Unison Cost Engineering LLC

Unison Cost Engineering LLC, a McLean, Virginia-based subsidiary of Unison Software Inc., delivers cost engineering and acquisition management software solutions—primarily TruePlanning, Price Systems, and Price Cost Analytics suites—to federal agencies across defense and civilian sectors as a full-and-open prime contractor (99% of recent awards) with no SBA set-aside designations. The firm operates as a for-profit limited liability company with no minority ownership or disadvantaged-business certifications stated in the source.

Unison's customer concentration spans defense and civilian agencies, but with distinct splits between award count and dollar value. The top five customers by award count account for 43% of recent awards: the Department of the Navy (51 awards, though valued at only $47 thousand combined), NASA Shared Services Center (26 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value), the Naval Air Warfare Center (19 awards, $158 thousand combined), the Department of the Treasury IRS (13 awards, $1.9 million combined), and the Department of the Air Force (11 awards, $7.8 million combined). By potential value, the picture shifts substantially: the Air Force Materiel Command anchors the portfolio with five awards valued at $19.3 million combined, the Army Headquarters Office of the Secretary contributes eight awards at $16.1 million combined, and the broader Air Force adds $7.8 million across eleven awards. This divergence reflects a characteristic pattern — the Navy places many smaller purchase orders for software renewals and licenses, while Air Force and Army contracts concentrate larger delivery orders and indefinite-delivery-contract (IDC) awards.

Unison holds three parent vehicles driving significant task-order volume. The GSA Information Technology Schedule 70 carries 113 task orders valued at $11.1 million combined potential value, positioning it as the primary vehicle for civilian-agency software procurements. A Navy single-award IDC (N0042101A0116) supports 42 task orders, and a second Navy IDC (N0042103A0039) backs 11 task orders. A Department of Army IDC (W91CRB21D0029) supports five task orders valued at $3.9 million combined. The most substantial recent prime work includes a $12.73 million definitive contract awarded by Air Force Materiel Command on February 1, 2023, for TruePlanning software licenses, implementation, training, and mentoring services through January 31, 2028; a $9.94 million single-award Army IDC (running through September 27, 2026) for Price Systems site licenses and support across Fort Belvoir and Aberdeen Proving Ground; and a $971.6 million delivery order issued by the Army Office of the Secretary on September 29, 2024, for Price Site Licenses Year 4. Recent 2026 awards include a $172.2 thousand NASA purchase order for TruePlanning base-year licensing through February 28, 2031, and a $307.7 thousand Treasury delivery order (under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule) for cost estimating tools and initial training through August 31, 2030.

Award activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—nine awards in 2022, declining to seven in 2023 and 2024, and seven in 2025, with two awards recorded through March 2026 in the source snapshot. Seven awards valued at $13.7 million combined are completing in the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete. In its minimal sub role, Unison appears as a software provider under primes Applied Research Associates Inc. and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. on logistics and support contracts where software components are required; these sub positions carry minimal dollar volume relative to the prime footprint.

The primary NAICS concentration is Software Publishers (144 awards across the corporate family), followed by Engineering Services (43 awards) and Custom Computer Programming Services (33 awards). PSC codes reflect education and training delivery (55 awards in IT/Telecommunications training), information technology software (40 awards), and professional engineering/program management support (36 and 27 awards respectively). GSA Schedule labor rates span from $88.36 per hour for entry-level data technicians (high school equivalent, one year experience) to $310.23 per hour for subject matter experts and program managers (master's degree, twelve to fifteen years experience); no security-cleared labor categories are offered. Cost engineering work—estimating, parametric modeling, lifecycle management—dominates the capability portfolio; training, mentoring, and implementation support round out the service envelope. The company's reliance on sole-source justifications across NASA renewals (justified on the basis of irreplaceable cost-modeling dependencies) and commercial-item authority reflects deep customer lock-in around proprietary software ecosystems that sustain multi-year renewal cycles and limit competitive exposure on individual awards.