Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation LLC

Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation LLC, doing business as Mettel, is a for-profit telecommunications carrier and IT services provider based in New York, New York, that operates as a prime contractor on federal contracts for wireline and wireless connectivity, network infrastructure, satellite services, and utility invoice processing — with a $2.67 billion Department of Defense wireless mobility IDIQ and a $125 million USDA wireless services BPA anchoring a portfolio of 272 prime awards (98% of recent work) across 89 federal agencies. Mettel competes predominantly full-and-open on GSA Schedule vehicles and indefinite delivery contracts without set-aside designations.

Mettel's concrete capability portfolio centers on telecommunications infrastructure delivery: wired and wireless voice and data services, Internet Protocol (IP) transport, satellite uplink and internet (Starlink), Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) replacement and modernization, local and long-distance phone service, utility invoice processing and payment services, and network operations support. Representative work includes a $31.2 million Department of Veterans Affairs delivery order for POTS replacement services under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) IDIQ (awarded August 1, 2025); a $11.1 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration order for Starlink services to NOAA ships under EIS (May 1, 2024); a $14.4 million Federal Law Enforcement Training Center voice services delivery order under EIS (January 13, 2022); and a $2.67 billion Naval Supply Systems Command indefinite delivery contract for wireless mobility services supporting over 600,000 Department of Defense personnel across all fifty states, territories, and international locations (awarded May 8, 2024, completing May 7, 2034).

Customer concentration is highly leveraged to vehicle structure. By award count, the top five customers account for 27% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Financial Officer leads with 22 awards ($156.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (20 awards, $11.1 million), the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center (12 awards, $763 million), the Department of the Army Cyber Command (11 awards, $568 thousand), and the Air National Guard (10 awards, $519 thousand). By potential value, the portfolio is heavily weighted to two vehicles: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service accounts for $50.13 billion in combined potential value across 4 awards — anchored by Mettel's two $125 million USDA wireless BPAs and the $2.67 billion DoD wireless IDIQ. The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center, the Department of Agriculture offices (split between Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency round out the top five by dollars. The tension between the two rankings reflects Mettel's strategy: multiple small task orders under GSA Schedule and EIS vehicles with civilian and defense agencies, versus dominant-dollar concentration in a small number of large IDIQs with USDA and DoD.

Mettel holds positions on five major contract vehicles. The General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) carries the deepest task-order volume: 103 task orders ($512.9 million combined potential value), spanning utilities invoice processing with USDA, wireless services with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, phone service with the Bureau of Reclamation and Indian Health Service, and customer-premises equipment and services across civilian and defense agencies. The Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) IDIQ, a GSA-administered government-wide vehicle for telecommunications and IT infrastructure, carries 54 task orders ($1.4 billion combined potential value) from Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Health Agency, Air Mobility Command, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, primarily for Ethernet transport, Internet Protocol Service, and voice services. The Information Technology Schedule 70 vehicle supports 53 task orders ($165 million combined potential value), concentrated in IT and telecommunications services. The National Local Exchange Carrier Services for the Enterprise Next Generation (NLEC-NG) IDIQ for Department of Veterans Affairs carries 7 task orders ($9.9 million combined potential value) under a $721 million vehicle providing telecommunications across 1,500 VA locations. The Department of Defense CIO's Wireless and Telecommunications Services IDIQ (Wireless Spiral 3 and successor vehicles) has supported work since at least 2022.

Activity grew from 16 awards in 2022 to a peak of 31 in 2024, then moderated to 21 in 2025 and 11 year-to-date in 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, 30 awards carrying $38.6 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion and face recompete — primarily utility management and small-dollar telecommunications service orders with USDA, phone service renewals with the Bureau of Reclamation and other interior agencies, and task orders under EIS and MAS vehicles expiring in mid-2027 and beyond. Mettel self-performs all delivery; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average subcontractor-hours share is 0%, and the vendor operates as a pure prime with no named sub engagement.

SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing totaled $166.9 million across fiscal years 2022–2025, with FY2024 peak at $57.3 million (18.2 FTEs) and FY2025 at $43.4 million (23.4 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts show median pricing of $268.45 per hour, with a spectrum from $4.25 per hour (10th percentile, indicating high-volume low-cost utility-processing and administrative labor) to $2,398.01 per hour (90th percentile, reflecting senior network engineering and satellite operations expertise). SCI is a partial view — it captures service contracts above $150,000 but excludes goods, satellite equipment sales, products, and non-federal revenue. The vendor's total federal footprint, including equipment, product sales, and unclassified work, is substantially larger; the $2.67 billion DoD wireless IDIQ alone, while captured in the combined potential-value total, likely involves substantial hardware and provisioning components outside SCI scope.