Luminary Labs LLC

Luminary Labs LLC, a New York-based SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business, designs and administers innovation challenges, prize competitions, and crowdsourcing initiatives as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) serving civilian federal agencies under multiple government-wide vehicles, GWACs, and BPAs. The firm operates across three primary capability domains—innovation challenge design and administration, crowdsourcing platform operation, and federal R&D acceleration services—with no subcontractor footprint and self-performed delivery on all reported federal service contracts.

Customer concentration is bimodal by dollar value. NASA Johnson Space Center dominates the potential-value ranking at $704.8 million across 13 awards (75% of combined potential value), anchored by a $474.988 million NOIS3 GWAC awarded June 2025 with ceiling through May 2027. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response accounts for the second-largest single value—a $100 million BARDA Other Transaction Prize Vehicle definitive contract awarded September 2023 for medical countermeasure incentive prize competitions, with completion through September 2028. By award count, NASA and the Department of Education (Office of Career Technical and Adult Education) tie at 13 awards each; DoED represents $79 million in combined potential value, primarily through call orders under the $50 million EDARPA blanket purchase agreement. GSA Federal Acquisition Service places three IDIQ awards totaling approximately $500 thousand in combined potential value.

Luminary Labs holds four parent vehicles: the NOIS3 GWAC ($474.988 million ceiling, through May 2027) and NOIS2 GWAC (predecessor vehicle, $25.2 million across five task orders); the EDARPA BPA ($50 million ceiling, five call orders totaling $17.4 million to date, through September 2026); the OASIS+ WOSB IDIQ ($999,999,999,999 placeholder ceiling, awarded June 2025, through June 2030); and the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ ($999,999,999,999 placeholder ceiling, awarded December 2024, through December 2029). Representative delivery-order work on NOIS3 includes a $4.744 million MAGQUEST Phase 4C crowdsourcing initiative (August 2025–September 2026), a $4.172 million TechLeap Prize Challenge 2026 order (September 2025–March 2028), and a $649,791 Council on Environmental Quality Permitting Innovation Catalyst Program order (March 2026–December 2026). DoED work under EDARPA spans middle-grades Career and Technical Education professional development ($4.26 million), learning acceleration challenges for science and math achievement gaps in students with disabilities ($4.77 million), annual CTE challenge project management and communications ($2.85 million), adult basic education application development challenges ($3.15 million), and CTE cybersecurity program capacity building ($2.36 million).

SCI-reported invoicing across the $20.4 million federal services revenue (FY2022–FY2024) shows FY2023 as peak year at $9.7 million across 8.8 FTEs, with FY2022 at $4.6 million (4.5 FTEs) and FY2024 declining to $6 million (5.4 FTEs). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates median around $457.69 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $1,193.13 per hour (90th percentile). The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 18 active categories from $121.69 per hour (administrative) through $497.76 per hour (design director), with education requirements at bachelor's level and no security-cleared roles. Average sub-hours share on prime contracts is 3 percent with one named subcontractor reported across the SCI dataset—the firm delivers substantially all federal work through its own direct labor.

Awards per year show volatility: two in 2022, four in 2023, one in 2024, six in 2025, and one through March 2026. Five awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, combined potential value $27.8 million, concentrating recompete exposure on NOIS2 delivery orders and EDARPA call orders. The firm's award portfolio spans ten distinct federal agencies, with top NAICS categories tracking Marketing Consulting Services (21 awards) and All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (13 awards); top PSC codes are Support-Professional (Other) at 24 awards and Support-Professional (Market Research/Public Opinion) at 5 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.