Luminary Labs LLC

Luminary Labs LLC, a New York–based SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business, designs and administers innovation challenges, crowdsourcing initiatives, and prize competitions for federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor across multiple governmentwide vehicles and agency-specific IDIQs. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and self-performs substantially all federal work with minimal subcontractor engagement.

Luminary Labs holds seats on three major contract vehicles: the NASA Open Innovation Services 3 (NOIS3) GWAC with a $474.988 million ceiling through May 2027, the OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business IDIQ through June 2030, and the OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ through December 2029. The vendor also maintains a GSA Multiple Award Schedule position. Recent representative delivery orders include a $8.379 million WOSB sole-source order from NASA Johnson Space Center for the MAGQUEST Phase 4C crowdsourcing initiative (September 2025–September 2027), a $7.302 million order for the 2026 TechLeap Prize Challenge (September 2025–March 2028), and a $100 million definitive contract from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response for medical countermeasure incentive prize competition design and administration through September 2031. The vendor also holds a $50 million Department of Education Experimental Design and Advanced Research Projects Accelerator (EDARPA) blanket purchase agreement under which it has received over $20 million in cumulative orders for career and technical education acceleration, learning innovation challenges, and professional development coordination.

Customer concentration runs heavily to NASA Johnson Space Center, which accounts for 14 awards worth $712.3 million in combined potential value. The Department of Education (13 awards across two offices, $129 million combined potential value) and the Department of Health and Human Services ($101.2 million combined potential value) round out the top three agencies and represent 100% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $23.3 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2023 peak activity at $9.7 million across 8.8 FTEs and subsequent decline to $3 million across 2.4 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts median around $457.69/hr, with rates ranging from $183.15/hr at the tenth percentile to $1,193.13/hr at the ninety-first. GSA Schedule labor categories span admin, information architect, designer, operations director, senior developer, client partner, and design director roles at $125.34–$512.70/hr, all requiring a bachelor's degree with experience ranging from two to twelve years and no security-clearance requirements. The vendor's sub-engagement footprint remains minimal: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average 2% of total contractor hours, with only one named subcontractor reported across the dataset.

The portfolio shows growth from two awards in 2022 to a peak of six awards in 2025, with activity moderating to two awards in 2026 to date. Five awards with combined potential value of $19.9 million face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure on contracts including the KidneyX Innovation Accelerator (expired July 2024) and the CDC blood lead sampling initiative (expired December 2024). The vendor's capability framing—innovation-challenge design, crowdsourcing platform operation, and prize-competition administration—sits squarely within NAICS 541990 (all other professional, scientific, and technical services) and PSC support-professional categories, with modest concentration in marketing consulting services (21 awards) and human resources consulting (2 awards).

Luminary Labs is a New York-based strategy and innovation consultancy that helps private sector, nonprofit, and government

organizations thrive in the face of change. We work on projects focused on stemming chronic disease, closing the skills gap,

rethinking the future of work, supporting digital transformations, using data to make smart cities safer, developing sustainable

business models, and making moonshot investments.