GBS Solutions Corp

GBS Solutions Corp, doing business as GBS, is an SBA 8(a) certified minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Kaysville, Utah, that delivers IT professional services, enterprise systems support, artificial intelligence governance and risk management, SharePoint development, and lab automation services to federal civilian agencies predominantly as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) under 8(a) set-asides and full-and-open competition on government-wide vehicles. GBS is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation owned by Asian-Pacific American interests with active 8(a) Program Participant certification through February 27, 2028, and maintains a named subsidiary, Dakota Consulting Incorporated.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward civilian agencies and IT infrastructure work. The National Institute of Standards and Technology dominates the award count at 21 awards totaling $31.6 million in combined potential value, anchoring GBS's footprint in AI risk management framework support, enterprise systems, SharePoint development, lab automation, and computing facilities operations. The Department of the Interior's Chief Information Officer and Bureau of Reclamation account for $5.9 million and $1.7 million respectively in combined potential value across email/collaboration platform administration and IT support services. By dollar magnitude, however, two IDIQs dwarf all other activity: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service issued GBS a seat on the 8(a) STARS III $50 billion GWAC (19 task orders, $39.8 million combined potential value) and the Naval Sea Systems Command placed GBS on the $4 billion Seaport Next Generation contract (2 awards, $4 billion combined potential value). Most recently—and most consequentially for the baseline—the Missile Defense Agency awarded GBS a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ valued at $151 billion with a full-and-open competition structure, effective December 29, 2025, though only a $500 initial delivery order has been issued to date. This is the single largest vehicle ceiling in GBS's portfolio and represents the vendor's entry into defense enterprise-scale procurement outside the 8(a) reserve.

Recent work centers on NIST AI standards initiatives. Representative Competitive 8(a) delivery orders include a $7.3 million award issued September 30, 2026 (current award, running through September 2030) for AI standards development organization and risk management framework support services under STARS III; a $2.5 million 8(a) Sole Source definitive contract from September 29, 2025 for AI RMF standards and crosswalk analysis; a $1.1 million Competitive 8(a) delivery order from September 30, 2025 for AI RMF catalog support services under STARS III; and an $883 thousand 8(a) Sole Source purchase order from September 30, 2025 for AI RMF governance structures support. Additional representative work includes a $4.5 million 8(a) Sole Source delivery order from November 1, 2023 to the Office of the Chief Information Officer for email and Office 365 administrative support services under STARS III (running through October 2028), a $4.8 million Competitive 8(a) delivery order from April 11, 2023 to NIST for SharePoint developer support services under STARS III, a $4.4 million Competitive 8(a) award from June 16, 2022 for enterprise systems support at NIST, and an $868 thousand 8(a) Sole Source definitive contract from January 1, 2025 with the Ogden Air Logistics Complex for collection, storage, disassembly, repair, inspection, cleaning, sanitization, and delivery of respirators at Hill Air Force Base (running through June 2030). GBS also holds single-award IDCs with the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems ($4.5 million, 8(a) Sole Source, through August 2028) for broad-based technology and web project support and with the Department of the Army ($723 thousand, 8(a) Sole Source, through July 2028) for Force Integration Support Analysis services at Bluffdale, Utah. A $754 thousand single-award IDC with the Export-Import Bank (Total Small Business set-aside, through September 2028) provides visual communication services.

Activity trajectory shows volatility with sharp growth in 2025—20 awards compared to 5 in 2024, 7 in 2023, and 5 in 2022—driven largely by the entry onto the SHIELD IDIQ and an influx of task orders under existing vehicles. Eleven awards with combined potential value $20.8 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure concentrated in NIST, NSF, and Bureau of Reclamation task orders expiring between September 2025 and June 2027. The combined potential value across all 43 awards (prime and sub) reaches $54.06 billion, but $54 billion of that ceiling is attributable to the two IDIQs (SHIELD at $151 billion as a placeholder—the source carries it as written, though the actual ceiling is not yet defined—and Seaport-NXG at $4 billion), with only $27.6 million obligated across all work to date.

GBS competes primarily under 8(a) set-asides on STARS III (19 task orders) and through other single-award 8(a) IDCs and GSA Schedule vehicles, but the SHIELD and Seaport-NXG placements signal a shift toward full-and-open defense competition. The vendor's GSA Schedule contract covers 73 labor categories spanning IT customer support ($57.86/hour entry-level) through AI and machine learning business intelligence specialists ($274.09/hour, master's degree, 12 years' experience), with no security-cleared positions offered. GBS serves as a subcontractor to Fedwriters, Inc. on five recent NIST task orders supporting standards development, network simulation, materials analysis, and digital twin initiatives (awards dated August through September 2025). The vendor's capability framing—AI governance, enterprise infrastructure, SharePoint and web development, lab automation, and federal IT operations support—is grounded almost entirely in NIST's sprawling standards and research infrastructure portfolio; the SHIELD entry and Navy Seaport-NXG position represent capability diversification away from civilian IT to defense systems engineering, though task order activity on those vehicles remains nascent.

GBS Solutions Corporation is a progressive SBA 8(a) certified small business with experience and knowledge in aerospace services. GBS Solutions provides highly professional technical and analytical personnel proficient is all facets of program management, logistics, research, training and mentoring, respirator maintenance to the U.S. Air Force at Hill AFB. Our core competence include Engineering Support, Depot Material Support and Depot Maintenance.