Federal contractor · VIENNA, VA

ZEN STRATEGICS LLC

ZEN STRATEGICS LLC received $21.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−8.3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $131.3M. Its largest customer was U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ($14.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$21.4M
New awards
6
Sole-source
2.2%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small businessMinority-owned8(a) program
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 0FY2017
  2. 1.2MFY2018
  3. 1.8MFY2019
  4. 791KFY2020
  5. 3.3MFY2021
  6. 15.4MFY2022
  7. 25.1MFY2023
  8. 39MFY2024
  9. 23.4MFY2025
  10. 21.4MFY2026
  11. -222.5KFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services$14.4M67%
    1 awards
  2. Department of Education$6M28%
    2 awards
  3. Internal Revenue Service$820.7K3.8%
    1 awards
  4. Commodity Futures Trading Commission$229.7K1.1%
    1 awards
  5. Department of Housing and Urban Development$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$20.2M94%
  2. Professional services$1.3M6.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Lowndes County, MS$14.4M67%
  2. Fairfax County, VA$6.6M31%
  3. District of Columbia, DC$467.9K2.2%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition2.2%
    US 39% · $467.9K
  • Sole-source awards2.2%
    US 30% · $467.9K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (BPA) CALL ORDER IS TO PROVIDE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DOED) FEDERAL STUDENT AID (FSA) WITH CYBERSECURITY OPERATIONS SUPPORT TO THE DOED ENTERPRISE CYBERSECURITY GROUP (ESG).$62.3M
    Department of Education· Fairfax County, VA· IT & telecom· Aug 17, 2021 – Aug 26, 2026· 91003121F0331
  2. CYBER SECURITY SUPPORT SERVICES (C3S) - ARCHITECTURE FOR THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (OIT), INFORMATION SECURITY DIVISION (ISD) ON A FIRM-FIXED-PRICE & TIME AND MATERIALS BASIS.$52.9M
    U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services· Lowndes County, MS· IT & telecom· Apr 7, 2023 – Aug 26, 2026· 70SBUR23F00000073
  3. RMM AND E-RECORDS DIGITIZATION SUPPORT$4.7M
    Internal Revenue Service· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Sep 29, 2023 – Sep 23, 2026· 2032H523F00815
  4. RM/CUI CONTRACTOR SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$2.3M
    Department of Education· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 22, 2022 – Aug 27, 2026· 91990022C0078
  5. ELECTRONIC RECORDS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES$1.6M
    National Science Foundation· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· May 23, 2022 – Oct 5, 2026· 49100422C0016
  6. CONTROLLED INFORMATION PROGRAM (CIP)$1.4M
    Department of Housing and Urban Development· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Sep 28, 2023 – Dec 9, 2025· 86614323C00007
  7. RECORDS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT.$1.2M
    Commodity Futures Trading Commission· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 20, 2022 – Aug 25, 2026· 9523ZY22C0011

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: $2.9M (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP$2.9M100%
    ARLINGTON, VA · 1 subaward

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

1 company · $2.9M reported

  1. DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP$2.9M
    ARLINGTON, VA · 1 subaward · Management, scientific, and technical consulting 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SLALOM, INC.$34.6M
    SEATTLE, WA · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Computer systems design and related services
  2. SANAMETRIX INC$42M+8% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Computer systems design and related servicesEducation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. KAPTIVATE LLC$46M+19% in FY2026
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 44% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Computer systems design and related services

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.