Highrise Consulting Inc.

Highrise Consulting Inc., a small for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in North Bethesda, Maryland, delivers dashboard development, system engineering, grants management, and health IT operations and maintenance services to the Department of Health and Human Services and its components as a prime contractor on federal IT vehicles, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations on GSA and agency-specific contracts.

The company's award portfolio centers on HHS and its component agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 95% of recent awards, dominated by the National Institutes of Health's Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (36 awards, $54.6 million combined potential value) and the Denali Commission (35 awards, $17.6 million combined potential value), followed by NIH's Office of the Director (8 awards, $307.9 million). However, the potential-value ranking diverges sharply: a single CIO-SP3 Small Business GWAC seat with NIH's NITAAC Office of Information Technology Acquisition carries a $20 billion ceiling, and two GSA Federal Acquisition Service awards total $189 million. This concentration in HHS is reinforced across the SCI dataset: Highrise reported $71.3 million in invoiced service-contract revenue across FY2022 and FY2024 (no FY2023 reportable activity), with 86.1 FTEs in FY2022 and 94.8 FTEs in FY2024. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates median around $126/hr, ranging from $78/hr at the tenth percentile to $172/hr at the ninetieth percentile, with no security-cleared labor categories offered.

Highrise's capability portfolio centers on dashboard systems development and maintenance, system engineering for cloud platforms, grants management system support, and health IT website operations. Representative work includes a $108 million Partial Small Business delivery order (issued September 2022, completing September 2026) for ERA cloud computing platform system engineering and on-premise infrastructure support across NICHD's program areas; a $63 million Total Small Business delivery order (issued January 2022, completing January 2027) for ERA grants management system support services under CIO-SP3 SB; a $4.2 million delivery order for ONC HealthIT.gov operations and maintenance under the same GWAC; and a $751 thousand BPA call for ORIP Dashboard Systems feature and special projects development under the National Library of Medicine's MAS contract. Recent work also includes dashboard development for the National Library of Medicine's SP Reporter and S10 Reporting tools ($989 thousand ceiling under a single-award NLM BPA), and a July 2026 delivery order from the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations for OLAO software support and dashboard development ($285 thousand) under GSA MAS.

Highrise places task orders across three primary vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (88 task orders, $233.6 million combined potential value), the Information Technology Schedule 70 (60 task orders, $32.9 million), and the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC (4 task orders, $186.3 million). The company's GSA Schedule carries 152 unique labor categories spanning IT Help Desk Analyst through senior program management roles, with rates from $44.64/hr to $298.01/hr and education requirements from associate to bachelor's degree; no classified or security-cleared positions are offered.

Highrise operates as a prime contractor on 99% of its awards, with minimal subcontractor engagement. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for roughly 4% of total contractor hours delivered, with 76 named subcontractors reported across the service-contract footprint. The vendor does subcontract on grants management and IT support work under Guidehouse Inc., per a November 2023 sub-award for GrantSolutions support services through HHS.

Five awards (combined potential value $182.6 million) complete within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk, anchored by the NICHD ERA system engineering delivery order and NIH Office of the Director grants management work. Activity contracted sharply after 2023 — four awards in both 2022 and 2023, then one in 2024 and three in 2025 — suggesting either a shift in Highrise's pursuit strategy, pipeline delays, or consolidation of work under existing large delivery orders rather than new awards. The CIO-SP3 SB GWAC, renewed in 2023, anchors most dollar value and runway through 2028, but the company's federal services footprint outside HHS remains minimal.

Provider of IT consulting services.