Lumen Technologies Government Solutions, Inc.

Lumen Technologies Government Solutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, Inc. and doing business as CenturyLink QGS, provides local and long-distance telecommunications services, voice and data circuits, internet connectivity, fiber optic infrastructure, and network management solutions to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor competing without set-aside restrictions across full-and-open procurements. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and operates as a large for-profit corporation with no SBA certifications; it competes for telecommunications and IT services work across all federal customer types without reliance on set-aside categories.

Lumen's federal customer base spans 319 distinct agencies, with concentration anchored by defense-related spending. The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin dominates by potential value—393 awards worth $1.95 billion combined, driven largely by large data center hosting facility services delivery orders ($8.6 million invoiced in FY2025 alone for OCA and OCFO work). The Defense Information Systems Agency places the highest award count at 1,892 awards valued at $815.1 million, followed by Department of the Army Cyber Command (635 awards, $80.8 million), Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (607 awards, $25.3 million), and Department of the Navy Fleet Cyber Command (586 awards, $33.8 million). Within the top five customer list by potential value, the concentration spreads across VA, DISA, Army Cyber Command, Marine Corps, and Navy Naval Network Warfare Command—indicating a defense-heavy customer footprint with secondary civilian agency work through Indian Health Service, HHS/National Institutes of Health, and Department of Justice telecom renewals.

Capability portfolio centers on commoditized telecommunications infrastructure: voice and data circuits, local and long-distance telephone service, SIP trunking, dedicated internet access, fiber connectivity renewal, and network engineering support. Representative work includes a $3.73 million purchase order from the Center for Information Technology for professional support services and network services engineering with TIC Arbor DDoS protection through April 2028; a $16.4 million NIH Consolidated Colocation Site (NCCS) delivery order combining professional support and data center provisioning through January 2028; a $13.3 million Office of Capital Access data center hosting facility services delivery order through March 2029; a $2.79 million GSA MAS delivery order for data center hosting facility services transferred under Executive Order 14240; and a $2.3 million VA NLEC-NG service order recompete. Recent smaller awards span routine telecom renewals and circuit maintenance: $744 thousand for Air Force Space Command local telecommunications at Cheyenne Mountain AFB, $703 thousand for Buckley Space Force Base local services, and recurring $200–$700 thousand purchase orders for dial tone, E911, and fiber service across Army installations, Air Force bases, Federal Correctional Institution sites, and Bureau of Reclamation facilities.

Vehicle position is dominated by two massive parent contracts. The Networx GWAC—a government-wide telecommunications vehicle managed by GSA—anchors 5,275 task orders worth $1.37 billion combined potential value. Lumen also holds a $4 billion multiple-award SEAPORT-NXG indefinite delivery contract with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded January 2, 2025, performance through January 1, 2029, NAICS 541330 with $47 million small business threshold), which represents a strategic reserve for defense telecommunications and IT services procurements. Beyond these, Lumen sits on multiple smaller IDIQs: HC101307D2005 (2,005 task orders, $235.3 million), IT Schedule 70 (569 task orders, $190.5 million), HC101312D03QE (342 task orders, $26.4 million), and M0026408A0021 (202 task orders, $20.3 million). Lumen also holds two single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements: a $250 thousand agreement with Air Force for alarm line services through September 2029, and a $249,999 Air Force Academy BPA for local and OCONUS telecommunications through March 2028. The company's GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 289 active labor categories spanning technical support ($54–$122/hr range), systems analysis and deployment ($97–$161/hr), and senior analytics and project management ($205–$373/hr), priced on firm fixed-price delivery orders issued by civilian agencies.

Activity has declined modestly year over year from 63 awards in 2022 to 36 through October 2026—a trajectory reflecting mature, high-dollar-value ordering patterns rather than volume growth. Awards per year in 2023 and 2024 held steady at 60 and 59 respectively, then dropped to 52 in 2025 and 36 (partial-year) in 2026. Sixty-nine awards are reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $99.7 million, creating recompete exposure for existing and new competitors to displace Lumen on telecom and data center services.

Subcontractor footprint is minimal. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Lumen self-performed 100% of labor with zero sub-hours share; the five named sub-awards show Lumen delivering telecommunications circuits and communications services under Accenture Federal Services (Integrated Enterprise Contract, January 2026), Peraton Enterprise Solutions (Federal Student Aid Virtual Data Center telecom circuits, June and November 2025), Leidos (Army Global Unified Network, February 2025), Booz Allen Hamilton (Department of Labor Core Financial Management System operations and maintenance, September 2024 and October 2023), and Northrop Grumman (Sustainment and Modification of Radar Sensors extension technical services, October 2023). This sub-posture—predominant prime delivery with telecom circuits as a feeder capability to larger system integrators—positions Lumen as an infrastructure provider to defense and civilian program offices rather than an end-to-end systems integrator.

SCI-reported invoicing of $101.2 million in FY2025 represents a jump from zero reported in FY2022–FY2024, signaling either a recent shift to SCI-reportable work above $150,000 thresholds or a data collection adjustment. The FY2025 figure includes the $8.6 million OCA data center order and $4.6 million Center for Information Technology professional support services, along with $561 thousand NICHD DIA circuits and $815 thousand National Library of Medicine TIC circuits. Across those invoiced contracts, the vendor showed 0.0 FTEs in FY2025, suggesting a self-performed, labor-light service model centered on circuit provisioning, hosting, and equipment rather than on-site technical staff. The FY2022 snapshot (2.5 FTEs across 30 prime and 4 sub records) indicates historical staffing has been negligible on SCI-reportable work.

NAICS concentration is 8,732 awards under 517111 (Wired Telecommunications Carriers), reflecting Lumen's core competency, with secondary work in 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services; 574 awards), 517312 (Wireless Carriers except Satellite; 230 awards), and 517919 (All Other Telecommunications; 158 awards). Top PSC codes mirror telecom dominance: 6,020 awards under DG11-Telecommunications and Transmission, 2,220 under DG12-Other IT and Telecommunications, 294 under DG27-Telecommunications Network Management. This category concentration—with telecommunications accounting for roughly 85% of awards across Networx, SEAPORT-NXG, and agency-specific vehicles—anchors Lumen's federal identity as a commoditized infrastructure provider rather than a custom systems developer.

Lumen competes across all customer agencies on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis; no awards carry set-aside designations. The vendor's large-business status and infrastructure-heavy service model position it to sustain margins on high-volume, long-term recurring contracts with defense IT operations and civilian telecommunications centers, even as annual new award counts trend downward. The $59.13 billion combined potential value across 10,349 awards reflects accumulated indefinite delivery ceiling-value accumulation over decades of Networx and SEAPORT-NXG participation rather than recent procurement velocity.