{"id":660,"date":"2026-08-13T08:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:26:43","slug":"who-actually-built-the-h-1b-application-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/who-actually-built-the-h-1b-application-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Actually Built the H-1B Application System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started from the specific award identified in our NAICS 541511 report (PIID 1605TA26F00001) and worked outward. USASpending&#8217;s award-detail API exposes each contract&#8217;s\u00a0<code>parent_award<\/code>\u00a0(the underlying IDV\/BPA it was ordered against) \u2014 following that chain back showed the current task order sits under BPA\u00a0<strong>1605TA22A0001<\/strong>\u00a0(&#8220;Executive Order Support Services&#8221;), itself a successor to an older BPA,\u00a0<strong>DOL-OPS-17-A-001<\/strong>, signed with Booz Allen in December 2016. Separately, a keyword search across\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0DOL contracts and all years for &#8220;FOREIGN LABOR APPLICATION GATEWAY&#8221; 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 &#8220;OFLC case management&#8221; quality-assurance work that pre-dates the FLAG name. Subcontractor data comes from USASpending&#8217;s subaward records attached to the two most recent Booz Allen task orders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/dol_flag_system_history.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/dol_flag_system_history.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started from the specific award identified in our NAICS 541511 report (PIID 1605TA26F00001) and worked outward. USASpending&#8217;s award-detail API exposes each contract&#8217;s\u00a0parent_award\u00a0(the underlying IDV\/BPA it was ordered against) \u2014 following that chain back showed the current task order sits under BPA\u00a01605TA22A0001\u00a0(&#8220;Executive Order Support Services&#8221;), itself a successor to an older BPA,\u00a0DOL-OPS-17-A-001, signed with Booz Allen &#8230; <a title=\"Who Actually Built the H-1B Application System?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/who-actually-built-the-h-1b-application-system\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who Actually Built the H-1B Application System?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}