A $20 billion SEWP V slot, set aside for veteran-owned small business
V3Gate, LLC holds one of the prime contract positions on NASA SEWP V (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement), Category B, Group B — a governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) used by virtually every federal agency to buy IT hardware, software, and services. V3Gate's specific award, PIID NNG15SD27B, carries a ceiling ("base and all options") of $20 billion and was awarded on April 9, 2015.
The vehicle's own description in federal records is explicit about its purpose: "SEWP V provides high-end technical requirements; optimize productivity through utilization of powerful computer systems, state of the art supporting peripherals and software on standardized but customizable systems." The award itself is coded as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside (SDVOSBC).
SAM.gov records list V3Gate, LLC at 555 Middle Creek Pkwy Ste 120, Colorado Springs, CO, with self-certified business categories including Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business, Veteran-Owned Business, Minority-Owned Business, and Hispanic American-Owned Business, in addition to Small Business status. USASpending's recipient profile also lists two alternate names on file: "Veterans Tech, LLC" and "Veterans Tech LLC" — suggesting the company's veteran-owned identity was part of its registration from early on, and that "V3Gate" is a rebrand of the same underlying entity (UEI: J4KHM5JY79E3).
$4.18 billion in transactions, concentrated in one agency
Aggregating prime award transactions by awarding agency, V3Gate's footprint spans nearly 50 federal agencies — but the distribution is heavily lopsided. The Department of Veterans Affairs alone accounts for roughly $2.49 billion, or about 59.5% of the $4.18 billion total. Treasury ($375M), Defense ($360M), Justice ($252M), and State ($237M) make up most of the remainder, with the long tail running down to agencies like the Federal Election Commission ($34,949) and the Merit Systems Protection Board ($22,572).
USASpending's recipient profile page reports a narrower figure — $761.6 million across 1,065 transactions — which appears to reflect a different aggregation window or transaction-type filter than the full agency-level sum above. Either figure places V3Gate among the larger SDVOSB-flagged contract holders in the federal IT marketplace, built almost entirely on top of a single GWAC award.
The top 29 orders, almost all commercial software licensing
Looking at V3Gate's largest individual delivery and task orders — together worth roughly $2.9 billion — the pattern is strikingly uniform. These are not custom development contracts or staff-augmentation task orders. They are enterprise software licenses, subscription renewals, and maintenance agreements for products built by some of the largest software vendors in the world.
| Order Description | Vendor / Product | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Award NASA SEWP for Salesforce | Salesforce | $576,889,049 |
| Salesforce ELA | Salesforce | $414,057,917 |
| VA IT Operations & End User Hardware | Laptops / PCs (multi-vendor) | $373,807,189 |
| VMware Software Support & Maintenance | VMware (Broadcom) | $133,910,899 |
| Integrated Veteran Care Provider Scheduling | Scheduling platform | $111,625,472 |
| Oracle Software Maintenance & Support | Oracle | $109,119,800 |
| ID.me Software & Maintenance (COVID-19) | ID.me | $86,073,160 |
| IBM ELA — Hardware/Software Maintenance | IBM | $63,079,344 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscription Renewal | Red Hat (IBM) | $62,487,530 |
| DOS Salesforce ELA Renewal | Salesforce | $59,040,420 |
| Air Force ERP License (AFSEL) | Enterprise resource planning SW | $57,824,134 |
| Salesforce Renewals (DOS) | Salesforce | $57,572,778 |
| ID.me Identity & Access Mgmt (SSA) | ID.me | $57,407,451 |
| Salesforce Licenses & Support (DOS) | Salesforce | $53,299,158 |
| eGain SaaS License (COVID-19) | eGain | $45,374,152 |
| Application Performance Monitoring Solution | APM platform | $41,448,095 |
| ID.me Annual Licenses & Maintenance | ID.me | $40,556,174 |
| ID.me Software & Maintenance | ID.me | $40,367,324 |
| ID.me Subscriptions & Support | ID.me | $40,113,042 |
| ID.me Licenses for IRS Secure Access | ID.me | $39,823,466 |
| Top 19 orders shown | ~$2.46B | |
Skim the descriptions: "ELA," "Renewal," "Subscription," "License," "Maintenance," "SaaS." Of the top 19 orders, at least 11 are tied directly to one of six commercial software brands — Salesforce, ID.me, Oracle, IBM/Red Hat, VMware, and eGain. These are off-the-shelf enterprise products that agencies could, in principle, license through any number of resellers holding the appropriate GWAC or schedule contracts. The question the federal record raises is not whether the software was needed — agencies clearly use these tools — but why the purchasing vehicle for billions of dollars in commercial licensing runs through a contract reserved for small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
One bidder, $414 million
Federal Acquisition Regulation transaction data includes a field for "number of offers received" — how many companies actually competed for each order. For V3Gate's largest individual orders, that number is often startlingly small.
| Order | Offers Received | Ceiling (Base + Options) | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce ELA (36C10B19F0460) | 1 | $680,191,025 | $414,057,917 |
| NASA SEWP Salesforce (36C10B23F0172) | 2 | $932,824,159 | $576,889,049 |
| VA Laptops/PCs (36C10B19F0125) | 12 | $432,711,873 | $373,807,189 |
| Oracle Maintenance (HT001523F0001) | 2 | $137,763,139 | $109,119,800 |
What "1 offer received" means in this context: the $414 million Salesforce Enterprise License Agreement — with a ceiling of $680 million — was awarded after exactly one company submitted a bid: V3Gate itself. Federal contracting rules permit single-offer awards, particularly for brand-name software where the manufacturer or an authorized reseller may be the only realistic source. But it also means that for nearly half a billion dollars in federal spending, there was no price competition determining the government's cost — only V3Gate's markup over whatever Salesforce charges its reseller partners.
The $576.9 million follow-on Salesforce order drew two offers and was still coded as an SDVOSB set-aside at the order level — meaning that even where some competition existed, the field of eligible bidders was restricted to other SDVOSB-certified firms, a pool that is, almost by definition, small relative to the broader IT reseller market.
What the data shows — and what it doesn't
What's established by the record: V3Gate, LLC is a self-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that holds a major SDVOSB-set-aside slot on NASA SEWP V. That single vehicle has carried billions of dollars in transactions across dozens of agencies. The large majority of its biggest individual orders are for commercial, brand-name software products — not custom development or technical labor. At least one $414 million award was made after a single offer was received.
What we are not claiming: there is nothing in this record that establishes V3Gate did anything outside the rules governing SDVOSB set-asides or SEWP ordering procedures. Single-offer awards for brand-name software are common across federal IT contracting generally, not unique to SDVOSB vehicles. We also don't know V3Gate's actual margin, headcount, or what services — beyond reselling and "support" — it provides on these orders; "professional services and licenses" language appears in several descriptions without itemization. What the data does establish is a pattern worth scrutiny: a contracting mechanism designed to direct federal dollars toward small businesses owned by disabled veterans has become, in dollar terms, dominated by pass-through purchases of the same handful of commercial software products that every large federal IT integrator also resells.
A small-business program, scaled to billion-dollar software deals
SDVOSB set-asides exist to direct a meaningful share of federal contracting dollars toward small businesses owned by veterans with service-connected disabilities — a policy goal with broad bipartisan support. V3Gate, LLC's position on NASA SEWP V is, on paper, exactly that kind of award. But the dollar figures involved — a $20 billion vehicle ceiling, a $932 million single-order ceiling, $4.18 billion in aggregate transactions — sit uneasily next to the "small business" framing, and the product mix (Salesforce, Oracle, ID.me, VMware) raises the question of whether these are purchases that genuinely require, or benefit from, a small-business set-aside structure at all.
A company once registered as "Veterans Tech, LLC" now sits at the center of well over $2 billion in VA software and IT spending alone, much of it commercial licensing renewals awarded with minimal competition — including one $414 million Salesforce agreement awarded after a single bid. Whether this represents the SDVOSB program working as intended, or a structural mismatch between a small-business preference and enterprise-scale software procurement, is a question the underlying data raises but cannot answer on its own.
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