"$0 Total Obligated, 1 Award" — and $512 million in subawards
Search for "Take2 Consulting LLC" (UEI LQJFQ5ZH9BC3) in a standard federal-contracting company lookup, and you'll see a small, unremarkable profile: $0 total obligated for the current fiscal year, 1 award, NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), headquartered at 1595 Spring Hill Rd Ste 300, Vienna, VA. A "Prime → Sub" relationships panel shows four modest entries — two from Booz Allen Hamilton (totaling roughly $18.6M combined) and two from Deloitte entities (a combined $149,472) — for a visible total under $19 million.
That dashboard view reflects a snapshot: a single fiscal year, and a partial set of subaward records. Querying USASpending's subaward search directly — recipient_search_text: "TAKE2 CONSULTING", subawards: true, across all award types and the full FY2007–FY2026 window — returns a dramatically larger picture: 278 individual subaward transactions, totaling $511,967,784.82, from 16 different prime contractors, dated between April 2018 and May 2026.
The smaller dashboard figures aren't wrong — they're scoped to a single fiscal year and, in some dashboards, a subset of recipient-name variants. USASpending separately registers "BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC" and "BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC." (note the trailing period) as distinct prime recipients in different records; a query that only matches one variant will undercount Take2's relationship with Booz Allen by roughly $125 million. Combined, across both variants, Booz Allen accounts for $420,757,833.26 of Take2's $512.0 million — by far the largest share.
16 primes, $512 million, 278 transactions
| Prime Contractor | Subawards | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | 50 | $295,833,123.92 |
| Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (separate registration) | 106 | $124,924,709.34 |
| Deloitte Consulting LLP | 42 | $54,544,095.15 |
| Science Applications International Corp. | 7 | $8,948,775.00 |
| Leidos, Inc. (both registrations) | 16 | $7,694,445.67 |
| ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc. | 2 | $5,775,000.00 |
| Maximus Federal Services, Inc. | 1 | $4,877,922.62 |
| ManTech MGS, Inc. | 1 | $2,736,769.09 |
| Deloitte & Touche LLP | 10 | $2,358,479.75 |
| Liberty IT Solutions, LLC | 13 | $1,542,281.92 |
| CGI Federal Inc. | 4 | $1,495,000.00 |
| American Systems Corporation | 22 | $905,669.60 |
| Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP | 1 | $132,480.00 |
| TCG, Inc. | 1 | $75,811.00 |
| TekSynap Corporation | 1 | $63,221.76 |
| KPMG LLP | 1 | $60,000.00 |
| Total (16 primes) | 278 | $511,967,784.82 |
The work itself is overwhelmingly described in staffing terms: across the 278 transactions, the most common descriptions are "IT services and staff augmentation" (32 records), "IT staffing services" (31), "IT and computer design consulting" (26), and "IT and staffing firm" (19) — together accounting for nearly half of all transactions. By awarding agency, the work spans GSA (92 subawards), VA (83), DoD (62), HHS (20), DHS (6), Treasury (5), DOJ (4), and one each at the SEC, State Department, and DOT — a footprint that touches nearly every major civilian and defense department.
As a prime contractor: $1,000, 12 transactions, one $500 award
Take2's complete record as a federal prime contractor consists of a single award — PIID HQ085926FG208, titled "Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order", from the Department of Defense, signed December 19, 2025, with no set-aside designation, obligated at $500.00. USASpending's recipient profile records 12 separate transactions against this and a second similarly-sized award (PIID N0017825F7878), totaling exactly $1,000.00 in lifetime prime-contract obligations.
$512.0 million as a subcontractor. $1,000 as a prime. The SHIELD award name suggests Take2 may be positioning itself for larger prime work in homeland-security-adjacent programs — but as of this writing, its entire visible existence as a federal prime contractor is two placeholder-value Defense Department line items. Every dollar of Take2's documented half-billion-dollar federal revenue has come through someone else's prime contract.
Zero LCAs under "Take2 Consulting, LLC"
A company receiving over $500 million in IT staffing subawards across 16 prime contractors and 8 years would, on its face, be a candidate for substantial H-1B sponsorship — H-1B visas are commonly used by IT staffing firms to fill specialized technical roles. We checked U.S. Department of Labor H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA) disclosure data for FY2026.
"Take2 Consulting, LLC" does not appear as an LCA filer under that exact name — zero applications. A search for "Take2" surfaces a separate company, "MyTake2 Inc.," based in New York with 3 LCA filings for "Director of Engineering" and "Head of Growth" roles. The name, location, and role profile don't match Take2 Consulting (an IT staffing firm in Vienna, VA), and we treat this as an unrelated company, not part of Take2's record.
Zero H-1B filings under a company's exact legal name is a real, checkable fact — but it doesn't, by itself, tell us how Take2 staffs the work behind $512 million in federal subcontracts. Plausible explanations include: Take2 staffs primarily with U.S. citizens and green-card holders, which is common (and often required) for cleared federal work, where H-1B status is frequently disqualifying; Take2 may place workers as employees of a co-employer, professional employer organization (PEO), or another staffing vendor that files LCAs under its own name; or Take2's role may be more on the recruiting/account-management side, with the technical placements formally employed elsewhere. We have not been able to confirm which, if any, of these applies, and this report does not claim Take2 employs foreign workers without proper sponsorship — only that, on the H-1B-specific question, its own name returns nothing.
A company that exists, in federal-revenue terms, almost entirely inside other companies' contracts
Take2 Consulting, LLC is a real, growing company — recognized on regional fastest-growing-business lists, with a federal-focused leadership team and a stated ambition to expand its prime-contract business. None of that is in dispute. What this report adds is the federal-spending picture that doesn't show up on a one-fiscal-year dashboard snapshot: over the past eight years, Take2 has been paid more than half a billion dollars by 16 different federal prime contractors — more than 400,000 times its own $1,000 lifetime total as a prime — almost entirely for IT staffing and staff augmentation, spread across nearly every major federal department, with no visible H-1B sponsorship under its own name.
$511,967,784.82 across 278 subaward transactions and 16 prime contractors since 2018, 82% of it from Booz Allen Hamilton. $1,000 as a federal prime. Zero H-1B LCAs under "Take2 Consulting, LLC." This is what a federal IT staffing pass-through looks like when you query the full subaward record instead of a single fiscal year's snapshot — and it's a pattern worth checking for every staffing-described subcontractor in this series.
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