MCI Communications Services LLC

MCI Communications Services LLC Verizon Division, doing business as MCI, operates as a large business prime contractor delivering wired telecommunications services, voice over internet protocol transport, managed network services, and commercial voice solutions to federal defense and civilian agencies without small business set-aside eligibility. The vendor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, and competes on unrestricted, full-and-open basis across multiple federal contract vehicles.

The vendor's federal footprint centers on telecommunications delivery grounded in concrete service lines: voice services including long distance switched, toll-free, and commercial voice; VoIP transport; managed network services with change management and repair support; and dedicated data connectivity. Representative work includes a $238.6 million Networx delivery order for managed network services to Army Cyber Command (awarded December 2023), multiple Networx delivery orders for VoIP transport valued between $1,200 and $2,700 to Army Cyber Command and Marine Corps (awarded June 2024), and roughly $20 million in combined Networx managed network and change-management orders to Army Cyber Command spanning October 2023 through October 2023. The vendor's GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (GSA Contract 47QTCA25D00A5, awarded May 2025, five-year ceiling of $700,000) authorizes task orders for IT and cybersecurity professional services and electronic equipment across three service categories: Information Technology Professional Services, Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services, and new electronic equipment procurement. Labor rates on the schedule range from IT Manager I at $187.61 in Year 1 (escalating to $210.34 by Year 5) through senior Cyber Subject Matter Expert V positions at $473.31 to $530.64.

Customer concentration is extreme and heavily weighted to two defense customers: Department of the Army Cyber Command accounts for 8,174 awards (40% of the portfolio by count) with $1.24 billion combined potential value, and Defense Information Systems Agency holds 2,070 awards with $309.8 million combined potential value. Together these two customers account for 62% of all recent awards and 49% of combined potential value. Department of Defense Education Activity ranks third by potential value ($155.1 million across 215 awards), followed by Defense Contract Audit Agency ($70.6 million, 866 awards) and Naval Computer and Telecommunications ($47.4 million, 929 awards). This concentration reflects the vendor's positioning as an internal Verizon division focused on federal telecommunications infrastructure rather than a standalone competitor.

The vendor holds positions on two primary contract vehicles: Networx (a multi-agency GSA GWAC for telecommunications services) accounts for 11,467 task orders valued at $2.14 billion in combined potential value, and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 5,919 task orders worth $205.5 million. IT Schedule 70 hosts 5,887 task orders with minimal dollar value ($10.5 million combined), suggesting high-volume, low-value labor tasks. Two agency-specific IDCs also carry significant volume: Indefinite Delivery Contract GS00T06NSD0001 (2,077 task orders, $268.5 million combined) and Indefinite Delivery Contract DCA20002D5003 (278 task orders, $88 million). The Networx vehicle dominates by potential value—57% of the entire portfolio flows through Networx task orders.

Recent activity shows sharp decline: the vendor recorded 3,618 awards in FY2022, declining to 2,433 in FY2023, then collapsing to 67 awards in FY2024 and 24 in FY2025, with only 1 award recorded in FY2026 (as of the cutoff date). This represents a 99.7% drop from peak FY2022 volume and signals either a major contract vehicle recompete loss or portfolio transition. The recompete cliff is modest in absolute terms: 3,842 awards (combined potential value $1.1 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months—a small absolute exposure but a reflection of the collapsed current award volume.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue (covering only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold) totaled $3.9 million across FY2023–FY2024 ($2.1 million in FY2023, $1.8 million in FY2024), with zero FTE-years recorded in the same period. The SCI data shows 20 prime records with zero subcontractor engagement by hours. This minimal SCI footprint reflects that the vast majority of MCI's federal work consists of commodity telecommunications service task orders under Networx and MAS—low-overhead, high-volume, low-per-transaction-value delivery that falls below or near the SCI threshold.

MCI competes as a 100% prime contractor (20,490 of 20,492 total awards) with negligible subcontractor exposure—only 2 sub awards appear in the source, one a Leidos sub-award for end-user IT support services (October 2024). The vendor does not build delivery teams or engage subs; it executes as a service provider leveraging parent-company Verizon's telecommunications infrastructure and operations.

The vendor's corporate positioning as Verizon's federal division for telecommunications delivery—not as an independent contractor—shapes its profile. Its award portfolio reflects internal Verizon federal operations: high-volume, transactional telecommunications provisioning to defense agencies under standing vehicles, with no pursuit strategy beyond its embedded position within the Verizon federal organization. The rapid decline in award volume in FY2024–FY2025 signals either a Networx recompete loss or a shift to internal Verizon cost-accounting structures that no longer surface MCI division awards separately in federal databases.