International Business Sales And Services Corp

International Business Sales and Services Corp, doing business as Ibss, is a woman-owned small business prime contractor headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland that delivers program management, technical services, scientific research support, and administrative functions to the federal government, with 91% of recent awards as prime contractor and a strong concentration in civilian civilian mission support. Ibss holds SBA certifications as a woman-owned small business (WOSB), minority-owned business, self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB), and Subchapter S corporation status.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) accounts for 175 awards (65% of all awards) and $22.27 billion in combined potential value (95% of the vendor's total potential value across all 268 awards). The Department of Defense Education Activity is the second customer with 58 awards valued at $57.1 million, followed by the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (5 awards, $14.5 million), the Army Corps of Engineers (4 awards, $20 million), and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (1 award, $17.9 million). NOAA's dominance creates single-customer dependency risk that dwarfs all other considerations.

Ibss holds positions on multiple IDIQs and BPAs. The 8a STARS II vehicle carries 74 task orders valued at $130.2 million; the NOAA ProTech Services Solution (PROTECH) carries 36 task orders valued at $85.2 million; the GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 17 task orders valued at $68.6 million; and Ibss holds two multi-billion-dollar PROTECH 2.0 vehicles — the Satellite Domain ($8 billion ceiling, multiple-award set-aside, awarded March 2023, through June 2028) and the Weather Domain ($8 billion ceiling, multiple-award total-small-business set-aside, awarded September 2025, through January 2031). Ibss also holds an eFAST BPA with GSA ($1 billion ceiling, no set-aside, through September 2029) and a $10 million Army Corps of Engineers planning and environmental studies IDIQ (woman-owned small business set-aside, through August 2026).

Representative prime work at NOAA spans weather, ocean, and fisheries missions. Recent delivery orders include a $7.39 million program management and technical services order for the Office of Science and Technology Integration (awarded April 2026, through April 2029), a $5.49 million engineering and program support order for the Automated Surface Observing System Service Life Extension Program (September 2025, through September 2028), a $14.3 million time-and-materials order for Atlas 15 precipitation frequency estimates (April 2023, through September 2028), a $10.7 million time-and-materials IT program support order under the NOAA Mission IT Services BPA (August 2023, through July 2028), and a $9.75 million professional and administrative support order for the Office of Space Commerce (September 2023, through September 2027). Ibss also holds a recent three-year definitive contract with NOAA valued at $3.28 million for upper air observing systems support (May 2024, through February 2028). Outside NOAA, Ibss delivered $8.75 million in cybersecurity consultant services to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the GSA Schedule (July 2022, through June 2025) and $1.22 million in network engineering support to the Department of Defense Education Activity under the 8a STARS II GWAC on an 8(a) sole-source basis (July 2022, through December 2022).

Activity trajectory shows recovery after contraction. Awards per year fell from 14 (2022) to 10 (2024), then rebounded sharply to 25 in 2025, with one award so far in 2026. Fourteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $25.5 million and will face recompete. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $45.8 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $16.4 million across 106 FTEs; FY2023: $6.7 million across 51.5 FTEs; FY2024: $22.6 million across 111 FTEs), showing recovery in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $48.69 per hour (10th percentile) to $125.09 per hour (90th percentile), with a median of $72.63 per hour. GSA Schedule labor rates span $46.99–$260.31 per hour across 132 unique categories, covering positions from accounting clerk to subject matter expert, with no security clearance requirements across the active roster.

Ibss operates predominantly as a prime contractor but engages subcontractors selectively. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 8% of contractor hours, with 20 named subcontractors reported. Recent sub work shows Ibss delivering system administration support and cybersecurity engineering to Broadleaf, Inc. (recurring multiple times in 2024–2025), NOAA Cyber Security Center cyber security staff augmentation to ManTech Advanced Systems International, operational NCEP production suite support to Business Enabled Acquisition And Technology, and ACCSP network modernization support as a sub-recipient under the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission on a NOAA grant (awarded March 2025). The vendor's sub engagement is low-volume and ad hoc rather than a structural business model.

NAICS concentration tracks the mission-support profile: Computer Systems Design Services (86 awards), All Other Support Services (47), All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (28), Custom Computer Programming Services (27), and Engineering Services (18). The top PSC categories are Support–Management Other (38 awards), Support–Professional Other (25), IT and Telecom–Integrated Hardware/Software/Services Solutions (20), Natural Resources/Conservation–Fisheries Resources Management (17), and Support–Administrative Other (17). Set-aside posture is mixed: Ibss competes both as a woman-owned small business set-aside prime (the dominant posture on NOAA's ProTech vehicles) and full-and-open (notably on GSA Schedule work and some NOAA task orders). The 8a STARS II vehicle carries 8(a) sole-source awards, but Ibss's core WOSB and SDB certifications drive most recent awards. One federal grant recipient award appears in the record: NOAA-funded rockfish recovery research (January 2023, through December 2023).

Network / data Security

IV&V

LAN / WAN Network Design

Client/Server application support

Wireless LAN design

Virtual private network design (VPN)

Voice & Video over IP

Disaster Recovery

Helpdesk

Database Design