DOL’s own regulations limit review of a Labor Condition Application to checking for missing paperwork and “obvious inaccuracies” — not whether the employer’s attestation is actually true (20 CFR §655.740(a)(1)). GAO told Congress as much in 2011: the review is “cursory and limited by law,” and a DHS study found 21% of examined H-1B petitions involved fraud or technical violations. Eleven years of DOL’s own LCA and PERM disclosure data show what that produces — a 0.90% denial rate on 7.9 million H-1B filings since 2015, versus 4.72% for PERM, the sibling program that actually requires documented recruitment. This is a follow-up to our FLAG contract-history report: not who built the system that processes these applications, but what the law actually requires it to enforce.
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DOL’s Custom Computer Programming Contracts, 2026
This is a filtered subset of the dataset built for our full 2026 DOL contract report: all prime contracts (award types A/B/C/D) DOL signed (date_signed, not action_date) between 2026-01-01 and 2026-08-12, narrowed here to the 9 records where naics_hierarchy.base_code.code from USASpending’s award-detail API equals 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services). Executive-compensation figures come from each award’s executive_details.officers field, which reflects FFATA self-reporting by the recipient — most small contractors below the reporting threshold simply have no data, which is why several rows below show no officer names at all rather than a confirmed absence of any South Asian officers.
https://guestworkervisas.com/dol_2026_custom_computer_programming.php
Who Actually Built the H-1B Application System?
Started from the specific award identified in our NAICS 541511 report (PIID 1605TA26F00001) and worked outward. USASpending’s award-detail API exposes each contract’s parent_award (the underlying IDV/BPA it was ordered against) — following that chain back showed the current task order sits under BPA 1605TA22A0001 (“Executive Order Support Services”), itself a successor to an older BPA, DOL-OPS-17-A-001, signed with Booz Allen in December 2016. Separately, a keyword search across all DOL contracts and all years for “FOREIGN LABOR APPLICATION GATEWAY” and related phrasing (not limited to any NAICS code or date range) surfaced every award that named the system directly, plus one 2018 predecessor contract for “OFLC case management” quality-assurance work that pre-dates the FLAG name. Subcontractor data comes from USASpending’s subaward records attached to the two most recent Booz Allen task orders.
https://guestworkervisas.com/dol_flag_system_history.php