Highlight Technologies, LLC

Highlight Technologies, Inc., a Fairfax, Virginia–based small business Subchapter S corporation, operates as a prime contractor on federal IT and professional services contracts, holding seats on multiple government-wide vehicles including the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ, the Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB) GWAC, and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open (no set-aside designations on 96% of recent prime awards), though it holds Competitive 8(a) designations on selected work including a $112.4 million DevSecOps delivery order for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under CIO-SP3 SB and a $26.6 million NIH administrative and support services contract under the same vehicle.

Highlight's capability portfolio spans cloud engineering, DevSecOps, data analytics, software development, cybersecurity, and administrative support services. Recent representative work includes a $113.3 million Army cloud software management delivery order for end-to-end commercial off-the-shelf software tool procurement under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (Aug 2021 award, ultimate completion Aug 2024); a $20.5 million GSA Office of the Chief Information Officer data analytic shared services BPA call extending through June 2026 (June 2022 award, 25.1 FTEs in FY2024 at a derived blended rate of $135.64/hr, with 55% of contractor hours subcontracted); a $9.4 million Competitive 8(a) EPA systems support services delivery order under CIO-SP3 SB extending through September 2026 (July 2022 award); and a $2.4 million Coast Guard cloud computing delivery order under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (Mar 2023 award). The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 84 unique categories ranging from Administrative Assistant I at $30.15/hr through Senior Consultant/Technical Specialist III at $245.66/hr, with mid-spectrum IT roles including Cloud IT Engineer II at $160.02/hr and Requirements Analyst II at $111.31/hr.

Most recently, Highlight was awarded a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (Dec 2025, performance through Dec 2035) and an OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ seat with a multi-year period through October 2030 (Oct 2025). The vendor also holds a $249 million AI Talent 2.0 Basic Ordering Agreement with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Apr 2025, performance through May 2028), a $46 billion Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) on-ramp award (Mar 2025, performance through Sep 2031), a $42 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (Sep 2025, through Sep 2030), and a $38.9 million OPTN Operations domain-specific contract with Health Resources and Services Administration (Sep 2024, through Sep 2026).

Customer concentration is moderate and diffuse across the portfolio. The top customer by award count is the Small Business Administration Office of Capital Access (22 awards, $219.8 million combined potential value), followed by NIH Office of the Director (14 awards, $13.3 million), U.S. Agency for Global Media (8 awards, $232 thousand), Office of the Secretary of Defense (8 awards, $262.9 million), and the Army (7 awards, $121.9 million) — collectively 39% of the award count. When ranked by combined potential value, the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the customer base with 4 awards carrying $5.28 billion in combined potential value, followed by GSA Office of the Chief Information Officer (2 awards, $270.5 million), Office of the Secretary of Defense (8 awards, $262.9 million), SBA (22 awards, $219.8 million), and DHS USCIS (4 awards, $122.2 million) — together 7% of total combined potential value. The divergence reflects large single-award vehicles (Navy, GSA OCIO) coexisting with distributed smaller-dollar work across civilian agencies.

Activity has been volatile. Highlight recorded 13 prime and sub awards in 2021, declining to 6 in 2022, 3 in 2023, 2 in 2024, then recovering to 10 in 2025. The recompete cliff is shallow: only 2 awards (combined potential value $36 million) face ultimate completion within the next 24 months. The vendor's top task-order vehicles are the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (76 task orders, $1.56 billion combined potential value), The Professional Services Schedule (46 task orders, $479.7 million), and CIO-SP3 SB (10 task orders, $75.4 million).

Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reported invoiced revenue of $250.3 million across FY2022–FY2024, with a steep year-over-year decline: $117.3 million in FY2022 (803 FTEs contract-level), $79.9 million in FY2023 (360 FTEs), and $53 million in FY2024 (225 FTEs). The vendor's FTE trajectory in SCI records also declined from 535 FTEs in FY2022 to 186 in FY2023, recovering partially to 313 FTEs in FY2024 (which includes 10 sub records). Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $54.32/hr through a median of $102.72/hr to a 90th percentile of $174.55/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 24% of contractor hours on average, with 107 named subcontractors reported. The vendor operates as a prime on the vast majority of its portfolio (96% of awards) and is predominantly a prime contractor rather than a feeder subcontractor to larger primes, though it engages a distributed sub base on significant delivery orders. Named sub relationships include recent work under Peraton Enterprise Solutions LLC on a $25.5 million Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations task order (Nov 2025), under Lightfeather IO LLC on analytics systems staff support for the Online Services Office (Mar 2025), and under Zemitek LLC on administrative services for USAID (Nov 2023).

Highlight Technologies is an award-winning 8a, woman-owned, ISO 9001, CMMI Level 2 small business that provides information technology, security, and professional and administrative support to Civilian, DoD, and IC agencies. We help modernize legacy systems and meet cybersecurity requirements.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Big Data

Artificial Intelligence

Systems Modernization

IT Service Management

SharePoint Development

Salesforce Development

o Customers: Army, BBG, Coast Guard, DISA, DoL, FEMA, State, ED, DHS/ICE, DHS/HQ, Navy SPAWAR, USDA

SECURITY

Cybersecurity

Security Program Management

Predictive Cyber Analytics

o Customers: Joint Staff, FDIC

MISSION SUPPORT

Administrative and Program Management

Knowledge Management

Acquisition and Grants Management

o Customers: DTRA, EPA, FTC, NDU, DHS/USAID, USCIS, NIH