Zayo Group LLC

Zayo Group LLC, a division of Zayo Group Holdings Inc., operates as a prime contractor delivering fiber optic connectivity, dark fiber services, and telecommunications infrastructure to federal agencies across civilian and defense sectors on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Zayo is a for-profit global telecommunications provider that has maintained federal contracting eligibility since 2011, competing primarily as a large business across 49 distinct federal customer agencies with a portfolio of 212 awards spanning contracts, IDIQs, and grants.

Zayo's concrete capability set centers on dark fiber leasing and installation, point-to-point wavelength services, 10 Gigabit Ethernet circuits, and wide-area network optical connectivity supporting voice, video, and data communications. Representative prime work includes a $2.7 million delivery order from an unspecified Western Region agency for dark fiber optic installation through April 2030 under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), a $23.9 million five-year time-and-materials delivery order from GSA's Center for Information Technology for wide-area network optical services extending through May 2027, a $1.2 million delivery order from the U.S. Census Bureau for dark fiber cabling connectivity under MAS through March 2027, and a $507.5 thousand delivery order from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 12-month fiber optic lease and maintenance under MAS through April 2027. Customer concentration skews heavily toward defense and health-research agencies: the Defense Information Systems Agency leads by award count (31 awards, $2 million combined potential value), while the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center dominates by dollars (5 awards, $723.1 million combined potential value—a single-award vehicle that anchors 85% of the portfolio's combined potential value). The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (19 awards, $13.1 million) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (13 awards, $3 million) round out the top-dollar customers. This concentration divergence reflects Zayo's seat on the VA's NLEC-NG (National Local Exchange Carrier Services for the Enterprise Next Generation) IDIQ, which carries multiple high-dollar delivery orders, while DISA, NIH, and NIST place numerous smaller task orders across MAS.

Zayo holds a position on the GSA MAS (61 task orders, $51.2 million combined potential value) as its primary vehicle and a single-award $8 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of State Bureau of Administration for telecommunications services to U.S. diplomatic facilities in Canada through May 2026. The company was also recently awarded a highly unusual $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ by the Missile Defense Agency under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program effective January 2026 through December 2035, though this vehicle's stated scope spans research, development, weapon system design, and multi-domain defense capabilities well beyond Zayo's historical telecommunications footprint and appears to signal either a significant strategic expansion or a data classification issue. Activity has remained modest at 12–27 awards per year over the past five years, with 13 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Twenty-three awards totaling $26.7 million in combined potential value face completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore expose the vendor to recompete risk.

Zayo operates as a direct prime on 98% of awards; subcontracting activity is minimal, with only five sub-awards across the portfolio, including wavelength connectivity services to HII Mission Technologies Corp (two instances in May 2024) and minerals revenue management support services to Accenture Federal Services LLC (December 2022 and October 2025). SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $5.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $370 thousand, FY2023: $1.6 million, FY2024: $3.5 million) with minimal FTE footprint (0.1 FTEs annually), reflecting that SCI captures only service contracts above $150,000 and excludes the majority of Zayo's goods-focused telecommunications product revenue. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts span a wide spectrum—median around $3,174 per hour with senior labor reaching $25,906 per hour—indicating blended pricing across equipment provisioning and professional services delivery.

Corporate structure shows Zayo Group Holdings Inc. as the parent entity, with named subsidiaries including Onvoy Inc. and Zayo Network Services LLC. Zayo has also received four federal grants from the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (CFDA 11.033) under the Middle Mile Broadband Grant Program: a $91.9 million award (July 2023, completion December 2026) for a 644-mile underground fiber route from Dallas to El Paso, Texas; a $19.6 million award (July 2023, completion December 2025) for retrofitting access points on an existing 822-mile five-state fiber route; an unnamed project grant for Oregon-Northern California-Nevada middle mile fiber (645 miles, July 2023, completion June 2026); and recent awards for Oklahoma (July 2025, completion September 2025) and Missouri (July 2025, completion September 2025) middle-mile fiber construction to unserved and underserved rural areas with open-access, carrier-neutral interconnect commitments. Zayo's federal posture is that of a specialized telecommunications infrastructure provider competing on capability and established relationships rather than on set-aside eligibility, with deepening exposure to long-duration IDIQs and grant-funded rural broadband expansion alongside traditional TQO-based dark fiber and circuit renewals for federal agencies.