The part of the deal we already did for you.
Every Federal AI engagement is structured to fit an acquisition path your contracting officer can actually use: SBIR Phase III authority for Optimize with no competition and no dollar ceiling, a HUBZone sole-source authority that reaches $5.5 million, entry engagements priced inside the simplified acquisition threshold, and clean teaming for primes. This page gives your CO the citations, the registry data, and draft market-research language. Bring it to the meeting.
Everything your market research memo needs.
Federal AI is a certified HUBZone small business. Legal name Federal AI LLC. CAGE 7UCA4. UEI MV3AMKSSPZR1. Primary NAICS 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services, with a current SBA size standard of $34 million in average annual receipts, which Federal AI is well under. Registered and current in SAM.gov. Point of contact: lc@federal.ai.
Pick the one that matches your requirement.
These are standing authorities in the FAR, not special programs. Your contracting officer determines applicability to your specific requirement; the citations below are where they will look.
Optimize is SBIR-derived technology: Air Force SBIR Phase I (2020) and Phase II (2021) awards under topic FX201-CSO1-0384, followed by a Phase III award in 2022 and a multi-year site license awarded directly to Federal AI in 2023 and in performance since. Federal AI holds the technology rights as successor-in-interest. Any federal agency, and any federal prime contractor, may issue Phase III awards for work that derives from, extends, or completes that technology, sole source, with no limit on number, duration, type, or dollar value, funded with non-SBIR dollars, and the statute directs agencies to do so to the greatest extent practicable. FAR 6.302-5 lists it as a statutory exception to full and open competition. SBIR data rights protect the government's investment.
A contracting officer may award a sole-source contract to a certified HUBZone small business when the anticipated price, including options, does not exceed $5.5 million for services, the CO does not reasonably expect offers from two or more HUBZone concerns, and award can be made at a fair and reasonable price. No competition is required. This covers a full 90-day Mission Workflow Sprint many times over, and reaches multi-year delivery.
The 10-Day Mission Scan ($35K to $50K) and the 90-day Mission Workflow Sprint ($70K) are both priced well inside the $350,000 simplified acquisition threshold. Requirements between the micro-purchase threshold and the SAT are reserved for small businesses, and simplified procedures keep the timeline in weeks, not quarters.
If your program already runs through a prime or an existing vehicle, Federal AI subcontracts cleanly and the prime earns HUBZone credit toward its small business subcontracting goals. The teaming brief on the resources page covers workshare, data rights posture, and registry details for the prime's compliance team.
Also relevant in full and open competition
When a requirement is competed full and open, FAR 19.1307 gives certified HUBZone concerns a price evaluation preference. Federal AI competes on capability first; the preference is simply one more reason the math favors this bid.
For your market research memo.
Edit freely. This paragraph states facts your CO can verify in SAM.gov and at federal.ai in under five minutes.
Market research identified Federal AI LLC (CAGE 7UCA4, UEI MV3AMKSSPZR1),
a certified HUBZone small business under NAICS 541511, as a source capable
of meeting this requirement. The firm provides security-cleared forward-
deployed AI engineering for federal missions, including disconnected and
air-gapped environments, with current Department of the Air Force delivery
experience. The firm publishes a public engineering standard, a governed-AI
evidence framework, and fixed-price entry engagements priced within the
simplified acquisition threshold. Based on this research, the contracting
officer may consider a HUBZone set-aside under FAR 19.1305 or, if the
conditions of FAR 19.1306 are met, a HUBZone sole-source award. For
requirements that derive from, extend, or complete the SBIR-developed
Optimize technology, the contracting officer may issue a sole-source
SBIR Phase III award under 15 U.S.C. 638(r) and FAR 6.302-5.What fits before 30 September.
Expiring operations and maintenance funds favor fixed-price, fixed-duration work that a contracting office can obligate in days. Two Federal AI engagements are built for exactly that: the 10-Day Mission Integration Scan ($35K to $50K) and the 90-day Mission Workflow Sprint ($70K), both firm fixed price, both inside the simplified acquisition threshold, both with acceptance measures and kill criteria in writing. For organizations that already run Optimize, a Phase III sprint pool of engineering hours fits the same way, sole source.
FY26 timing
Scans obligated by 30 September 2026 are scheduled to deliver by 15 December 2026, in the order received, with Cleared FDE capacity confirmed at award. A market-research paragraph, the registry data above, and the one-page CO brief are everything the file needs. Questions go to lc@federal.ai; the contracting officer is welcome on the briefing call.
Fixed price, fixed duration, written acceptance.
Three engagement sizes, each with acceptance measures and kill criteria agreed in writing before work begins: a free 30-minute mission-fit briefing, a 10-Day Mission Scan at $35K to $50K that delivers a data map, candidate architecture, and go/no-go recommendation, and a 90-day Mission Workflow Sprint at $70K that delivers one operational workflow in your environment, on your data, under your controls, with your operators trained. Every engagement is measured against the public Cleared FDE Standard at federal.ai/standard.
Bring your CO. We will bring the citations.
Thirty minutes with a technical lead, and your contracting officer is welcome in the room. We would rather answer the acquisition questions on day one than on day ninety.