Ascribe, LLC

Ascribe, LLC, doing business as Trident Services LLC, provides nationwide property appraisal services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis, with no SBA set-aside designations across its federal award footprint. The company is a for-profit limited liability corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, operating under primary NAICS 531320 (Offices of Real Estate Appraisers) and PSC category Support—Professional: Real Property Appraisals.

All six of Ascribe's recent federal awards are prime contracts with the USDA Rural Housing Service Single Family Housing Program, which provides homeownership support to low- and moderate-income rural Americans. The vendor holds an indefinite delivery contract (IDC 12RADA23D0003) valued at $5.3 million with a performance period running through May 31, 2028, under which it has received four task orders totaling $11.6 million in combined obligated dollars. Most recent work includes Task Order 4, a $2.2 million firm fixed-price delivery order awarded June 1, 2026, with place of performance in Roswell, Georgia and ultimate completion date May 31, 2027; Task Order 3, a $3.2 million delivery order for the period June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026; Task Order 2, a $3.2 million delivery order for June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, performed in Orange, California; and Task Order 1, a $3.2 million delivery order awarded July 1, 2023 with completion date May 31, 2024, also performed in Orange, California. A single $650 purchase order from the USDA North Carolina State Office for property appraisal services, awarded December 28, 2021, rounds out the portfolio.

The vendor's customer base is entirely concentrated with the USDA Rural Housing Service, which accounts for all six awards and 100% of combined potential value ($16.9 million). Award activity shows an irregular cadence—one award in 2021, two in 2023, one each in 2024, 2025, and 2026—with one award ($2.2 million) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. Service Contract Inventory data capture is limited, showing $348 thousand invoiced across 0.4 FTEs in FY2023 and $2.7 million across 3,266 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-reportable prime contracts. The FY2024 FTE figure is an outlier—SCI captures contract-level FTE allocations rather than active personnel headcount, and the figure reflects the scale of appraisal services delivered across the nationwide program rather than company payroll. Across SCI prime records, the vendor performs all delivery internally with zero subcontractor hours, and government-paid hourly rates span from $0.40 per hour at the 10th percentile to a median of $0.40 per hour, with senior labor or specialized appraisal services commanding up to $318.98 per hour at the 90th percentile.