term revenue at risk.

Four's set-aside posture is mixed. About half of SEWP V awards and a material share of other vehicle orders carry Total Small Business designations, but Four also competes and wins on full-and-open basis. This flexibility suggests Four either holds a small-business certification (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB status is not stated in the source) or strategically pursues set-aside vehicles when beneficial. No explicit SBA designations are confirmed in the source material.

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