DOL's Custom Computer Programming Contracts, 2026

A narrower cut of our 2026 DOL contract dataset, isolated to NAICS 541511 — Custom Computer Programming Services, the code covering bespoke software development work. Nine contracts, $23.1M, eight vendors — and USASpending's own award descriptions reveal exactly what was being built, including a $1.4M Booz Allen Hamilton contract for FLAG, the Foreign Labor Application Gateway that processes every H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, and PERM case DOL handles.

9 Contracts $23.1M Total 8 Vendors 1 Runs the H-1B System 100% Fully Competed Source: USASpending.gov

Contracts

Total Value

$23,139,689

Unique Vendors

Fully Competed

9 of 9

Set-Aside

SBA/8(a)

Flagged Vendors

🎯 DOL paid to build its own H-1B application system in 2026: Contract 1605TA26F00001, awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton on 2026-02-13 for $1,426,317, is titled "FOREIGN LABOR APPLICATION GATEWAY (FLAG) PERMANENT ONLINE AND CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS." FLAG is the actual OFLC platform employers use to file Labor Condition Applications for H-1B, plus H-2A, H-2B, and PERM cases — the software infrastructure of the visa program itself. It was fully and openly competed, and Booz Allen's reported officers show no South Asian-origin names.

ℹ️ What this slice shows: Of DOL's $277.1M in 2026 contract signings, $80.3M (29%) touched an IT-related NAICS code — but most of that ran through the broader "Other Computer Related Services" category (541519, $54.9M / 83 contracts). Custom Computer Programming Services specifically (541511) is a much smaller, more concentrated slice: 9 contracts, $23.1M, and — unlike the vendor pool in our full 2026 report — none of the 8 winning companies have South Asian-origin names among reported officer compensation. Two vendor names (Nuvitek LLC, Vinsys Information Technology) are worth watching if future contracts trigger FFATA executive-compensation reporting, but no compensation data exists for them yet, so they are not flagged here.

Methodology

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.

All 9 Contracts

Vendor	Value	Signed	Project (per USASpending)	Competition	Set-Aside	Funding Sub-Agency
GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.	$8,165,310	2026-04-01	EFAST2 — EBSA's ERISA Filing Acceptance System (retirement plan reporting)	Full & Open	—	Office of the Asst. Sec. for Admin. & Mgmt
BUCHANAN & EDWARDS, INC.	$5,133,571	2026-07-07	Job Corps Data Center (JCDC) support services	Full & Open	—	Office of Job Corps
NUVITEK LLC	$4,898,485	2026-05-18	RAMPS — ETA's Registered Apprenticeship Management and Partnership System	Full & Open	Small Business	Office of the Asst. Sec. for Admin. & Mgmt
NUVITEK LLC	$2,134,791	2026-08-01	UIRS Phase 3 — Unemployment Insurance Reporting System development & O&M	Full & Open	8(a)	Office of the Asst. Sec. for Admin. & Mgmt
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC 🎯	$1,426,317	2026-02-13	FLAG — Foreign Labor Application Gateway, the online case-management system for H-1B/H-2A/H-2B/PERM	Full & Open	—	Office of the Asst. Sec. for Admin. & Mgmt
THE FILA GROUP LLC	$824,705	2026-06-23	Go.gov link-shortener implementation support	Full & Open	Small Business	Office of Chief Financial Officer
SOFT TECH CONSULTING, INC.	$417,020	2026-08-01	App dev support for BLS's Office of Technology & Survey Processing (web services division)	Full & Open	—	Bureau of Labor Statistics
WINTRIO LLC	$108,960	2026-04-28	Security control assessment & continuous authorization (ATO/POA&M) support	Full & Open	Small Business	Office of Inspector General
VINSYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.	$30,531	2026-05-31	Jira software license renewal	Full & Open	Small Business	Bureau of Labor Statistics

Officer Compensation on File

Only 3 of the 8 vendors have FFATA executive-compensation data reported against them. None show a South Asian-origin name among reported officers — a different result than the flagged-vendor pattern seen in DOL's broader 2026 contract pool.

Vendor	Top Reported Officers
GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.	Amy Gilliland — $6,124,570 · Alison Harbrecht — $1,568,456 · Kyle McNamara — $1,492,487 · Todd Rossini — $859,954
BUCHANAN & EDWARDS, INC.	Tara Davey — $316,095 · Chris Belios — $279,615 · Jeffrey Jones — $273,087 · Chris Reichert — $273,087 · Sean Spann — $238,916
SOFT TECH CONSULTING, INC.	Mark Mullens — $275,318 · Tony Urreta — $206,107 · Christine Do — $203,511
NUVITEK LLC, BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON, THE FILA GROUP, WINTRIO LLC, VINSYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	No executive-compensation data returned by USASpending for these awards

Investigative Assessment

Notable Booz Allen Hamilton's $1.4M FLAG contract is the clearest example in this dataset of DOL directly funding the software plumbing of the guest-worker visa system — FLAG is OFLC's actual case-management platform for H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, and PERM applications. This is infrastructure spend on the visa program itself, distinct from staffing/IT-services contracts elsewhere in DOL's portfolio.

Positive All 9 Custom Computer Programming Services contracts DOL signed in 2026 were fully and openly competed — no sole-source or limited-competition awards in this NAICS code this year.

Positive No confirmed South Asian-origin officer names among the 3 vendors with reported executive compensation — a different result than the broader 294-contract 2026 pool, where 9 of 176 vendors were flagged.

Watch 5 of 8 vendors (Nuvitek, Booz Allen, The Fila Group, Wintrio, Vinsys) have no executive-compensation data on file at all, either because they're below FFATA's reporting threshold or haven't triggered a report yet — the absence of a flag here reflects missing data, not a clean bill.

Watch Sample size is small — 9 contracts is not enough to draw conclusions about DOL's custom-programming vendor pool as a whole. Treat this as a companion snapshot to the full 294-contract report, not a standalone finding.

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