Ventech, Inc.

Ventech, Inc., a minority-owned, SBA-certified 8(a) small business headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering software licensing, maintenance, operations support, and systems engineering services to the Department of Defense and the Department of Agriculture on a full-and-open basis, with selective use of 8(a) Sole Source awards in the civilian agency portfolio.

Ventech's customer concentration is extreme: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) dominates 95% of recent award volume (68 awards carrying $138.7 million combined potential value), with the AFMC Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex adding 12 awards ($6.8 million). The Department of Agriculture FSIS Office of Administrative Services and the National Agricultural Statistics Service together account for the remaining volume. The two customer rankings track identically — AFMC's dollar share mirrors its award count — reflecting a heavily imbalanced portfolio anchored to a single defense customer. The Missile Defense Agency's recent SHIELD IDIQ award ($151 billion ceiling, awarded December 29, 2025) represents a strategic entry into a much larger vehicle, though the initial task order carries only a $500 firm-fixed-price.

Ventech's capability footprint centers on base-level software support (BLSS), covering commercial software licensing, maintenance, operations support, database administration, and help-desk services. The vendor also delivers web modernization, training assessment, systems development, and analytics portal support. Concrete work examples include 65 delivery orders totaling $39.3 million potential value under the Air Force Materiel Command's $99 million BLSS IDIQ (FA248620D0009), a $778,069 8(a) Sole Source definitive contract with USDA FSIS for analytics portal and website support running through March 2024, a $2.1 million USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service user portal support and NSPS services award under 8(a) Sole Source, and a $500,197 USDA Economic Research Service web modernization delivery order under GSA Schedule.

Ventech operates across two parent vehicles: the Air Force Materiel Command's BLSS IDIQ (65 task orders, $39.3 million potential value) and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (7 task orders, $3 million potential value). The BLSS IDIQ runs through May 2030 and represents the cornerstone of Ventech's federal footprint; delivery orders range from $28,528 to $2.03 million per order, issued on a full-and-open basis without set-asides. On GSA Schedule work, the vendor competes through both full-and-open (like the NASS training assessment and ERS web modernization orders) and total-small-business set-asides (the Navy OEEO training development order). Ventech also holds a $4.1 million 8(a) Sole Source definitive contract for Microsoft 365 and PowerApps development with the Department of Agriculture's Central Program Planning Coordination and Support, running through September 2026, and a $3.9 million 8(a) Sole Source five-year USDA FSIS lab operations and maintenance contract awarded November 2021.

Activity has declined sharply since peak volume in 2021–2022. The vendor recorded 24 awards in 2021 and 20 in 2022, falling to 14 in 2023, 5 in 2024, and 4 in 2025. This trajectory reflects the maturing of large multi-year BLSS delivery orders rather than declining customer demand; the BLSS IDIQ has been Ventech's primary vehicle since at least 2019, and recent awards are predominantly incremental task orders on the same contract. Only two awards (combined potential value $8 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, suggesting minimal near-term recompete exposure. However, the sharp decline in new awards per year signals either saturation of the BLSS IDIQ pipeline or reduced funding for Air Force software sustainment.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue across federal service contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory reached $11.3 million cumulatively over FY2022–FY2024, with $4 million invoiced in FY2022 across 25.3 FTEs, $4.4 million in FY2023 across 26.5 FTEs, and $2.9 million in FY2024 across 19.3 FTEs. Note that SCI is a strict subset of federal services revenue, excluding goods, products, classified work, and sub-million contract awards; it does not reflect Ventech's total federal revenue. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $52.55/hr at the 10th percentile to $74.24/hr median to $117.37/hr at the 90th percentile, with a low-cost profile anchored in help-desk and support labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed roughly 40% of total contractor hours, with 20 named subcontractors engaged, indicating a moderate reliance on subcontractors to supplement internal delivery capacity.

Ventech's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 50 unique categories at rates from $51.37/hr (Technical Writer, bachelor's, three years' experience) to $187.59/hr (Senior Program Manager, bachelor's, seven years' experience), with representative mid-range rates at $78.15/hr (Software Tester), $96.36/hr (System Engineer Sr), and $125.14/hr (Senior Computer Hardware Engineer). No security-cleared roles are offered, reflecting the unclassified nature of Ventech's customer work. The labor portfolio supports the vendor's core competencies in software sustainment, systems engineering, and IT operations — personnel cost-tiered from support technicians through senior engineering and program-management roles.

Ventech competes predominantly under full-and-open procurement vehicles, with selective 8(a) Sole Source awards in its civilian agency work. The vendor does not operate as a subcontractor; all 93 recent awards in the source data are prime awards. The heavy concentration in Air Force BLSS work, combined with the compressed recent award cadence, positions Ventech as a specialized software-sustainment provider with limited diversification across agencies, acquisition vehicles, or service lines. The December 2025 SHIELD IDIQ award represents a significant broadening of procurement vehicle diversity, but the vendor has yet to capture meaningful task-order volume on that contract.