Prometheus Computing, LLC

Prometheus Computing, LLC, a Bethesda, Maryland-based Women-Owned Small Business, operates as a prime contractor delivering IT infrastructure, data management systems, software engineering, and research support services to federal agencies, with 100 percent of its recent awards issued as prime contracts and no meaningful subcontractor footprint. The vendor specializes in concrete capabilities spanning artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, wireless communications systems testing and evaluation, scientific data curation and discovery, database application development, cybersecurity research support, and technical research infrastructure for civilian measurement-science missions.

Customer concentration is extreme and decisive: the National Institute of Standards and Technology accounts for 334 of 347 total awards (96 percent) and $154.9 million of $156.2 million in combined potential value (99 percent). The remaining five customer agencies—the US Election Assistance Commission (4 awards, $544 thousand), Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (3 awards, $381 thousand), Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration (4 awards, $149 thousand), and HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (1 award)—represent a negligible portion of the portfolio. Prometheus Computing is, in effect, a NIST-captive vendor whose business success is entirely dependent on sustained access to NIST task order vehicles.

Prometheus Computing anchors its NIST work to two primary parent indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicles: the NIST Information Technology and Database Applications Support Services IDIQ, valued at $45 million over five years and designated a total small business set-aside, which has generated 161 task orders carrying $29.7 million in combined potential value; and the Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Research and Standards Technical Support Services IDIQ, a $5.995 million small business set-aside, which has produced 24 task orders worth $3.5 million. Representative prime delivery orders include a $536 thousand task order for 3GPP sensing solutions for wireless communications systems support (July 2026), a $483 thousand order for scientific data curation, discovery services, and large language model integration (October 2025), a $576.6 thousand order for re-engineering and optimization of the Management of Institutional Data Assets System—MIDAS—(January 2023), a $458 thousand order for digital asset management and CHIPS metrology/METIS platform integration (March 2024), and a $1.46 million purchase order for IT services and system maintenance and application development for NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology NanoFab (September 2021). Work spans metrology and microelectronics manufacturing research, quantum networks research, health IT standards development, election systems voting infrastructure, and advanced wireless communications measurement science. Place of performance is predominantly NIST's Gaithersburg, Maryland campus, with occasional work in Sylva, North Carolina and Bethesda, Maryland.

Recent award activity has declined moderately: from a 2023 peak of 42 awards, volume contracted to 34 in 2024, 31 in 2025, and 15 through late September 2026. Obligated dollars amount to $57.7 million, or 37 percent of the $156.2 million ceiling across the entire portfolio. Thirty-one awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $8.3 million and face recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue across prime service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold totaled $2.2 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $309 thousand across 0.9 FTEs; FY2023: $493 thousand across 2.8 FTEs; FY2024: $1.4 million across 5.6 FTEs), indicating modest growth but a small federal services footprint relative to the broader award portfolio. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable primes ran a median of $149.68 per hour, spanning a 10th percentile floor of $71.00 per hour and a 90th percentile ceiling of $160.89 per hour. The vendor performs 100 percent of hours in-house on SCI-reportable contracts; no named subcontractors appear in the SCI dataset. Named subcontractors on larger task orders include The Turnout, LLC (voting systems and common data formats work), VSE Corporation (workshop facilitation and technical writing), Clearesult Energetics LLC (digital twin marketplace workshops), Enernex LLC (electric vehicle managed charging infrastructure), and Towson University (machine learning for industrial IoT).

Prometheus Computing's set-aside posture is characteristic of small businesses anchored to NIST vehicles: the majority of awards carry total small business set-aside or woman-owned small business set-aside designations, with competitive full-and-open task orders also present. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides rather than full-and-open vehicles. No evidence of 8(a) Business Development Program, HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other set-aside categories appears in the award record; the WOSB designation recurs consistently across the portfolio and is the dominant ownership identity in recent task orders. The vendor's federal contracting profile is monolithic—a single customer agency relationship, two parent IDIQ vehicles expiring in mid-2026, and a revenue stream concentrated in delivery-order task forces that must recompete as parent IDIQs approach their expiration dates. Competitive risk is material: recompete of the primary $45 million IDIQ is imminent, and sustained growth depends entirely on renewal of NIST set-aside vehicles or successful transition to broader agency customers.

Custom software development and consulting services, specializing in health IT, cloud computing, standards, scientific data dissemination and emerging technologies.