Precise Software Solutions, Inc.

Precise Software Solutions, Inc., a minority-owned, SBA-certified 8(a) firm based in Rockville, Maryland, operates predominantly as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) delivering web content management, software development, IT lifecycle support, and enterprise architecture services to civilian federal agencies under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, 8(a) STARS III GWAC, and CIO-SP3 SB GWAC. The firm is a subsidiary of Idera, Inc., and competes across full-and-open and set-aside 8(a) vehicles, with total small business and competitive 8(a) designations recurring across its prime footprint.

Precise's customer concentration sits almost entirely within HHS. The Food and Drug Administration dominates the award portfolio, accounting for 122 awards with $710.3 million combined potential value—89% of the award count across the top-five agencies. The Drug Enforcement Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Peace Corps, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services represent secondary customers. However, potential-value rankings reveal a different story: GSA Federal Acquisition Service and NIH NITAAC combined represent $90.93 billion in potential value across five awards, driven by parent vehicle ceilings on the 8(a) STARS III ($50 billion) and CIO-SP3 SB ($40 billion). The gap between award-count concentration (FDA-heavy) and dollar-potential concentration (vehicle-heavy) signals that Precise holds seats on government-wide vehicles but derives execution volume from FDA task orders.

Precise places work primarily under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (181 task orders, $1.61 billion combined potential value), with secondary positions on the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC (7 task orders, $32.3 million), 8(a) STARS III (6 task orders, $21.6 million), and GSA IT Schedule 70 (44 task orders, $109.3 million). The firm also holds single-award BPAs with FDA for IT Lifecycle Development and Management Support Services ($99 million, total small business set-aside, through June 2029) and Joint Administration Application Development Environment 2 ($34 million, total small business set-aside, through May 2025). Recent representative work includes a $43.9 million time-and-materials delivery order from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for hybrid cloud product engineering and operations (CMS infrastructure), a $12.3 million firm fixed-price order from FDA for Document Archiving Reporting and Regulatory Tracking System development under 8(a) STARS III, and a $7.19 million FDA LIMS Integration Continuation BPA call.

Activity has remained steady at 21–24 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with 18 awards (combined potential value $56.6 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. Award count at 157 total (151 prime, 6 sub) reflects a diversified portfolio across multiple agencies and vehicles, but revenue concentration is severe—FDA alone accounts for the vast majority of execution dollars.

On SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, Precise invoiced $80.7 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($24.3 million FY2022, $27.4 million FY2023, $29 million FY2024), with prime federal workforce averaging 97–109 FTEs annually. Across prime SCI records, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $122.83 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $205.86 per hour at the 90th percentile and entry-level technical roles near $60.71 per hour. Subcontractor engagement on prime contracts averaged 9 percent of contractor hours across 25 named subs, indicating Precise builds most delivery teams in-house. Named subcontractors on the FDA portfolio include AE Strategies LLC and Eagle Hill Consulting, LLC, performing lifecycle development, operations and maintenance, and digital modernization work.

In its minority subcontractor role, Precise performs as a named sub to AE Strategies LLC and Eagle Hill Consulting on FDA import systems and administrative support work, and as a sub-recipient to the Indiana Department of Health on CDC public health infrastructure grants. Subcontract work accounts for 4 percent of recent awards by count but carries minimal execution volume.

The GSA labor portfolio spans 148 active categories from Help Desk Analyst ($83.70 per hour) through Strategic Consultant, Senior ($363.23 per hour), covering cloud development, health IT applications, functional specialization, and program management with education requirements from high school through bachelor's degree and no security-clearance roles. This breadth anchors Precise's capability to staff both tactical web content and system-support roles and higher-level enterprise architecture and program-management positions across civilian IT modernization.

Precise's federal footprint is heavily weighted toward web content management, application development and modernization, and IT operations support for FDA mission-critical systems. The 8(a) certification (expiring March 2026) and minority-owned status anchor the firm's seat on 8(a) vehicles and total small business set-asides. The parent relationship to Idera—a database and application management tools provider—does not appear to drive subsidiary federal strategy; Precise competes on its own IT services capabilities rather than leveraging parent technology as a bundled offering.

Precise specializes in system modernization/integration, digital transformation, strategic consulting, web modernization, and cloud services. Capabilities include: app development, Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, low code/no-code, Software as a Service, UI/UX, website development, data science, data analytics, data management, data migration, cloud strategy, cloud assessment, cloud migration, analysis of alternatives, and technology assessments. Technologies include Appian, Salesforce, Drupal, Oracle, Angular, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Graph DB.

Precise is CMMI Level 3 for Development and obtained ISO 9001, 20000, and 27001. We maintain our own Innovation Lab to develop technology to enhance customer programs/projects. Our capabilities include artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI), large language models (LLM), robotics process automation (RPA), and machine learning (ML). We support numerous federal agencies: FDA, NOAA, DEA, Navy, IRS, NIST, ACL, and NIH.