Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation LLC

Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation LLC, doing business as Mettel, is a for-profit telecommunications company headquartered in New York that delivers wireless mobility services, network infrastructure, managed telecommunications, and satellite connectivity to federal agencies as a prime contractor on a massive scale—98% of recent awards are prime positions across a sprawling vehicle portfolio that includes a $2.67 billion Department of Defense wireless contract, two $125 million USDA wireless BPAs, and dozens of task orders under the GSA Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) and Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) vehicles. The vendor competes full-and-open across all vehicle types with no set-aside posture; most recent awards carry no set-aside designation, though a small subset of earlier work appeared under Total Small Business set-asides on modest orders.

Mettel's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in two customer agencies by dollar value. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service, acting as the contracting office for the EIS vehicle, accounts for $50.13 billion of the combined potential value across four awards—the $2.67 billion Department of Defense wireless mobility contract dominates this tier. The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center is the second-largest by dollars (12 awards, $763 million potential value), anchored by a $721 million National Local Exchange Carrier Services for the Enterprise Next Generation (NLEC-NG) contract, and is followed by USDA's Office of the Chief Information Officer (8 awards, $255.1 million) and the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (22 awards, $156.1 million). By award count, USDA's Office of the Chief Financial Officer leads with 22 awards, primarily small-to-moderate-value utilities invoice processing and management BPA calls, followed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (20 awards, but only $11.1 million combined value—indicating high volume, low-dollar orders). Mettel serves 88 distinct agencies; the top five by combined potential value account for 91% of dollars across the portfolio.

Mettel's vehicle architecture centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), from which 100 task orders have been issued worth $513 million, and the EIS indefinite delivery contract, under which 54 task orders carry $1.4 billion in combined potential value. The $2.67 billion DoD wireless contract, awarded May 8, 2024, by Naval Supply Systems Command on behalf of DoD Chief Information Officer, supports over 600,000 military and civilian personnel across the 50 states, territories, and international locations and extends through May 7, 2034. Mettel also holds two $125 million wireless services BPAs with USDA (one established October 1, 2024, ordering through June 30, 2029; the second September 27, 2024, through the same date) and a $9 million single-award USDA utilities invoice payment and processing BPA running through December 31, 2027. The National Local Extension Carrier Services (NLEC-NG) contract with the VA, valued at $721 million, provides telecommunications and related services across 1,500 VA agency locations nationwide. Mettel places task orders across the IT Schedule 70 (53 task orders, $165 million), an indefinite delivery contract designated 70FA3018D00000004 (22 task orders, $246 thousand), and multiple smaller vehicles.

Representative prime work includes a $31.2 million VA Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions POTS replacement services delivery order issued August 1, 2025, by the VA Technology Acquisition Center under EIS; a $14.4 million voice services delivery order from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (January 13, 2022, extending through July 30, 2032); a $13.7 million wireless mobility services delivery order from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (August 14, 2023); a $10.98 million Starlink services delivery order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for NOAA ships (May 1, 2024); a $5.7 million NLEC-NG Service Order 38 from VA Technology Acquisition Center (September 1, 2024); a $4.19 million Ethernet transport services delivery order from the Defense Information Systems Agency (March 3, 2023); and dozens of smaller utility invoice management, telecommunications administrative, and local exchange carrier calls ranging from hundreds to low millions of dollars. The USDA portfolio is heavily weighted to BPA calls for utilities invoice processing, consumption reporting, and management services, with recent calls including a $3.1 million call (September 4, 2025), a $1.84 million call (September 1, 2023), and a $1.97 million call (September 1, 2021).

Activity has grown over the past five years, with 16 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, 30 in 2024 (a near-double), 21 in 2025, and 9 to date in 2026. Twenty-nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $5 million—a modest recompete cliff compared to the vendor's scale, as most large vehicles extend well past that window. The combined potential value across all 275 awards (prime and sub) is $56.66 billion, though only $461.1 million has been obligated to date (1% of potential), reflecting the structure of indefinite delivery contracts with ceiling values substantially above current utilization.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above $150,000 threshold) totaled $123.5 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2022 invoicing $46.8 million across 11.1 FTEs, FY2023 invoicing $19.4 million across 10.3 FTEs, and FY2024 invoicing $57.3 million across 18.2 FTEs—indicating growth in FY2024 both in dollars and workforce scale on SCI-reportable contracts. Government-paid median hourly rates on prime SCI contracts run around $268.45/hr, with rates spanning a spectrum from a 10th percentile of $4.25/hr (likely small utility processing orders) to a 90th percentile of $2,398.01/hr (likely high-end engineering or specialized support labor). Mettel self-performs on its prime contracts; SCI data show 0% average sub-hours share across prime contracts, indicating Mettel delivers its own labor rather than relying on subcontractors to staff federal work.

Mettel operates as a subcontractor on limited work: the source names two sub-awards—a Teksynap Corporation prime for TNNG Telecommunication and Circuit Services (July 21, 2025) and an Army ITES-3S (Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 Services) prime award (June 13, 2025)—indicating Mettel's federal footprint is overwhelmingly direct prime relationships rather than teaming or sub roles. The vendor's scale and vehicle holdings position it as a primary carrier for federal wireless, network infrastructure, and managed telecommunications—a direct competitor for large telecommunications and EIS-class work rather than a feeder to larger systems integrators.