Zayo Group LLC

Zayo Group LLC, a division of Zayo Group Holdings Inc., is a Denver-based global telecommunications infrastructure provider operating as a prime contractor on 98% of its recent federal awards, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations. The vendor supplies dark fiber leasing and installation, fiber optic connectivity, point-to-point wavelength services, 10 Gigabit Ethernet circuits, wide-area network optical services, and telecommunications infrastructure to civilian and defense federal agencies, with a combined potential value of $20.85 billion across 218 total awards (prime and sub) and combined dollars obligated of $392.3 million.

Zayo's customer concentration spans 52 agencies, with the top five by award count—Defense Information Systems Agency (31 awards), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (21 awards), NIAID DEA OA Acquisitions (15 awards), National Institute of Standards and Technology (14 awards), and NASA Shared Services Center (14 awards)—accounting for 44% of awards. The top-value ranking shifts notably: Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center anchors the value distribution at $723.1 million across five awards, followed by NIH Center for Information Technology ($44.5 million across three awards), FDA ($26.1 million across six awards), NIAID ($13.2 million across 21 awards), and Smithsonian Institution ($4.8 million across three awards). This divergence reflects high-volume small task orders to DISA and NIAID versus single, large-ceiling IDIQs to VA. Representative prime work includes a $3.335 million purchase order from the National Cancer Institute (September 2026) for fiber network backbone services connecting five NCI Maryland locations to Northern Virginia cloud sites with redundant 100 Gbps logical connections and 99.99% availability; a $1.34 million definitive contract with NIST (October 2026) for dark fiber time service connectivity at Boulder, Colorado through June 2032; and a $507.5 thousand delivery order from NIAID (April 2026) under GSA MAS for fiber optic lease and maintenance supporting the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology.

Vehicle position centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which carries 61 task orders worth $49.3 million in combined potential value—the dominant parent vehicle. Zayo also holds a newly awarded SEWP VI GWAC position (November 2026) with a $20 billion ceiling through October 2036, a multiple-award Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ (January 2026) with $151 billion ceiling through December 2035 and one $500 initial delivery order, and a single-award Department of State Bureau of Administration IDC (May 2022) valued at $8 million through May 2026 for telecommunications services supporting U.S. Mission Canada. The VA National Local Exchange Carrier Services for the Enterprise Next Generation (NLEC-NG) IDIQ carries one task order worth $563 thousand.

Activity has remained consistent: 15 awards in 2022, 27 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 19 in 2025, and 18 in 2026 year-to-date, tracking a volatile but essentially flat trajectory. Thirty-three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $28 million—a recompete cliff representing modest near-term exposure. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above $150,000 threshold) totaled $8.5 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 at $3 million across minimal FTE deployment (0.1 FTEs). Hourly rates on government-paid federal services contracts ranged widely: 10th percentile $1,732.50/hr, median $3,174.57/hr, and 90th percentile $25,906.37/hr, reflecting mix of routine telecommunications services and higher-touch professional services. Zayo self-performed all SCI-reportable work with zero subcontractor engagement, indicating build-to-order delivery rather than sub-reliance.

Subcontract footprint is minimal: Zayo subcontracts to Accenture Federal Services (Minerals Revenue Management Support System O&M and transition services, December 2022 and October 2025) and to HII Mission Technologies Corp (Federal Housing Finance Agency data center co-location wavelength connectivity, May 2024, two sub-awards). The vendor is not named as a significant sub to other large primes in the source. Federal grant activity centers on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration Middle Mile Broadband Grant Program (CFDA 11.033): Zayo is recipient on a $91.9 million grant (July 2023, December 2026) to construct 644 miles of underground fiber from Dallas to El Paso, Texas connecting 236 community anchor institutions; a $19.554 million grant (July 2023, December 2025) to retrofit an 822-mile five-state underground fiber route with new access points and 18 cellular towers; and an Oregon-Northern California-Nevada project (July 2023, June 2026) building 645 miles of fiber serving 22 anchor institutions and over 20,000 households. Two additional NTIA grants awarded July 2025 (Oklahoma-Missouri and Missouri projects) carry forward the middle-mile infrastructure mission.

Zayo Group Holdings Inc., the parent, is a for-profit organization registered for contracts and grants with subsidiaries including Onvoy, Inc. and Zayo Network Services, LLC. The vendor operates as a large business with established federal presence since at least 2009, dominating work through direct prime delivery of dark fiber and connectivity services rather than system-integration or professional-services roles. The company's federal footprint rests squarely on telecommunications infrastructure provision to health-research, defense, and civilian IT modernization customers, with minimal subcontracting overhead and SCI-reportable labor deployment concentrated in monitoring and network operations rather than large-scale consulting or engineering services.