Z, Inc.

Z, Inc., doing business as Z Inc., is a small business based in Greenbelt, Maryland, that provides energy market analysis, data collection and modeling, and technical program support to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing full-and-open without set-aside designations. The vendor holds two significant IDIQs anchoring its federal footprint: a single-award $900 million Department of Energy Energy Information Administration Omnibus Procurement V contract running through March 2034, and a multi-award seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ awarded by GSA in December 2024.

Z, Inc.'s customer concentration is extreme and durable. The Department of Energy Energy Information Administration alone accounts for 37 awards valued at $1.6 billion combined potential value—roughly 81% of the vendor's total federal pipeline of $1.97 billion—with the top five customer segments within or affiliated with DOE representing 89% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects Z, Inc.'s specialized capability in energy modeling, National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) module development and maintenance, energy technology cost-performance analysis, and federal energy policy data infrastructure. Representative recent work includes a $3.4 million bridge task order from EIA (March 2026) providing Monthly Energy Report, State Energy Data, and State Energy Profile support through September 2028 on a time-and-materials basis, a $290.7 million firm fixed-price delivery order for NEMS Transportation Module fuel-cell technology updates (July 2023, completed July 2024), and a $296.6 million order for electric generating unit technology cost and performance statistics (April 2023, completed December 2023). A smaller $93.5 thousand cybersecurity vulnerability analysis and reporting delivery order from the Transportation Security Administration (September 2024, completing March 2026) signals nascent diversification outside energy, though EIA remains the dominant customer by both volume and value.

Z, Inc. places work across five named parent vehicles. The EIA Omnibus Procurement IV IDIQ generated 18 task orders valued at $34.6 million combined potential value and represents completed or near-completed work from 2023–2024. The broader Energy Analysis and Forecasting vehicle accounts for 38 task orders at $41.9 million. The vendor's more recent OASIS+ Small Business IDIQ seat (awarded December 2024) carries a $999.999 billion placeholder ceiling and runs through December 2029, positioning Z, Inc. to pursue multi-agency professional services work across management, technical, engineering, research and development, and environmental domains beyond its EIA core. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule provides a secondary vehicle for IT and management consulting labor (44 active labor categories ranging from $53.94/hr for entry-level research assistants through $337.93/hr for senior technical consultants, all requiring bachelor's degrees and no security clearances).

Activity has been sparse in recent years. The source shows only nine awards in the past five calendar years (one in 2025 and one in 2026 to date), a dramatic decline from the 1985 baseline and suggesting that Z, Inc.'s federal footprint is sustained primarily by the $900 million EIA Omnibus V IDIQ rather than ongoing task-order volume. SCI-reported federal services invoicing held steady at $2.1–$2.2 million annually across FY2022–FY2024, with roughly 10 FTEs delivered per fiscal year. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts clustered tightly around a median of $104.99/hr, ranging from $101.02/hr at the tenth percentile to $108.25/hr at the ninetieth percentile—a narrow band suggesting consistent technical-specialist pricing rather than labor-category diversity. The vendor performs its own work: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share was zero percent, indicating Z, Inc. builds delivery teams internally rather than relying on subcontractors.

Z, Inc. subcontracts minimally. The source names one sub-award: a November 2025 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program support task under prime Apprise Inc. for the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. This represents less than one percent of recent awards and reflects Z, Inc.'s role as a specialized feeder to larger primes on occasion, not as a standard subcontracting partner.

IT FACILITIES AND/OR INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, IT SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICES, CUSTOM IT PROGRAMMING SERVICES, OTHER IT RELATED SERVICES, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES