Verato, Inc.

Verato, Inc., doing business as Araxid Fairfax Co, provides tri-merge credit reporting, single credit reports, and identity verification services to federal agencies as a prime contractor under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and other vehicles, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides. The McLean, Virginia-based company operates Araxid, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business subsidiary, and has built a federal contracting footprint across 1,026 recent awards spanning 27 customer agencies.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated in law enforcement and security clearance processing. The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Offices dominate by award count (920 awards, 89% of the recent portfolio), with the vast majority issued as high-frequency, low-dollar task orders ($200–$1,000 per call) against standing BPAs for debt collection and financial litigation support. By potential value, however, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency anchors the portfolio at $510.5 million across 27 awards—a $330 million Indefinite Delivery IDIQ for personnel security screening and credit reporting, plus subordinate delivery orders. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS), the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service, and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons round out the top five by dollars, collectively accounting for 98% of combined potential value. The concentration by dollars reflects a fundamentally different customer profile than the concentration by award count: the U.S. Attorney's Offices place hundreds of micro-orders ($420 thousand combined across 920 awards) for routine debt collection, while DCSA's $510.5 million footprint anchors the long-term strategic value.

Verato holds three active primary-vehicle positions: a $400,000 single-award BPA with the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (September 30, 2031), an $11.3 million single-award BPA with Immigration and Customs Enforcement covering all Department of Homeland Security components (August 5, 2030), and a $1 million single-award BPA with the Department of Justice Central Office through July 8, 2026. The vendor also places 211 task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($200.9 million combined potential value) and 28 task orders under the Professional Services Schedule ($93.7 million). The two largest parent vehicles by task-order count are the U.S. Attorney's Offices BPA 15JA0521A00000141 (467 task orders, $420 thousand combined) and an internal Department of Justice IDIQ vehicle DJJ16PEOA020188 (390 task orders, $892 thousand combined)—both driven by the high-frequency, low-ceiling ordering pattern characteristic of DOJ Attorney's Office operations.

Activity has remained relatively flat: 109 awards in 2022 declining to 72 in 2026 year-to-date. Sixty-two awards (combined potential value $10 million) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure for Verato and opportunity for competitors. The vendor's SCI-reported invoiced revenue reflects $19 million in FY2022 from seven federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold; subsequent fiscal years carry zero SCI-reportable invoicing, indicating that most recent work is either goods procurement, micro-purchases, classified work, or falls below the $150,000 reporting ceiling. SCI data shows 0.0 FTEs across the entire period, consistent with a vendor model built on third-party credit bureau data sourcing and resale rather than direct labor delivery. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor engaged no named subcontractors—Verato operates as a 100% prime-delivery shop, bringing no sub teams.

Capability work spans personnel security determinations, background investigations, security clearance processing, employment screening, asset forfeiture support, and financial litigation. Recent representative awards include a $54.9 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for tri-merge credit reporting (base plus four one-year options, October 4, 2031); an $8 million delivery order with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency for single and tri-merge credit reports under a total small business set-aside (October 31, 2026); an $844,740 BPA call with U.S. Customs and Border Protection for tri-merge credit reporting in support of personnel security determinations (September 29, 2027); a $1.27 million BPA call with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for FY 2026 personnel and contractor credit checks (August 6, 2030); and a $390,400 delivery order with the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys for consumer credit reporting services under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (September 29, 2031). The vendor also supports the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency under a Credit Reporting Services IDIQ with delivery orders carrying completion dates through October 2026. Place of performance spans West McLean, Virginia (primary), Washington, DC, and distributed U.S. Attorney's Office locations nationwide, with some performance in Boca Raton, Florida; Brooklyn Heights, New York; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Brunswick, Georgia.

All recent awards across the portfolio carry total small business set-aside designation or no set-aside at all; Verato does not compete under 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB categories despite holding a small disadvantaged business certification through Araxid. The vendor's contract vehicles are GSA-centric—primarily the Multiple Award Schedule and Professional Services Schedule—with subordinate BPA positions at specific customer agencies. The $330 million DCSA IDIQ represents an atypical vehicle structure by value magnitude; most of Verato's footprint runs through low-ceiling BPAs and GSA task-order vehicles characteristic of credit bureau reporting procurement.