A drill-down from our Custom Computer Programming report: the full contracting history behind FLAG — the Foreign Labor Application Gateway that OFLC uses to process every H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, and PERM case. Tracing every award back to 2018 turns up 7 contracts across 3 prime vendors, one subcontractor, and a near-unbroken run by a single company since mid-2019.
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.
| PIID | Vendor | Obligated | Period | Contract Vehicle | Competition | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1605DC18F00319 | Gray Matters Technology Service | $1,275,400 | 2018-09 to 2020-08 | IDIQ 1605DC17D0002 | Full & Open (excl. sources) | Firm Fixed Price |
| 1605DC19F00191 | Booz Allen Hamilton | $7,847,790 | 2019-06 to 2020-12 | BPA DOL-OPS-17-A-001 | Full & Open | Time & Materials |
| 1605TA20F00032 | Booz Allen Hamilton | $1,001,228 | 2020-08 to 2021-08 | BPA DOL-OPS-17-A-001 | Full & Open | Time & Materials |
| 1605TA21F00039 | Insignia Federal Group | $369,318 | 2021-05 to 2021-11 | IDIQ 1605DC18D0007 | Full & Open (excl. sources) | Labor Hours |
| 1605TA22F00097 | Booz Allen Hamilton | $1,169,543 | 2022-08 to 2023-08 | BPA DOL-OPS-17-A-001 | Full & Open | Labor Hours |
| 1605TA24F00028 | Booz Allen Hamilton | $8,597,787 | 2024-04 to 2026-02 | BPA 1605TA22A0001 | Full & Open | Labor Hours |
| 1605TA26F00001 | Booz Allen Hamilton | $1,426,317 | 2026-02 to 2026-07 | BPA 1605TA22A0001 | Full & Open | Labor Hours |
| Total obligated | $21,687,383 | |||||
FLAG-related work has run through four different underlying vehicles over its history — two of them Booz Allen BPAs (one succeeding the other), and two IDIQs held by the other two vendors for narrower, non-development work.
| Vehicle | Type | Holder | Signed | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOL-OPS-17-A-001 | BPA | Booz Allen Hamilton | 2016-12-21 | OCIO portfolio, program & project management and technical support services — the broad umbrella FLAG's first 3 orders were called against |
| 1605DC17D0002 | IDIQ | Gray Matters Technology Service | 2017-08-10 | Change management & quality assurance services |
| 1605DC18D0007 | IDIQ | Insignia Federal Group | 2018-06-28 | Web content management services |
| 1605TA22A0001 | BPA | Booz Allen Hamilton | 2021-11-24 | "Executive Order Support Services" — successor umbrella BPA, single-award, running through 2026-11-23; FLAG's two most recent orders sit here |
Booz Allen has used the same subcontractor on both of its most recent FLAG task orders, for the same scope of work.
| Subcontractor | Prime Task Order | Amount | Action Date | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLORA CONSULTING INC | 1605TA24F00028 (2024 O&M) | $658,564 | 2025-10-07 | Software engineering & technology consulting services |
| ALLORA CONSULTING INC | 1605TA26F00001 (2026, current) | $175,968 | 2026-02-24 | Software engineering & technology consulting services |
None of the 7 task/delivery orders in this history have FFATA executive-compensation data reported against them in USASpending — including the Booz Allen awards, despite Booz Allen being a large, publicly-traded company (its officer comp does appear on other DOL contracts, per our NAICS 541511 report, so its absence here reflects per-award reporting gaps rather than the company being below any threshold). Insignia Federal Group and Gray Matters Technology Service are both certified small businesses with SBA socio-economic designations — Insignia is 8(a) and Asian Pacific American-owned; Gray Matters is 8(a), Black American-owned, and veteran-owned. These are legitimate federal set-aside certifications, not the officer-name-pattern signal used elsewhere on this site, and are noted here for transparency rather than as a flag.
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