Sidem LLC

Sidem LLC, doing business as Sidem, is an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business based in Bethesda, Maryland, that delivers federal event planning, logistics, and meeting-support services exclusively as a prime contractor across civilian agencies. Operating as a Subchapter S corporation, Sidem competes predominantly under 8(a) sole-source set-asides, though a portion of its recent portfolio carries unrestricted or small-business set-aside designations. The vendor's federal work centers on comprehensive event management: site selection, logistics coordination, venue rental, conference facilitation, audiovisual production, and on-site meeting support for advisory committees, seminars, forums, and symposia across energy, science, commerce, and justice portfolios.

Sidem's customer concentration is broad but concentrated in three high-volume agencies accounting for 46 percent of recent awards. The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants leads by award count (25 awards, $7.8 million combined potential value), followed closely by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (22 awards, $7.7 million) and the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program (12 awards, $15.3 million). The DOJ COPS program, however, anchors most of the dollar value: its 12 awards represent $15.3 million of the vendor's $114.5 million combined potential value across all 174 awards in the source. The Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, the United States Marine Corps, and the Department of Health and Human Services also appear as active customers. The disparity between award-count and potential-value rankings reflects COPS's large, multi-million-dollar logistics task orders ($2.9 million and $672 thousand documented) against numerous smaller event-support orders from NIST, USGS, and other agencies.

Sidem operates through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule as its dominant vehicle: 82 task orders carrying $52.3 million in combined potential value flow through MAS. The Professional Services Schedule holds 22 task orders valued at $2.1 million. At the contract level, Sidem holds six prime indefinite delivery vehicles: a $4.295 million 8(a) sole-source IDIQ with NIST for event planning (ultimate completion October 31, 2025), a $2.6 million BPA with the Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability for meeting and event services (September 12, 2028), a $5.584 million 8(a) sole-source IDC with DOJ COPS for logistics planning support (July 31, 2027), a $3 million BPA with the U.S. Geological Survey for facilitation and conference support (May 16, 2028), a $500 thousand BPA with the Department of the Navy for comptroller-seminar event support (August 20, 2027), and a $610 thousand 8(a) sole-source IDC with the Securities and Exchange Commission for event production (February 22, 2026).

Activity has remained steady: 23 awards in 2022, 26 in 2023, and 23 in 2024, before dropping to 3 awards each in 2025 and 2026 to date—a reflection of incomplete reporting for the current year rather than a contraction signal. Within the next twenty-four months, six awards with combined potential value of $10.1 million face ultimate completion and recompete exposure, anchored by portions of the NIST IDIQ, the DOE BPA, and the COPS IDC. Sidem's award portfolio breaks into event planning for civilian science and energy programs (NIST CHIPS and PSCR events, DOE Electricity Advisory Committee meetings, USGS scientific workshops), logistics and meeting support for law-enforcement training (DOJ COPS logistics orders), and administrative event services for multiple agencies' honor ceremonies and internal convocations.

Service Contract Inventory data spanning FY2022 through FY2024 shows SCI-reported invoiced revenue of $5.9 million across 34 prime records, with no subcontractor engagements reported. The FTE trajectory climbed from 2.7 FTEs in FY2022 to 5.4 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting modest scaling of direct delivery staff. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts ranged widely: a 10th percentile of $60.13 per hour, median of $234.21 per hour, and 90th percentile of $649.90 per hour, reflecting the mix of junior event coordinators, mid-level registration managers, and senior subject-matter experts supporting large federal conferences. Sidem's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 13 categories priced from $24.86 per hour for entry-level clerical roles to $171.43 per hour for senior subject-matter experts holding MA credentials and twenty years of experience; no security-cleared positions are offered. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for approximately 1 percent of total contractor hours, with two named subs reported, indicating Sidem builds and staffs its delivery teams in-house rather than leveraging broad subcontractor networks. The vendor operates as a pure prime—no sub-award activity appears in the source across 174 awards—and delivers services directly to federal customers without intermediary prime relationships.

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