Partner Forces LLC

Partner Forces LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Arlington, Virginia, operates as both a prime contractor and subcontractor on federal professional services and IT contracts, with recent work concentrated on homeland security infrastructure assessment, critical facility security analysis, emergency management consulting, and technical engineering support across civilian and defense agencies. The company is SBA-certified as a Women-Owned Small Business and self-certified as a Small Disadvantaged Business, competing predominantly under WOSB and Total Small Business set-asides on its prime footprint (44% of recent awards) while engaging as a named subcontractor to larger primes across multiple programs (56% of recent awards).

Partner Forces' customer concentration skews heavily toward homeland security and defense. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 75% of recent activity, led by the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (9 awards), GSA Federal Acquisition Service (5 awards, $2 million combined potential value), the Transportation Security Administration (4 awards, $5.4 million), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (4 awards), and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (2 awards). However, potential-value rankings diverge dramatically from award count: NASA anchors the portfolio with a single $20 billion award on the SEWP VI GWAC (multiple-award vehicle for IT communication and audio-visual solutions), and Naval Sea Systems Command contributes a $4 billion SEAPORT-NXG IDIQ, together representing 99% of combined potential value despite representing less than 10% of award count. This concentration signals that Partner Forces holds significant ordering capacity across two major government-wide vehicles but has executed relatively little actual work against them—only $29.5 million in combined obligated dollars across a $24 billion ceiling.

Partner Forces maintains positions on five major parent vehicles. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule anchors near-term execution with 13 task orders and $5.4 million in combined potential value, concentrated in TSA pipeline security and critical facility security reviews for homeland security customers. The vendor also holds seats on Alliant II (8 task orders, no-dollar detail in source), the OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business IDIQ (1 task order, $2 million), the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ (awarded December 2024, no ceiling specified), and IT Schedule 70 (2 task orders). The SEWP VI GWAC and SHIELD IDIQ remain nascent—both awarded in late 2025 and early 2026 with only minimum-guarantee orders of five hundred dollars issued to date.

Concrete capability framing derives from named work. On the TSA vehicle, Partner Forces has delivered pipeline corporate security reviews, critical facility security reviews and on-site industry reviews, and the Pipeline Relative Risk Ranking Tool Top 100 Lists work—delivery orders ranging from $686 thousand to $1.64 million, all set-aside for women-owned small business or total small business, with places of performance in Arlington, Virginia and Austin, Texas. On the CISA side, Partner Forces subcontracts to Celeen LLC for Office of Security Programs operational and program management support services addressing targeted violence and terrorism response. Under primes ECS Federal and CDM Federal Programs Corporation, the vendor delivers technical engineering support services (TESS) and hazard mitigation assistance program integration and consulting services, respectively. Across Accenture Federal Services and Chevo LLC, Partner Forces has performed emergency management assessment work and program evaluation and performance measurement services for CISA and FEMA.

Activity has grown inconsistently over the past five years—two awards in 2022, four in 2023, seven in 2024, nine in 2025, and six thus far in 2026. Only one award with a combined potential value of $2 million faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months (the TSA WOSB delivery order maturing November 2027 on the Multiple Award Schedule), exposing minimal recompete risk in the near term; the vast majority of capacity sits unexercised on long-dated vehicles. SCI-reported invoicing as a prime contractor on service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $3.9 million from fiscal 2022 through 2025—$1.1 million in FY2022, $1.4 million in FY2023, $1.1 million in FY2024, and $214 thousand in FY2025—reflecting sparse direct-delivery activity relative to the vendor's seat holdings. Estimated FTE delivery to federal customers (SCI basis) ranged from 30 FTEs in FY2022 to 62.1 FTEs in FY2025, though FY2025 figures are partial-year. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor delivered labor exclusively through direct hire, with zero sub-hours share, and government-paid hourly rates on those contracts ran a median of $222.91 per hour, with 10th percentile around $99.83 per hour and 90th percentile near $305.56 per hour. GSA Schedule labor rates span 86 active categories from $62.49 per hour (junior database architect, bachelor's degree) through $348.99 per hour (program manager with master's degree), with no security-cleared labor offerings.

Partner Forces operates primarily as a subcontractor to larger primes—56% of its award footprint consists of sub-awards—with recurring teaming relationships anchored to ECS Federal (multiple TESS modifications and IT solutions task orders across 2025 and 2026), CDM Federal Programs Corporation (hazard mitigation and consulting services), and smaller engagements with Celeen LLC, Accenture Federal Services, and Chevo LLC. As a prime, the vendor competes almost exclusively under WOSB and total-small-business set-asides on GSA vehicles and OASIS+ IDIQs, with recent defense prime positions (SHIELD, SEAPORT-NXG) awarded on full-and-open, no-set-aside basis but with only placeholder orders issued to date.