Nexight Group LLC

Nexight Group LLC, doing business as Nexight, is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based small business that provides regulatory consulting, policy analysis, strategic planning, communications support, and technical analysis services to federal civilian agencies primarily as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) on GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicles and federal IDIQs. The firm operates as a self-performing prime, relying minimally on subcontractors across most work.

Nexight competes across mixed set-aside postures. Recent awards split between Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competitive procurements, with no concentration in 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other SBA designations beyond small-business status. The vendor's primary NAICS profile (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, covering 89 of 109 awards) and PSC categories (Support–Professional: Other; Operations Research/Quantitative Analysis; Program Management/Support) reflect consulting and strategic-services delivery rather than technical or engineering-focused work.

Customer concentration is moderate and distributed across civilian agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 50% of recent awards by count: the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Transportation and Marketing Program leads with 18 awards valued at $3 million combined potential; the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) follows with 15 awards at $92.8 million; the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency holds 9 awards at $22 million; the Department of Energy Office of Loan Programs carries 7 awards at $292 thousand; and the Food and Drug Administration accounts for 5 awards at $9 million. The potential-value ranking diverges sharply: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the top by potential value ($168.2 million across 2 awards), reflecting Nexight's recent award of a seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ in October 2025 with a ceiling that carries a multi-billion-dollar placeholder. NIST remains the second-largest by potential value, driven by a $70 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded September 2024 for marketing, branding, communications, and strategic analysis support to the Innovation & Industry Services Organization. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's $8 billion PROTECH 2.0 Oceans Domain IDIQ (awarded April 2024) also significantly inflates total potential value, though task-order activity against it has not yet appeared in the visible award set.

Nexight's parent vehicle portfolio is heavily weighted to the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, where 78 task orders carry $67.5 million in combined potential value. Beyond MAS, the vendor holds seats on the NIST $70 million IDIQs for innovation and industry services and manufacturing extension partnership support (7 task orders, $3.6 million combined value), the NOAA $8 billion PROTECH 2.0 Oceans Domain IDIQ, and the October 2025 OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside GWAC. A single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for performance management support services ($1.126 million ceiling, extended through September 2027) and a single-award BPA with USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration for PSD Administrative Regulatory Record Review ($1.5 million, through September 2026) round out the IDV footprint.

Representative prime work demonstrates a consulting-delivery model across energy, manufacturing, agriculture, and regulatory support. A $11.67 million time-and-materials delivery order from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (awarded February 2022, ultimate completion August 2025) provides subject-matter-expert support to the Advanced Manufacturing Office, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology Office, and Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office, with integrated program management, strategy support, and technical analysis spanning critical materials, sustainable manufacturing, smart manufacturing, industrial decarbonization, and related domains; across FY2022–FY2024, this order invoiced $9.52 million against 44.3 FTEs and subcontractor engagement at 32 percent of hours in FY2024, notably higher than Nexight's typical sub-hours share. A $2.07 million firm fixed-price delivery order with the Food and Drug Administration (awarded August 2024, completion September 2027) supports the FDA Standards Recognition Program for Regenerative Medicine Therapies through stakeholder coordination and standards-development facilitation. A $1.14 million delivery order with NIST (awarded September 2024 under the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Support IDIQ) covers financial-management training development to support the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. NIST also accounts for multiple smaller orders under the Innovation & Industry Services Organization IDIQ, including $420,920 for Manufacturing USA stakeholder engagement and outreach (April 2026), $423,649 for advanced manufacturing education workforce study support (September 2025), and $288,982 for Manufacturing USA workforce development support (July 2026). USDA Agricultural Marketing Service work includes a $874,965 delivery order for writing, editing, training, and education support to the National Organic Program (July 2026) and a $430,250 firm fixed-price order for regulatory writing to NOP (July 2023).

Activity has accelerated, peaking at 24 awards in 2024 and normalizing to 10 in 2025 and 9 year-to-date in 2026. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $11.5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure for the vendor. Across the SCI-reportable prime contracts (a subset of total federal services revenue covering awards above the $150,000 threshold), invoiced revenue ran $6.1 million in FY2022, $10 million in FY2023, $8.6 million in FY2024, and $7.2 million in FY2025, reflecting a trajectory from growth to normalization. FTE delivery on SCI-reportable contracts held between 20 and 32 FTEs across the same period. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile near zero (likely including per-diem or non-labor invoicing) to a median of $140.93 per hour and a 90th percentile of $378.18 per hour, consistent with Nexight's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spanning Communications Analyst I at $60.15 per hour through Executive Director II at $436.26 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors averaged 7 percent of total contractor hours, with 16 named subcontractors reported—reflecting Nexight's predominantly self-performing delivery model.

In its subcontractor role, Nexight serves as a sub to larger defense and energy integrators. Energy Technology Alliance LLC engages Nexight on multiple DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy initiatives supporting the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology Office, Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office, and Critical Minerals & Energy Innovation teams. The MITRE Corporation engages Nexight on Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity support for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs, as well as system engineering and acquisition expertise for capability delivery. Celeen LLC, Dynamis Inc., and KBC Energy Solutions LLC round out the named prime relationships, covering Department of Homeland Security office-of-security programs support, Air Force Inspector General readiness exercises, and Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory mission execution, respectively.

Nexight holds two prime federal grants from the National Science Foundation: a cooperative agreement (CFDA 47.041, August 2022–July 2024) for a natural-hazards-engineering research infrastructure decadal visioning study examining future NHE research directions and infrastructure needs across FY2026–FY2035; and a project grant (March 2024–August 2024) supporting Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division roadmapping through planning, facilitation, and workshop documentation.