Unison Cost Engineering LLC

Unison Cost Engineering LLC, a McLean, Virginia–based for-profit limited liability company, sells cost engineering, project planning, and federal acquisition management software as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements, competing without set-asides. The company is a subsidiary of Unison Software Inc., a parent entity also based in McLean that operates multiple software product lines including TruePlanning, Price Systems, and Price Cost Analytics—industry-standard tools for federal cost estimation, budgeting, and program management. Unison Cost Engineering holds a 99% prime footprint across 281 total awards spanning 48 customer agencies.

The capability portfolio centers on software licensing, implementation support, training, and mentoring services for cost engineering and acquisition management. Representative work includes a $12.7 million definitive contract from Air Force Materiel Command awarded February 1, 2023, for TruePlanning software solutions and related services through January 31, 2028; a $971.6 million delivery order from the Department of Defense Office of the Secretary (September 29, 2024) for Price Site Licenses Year 4, representing the fourth-year renewal of software licenses and mentoring; a $307.7 thousand delivery order from the Department of the Treasury Office of the Under Secretary for Management (September 1, 2025) for cost estimating tools supporting software, hardware, and IT development projects through August 31, 2030; and a $233.3 thousand definitive contract from the Defense Logistics Agency (July 1, 2025) for TruePlanning software subscription renewal through June 30, 2028. NASA's Shared Services Center awards recur frequently at smaller individual values ($20,000–$175,000 range) for annual license renewals across Langley Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Glenn Research Center, and Johnson Space Center; multiple awards carry sole-source justification citing TruePlanning's unique design for space flight cost estimation and the operational risk of transitioning to alternative platforms.

Unison maintains active GSA Schedule labor rates spanning Data Technician ($88.36/hour, high school equivalent) through Subject Matter Expert and Program Manager roles ($310.23/hour, master's degree), with education requirements from high school through bachelor's and no security-cleared positions offered. Labor categories anchor training and implementation support services bundled with software sales.

Customer concentration by award count is fragmented across defense and civilian agencies. The top five customers by award count—the Department of the Navy (51 awards), NASA Shared Services Center (27 awards), the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (19 awards), the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (13 awards), and the Department of the Air Force (11 awards)—represent 43% of all awards but only $10.5 million in combined potential value. By potential value, the ranking diverges sharply: Department of the Air Force Materiel Command leads with 5 awards valued at $19.3 million, followed by the Department of the Army Headquarters Office of the Secretary (8 awards, $16.1 million) and the Department of the Air Force (11 awards, $7.8 million), accounting for 42% of combined potential value. This divergence signals that Unison's Navy awards are numerous but small—typically annual license renewals—while Air Force and Army work carries substantially higher per-order values, particularly through multi-year definitive contracts and delivery orders under Army indefinite delivery vehicles.

Unison's primary vehicle portfolio is dominated by the General Services Administration's Information Technology Schedule 70, which carries 113 task orders valued at $11.1 million combined. Navy IDCs generate substantial transaction volume: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0042101A0116 holds 42 task orders, while N0042103A0039 carries 11 task orders, though aggregate values are not specified in the source. The company also executes work under Army Indefinite Delivery Contract W91CRB21D0029 (5 task orders, $3.9 million combined potential value) and holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule position from which it issues delivery orders across civilian agencies. Activity has remained flat year over year—7 awards annually across 2023, 2024, and 2025—with only 3 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date through October 1. Awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months total 5 with combined potential value of $13.4 million, representing modest recompete exposure. Subcontract exposure is negligible: only 2 sub-awards appear in the source (one under Applied Research Associates, one under Booz Allen Hamilton), both logistics and software support modifications rather than primary delivery vehicles.

The corporate structure places Unison Cost Engineering as a subsidiary of Unison Software Inc., with both entities sharing the same McLean headquarters. The parent company operates as a broader federal software portfolio entity, while the subsidiary appears to handle cost engineering and acquisition management product lines. Combined across both entities, the award portfolio spans 281 transactions since 1998, with $112.9 million in combined potential value and $62.9 million obligated (56% realization rate). Unison competes full-and-open across all named awards with no set-aside designations, positioning itself as a mainstream federal vendor selling specialized but widely adopted software to established procurement vehicles rather than as a disadvantaged-business-set-aside player.