Savant Financial Technologies Inc.

Savant Financial Technologies Inc., doing business as Ariel Partners, is an SBA-certified women-owned small business headquartered in New York that provides enterprise IT consulting, agile software development, and systems engineering services to federal civilian and defense agencies, operating as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontracting footprint. The company is minority-owned and Asian-Pacific American owned, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-asides, though its GSA Schedule work and recent Veterans Affairs award carry small-business set-aside designations.

Ariel Partners' recent federal footprint spans twelve awards across seven customer agencies. The Social Security Administration accounts for three awards with $1.1 million combined potential value, anchored by a $340,341 delivery order for professional consultative services to the Office of the Inspector General on debt management from September 2023 through September 2024. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service drives the largest potential-value concentration at $8.9 million across two awards, reflecting Ariel's seat on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule where it has placed five task orders totaling $1.3 million. The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $212,725 firm fixed-price purchase order on January 29, 2025, for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Enterprise Service memberships supporting the VHA Office of Clinical Informatics through January 2027. The Department of the Navy and Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency each account for two awards, with the Navy's Sea Systems Command and the Missile Defense Agency each valued at $1 thousand and $500 respectively. The Air Force Materiel Command holds one award worth $225 thousand.

On December 29, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Ariel Partners a multiple-award IDIQ under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program with a $151 billion ceiling running through December 28, 2035. SHIELD is a full-and-open competition vehicle with no set-asides, structured to procure multi-domain defense capabilities spanning research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. An initial task order for $500 was issued on the same date. This represents a material shift in Ariel's federal footprint — prior to SHIELD, the vendor's combined potential value across all awards was approximately $10.5 million; the SHIELD vehicle alone carries a $151 billion ceiling.

Ariel's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 133 categories across a $39.37–$257.62 hourly-rate spectrum with entry-level cloud training specialists at the low end and senior software engineers (nine years' experience, bachelor's degree, no clearance required) at the high end. Quality assurance, application engineering, security engineering, and systems engineering roles cluster in the $96–$178 range. Recent capability work centers on agile transformation, enterprise IT consulting, and application modernization — the SAFe engagement with VA demonstrates capability in coaching, training, and implementation support for agile processes at scale. The GovTribe summary notes prior contracting with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration, and Air Force Materiel Command, primarily through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle. Corporate structure includes three named subsidiaries: Ariel BCT Partners LLC, Ices-Ap JV (which carries veteran-owned designation alongside women-owned), and Ariel EMW Partners, all joint ventures structured as women-owned small businesses.

Activity has been episodic rather than sustained growth — one award in 2017, four in 2019, two in 2020, one in 2023, and three in 2025 — with only one award (the $213 thousand VA SAFe order) facing completion in the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.3 million against $10.5 million combined potential value, a 12% obligation rate typical of early-stage IDIQs and delivery orders with future drawdown. The SHIELD IDIQ, while ceiling-significant, carries minimal current obligation ($500 initial task order) and represents Ariel's first direct Missile Defense Agency prime award.

Woman owned business focused on solving difficult technology & business issues. We provide training, custom software solutions & consulting services including Digital Transformation, agile development at scale, IT Audits, Systems Integration and Legacy migration. Also: Kanban training, Scrum training, TDD, ATDD, BDD, Cucumber, automated acceptance testing, agile architecture, forecasting, estimation, metrics, digital transformation, DevOps, CICD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS, user story splitting, agile requirements, human centered design, design thinking, UI/UX, user interface, user experience, customer experience, application lifecycle management tool customization for JIRA, TFS, and VersionOne. ICAgile Kanban and Scrum certified trainers and coaches. Cloud-native micro services in AWS and Azure. Analytics, machine learning, AI, data lake, data warehouse, Python Jupyter notebooks and Scikit-Python