Sohum Systems LLC

Sohum Systems LLC, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business and SBA 8(a) program participant, delivers software development, systems integration, and IT operations and maintenance services to federal civilian agencies primarily as a prime contractor under government-wide acquisition contracts and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The firm competes predominantly under 8(a) set-asides (sole source and competitive) and full-and-open designations on its parent vehicles; across recent awards, 8(a) sole source comprises the largest single cohort of awards, reflecting the company's 8(a) certification through November 2028.

Sohum is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, operates as a for-profit limited liability company, and specializes in custom computer programming services, application development, geospatial software, and federal IT modernization work. The company's recent award activity concentrates in four principal areas: farm and food systems software delivery under USDA's Farm Production and Conservation agency (31 awards, $704.9 million combined potential value); motor carrier safety inspection platform modernization and gateway replacement systems under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (7 awards, $33.1 million); naval construction battalion operations watch support (3 awards with Naval Sea Systems Command totaling $10.03 billion in potential value, where the NAVSEA awards carry placeholder ceilings indicative of vehicle-level rather than task-order-level constraints); and emerging AI/machine learning modernization work with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and broader civilian IT infrastructure support. Representative work includes a $131.6 million firm fixed-price delivery order from USDA Farm Production and Conservation under the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC (awarded May 2025, running through May 2030) for software delivery, development, and modernization, a $13.98 million USDA Office of the CIO IT modernization delivery order under GSA MAS (December 2025, through April 2031), a $9 million Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration SafeSpect product support delivery order under GSA MAS (September 2026, through September 2028), and a $7.46 million geospatial software operations and modernization delivery order from USDA Farm Production and Conservation under GSA MAS (May 2024, through May 2029).

Sohum's top customer concentration runs heavily toward USDA: the Department of Agriculture's Farm Production and Conservation office and Farm Service Agency account for 39 of 58 awards (67% of award count), representing $704.9 million in combined potential value against the $30.8 billion portfolio total. The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (3 awards) and the Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (7 awards) round out the top five by count. However, the vendor's potential-value distribution is inverted by one outlier: a $20 billion placeholder ceiling on the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC vehicle (awarded via NIH NITAAC but shared government-wide) represents the largest single line item and creates a long tail of less-active customer agencies including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Railroad Administration, and Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Thirteen distinct customer agencies have placed orders across the recent award portfolio.

Sohum's parent-vehicle footprint centers on three vehicles: a $37.7 million IDC under USDA (22 task orders), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (13 task orders, $63.5 million), and the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC (2 task orders, $131.6 million). The vendor also sits on SeaPort Next Generation (2 task orders, $33.3 million). GSA MAS positions Sohum for broad civilian agency reach; the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC anchors larger modernization initiatives. Only two awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $12.9 million — a minimal recompete cliff relative to the overall $30.8 billion portfolio, indicating mature, multi-year task orders in place.

Activity has contracted in recent years. Sohum recorded seven awards in 2022, four in 2023, four in 2024, three in 2025, and one to date in 2026 — a trajectory suggesting consolidation around larger, longer-duration delivery orders rather than accumulation of new vehicle or customer wins. SCI-reported invoicing across the FY2022–FY2025 period totaled $53 million (prime records only), with FY2022 peak at $16.8 million across 91.6 FTEs, declining to $10.7 million and 47.1 FTEs in FY2025. This decline does not reflect portfolio contraction — it reflects the shift toward fewer, higher-ceiling delivery orders under vehicles like CIO-SP3 SB, which may not trigger SCI reporting at the same labor granularity as smaller definitive contracts. Government-paid median hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime work run $109.74/hr, with the 90th percentile at $173.57/hr. Sohum's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 31 active categories, ranging from test engineers at $80.13/hr through systems architects at $185.20/hr, with education requirements from associate to master's degree and no security-cleared positions offered.

Sohum operates as a prime contractor on 100% of recent awards; no subcontractor relationships appear in the award portfolio. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for only 3% of total contractor hours, with 5 named subcontractors appearing in the dataset — a profile of substantial internal delivery. The vendor self-performed all labor on several high-dollar awards including the CDLIS Gateway Replacement (FMCSA, $3.88 million) and geospatial operations work (USDA, $7.46 million), though the largest USDA delivery order ($131.6 million, FY2025) engaged one subcontractor for 39% of reported hours, suggesting selective use of subs for large, specialized scopes. This teaming posture — primarily prime with minimal sub engagement — positions Sohum as a direct competitor to other small-business incumbents in USDA IT modernization and federal civilian IT infrastructure rather than as a feeder sub to larger systems integrators.

Sohum Systems LLC provides GIS, Software Development, Program / Project Management, Engineering & IT Services.