The Cogar Group. Ltd.

The Cogar Group. Ltd., headquartered in Aldie, Virginia, is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) that delivers armed and unarmed security guard services, facility access control support, protective security officer staffing, and security specialist services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and single-award blanket purchase agreements. The company is minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned and competes across both set-aside (SDVOSB Sole Source, SDVOSB Competitive, Total Small Business set-aside, and 8(a)) and full-and-open contracting vehicles, though set-aside designations dominate recent prime activity.

The Cogar Group operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), with no subcontractor footprint in the source data. Its customer base is heavily concentrated in federal civilian security operations: the Department of the Army Training and Doctrine Command anchors the largest potential-value share at $375.4 million across 19 awards, while the General Services Administration (Federal Acquisition Service) carries $187.2 million across 2 awards, and the Department of Homeland Security holds $248 million combined across 13 awards across two separate organizations (Office of Procurement Operations and National Protection and Programs Directorate). The Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary accounts for $138.4 million across 17 awards. These five customer organizations represent 85% of the vendor's combined potential value. The top five customers by award count—Army National Guard Readiness Center (22 awards, $28.2 million), Army Training and Doctrine Command (19 awards, $375.4 million), Department of Commerce (17 awards, $138.4 million), Veterans Affairs VISN 5 (10 awards, $48.7 million), and Department of Homeland Security (9 awards, $160 million)—account for 67% of awards and reveal a tension: Army TRADOC dominates dollar value but Army National Guard and Commerce place higher raw award volumes with smaller individual ceilings.

The company's capability portfolio splits across two distinct contract families. Security guard services (armed and unarmed), facility access control, protective security officer staffing, and alarm monitoring form the largest line of business, reflected in 68 awards under NAICS 561612 (Security Guards and Patrol Services) and 48 awards coded to PSC R430 (Housekeeping-Guard). Representative high-value work includes a $19.7 million Total Small Business set-aside delivery order from the Office of Personnel Management (awarded September 30, 2025, through March 29, 2031) for armed guards at the OPM/Treasury Board facility in Washington, DC; a $17.6 million SDVOSB delivery order from VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 (awarded March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2028) for unarmed security guard services at the Baltimore Medical Center Health Care System; a $2.906 million SDVOSB delivery order from Air Force Test Center (awarded March 17, 2026, through March 31, 2031) for unarmed guard services in Freeport, Florida; and a $875.6 million bridge delivery order from VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 (awarded June 20, 2026, through December 19, 2026) for unarmed security guard services in New Orleans. The company also holds a $40 million single-award BPA with the Department of Commerce through November 2025, from which it issues task orders for security guard, protective security officer, security center operations, and security specialist work.

The company's secondary capability line encompasses training and educational products and services, custom computer programming, and administrative and management consulting, with 23 awards under NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), 21 awards under education and training development, and 15 under general management consulting. This work appears rooted in Army TRADOC's Learning Requirements Office and reflects a pivot into training content development and IT support work distinct from the core security operations footprint.

All 58 task orders on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule—the company's dominant contracting vehicle—carry ceiling values spanning from tens of thousands to low-seven-figure ranges. The ADLP Training and Educational Products and Services IDIQ holds 20 task orders worth $5.1 million combined. Two larger IDIQs—the Indefinite Delivery Contract HSHQE214D00004 (8 task orders, $27.4 million combined potential value) and the Law Enforcement & Security Services contract (3 task orders, $87.8 million combined potential value)—anchor significant DHS and federal law enforcement demand.

Activity has been uneven: seven awards in 2022, nine in 2023, two in 2024, five in 2025, and five through June 2026. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $33.3 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure on renewal work. The combined potential value across all 115 prime awards reaches $1.12 billion, with obligated dollars totaling $254.4 million (23% of potential value), indicating active backlog and option periods.

On federal service-contract work captured in the Service Contract Inventory, the company reported $11.3 million in invoiced revenue in FY2022 across 139 FTEs, $14.2 million in FY2023 across 171 FTEs, and $14.6 million in FY2024 across 176 FTEs—modest but growing workforce deployment in SCI-reportable contracts above the $150,000 threshold. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI-covered prime work ran approximately $35.94 per hour, with rates spanning from $29.62 per hour at the tenth percentile (general clerk and receptionist roles requiring security clearance) to $54.64 per hour at the ninety-ninth percentile (senior technical and management labor). The company's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 56 unique categories priced from $31.37 per hour (General Clerk I) to $232.74 per hour (Program Manager I with Master's degree and clearance), with security-clearance requirements applied across roles. The vendor builds its own delivery teams: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, average sub-hours share is zero, reflecting complete insourcing on federal service contracts.

Recent federal contract award activity concentrates in the past four years, with registration in SAM.gov dating to 2005. The vendor has worked continuously with the Department of Veterans Affairs (multiple VISN networks), Department of Commerce (the single largest BPA partner), Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Army (both TRADOC and National Guard Readiness Center), the Air Force, the Department of the Navy, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, establishing itself as a recurrent provider of security operations and training support across civilian and defense agencies.

Currently executing DHS Federal Protective Service contract in Puerto Rico; providing Special Police Officers to Department of Commerce ($20M); multiple other armed access control contracts on the east coast.