Two contracts run DOL's enterprise IT backbone
Two prime contracts, both funded through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM) — the same office whose CIO reporting structure was the subject of the 2021 IT governance audit — account for the largest share of DOL's IT spending visible in FY2026 contract data.
This is the contract that keeps DOL's enterprise IT running day-to-day — the kind of broad operations-and-maintenance vehicle that touches everything from network infrastructure to application support across multiple agencies under IT Shared Services.
DOL's financial management system underpins budget execution, payments, and accounting across the entire department — a system this central typically requires a large, persistent O&M staff.
Together, these two contracts represent roughly $1.6 billion in federal IT spending — and both are large enough, and broad enough in scope, that extensive subcontracting is normal and expected. The question is how much of that subcontracting is visible, and where a small staffing firm placing individual developers would fit into it.
15 subcontractors, $42.1 million, and a 96% blind spot
USASpending's subaward reporting captures contracts that prime contractors choose to disclose — by law, this is supposed to cover all subcontracts above a reporting threshold, but compliance is inconsistent and the data is widely understood to undercount actual subcontracting activity. Here's everything visible beneath these two primes.
| Subcontractor | Location | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| ECS Federal, LLC | Fairfax, VA | $15,173,074 |
| Amplify Solutions LLC | Potomac Falls, VA | $8,741,150 |
| Venesco LLC | Chantilly, VA | $7,423,828 |
| Pyramid Technologies, LLC | Providence Forge, VA | $4,998,018 |
| Cykor LLC | Annapolis, MD | $2,261,185 |
| Trail Blazer Technology Corp | North Myrtle Beach, SC | $1,903,724 |
| Total visible / Contract total | $40.5M / $1,131.2M (3.58%) | |
| Subcontractor | Location | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Emergent, LLC | Virginia Beach, VA | $771,046* |
| Colossal Contracting LLC | Annapolis, MD | $425,285 |
| Schellman Compliance LLC | Tampa, FL | $120,000 |
| Dynamic Systems Inc | El Segundo, CA | $92,558 |
| RedHawk IT Solutions, LLC | Woodbridge, VA | $67,109 |
| Carahsoft Technology Corp | Reston, VA | $61,633 |
| ThunderCat Technology, LLC | Reston, VA | $56,811 |
| Sterling Computers Corporation | North Sioux City, SD | $40,000 |
| Total visible / Contract total | $1.63M / ~$507M (0.32%) | |
*Emergent, LLC appears twice in subaward records ($729,156 + $41,889); combined here.
Even taking the larger figure — Peraton's $40.5M in disclosed subawards against $1.13B obligated — more than 96% of the contract's value has no disclosed subcontracting relationship at all. That doesn't mean 96% of the work is performed directly by Peraton's own employees; it means the subcontracting that does occur below the reporting threshold, or through arrangements not captured by FSRS (the Federal Subaward Reporting System), is invisible in public data. This is the structural gap that allows a company like Raas Infotek to place workers "at" DOL without ever appearing in a federal spending record.
A staffing firm with 82,000 LinkedIn followers and no visible federal trail
Raas Infotek LLC describes itself as a "full spectrum global Information Technology services company" founded in 2010, headquartered in Delaware, with offices in the US, India, and Canada and a self-described focus that includes Appian/BPM platforms, RPA, and application development — exactly the skill set behind the "Appian Developer" and "Software Developer" roles it has repeatedly filed H-1B petitions for at DOL worksites since 2024.
The footprint mismatch: Raas Infotek's LinkedIn page has 82,409 followers — a substantial audience for a small staffing firm. The company is a listed Appian partner. Yet its own website, raasinfotek.com, refuses automated access entirely, and the company has zero records — not as a prime, not as a subcontractor, not at any tier — across the entirety of USASpending's FY2026 DOL contract and subaward data, including the two contracts above that represent the bulk of DOL's visible IT spending.
This diagram isn't a confirmed organizational chart — it's a visualization of the structural gap. We know the top of the chain (DOL/OASAM) and the first tier beneath the two largest contracts. We know, from H-1B disclosure data, that Raas Infotek has placed workers with DOL as the named worksite. What connects them — which prime, which subcontractor, which staffing vendor in between — is exactly the part of the chain that federal transparency rules don't require anyone to disclose.
What we are not claiming: there's no evidence Raas Infotek is a subcontractor to Peraton, Booz Allen, or any of the named tier-1 firms specifically. It's equally possible Raas Infotek's arrangement runs through a completely different contract, a different agency's IT shared-services pool, or a staffing brokerage relationship that doesn't touch a "contract" in the FAR sense at all (e.g., a time-and-materials placement through a GSA schedule held by yet another firm). What the data does establish is that a six-time H-1B filer for DOL-designated worksites has no footprint in the prime/subaward data covering DOL's two largest IT contracts — which is either because they're several tiers down an undisclosed chain, or because their relationship to "Department of Labor" as a worksite doesn't run through traceable federal contract dollars at all.
The transparency gap, mapped
This report doesn't close the loop on Raas Infotek — it maps the territory where the loop would need to close, and shows how much of that territory is dark by design. DOL's two largest IT operations contracts, worth a combined $1.6 billion, disclose subcontracting relationships covering less than 4% of their value. The 15 companies named in those disclosures are themselves a mix of large federal IT players (ECS Federal, Carahsoft) and smaller specialty firms (Cykor, Trail Blazer Technology) — none of them an obvious staffing pass-through for individual H-1B developer placements.
Combined with the earlier finding that Raas Infotek has zero federal contracts of any kind — its only federal financial relationships being a 2015 SBA loan and a 2020 PPP loan — the picture that emerges is of a company that operates entirely within the undisclosed layers of federal IT subcontracting. It places workers, including H-1B visa holders, at federal agency worksites, while remaining completely invisible in the contracting data that's supposed to provide oversight of how federal IT dollars are spent and by whom.
Whether or not Raas Infotek specifically is doing anything improper, its near-total absence from federal spending transparency data — despite an apparent ongoing role supplying labor to DOL — is itself the story. A $1.6 billion slice of DOL's IT budget discloses subcontracting relationships covering less than 4% of its value. Whatever's happening in the other 96% is, by design, unknowable from the outside.
See also: DOL H-1B contractors report · Project Firewall report