Synergy Group JV, LLC

Synergy Group JV, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business based in Annapolis, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor delivering IT infrastructure hardware, security systems, networking equipment, software licenses, and maintenance services to federal civilian health agencies through the Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS) government-wide acquisition contract and targeted Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Indian Health Service. The vendor competes across a mix of set-aside categories—predominantly Total Small Business and SDVOSB designations—and holds 100% of its awards as prime contractor.

Synergy Group JV's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in HHS. The top five customers account for 83% of recent awards by count, dominated by the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service (319 awards, $67.8 million combined potential value), followed by HHS Health Resources and Services Administration Headquarters (33 awards, $9.5 million), HHS National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute (14 awards, $3.5 million), HHS National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine (14 awards, $2 million), and HHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (13 awards, $2 million). The dollar rankings align closely with award counts, with IHS anchoring the portfolio. The vendor's concentration by potential value is extreme—IHS represents approximately 67% of total dollar value across the footprint.

Concrete capability work spans IT commodity procurement, field installation, and managed services across multiple domains. Representative prime delivery orders include a $12.76 million NIH Center for Information Technology Identity, Credential, and Access Management modernization order under CIO-CS (awarded September 2025, firm fixed-price through September 2028); a $6.52 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Palo Alto firewall maintenance and support order under CIO-CS (awarded September 2023, total small business set-aside, with option periods running through October 2026); a $1.55 million IHS Great Plains Area Office IT Data Center and Youth Regional Treatment Center IT equipment, supplies, and services order under CIO-CS (awarded December 2023, SDVOSB set-aside); and a $6.78 million IHS Blanket Purchase Agreement for security camera and physical access control system maintenance, repair, replacement, and expansion across IHS Great Plains region facilities (awarded April 2022, running through March 2027). Work further includes field installations—such as Nutanix servers at multiple IHS hospitals, Aruba wireless and switching equipment upgrades at IHS service units, HSPD-12 infrastructure cabling at IHS Kyle Health Center, and phone system implementations at IHS Belcourt facility—alongside software license renewals (F5 BIG-IP, Cisco SMARTNET, Palo Alto Networks, Nutanix, Red Hat Advanced Security, Extreme Networks) and cloud-based monitoring and DNS services (Datadog, Cloudflare).

Vehicle concentration is pronounced. The Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions GWAC carries 308 task orders valued at $87.3 million combined potential value, representing the overwhelming majority of the vendor's ordering activity. Three IHS-specific Blanket Purchase Agreements complete the vehicle footprint: BPA HHSI241201700002B (100 task orders, $7.6 million), BPA 75H70622A00005 ($4 million across 24 calls), and BPA 75H70620A00007 ($2.2 million across 10 calls). The vendor does not appear on GSA Schedules, Alliant, Oasis+, or other government-wide vehicles beyond CIO-CS.

Activity has declined year-to-year from 53 awards in FY2023 to 20 in FY2025 and 16 in FY2026 year-to-date (as of October 2026). Twenty-two awards with combined potential value of $25 million carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across the IHS BPA calls, CIO-CS maintenance renewals, and single-award infrastructure projects.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $13.6 million across fiscal years 2022–2025, with FY2024 at $5 million and FY2025 at $3.5 million; these figures represent only labor-related services above the $150,000 threshold and exclude goods and product-only orders that dominate the award count. FTE trajectory across SCI records remained minimal—0.2 FTEs in FY2023, declining to zero reported hours in FY2024 and FY2025—indicating that Synergy Group JV's federal services model relies heavily on pass-through procurement (equipment, software, licensing) rather than labor-intensive integration or support services. Median government-paid hourly rates on labor engagement ran around $9,266 per hour, with a 90th percentile of $40,204 per hour, reflecting premium-rate technical support and system architecture work on high-value accounts. Across prime SCI-reportable contracts, the vendor self-performed approximately 91% of contracted hours, with named subcontractors (3 total) representing only 9% of labor hours, indicating a vertically integrated delivery model with minimal teaming for services work.

Synergy Group JV's strategic footprint centers on SDVOSB-set-aside IT procurement and infrastructure modernization for IHS healthcare facilities across the Great Plains region—a specialized sub-market within HHS civilian IT procurement where the vendor holds material scale. The $6.78 million IHS BPA and deep task-order activity on CIO-CS represent entrenched customer relationships with limited diversification outside HHS. The vendor does not sub-contract to larger federal primes and does not appear on shared governmentwide vehicles beyond CIO-CS, limiting cross-agency exposure and teaming opportunities with competitors.