Trussworks, Inc.

Trussworks, Inc., doing business as Tetherpad, is an SBA 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business providing digital transformation, agile software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and IT modernization services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) and subcontractor. Headquartered in Berkeley, California and minority-owned (Black American-owned), Tetherpad competes predominantly under 8(a) set-aside designations on definitive contracts and delivery orders, with selective full-and-open competition on larger vehicles and GSA Schedule work.

The company's customer concentration spans civilian IT modernization across 19 distinct federal agencies. By award count, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services leads with seven awards ($28 million combined potential value), followed by the Internal Revenue Service (four awards, $11.3 million), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (four awards), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (three awards, $74.3 million potential value). However, the potential-value ranking diverges sharply: NASA accounts for two awards representing $40 billion combined potential value through SEWP VI GWAC seats, the Office of Federal Student Aid anchors $300 million through a single BPA, and the Department of Defense United States Transportation Command carries $88.1 million. The top five customers by potential value account for 100% of the combined $40.61 billion ceiling across all awards.

Tetherpad's vehicle position centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (11 task orders, $407.8 million combined potential value), the newly awarded SEWP VI GWAC (two awards, $40 billion combined ceiling, total small business set-aside, completion October 31, 2036), Alliant II (five task orders, no dollar magnitude specified in source), and the SEC Digital Services BPA ($62.5 million ceiling, August 2028 completion). The company also holds a $300 million single-award BPA with the Office of Federal Student Aid against MAS (July 28, 2031 completion) and maintains a $62.5 million SEC Digital Services BPA. Recent concrete work includes a $7.8 million SEC BPA call for semantic layer support (September 2026, completion March 2030), a $19.9 million HUD contract for HUD Exchange website maintenance and development (January 2025, $3.6 million invoiced in FY2025 across 9.8 FTEs), a $9.7 million Administration for Children and Families delivery order for GDIS Next Generation Secure Cloud (March 2025, $1.5 million invoiced in FY2025 across 2.0 FTEs), and a $4.49 million ACF contract for OPTN systems discovery ($3.3 million invoiced in FY2025 across 1.4 FTEs). A $2.27 million IRS delivery order for taxpayer experience engineering support (December 2025, completion June 2026) operates under the GSA MAS contract and represents continuation of prior IRS work valued at $4.5 million in May 2023 on digital services and direct file prototyping.

Activity has grown year over year from three awards in 2022 to nine in 2025, with five additional awards in 2026. One award (combined potential value $9.7 million) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue totals $48.1 million across four fiscal years (FY2022–FY2025), rising from $7.6 million in FY2022 to $19.4 million in FY2025 across a federal services workforce of 36.1 FTEs in FY2025, up from 12.4 FTEs in FY2022. Median government-paid rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run around $212.64 per hour, with senior technical labor pricing through $301.63 per hour. The company's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 15 active categories ranging from $106.20 per hour (IT Technician with two years experience and security clearance) to $294.41 per hour (Software/Infrastructure/IT Architecture Subject Matter Expert with eight years experience). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Tetherpad self-performs approximately 90% of labor, engaging an average 10% sub-hours share through 12 named subcontractors, indicating a primarily direct-delivery posture. Recent subcontract work includes roles as a sub to ECS Federal on Technical Engineering Support Services (TESS) awards (multiple modifications and funding updates between July 2025 and June 2026) and to ATI Government Solutions on direct file product team agile delivery and design services (January 2025).

NAICS concentration skews toward Computer Systems Design Services (18 awards) and Custom Computer Programming Services (15 awards). PSC framing emphasizes IT and Telecom business application development support labor (9 awards), application development SaaS (4 awards), systems development (3 awards), and high-performance computing support (3 awards), reflecting Tetherpad's positioning as an application-modernization and digital-transformation contractor rather than a hardware or communications vendor.

Infrastructure and mobile agile development services