Sidem LLC

Sidem LLC, doing business as Sidem, is an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business based in Bethesda, Maryland, that delivers event planning, logistics, meeting facilitation, and production services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes across both 8(a) sole-source and full-and-open federal vehicles, with 8(a) set-asides anchoring a significant portion of its prime awards. Sidem's award footprint reflects a specialized capability in federal event management: comprehensive event coordination, site selection, venue logistics, audiovisual production, virtual and in-person conference facilitation, and on-site staffing support for advisory committee meetings, training programs, and agency ceremonies.

Sidem's customer concentration is broad but anchored in civilian agencies. The Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Program leads by potential value at $17 million across 12 awards, followed by the General Services Administration at $9.1 million, the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey at $7.8 million, the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology at $7.7 million, and the Department of Health and Human Services at $6.8 million. Together, these five agencies account for 42 percent of Sidem's combined potential value; 46 percent of awards span 53 distinct customer agencies, indicating diversified customer exposure with no single agency dominating volume. Recent awards illustrate capability breadth: a $2.6 million Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program delivery order for logistics planning (September 2025, set to complete September 2027); a $4.2 million Department of the Interior indefinite delivery contract for facilitation and conference support across multiple locations through May 2028; a $1.5 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definitive contract for meeting support (awarded January 2024, set to complete April 2025); and a $4.3 million National Institute of Standards and Technology indefinite delivery contract for event planning services (awarded January 2024, through October 2025).

Sidem holds six primary federal contract vehicles anchoring its task order work. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries the largest footprint — 82 task orders valued at $52.3 million combined potential value — enabling procurements across civilian agencies for event logistics, venue rental, and facilitation work. The Professional Services Schedule under GSA accounts for 22 task orders at $2.1 million. Single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program ($5.6 million ceiling, 8(a) sole source, through July 2027); the Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability ($2.6 million BPA, through September 2028); the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey ($3 million BPA, through May 2028); the National Institute of Standards and Technology ($4.3 million IDIQ, 8(a) sole source, through October 2025); and the Securities and Exchange Commission ($610 thousand IDIQ, 8(a) sole source, through February 2026) provide stable delivery vehicles. Task order issuance under these vehicles shows Sidem executing recurring event management work for federal clients seeking on-call access to production and logistics capability.

Activity has remained relatively flat. Sidem averaged 18.2 awards per year from 2022 to 2024 (23, 26, and 23 awards respectively), but FY 2025 and FY 2026 show sharp decline — only 3 and 2 awards in those fiscal years respectively through mid-year. The source data covers awards through June 26, 2026. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $10 million, representing recompete exposure in that window. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a subset above the $150,000 threshold), Sidem generated $1.1 million in invoiced revenue in FY 2022, $1.7 million in FY 2023, and $2.9 million in FY 2024, with FTE scale growing from 2.7 to 5.4 delivery personnel. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI records ranged from $60 to $650 per hour, with median around $234 per hour, reflecting a labor mix spanning clerical, registration, client management, and senior subject-matter expert roles. On the GSA Schedule, Sidem's active labor portfolio spans 13 categories, priced $24.86 to $171.43 per hour, with education requirements from high school through master's degree and no security clearance roles offered — positioning the company as a pure civilian event operations provider.

Sidem operates 100 percent as a prime contractor; the vendor award portfolio records zero subcontract positions. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average 2 percent of total contractor hours, with only two named subcontractors reported across the dataset — indicating Sidem builds and staffs its own delivery teams rather than relying on a subcontractor network. This self-delivery posture aligns with Sidem's core business model: small-scale, hands-on event operations where the vendor manages logistics, facilities coordination, and on-site production in-house. The company does not appear in SAM.gov records as a subcontractor to larger primes, suggesting no meaningful sub engagement with defense or civilian prime contractors.

SIDEM offers comprehensive event planning and production support as well as project management. SIDEM's government clients include the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Labor, Justice, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and the Treasury; the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Navy Post-Graduate School