Federal contractor · HANOVER, MD

PENACITY LLC

PENACITY LLC received $231.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+0.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $547.1K. Its largest customer was National Institute of Standards and Technology ($174.3K).

Obligations · FY2026
$231.8K
New awards
2
Sole-source
75%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
H87BYF1M2HV9
Parent company
ABOUT WEB, LLC
Small businessVeteran-ownedService-disabled veteran-owned
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the ABOUTWEB, LLC company family: 2 registered entities, $371.2K in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. ABOUTWEB, LLCGAITHERSBURG, MD · Family page
    $139.4K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2KFY2019
  2. 82.5KFY2024
  3. 230.8KFY2025
  4. 231.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology$174.3K75%
    1 awards
  2. Agricultural Research Service$57.5K25%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$231.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$174.3K75%
  2. Prince George's County, MD$57.5K25%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition75%
    US 39% · $174.3K
  • Sole-source awards75%
    US 30% · $174.3K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. TOUCHSTONE ACCREDITATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (AMS) SOFTWARE LICENSE RENEWAL WITH PATCHES/SECURITY UPG. SVC. + GOLD LEVEL CUSTOM IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT$347.6K
    National Institute of Standards and Technology· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Jan 2, 2025 – Jul 22, 2026· 1333ND25PNB600035
  2. CONTRACT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DATABASE TOOLS FOR US NATIONAL FUNGUS COLLECTIONS$172.5K
    Agricultural Research Service· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 25, 2024 – Jul 16, 2026· 12305B24P0233

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $50K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. CGI FEDERAL INC.$50K100%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $4.5M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $30K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $550K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $285K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $50K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $50K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $8.1M reported

  1. CGI FEDERAL INC.$6.4M
    FAIRFAX, VA · 23 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$1.5M
    RESTON, VA · 10 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  3. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$120K
    MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ACTIVION INC$969.1K−54% in FY2026
    BALTIMORE, MD · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Research Service · Computer systems design and related services
  2. MICHEL, STEVE$403.2K0% in FY2026
    ALBANY, CA · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Research Service · Computer systems design and related services
  3. STRATOSYS PARTNERS INC.$387.7K
    RESTON, VA · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Research Service · Computer systems design and related services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.