Rack-Wildner & Reese, Inc.

Rack-Wildner & Reese, Inc., operating as Akoya Division, is an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) providing strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, multimedia content production, and public outreach services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of recent awards. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with performance centers in Carson, Pennsylvania; Golden, Colorado; and Washington, DC, Akoya competes predominantly under Total Small Business and women-owned small business set-asides across the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS). The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation classified primarily under NAICS 541820 (Public Relations Agencies) and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services).

Akoya's federal customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Department of Energy accounts. The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) anchors 32 awards worth $262.3 million combined potential value — representing 56% of the vendor's total known federal ceiling. The next-largest customer, the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, accounts for 7 awards worth $91.6 million. These two customers alone represent 91% of combined potential value across Akoya's known prime footprint. The vendor also serves the GSA Federal Acquisition Service, the Defense Health Agency, and the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration with smaller award counts, demonstrating broader federal reach but far less dollar concentration.

Akoya's primary vehicle position rests on two major DOE EERE platforms. The vendor holds a $100 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with DOE EERE (awarded August 14, 2023, running through August 13, 2028) for Strategic Engagement and Outreach Support Services (SEOSS). Under this master BPA, Akoya has issued dozens of task orders supporting communications, stakeholder engagement, and public outreach across EERE's technology offices — including the Solar Energy Technologies Office, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Geothermal Technologies Office, Building Technologies Office, Water Power Technologies Office, and Office of Electricity. Task order ceilings range from approximately $58,000 to $6.9 million. In addition, Akoya holds an $85 million single-award BPA with the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (awarded September 24, 2023, running through March 9, 2029) for HRSA-wide marketing campaign services, also under the GSA MAS. Across both vehicles, the vendor places task orders on firm fixed-price and time-and-materials bases, with the majority designated as Total Small Business set-asides. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule serves as Akoya's primary parent vehicle overall, supporting 70 task orders worth $329.6 million combined potential value.

Recent representative work includes a $6.9 million time-and-materials SEOSS call for DOE EERE's Office of the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (awarded November 14, 2023), a $6.2 million call for the Office of Electricity (awarded January 15, 2026), a $6.1 million ceiling increase for CMEI Front Office support (issued November 14, 2025), a $4.8 million call for the Water Power Technologies Office (awarded December 1, 2023), and a $4.9 million call for the Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office (issued September 18, 2026). Outside EERE, Akoya received a $2.1 million total-small-business-set-aside BPA call from GSA's Federal Acquisition Service for donation campaign and marketing services in September 2024. A notable non-EERE engagement is a $934,829 call from the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Communications for strategic engagement and outreach support services (issued July 24, 2026).

Service Contract Inventory (SCI) data capture SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $21.2 million across prime contracts from FY2022 through FY2025, showing significant growth trajectory: $1.5 million and 5.1 FTEs in FY2022, climbing to $9.3 million and 32.9 FTEs in FY2025. This represents roughly a sixfold increase in invoiced dollars over three years. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts median around $137.66/hr, with a spectrum from $102.05/hr at the tenth percentile to $187.16/hr at the ninetieth percentile — reflecting a labor portfolio spanning administrative coordinators through senior executive consultants. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 46 active categories, ranging from Word Processor ($42.14/hr, high school education) through Executive Director ($243.04/hr, 20 years experience), with no security-cleared positions offered. Akoya's workforce on SCI-reportable work scaled from roughly 7 FTEs in FY2022 to approximately 27 FTEs in FY2025.

Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Akoya self-performs the majority of work, subcontracting an average of 7% of contractor hours to 16 named subcontractors. Named subs include Deloitte Consulting LLP and ICF Consulting Group, Inc., both leveraged for digital marketing, education, and web support services on select DOE EERE task orders. On two legacy prime awards, Akoya subcontracted to Guidehouse Inc. (appliance standards analysis and regulatory support services, $150,000+ threshold award from March 2022 against DOE) and individual consultant Seibel Deborah (domain communications, January 2025). The vendor operates as a feeder primarily to the federal government directly rather than as a systematic subcontractor to large primes.

Akoya's activity expanded materially post-2023. The award portfolio shows one award in 2022, eleven in 2023, ten in 2024, five in 2025, and seven in 2026 year-to-date. Twelve awards (combined potential value $31.7 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. The largest near-term recompete risk sits with DOE EERE task orders completing through August 2028 under the master BPA — the current vehicle itself carries no expiration within the next two years, but individual call ceilings terminate on staggered schedules, creating rolling recompete opportunities across the portfolio.

Extensive Federal experience VA, HHS, NASA, DOE, DHS, DOT, EPA, NIST, DoD/DHA -Management Consulting & full service communications, strategic visioning. Communication capabilities include strategic communications and marketing, graphic design, video production, event-meeting planning and support, public relations, publics relations training, outreach and engagement and advertising.