Every company that bids on a Texas state IT-staffing contract has to file a HUB Subcontracting Plan — a public document naming exactly which subcontractors will get how much of the work, and how much of that goes to Texas-certified Historically Underutilized Businesses. Bansar Technologies filed one in December 2023 naming 23 subcontractors by name, dollar amount, and federal EIN. We ran all 23 through a decade of DOL visa-sponsorship data. The HUB credit and the actual H-1B labor go to almost entirely different companies — and the single largest HUB subcontractor with no visa footprint turns out to be running $44 million of its own, completely separate Texas state business.
Texas Gov't Code §2161.252 requires any respondent bidding on a state contract where subcontracting is likely to file a HUB Subcontracting Plan (HSP) with its bid. The form requires the bidder to list every portion of work it intends to subcontract, name the specific subcontractor for each portion, mark whether that subcontractor is a Texas-certified Historically Underutilized Business, and state an approximate dollar amount and percentage of the total contract each one will receive. Bansar Technologies Inc filed one for DIR requisition RFO-DIR-CPO-TMP-579 (an IT Staffing Services solicitation under the Department of Information Resources' DIR-CPO-5452 master contract), bid opened December 19, 2023, signed by founder/President Hemchand Bandreddy on July 19, 2024.
Attachment A of that filing lists 23 named subcontractors, each with its Texas Vendor ID or federal EIN, an approximate dollar amount, and a percentage of the contract: 5 Texas-certified HUB vendors splitting 28% of the contract ($2.8M of an implied ~$10M total), and 18 non-HUB vendors each getting a flat $100,000 (1% each, totaling 18%/$1.8M). We took those 23 legal names and EINs and searched them against DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification LCA (H-1B) disclosure data for every year from 2015 through 2026, matching by both name and, where available, EIN.
Rows highlighted in red are HUB-credited subcontractors with little or no H-1B sponsorship trace in twelve years of federal disclosure data, despite receiving the largest dollar commitments in the plan.
| Subcontractor | Type | $ Committed | % | H-1B Activity, 2015–2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xpedient Technologies Inc | HUB | $800,000 | 8% | Zero filings found under this name or EIN — the single largest dollar commitment in the entire plan. |
| Taproot Solutions Inc | HUB | $700,000 | 7% | Large, continuous sponsor — active every year 2015–2026, dozens to low hundreds of filings/year. |
| Nueve Solutions Inc | HUB | $500,000 | 5% | Modest but real activity, 2018–2026, across several entity-name variants. |
| Dutech Systems Inc | HUB | $400,000 | 4% | One filing, in 2015. Nothing in the eleven years since — including no filings during the period this HSP covers. |
| SRB Systems Inc | HUB | $400,000 | 4% | Zero filings found under this name or EIN. See deep dive below — this company runs $44.4M of its own separate Texas business. |
| Tek Leaders Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | 2,600 LCA filings, 2,688 positions, 2011–2026 — the largest H-1B sponsor of any of the 23, and it gets a 1% token allocation. |
| Imetris Corporation | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Continuously active every single year, 2015–2026, roughly two dozen to over 100 filings/year. |
| MeridianSoft Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | 929 LCA filings, 941 positions, 2008–2026. |
| Information Data Systems Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Growing steadily; peaked at 92 filings in 2024. |
| Mitecs Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Active and growing 2019–2026; 46 filings in 2025 alone. |
| Dataman USA Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Active — confirmed by EIN match, filing as "DatamanUSA, LLC" (name-search alone missed it). |
| Ikon Tech Solutions | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Active intermittently 2016–2020 and again 2025–2026, filing as "Ikon-Tech Services LLC" — confirmed by EIN. |
| Vigna Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Active 2015–2023, tapering off — just 2 filings in 2025, none in 2024 or 2026. |
| Idea Technolgies LLC | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Small but growing since 2023, aligning with this contract's timing. |
| RPD Systems LLC | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | 2 filings, both 2023. |
| Metagen Solutions Inc | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | 2 filings, one each in 2023 and 2024. |
| EA Learn | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | 3 filings, all 2023. |
| Spurtech Consultants | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Zero filings found. |
| Reliable Tech Geeks LLC | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Zero filings found. |
| Oak Wolf Group LLC | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Zero filings found. |
| Rapisource LLC | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Zero filings found. |
| RDB Consulting | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Zero filings found. |
| EERaj Technologies | Non-HUB | $100,000 | 1% | Zero filings found. |
"Zero filings found" means no matching record under the exact legal name or EIN listed in Bansar's HSP, across LCA tables spanning 2015–2026 (name search) and 2025–2026 (EIN search, the only two years DOL's published disclosure format includes an employer EIN field). It does not rule out sponsorship under an unlisted DBA or a legal-name variant we didn't test — that gap is exactly how Dataman USA and Ikon Tech's real activity nearly got missed in this same pass.
For comparison: Bansar Technologies Inc itself — the prime contractor holding the actual DIR requisition — shows exactly one H-1B filing under its own name across 2023–2026, for a worksite in Phoenix, Arizona. Nothing in Texas. That's consistent with the picture our earlier vendor-succession report found: Bansar operates as a staffing broker sitting on top of a network of subcontractors, not as a direct sponsor of the visa-holding workers who actually deliver the contracted work.
Pulling 2025 worksite data for the two largest confirmed H-1B sponsors in the plan shows exactly where their sponsored labor is concentrated — and it's disproportionately Texas, which lines up with a Texas state IT-staffing contract. Imetris, despite being nationally the third-largest sponsor here, barely touches Texas at all.
| Company | 2025 Filings | TX Filings | TX Share | TX Annual Wage Range | Top Other States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tek Leaders Inc | 162 | 87 | 54% | $66,602–$120,000 (avg $92,642) | MA, GA, NC, CA, VA |
| MeridianSoft Inc | 57 | 20 | 35% | $84,094–$106,000 (avg $96,608) | OH, FL, AZ, GA |
| Imetris Corporation | 52 | 5 | 9.6% | ~$106,000–$114,400 (2 hourly rates) | PA (its actual top state, 21 filings), NY, MA |
SRB Systems Inc is the most striking single finding in this HSP. It isn't a shell riding on Bansar's contract — it holds 188 of its own, independently-awarded Texas state contracts worth a combined $44,381,616, across 23 different state agencies, with activity running current through 2026 (Health and Human Services Commission, Railroad Commission, Texas Education Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of Family and Protective Services, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Department of Criminal Justice, and more). Texas payment records show $3.5M actually disbursed against 182 of those contracts. And in the full 2008–2026 DOL disclosure record, under this exact legal name and EIN, SRB Systems Inc has filed zero H-1B, LCA, or PERM applications.
We ran the same attachment-filename scraper from our vendor-succession report against all 188 of SRB's LBB contract pages. It surfaced nine apparent named individuals, almost all from Railroad Commission IT-staffing solicitations awarded directly to SRB Systems between 2023 and 2026:
| Name (as filed) | Role | Agency | Contract # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priyanka Alluri | QA Associate Analyst | Railroad Commission | 23-1745 |
| Risha Pudhupully | Business Analyst | Railroad Commission | 23-1729 |
| Bala Dronavalli | Project Manager | Railroad Commission | 23-1694 |
| Naveen Papagari | Dev Programmer Analyst | Railroad Commission | 23-1654 |
| Priyankya Shanmugam | Business Analyst 3 | Railroad Commission | 26-0215 |
| N. Suma | Business Analyst | Railroad Commission | 455-25-1705 |
| S. Chenna | Business Analyst | Railroad Commission | 455-26-1227 |
| S. Goka | Architect | Office of the Attorney General | PO-0002446 |
| S. Chinasumala | (contract amendment) | Parks and Wildlife Department | CA-0007575 |
Filenames drawn directly from cms.lbb.texas.gov attachment listings, e.g. SRB Systems Dev Programmer Analyst Naveen Papagari VW.pdf. The recurring "VW" suffix's meaning is unresolved, same as in our prior report.
Our earlier report found three cases of a named worker moving from one staffing vendor's Texas contract straight into another vendor's contract for the identical role, which is one clean explanation for a company having big contract revenue and no visa-sponsorship trail: the workers were never newly sponsored by that company because they came pre-attached from a previous vendor relationship. We searched all nine SRB-linked names above against the full, unfiltered Subject field of every Texas state contract on file — not just SRB's own contracts. None of the nine turned up under a different vendor. The one near-miss — a worker listed as "Suma K." on a separate Esolvit Inc/HHSC contract, compared to SRB's "N. Suma" at the Railroad Commission — is too thin to call a match: different agency, different vendor, and "Suma" is a common South Asian given name that could easily belong to two different people.
We're reporting that negative result deliberately. It means the specific mechanism we confirmed in the last report — incumbent worker, new vendor, same job — doesn't explain SRB Systems' zero H-1B footprint, at least not through this data source. What does explain it remains genuinely open: the named workers could hold citizenship, permanent residency, or a visa category that doesn't require an LCA (L-1, TN, OPT/CPT); or SRB could be sponsoring workers under a legal-name or DBA variant this search didn't test, the way Dataman USA and Ikon Tech's real H-1B activity nearly slipped past this same method until we checked by EIN instead of name.
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