Ten contracts, $10 billion, and a question USASpending can answer
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is one of the largest federal contractors in the country, with roughly $12.7 billion obligated across 231 active awards and a "Top Agency" relationship with the Department of Defense. Its ten largest individual prime awards on record — a mix of GSA Multiple Award Schedule task orders and VA enterprise IDIQ orders — range from $727 million to $1.38 billion each.
What makes Booz Allen's federal record unusually transparent is that USASpending publishes subaward data for many of these orders: when Booz Allen, as prime, passes work to another company, that relationship and dollar amount becomes a matter of public record. Pulling subaward detail for Booz Allen's ten largest prime awards returns 611 to 84 individual subaward line items per contract, totaling $2.37 billion across more than 200 distinct subcontractor names.
A prime contractor's name on a $1.38 billion award tells you who holds the contract and who's accountable to the agency — it does not tell you who is actually doing the work, where those workers are, or what labor arrangements they're under. Subaward data is one of the few places that second layer becomes visible. And in Booz Allen's case, the single largest name in that second layer isn't a Fortune 500 systems integrator. It's a 511-person staffing firm in Tysons, Virginia.
Take2 Consulting, LLC: $258.4 million in, $500 out
Across five of Booz Allen's ten largest prime awards, Take2 Consulting, LLC received a combined $258,420,055.06 in subawards — more than any other subcontractor, and more than double the second-place recipient. The work is consistently described the same way: "IT services and staff augmentation," "IT consulting and staffing," "provide IT services and staff augmentation."
| Booz Allen Prime Award | Awarding Agency | Take2 Subaward |
|---|---|---|
| PIID 36C10B22N10070023 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $122,148,857.60 |
| PIID 36C10B21N10070021 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $82,892,378.41 |
| PIID 36C10B19N10070015 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $29,163,720.71 |
| PIID 47QFCA21F0018 | General Services Administration | $20,105,897.30 |
| PIID 36C10B21N10150056 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $4,109,201.04 |
| Total, this report's top-10-award sample | $258,420,055.06 | |
That $258.4 million is itself an undercount of Take2's relationship with Booz Allen. Searching subaward records directly for Take2 as a sub-recipient — across all of Booz Allen's prime awards, not just the top 10, and across both "BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC" and "BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC." as they're separately registered in USASpending — turns up 278 individual subaward transactions totaling $511,967,784.82, of which $420,757,833.26 (over 82%) comes from Booz Allen alone. The remainder comes from 15 other primes, including Deloitte Consulting ($54.5M), SAIC ($8.9M), Leidos ($7.0M combined), and ManTech ($8.5M combined).
For comparison, here is Take2 Consulting's entire footprint as a federal prime contractor, in full, per USASpending:
| Award | Agency | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PIID HQ085926FG208 (SHIELD Initial Order) | Department of Defense | $500.00 |
| PIID N0017825F7878 | Department of Defense | $500.00 |
| Total as prime (12 transactions) | $1,000.00 | |
$512.0 million vs. $1,000. Take2's own marketing materials describe it as "a prime contract holder on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule," and the company does appear to hold a GSA MAS contract. But in terms of dollars actually flowing through the federal system, Take2's entire visible existence as a prime contractor consists of two $500 placeholder-sized Defense Department awards — against more than half a billion dollars received as a subcontractor to 16 different primes. We cover Take2's full profile, including its H-1B record, in a dedicated report.
A Tysons, Virginia staffing firm that's barely visible as a federal contractor
Take2 Consulting, LLC is headquartered at 1595 Spring Hill Road, Suite 300, Vienna, Virginia, founded in 2015, and describes itself as an "IT staffing and consulting" firm specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and data services for federal and commercial clients. USASpending's recipient profile classifies Take2 as "other than small business" with no SDVOSB or other socioeconomic set-aside designation — meaning its subaward revenue isn't explained by any of the set-aside mechanisms documented elsewhere in this series. It simply functions as a staffing subcontractor at scale.
The full breakdown of Take2's $512 million in subaward revenue — including its H-1B record, the spread across 16 prime contractors, and what that means — is covered in a dedicated report.
Take2 isn't alone: the top 20 subcontractors
Take2 is the largest single name, but the broader pattern is what makes this a "network" rather than a one-off. Of the $2.37 billion in subawards across Booz Allen's top 10 prime contracts, roughly $477.7 million (20.2%) went to companies whose own descriptions identify them as IT staffing or staff-augmentation providers — not just Take2, but also Razor Talent ($49.9M), Insight Global ($40.8M), Computer Task Group ($35.0M), ALKU Technologies ($26.0M), KForce ($21.9M), TEKSystems ($17.3M), and several smaller firms.
| Subcontractor | Awards | Total Subaward $ |
|---|---|---|
| Take2 Consulting, LLC — IT staffing | 5 of 10 | $258,420,055 |
| ECS Federal, LLC — engineering/intel support | 2 of 10 | $125,590,512 |
| DLT Solutions, LLC — AWS reseller | 1 of 10 | $110,491,323 |
| Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. | 1 of 10 | $107,610,297 |
| Accenture Federal Services LLC | 3 of 10 | $81,929,068 |
| Crystal Clear Technologies Inc — cyber ops labor | 1 of 10 | $78,220,718 |
| Mission Consulting and Services LLC | 2 of 10 | $75,161,853 |
| Emerging Tech, LLC | 1 of 10 | $70,000,000 |
| Elentic LLC — PM/technical architects | 1 of 10 | $55,000,000 |
| Razor Talent LLC — tech consulting/staffing | 1 of 10 | $49,850,683 |
| Le'Fant LLC — SDVOSB/HUBZone | 1 of 10 | $48,913,479 |
| Summit2Sea Consulting, LLC | 1 of 10 | $41,068,308 |
| Insight Global, LLC — commercial staffing | 3 of 10 | $40,791,145 |
| RavenTek Solution Partners, LLC | 2 of 10 | $38,088,926 |
| Computer Task Group, Inc. — IT staffing | 1 of 10 | $35,000,000 |
| RHO Inc — IT services | 2 of 10 | $34,213,020 |
| SBG Technology Solutions Inc | 1 of 10 | $32,000,000 |
| The Boston Consulting Group Inc | 2 of 10 | $28,819,000 |
| Softact Solutions LLC | 1 of 10 | $28,008,005 |
| ALKU Technologies, LLC — staffing firm | 2 of 10 | $26,036,786 |
| Top 20 of 200+ | ~$1.36B | |
Accenture Federal Services LLC ($81.9M, 3 awards) is the same entity that appears as a $20.9M subcontractor to Booz Allen on GSA work in the company-tracker screenshot that started this thread — the fuller subaward data shows its relationship with Booz Allen is roughly four times larger than that single line suggested. ThunderCat Technology, LLC — profiled earlier in this series as a $6.97 billion SDVOSB reseller in its own right — also appears as a $9.2 million subcontractor on Booz Allen's largest GSA award, reselling hardware, software, and licensing. And Le'Fant LLC ($48.9M) describes itself in its own subaward record as an SDVOSB and HUBZone-certified firm — meaning the same set-aside categories driving the "billion-dollar SDVOSB reseller" pattern documented elsewhere in this series also show up as subcontractors underneath a prime as large as Booz Allen.
What this does — and doesn't — establish
What's established by the record: Booz Allen's largest federal contracts depend heavily on a layer of subcontractors, several of which are themselves staffing firms whose business is supplying labor rather than building products. The single largest of these, Take2 Consulting, has essentially no independent federal contracting footprint and appears to exist, in federal-revenue terms, almost entirely as a subcontractor to larger primes. Roughly one-fifth of the subaward dollars across Booz Allen's ten largest contracts went to companies that describe their own role as staffing or staff augmentation. Take2 Consulting files zero H-1B LCAs under its own name in FY2026 DOL disclosure data, despite a described multi-continent workforce.
What we are not claiming: subcontracting itself is a normal, legal, and frequently necessary part of federal contracting — primes routinely lack every specialized skill set in-house, and staffing augmentation is a recognized, regulated category of federal IT spending. Nothing here establishes that Take2, or any other subcontractor named above, is doing anything improper. The zero-H-1B finding for Take2 is consistent with several benign explanations (citizen/green-card-only staffing for cleared work, offshore delivery that doesn't require LCAs, or visa sponsorship routed through a different corporate name), and we have not been able to determine which, if any, applies. What this report establishes is narrower but still significant: that a substantial share of the dollar value of "Booz Allen Hamilton" federal contracts is actually performed, on paper, by a small number of staffing and consulting firms most taxpayers have never heard of — and that mapping those relationships is possible, because the underlying subaward data is public.
The name on the contract isn't always the company doing the work
"Booz Allen Hamilton" is the name that appears on $1+ billion federal contracts, in press releases, and on USASpending's headline figures. But a meaningful share of the actual labor behind those contracts — on this evidence, over $420 million from Booz Allen's prime awards alone — runs through a staffing firm in Vienna, Virginia that almost never appears as a prime contractor itself. Multiply that pattern across the dozens of large primes in federal IT, and across the hundreds of staffing and pass-through firms like Take2, ECS Federal, Razor Talent, and the rest, and the question this series keeps returning to comes into focus: when taxpayer dollars flow through several layers of companies before reaching the people actually doing the work, who is actually accountable for who that work goes to — and on what terms?
Of $2.37 billion in subawards across Booz Allen's ten largest federal prime contracts, $258.4 million on this sample alone — the single largest share — went to Take2 Consulting, LLC, a Vienna, Virginia IT staffing firm whose own federal prime-contract footprint totals $1,000. Looking at Take2's subaward record across all prime contractors (not just Booz Allen), the total rises to $512.0 million across 278 transactions and 16 primes — $420.8 million of it from Booz Allen alone. Roughly $477.7 million of the Booz Allen top-10 subaward pool went to companies that describe themselves as staffing or staff-augmentation providers. None of this is evidence of wrongdoing by any party named — but it is a clear illustration of how much of the "who does the work" question federal contract headlines simply don't answer, and how much of it is answerable, if you're willing to read the subaward data. Take2's full profile — including its H-1B record — is in a dedicated report.
Background: How a "Small Business Set-Aside" Becomes a Billion-Dollar Reseller · See also: Take2 Consulting, LLC: $512M in Subawards · Four Points Technology, L.L.C. · ThunderCat Technology, LLC · V3Gate, LLC