A follow-up to our June 2026 investigation into DOL's full contract history, narrowed to just the 294 contracts the agency actually signed this calendar year. $277.1M committed so far — 29% of it to IT/computer-services vendors, including several already flagged for South Asian-origin officer names in the same H-1B pipeline the agency itself regulates.
Pulled live from the USASpending.gov Award Search API (/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/), filtered to
prime contracts (award types A/B/C/D) awarded by the Department of Labor with date_signed — not
action_date — falling between 2026-01-01 and 2026-08-12. Using date_signed rather than the API's default action_date
matters: action_date also catches routine funding modifications to old, multi-year contracts (e.g. Job Corps IDVs
signed a decade ago), which would have inflated the count with contracts DOL didn't actually enter into this year.
Each of the 294 resulting awards was then queried individually against /api/v2/awards/<id>/ for
NAICS/PSC classification, competition/set-aside status, and FFATA executive-compensation data where the recipient
reported it. Officer names are flagged using the same South-Asian-name-pattern heuristic as the June report — a
signal, not an allegation, about who these vendors are actually staffing.
| Status | Contracts | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Full & Open Competition | 165 | $210,788,948 |
| Full & Open After Exclusion of Sources | 65 | $40,693,399 |
| Not Available for Competition | 9 | $13,916,524 |
| Not Competed | 17 | $8,287,025 |
| Competed under Simplified Acquisition | 29 | $2,985,024 |
| Not Competed under Simplified Acquisition | 9 | $471,138 |
| Type | Contracts | Value |
|---|---|---|
| No Set-Aside Used | 230 | $208,215,259 |
| Small Business Set-Aside | 36 | $41,031,860 |
| 8(a) Competitive | 4 | $13,728,211 |
| HUBZone | 4 | $4,647,551 |
| SDVOSB Set-Aside | 6 | $3,842,608 |
| Woman-Owned Small Business | 9 | $2,920,272 |
| 8(a) Sole Source | 3 | $2,512,895 |
| SDVOSB Sole Source | 2 | $243,401 |
| Funding Sub-Agency | Contracts | Value | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office of Job Corps | 34 | $113,873,773 | 41% |
| Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management | 111 | $62,713,437 | 23% |
| Employment and Training Administration | 24 | $42,260,463 | 15% |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | 33 | $25,616,182 | 9% |
| Mine Safety and Health Administration | 40 | $9,308,272 | 3% |
| Occupational Safety and Health Administration | 18 | $4,755,978 | 2% |
| Office of Inspector General | 8 | $4,723,310 | 2% |
| Office of Chief Financial Officer | 4 | $4,685,223 | 2% |
| Office of Workers Compensation Program | 5 | $3,387,447 | 1% |
| Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy | 4 | $3,088,553 | 1% |
| Veterans Employment and Training Services | 2 | $1,166,534 | 0% |
| Employee Benefits Security Administration | 6 | $653,411 | 0% |
| President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped | 1 | $498,480 | 0% |
| Office of the Solicitor | 1 | $222,606 | 0% |
| Wage and Hour Division | 3 | $188,387 | 0% |
All nine of these vendors were already on the 36-vendor flagged list from our June full-history report. Each picked up new DOL business in 2026. Officer compensation figures below are self-reported per FFATA/FAR requirements and reflect each vendor's most recent reporting, not necessarily amounts tied to these specific contracts.
| Vendor | 2026 Value | 2026 Contracts | Flagged Officers |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEDWRITERS, INC. | $8,940,453 | 1 | 🚩 SUBHAGA WEERASINGHE — $298,025 |
| THE MANHATTAN STRATEGY GROUP LLC | $7,220,424 | 4 | 🚩 VADIVELAN RANGANATHAN — $23,568,187 |
| GOVSMART, INC. | $4,463,490 | 3 | 🚩 HAMZA DURRANI — $430,277 |
| NEW TECH SOLUTIONS, INC. | $682,470 | 4 | 🚩 RAJESH PATEL — $1,841,000 🚩 VIJAY KUMAR — $1,841,000 |
| SOFTWARE INFORMATION RESOURCE CORP. | $314,724 | 8 | 🚩 AJAY GANDHI — $125,000 |
| REGAN TECHNOLOGIES CORP | $277,999.90 | 1 | 🚩 ATUL ANAND — $1,900,000 |
| STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE INC | $248,482.80 | 1 | 🚩 AVA J CHOPRA — $50,000 🚩 ALEXANDER B CHOPRA — $648,197 |
| ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC. | $108,193.48 | 4 | 🚩 SHAMEELA SHEIKH — $72,000 🚩 DONNY SHEIKH — $60,000 |
| ACCESSAGILITY LLC | $51,154.54 | 2 | 🚩 AURANGZAIB KALEEM — $300,000 |
| Vendor | Contracts | 2026 Value |
|---|---|---|
| ARBOR E & T LLC | 2 | $24,840,901 |
| NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER | 3 | $14,053,982 |
| ADAMS AND ASSOCIATES INC | 2 | $13,011,195 |
| SERRATO CORPORATION | 3 | $12,658,511 |
| MAKPAR-NUAXIS JV LLC 🚩 | 5 | $12,284,583 |
| CHUGACH SOLUTIONS ENTERPRISE, LLC | 3 | $11,263,510 |
| MANAGEMENT & TRAINING CORPORATION | 2 | $10,090,102 |
| V3GATE, LLC | 2 | $9,656,771 |
| FEDWRITERS, INC. 🚩 | 1 | $8,940,453 |
| ODLE MANAGEMENT GROUP, L.L.C. | 2 | $8,535,876 |
| GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1 | $8,165,310 |
| THE MANHATTAN STRATEGY GROUP LLC 🚩 | 4 | $7,220,424 |
| NUVITEK LLC | 2 | $7,033,276 |
| VENERGY GROUP LLC | 3 | $5,613,243 |
| IPSOS PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC | 1 | $5,294,077 |
| BUCHANAN & EDWARDS, INC. | 1 | $5,133,571 |
| CAREER SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | 1 | $4,942,245 |
| YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL, INC. | 1 | $4,476,610 |
| GOVSMART, INC. 🚩 | 3 | $4,463,490 |
| INSIGNIA FEDERAL GROUP, LLC | 1 | $4,327,142 |
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