International Business Sales And Services Corp

International Business Sales and Services Corp, doing business as Ibss, is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland that provides IT support, program management, scientific research support, administrative services, and professional consulting to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on 91% of recent awards and holds positions on multiple government-wide vehicles and agency-specific indefinite-delivery contracts.

Ibss is a Subchapter S corporation, self-certified as a small disadvantaged business, and SBA-certified as a woman-owned small business and minority-owned (Hispanic American). The vendor competes predominantly under set-aside vehicles — woman-owned small business and total small business designations recur across the prime footprint, though Ibss also wins full-and-open delivery orders on some vehicles. The company reports over 20 years of federal contracting experience and operates across multiple locations including Silver Spring and Berwyn Heights, Maryland; Seattle, Washington; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and Key Biscayne, Florida, with administrative oversight in Silver Spring.

Customer concentration at Ibss is extreme and represents a structural dependency. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) accounts for 176 awards totaling $22.3 billion in combined potential value — 95% of Ibss's total government revenue. Within that NOAA portfolio, work spans weather forecasting support, ocean and fisheries research, climate science, satellite operations, environmental monitoring, and administrative functions across NOAA's mission areas. The Department of Defense Education Activity represents the second-largest customer with 58 awards valued at $57.1 million, followed by the General Services Administration (5 awards, $14.5 million), the Army Corps of Engineers (4 awards, $20 million), and the Navy (3 awards, $682 thousand). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration each anchor one large award — a $20 billion SEWP VI GWAC and a $1 billion eFAST vehicle, respectively — but these are new positions with minimal task-order activity in the source data window. The concentration with NOAA creates both recurring cash flow and recompete risk; fifteen awards valued at $67.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

Ibss holds positions on five major parent vehicles. The 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (8a STARS II) GWAC carries 74 task orders worth $130.2 million, making it the largest source of task-order volume outside NOAA. The NOAA ProTech Services Solution (PROTECH) vehicle, a multiple-award IDIQ with an $8 billion ceiling, supported 36 task orders valued at $85.3 million for scientific research support, program management, and administrative services across NOAA's weather, ocean, and fisheries domains. Two newer NOAA vehicles—the ProTech 2.0 - Satellite Domain IDIQ (multiple award, $8 billion ceiling, total small business set-aside) and the ProTech 2.0 - Weather Domain IDIQ (multiple award, $8 billion ceiling, awarded September 2025)—reflect Ibss's sustained footprint in NOAA's professional services ecosystem. Ibss also holds a Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) position through the General Services Administration, supporting 18 delivery orders valued at $92.6 million for cybersecurity consulting, IT support, and administrative assistance. The newly awarded SEWP VI GWAC (November 2026, $20 billion ceiling, total small business set-aside) positions Ibss for communication and audio-visual IT solutions across the federal government, though task-order activity on this vehicle is not yet present in the source data.

Representative capability work illustrates the breadth and scale of Ibss's NOAA engagement. A $23.98 million BPA call under the NOAA Mission IT Services (NMITS) vehicle (awarded September 2026, ultimate completion March 2031) covers IT support services on a firm fixed-price basis. A $14.3 million delivery order under PROTECH (April 2023, ultimate completion September 2028) supports Atlas 15 precipitation frequency estimates work in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on a time-and-materials basis, with FY2024 invoicing of $3 million across 13.5 FTEs and subcontractor labor accounting for 26% of hours at a blended rate of $105.86 per hour. A $7.39 million delivery order under the ProTech 2.0 - Satellite Domain vehicle (April 2026, ultimate completion April 2029) provides program management, technical services, and budget support to NOAA's Office of Science and Technology Integration across the Modeling Program Division, STI Budget Office, and Environmental Modeling Center. An $8.15 million delivery order (September 2023, ultimate completion September 2027) supplies professional and administrative support services to the Office of Space Commerce on a time-and-materials basis, with FY2024 labor invoicing of $1.5 million across 6.4 FTEs and a derived rate of $115.24 per hour, with one subcontractor performing 34% of hours. A $4.08 million delivery order with the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (August 2023, ultimate completion August 2028) provides administrative support on an MAS vehicle, with FY2024 invoicing of $764 thousand across 8 FTEs and self-performed hours at a derived rate of $45.95 per hour. Outside NOAA, Ibss held three 8(a) Sole Source delivery orders with the Department of Defense Education Activity in 2022 for network engineering support, Windows and Linux system administration, and cybersecurity engineering and operations support, each valued between $987 thousand and $1.22 million. Ibss also serves as a recipient of a NOAA project grant for rockfish recovery research in the Salish Sea (awarded January 2023, ultimate completion December 2023).

Activity trajectory shows volatility in award volume but sustained dollars. Awards per year averaged 13.4 across 2022–2024 but spiked to 25 in 2025, driven by multiple option exercises and new delivery orders on existing NOAA vehicles; 2026 shows only 3 awards in the source window (through November 1, 2026), reflecting the recency date. Combined potential value of $43.44 billion across all awards is heavily skewed by the SEWP VI and eFAST GWACs (combined $21 billion ceiling); obligated dollars total $293.5 million (1% of potential value), indicating most awards are in early stages or on vehicles where ceiling far exceeds near-term task-order demand.

On the subcontractor side, Ibss operates as a feeder to larger primes in a secondary role. Recent sub awards (2022–2025) show engagement with Broadleaf, Inc. on system administration support and cybersecurity engineering and operations support work (11 sub awards spanning June 2025 to December 2025), and with ManTech Advanced Systems International on NOAA Cyber Security Center cybersecurity staff augmentation (1 sub award, May 2025). A sub award to Business Enabled Acquisition and Technology, Inc. (June 2022) covered senior production analyst and senior business intelligence analyst work for the National Centers for Environmental Prediction production suite. Sub awards represent 9% of the total award count and are clustered in 2025; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors average 6% of total contractor hours, indicating Ibss builds and self-performs most of its delivery teams.

SCI-reported invoiced labor on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $45.8 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2024 marking the peak at $22.6 million across 111 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates (derived from SCI labor invoicing) ranged from a 10th percentile of $48.69 per hour to a median of $72.63 per hour and a 90th percentile of $125.09 per hour, reflecting a mix of administrative, technical, and senior specialist labor. The GSA MAS portfolio spans 132 labor categories priced from $46.99 per hour (Accounting Clerk I, high school education) through $260.31 per hour (Subject Matter Expert III, bachelor's degree with 15 years of experience), with no security-cleared roles offered. The rate spectrum reflects demand for cost-conscious administrative and entry-level IT labor as well as senior technical and subject-matter-expert positions across NOAA's operations.

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

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