Spry Methods, Inc.

Spry Methods, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in McLean, Virginia, operates primarily as a federal IT prime contractor (86% of recent awards) providing IT systems engineering, cybersecurity, operations and maintenance support, and technical consulting across civilian and defense agencies. The company competes in both full-and-open and small-business-set-aside vehicles, with recent activity concentrated on small-business set-asides through CIO-SP3 SB and OASIS+SB but increasingly anchored to large full-and-open defense platforms.

Spry Methods' customer concentration is bifurcated by dollars and transaction volume. By award count, the top five customers represent 52% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Chief Information Officer (21 awards, $84.9 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (12 awards, $229.5 million combined potential value). By potential value, however, the distribution shifts sharply: the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division, with only 8 awards, anchors $9.11 billion in combined potential value, and the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command, with 6 awards, carries $3.96 billion. This divergence reflects Spry Methods' recent win of two massive defense IDIQs that dwarf its historical civilian transactional work. The Department of Defense dominates the dollar pipeline through these vehicle awards while civilian agencies (Interior, Justice, Homeland Security, Transportation, Agriculture) drive transaction volume on smaller task orders.

Spry Methods holds seat on four major parent vehicles that structure its prime work. The 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (8(a) STARS) IDIQ carries 35 task orders totaling $102.6 million in combined potential value, primarily civilian IT modernization and security work. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule spans 15 task orders and $565.2 million in potential value, including a $10.5 million USDA bridge contract for Integrated Acquisition System IT services (awarded August 2024, completion February 2026) and a $1.8 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement delivery order for operations and maintenance of the HSI Forensic Laboratory Information Management System (awarded June 2025, running through June 2030). The Department of the Interior's IT Risk Management Services IDIQ accounts for 9 task orders totaling $9.4 million, focused on Information System Security Officer (ISSO) services to the Bureau of Reclamation. Most consequentially, Spry Methods was awarded two multi-billion-dollar IDIQs in late 2024 and early 2026: the GSA OASIS+SB Total Small Business Set-Aside (awarded December 2024, running through December 2029, with a maximum ordering value in the $999 billion system-ceiling range) and the Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ (awarded January 2026, running through December 2035, valued at $151 billion). The SHIELD vehicle is a full-and-open, unrestricted multiple-award IDIQ for research and development, systems engineering, prototyping, and production support across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense domains, representing a significant step into unrestricted defense prime work.

Representative prime contract work includes a $19.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for programmatic, financial, business, analysis, and technical process support to the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic Enterprise Systems and Services Division in support of Marine Corps operations (awarded March 2023, running through March 2028 and now in the recompete window), and a $4.1 million firm-fixed-price delivery order with the Federal Railroad Administration for security assessment and Authority to Operate services under CIO-SP3 SB (awarded September 2024, running through June 2029, with Dasa Technical Services LLC providing FISMA support on subcontract). A $3.8 million ISSO services delivery order with the Bureau of Reclamation (awarded September 2022, completed July 2024) illustrates Spry Methods' established position in the Interior IT security space.

Spry Methods operates as a mixed prime and subcontractor. As a subcontractor, the company delivers IT risk and analysis support to CGI Federal Inc., systems technology services and digital solutions to Netcentric Technology LLC and ASRC Federal Highland Technology Inc., material control and assembly services to Science Applications International Corporation on Network on the Move kits, and intelligence analysis services to Intelliware Systems Inc. The sub-award footprint has grown notably in 2024–2026, with most recent work on STS (Systems Technology Services) and conservation-focused digital solutions, indicating downstream teaming as larger primes layer Spry Methods into complex federal IT and defense programs. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Spry Methods delivered roughly 115.4 FTEs across FY2022–FY2024, invoicing $29.2 million cumulatively, with median government-paid hourly rates around $118/hr on federal services contracts and a range from $88/hr to $144/hr across the bulk of the contractor labor. On GSA Schedule, the company offers 91 labor categories spanning administrative support through subject matter expert roles, with rates from $68/hr to $447/hr and education requirements from high school equivalent to bachelor's degree; security-cleared positions are available across the portfolio, including Top Secret roles in cybersecurity and technical analysis.

Spry Methods operates through a parent entity with one named subsidiary, James Secure Solutions, Incorporated, a minority-owned (Black American-owned), for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The subsidiary designation may indicate capability or customer segmentation in federal contracting but does not appear materially distinct in the award history from the parent entity. Activity accelerated sharply in 2024 (15 awards) following a sparse 2022–2023 period (1–2 awards annually), driven by the placement of the OASIS+SB and SHIELD IDIQs and increased delivery-order activity. Only one award (the Seaport-NXG task order, $19.6 million potential value) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure; most of the company's dollar base is anchored to multi-year delivery orders and the newly awarded billion-dollar IDIQs running through 2029–2035.

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