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ALEXANDRIA, VA – The United States Securities and Exchange Commission awarded KHS Solutions, LLC a spot on the SEC One IT contract. SEC One IT is an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling value of $2.5 billion. The seven information technology channels under the vehicle are Application Management and Development (Platform), IT Infrastructure and Operations Management (Small Business Only), Business Solutions Delivery (Non-Platform), Information Security, IT Data Management, IT Governance, and Technology Business Management.

KHS Solutions, LLC is an SBA approved 8(a) Mentor Protégé Joint Venture between Karsun Solutions (Mentor) and Mindcubed (Protégé). Karsun Solutions is a premier IT and consulting services company with a culture of innovation. They offer a portfolio of Enterprise Modernization services to both Federal agencies and commercial clients. Mindcubed is an SBA 8(a) certified information technology software and services company headquartered in the District of Columbia.

We are excited to join together with Mindcubed for the opportunity to present solutions to the SEC’s data management and enterprise modernization challenges, noted Sundar Vaidyanathan, CEO of Karsun Solutions.

We are honored and look forward to delivering innovative solutions to fulfill SEC mission needs with our Mentor Karsun Solutions and teaming partners, noted Habib Nasibdar CEO of Mindcubed.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions is a fast-growing, innovative enterprise modernization firm. Recently awarded Best Company Culture by Comparably.com, its teams deliver modern software development, cloud, and data solutions to customers at government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration and General Services Administration. Leveraging GoLean, Karsun teams drive digital transformation and help its government customers Do Extraordinary. Learn more at Karsun-LLC.com.

About Mindcubed

Mindcubed thrives on and excels at delivering creative quality solutions quickly and cost-effectively in the areas of Big Data Analytics, Mobile Apps Development, Agile Systems Engineering, and Cybersecurity. Mindcubed’s GRID™ software offering is a cloud and mobile enabled, enterprise-scale Big Data platform. GRID provides a unique combination of agile analytics, business compliance, and statistical simulation capabilities, enabling organizations to understand trends, predict outcomes and make data-driven decisions. Mindcubed is appraised at CMMI Level 3 DEV and its Quality Management System (QMS) MindPROVE is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Join us as we look back at some of our biggest corporate accomplishments in our Karsun Solutions 2018 in Review.

In January, Innov8tiv Magazine named Jyothi Salibindla, a Senior Software Engineer at Karsun Solutions, one of their Top 50 Women in Tech. She also started the year presenting on microservices implementation in Modern Software Development at both Wonder Women Tech and IEEE’s Women in Engineering Technical Talks. These events connected presenters with executives, innovators and thought leaders.

Karsun Solutions leadership also celebrated our growing FAA Program at All Hands events in Virginia and Oklahoma. In August of 2017 Karsun Solutions was awarded the five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a $145 million ceiling value. By the end of August 2018 the program would add over 150 people.

In February 2018, Chae Song, Director at Karsun Solutions joined the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council’s (ACT-IAC) Partner Program. Members of this 21^st class of ACT-IAC fellows are senior executives rising within their respective organizations. Chae would complete the program and graduate in October 2018.

Karsun Solutions Co-Founder Kartik Mecheri joins Red Hat’s IT Modernization Roundtable in March. This expert panel discussed DevOps, cloud migration, and microservices architecture at scale. Learn more about our approach to DevOps, loosely coupled architecture and CI/CD.

Later that month, the General Services Administration awarded Alliant Solutions Partner (ASP) the Database and Middleware Systems (DMS) Task Order under the Alliant Small Business contract vehicle. Karsun Solutions is the managing partner of this Joint Venture and will be the only JV member executing on this contract. This is a single-award contract with a ceiling value of $35 million that spans more than five years. Under this contract, Karsun will be supporting the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (GSA IT) by providing IT services to manage, support, and modernize its database and application middleware server infrastructure.

We offer a portfolio of enterprise IT modernization solutions across our development, cloud and analytics practices. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Karsun spotlighted this valuable partnership within our Cloud Solutions practice in April 2018. Learn how we Do Extraordinary, Defy Assumptions and deliver customer value with Amazon Web Services.

In May, Sundar Vaidyanathan, Co-Founder and CEO of Karsun Solutions, was elected as a Vice Chair for Finance to the Industry Advisory Council (IAC). The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) is a non-profit educational organization established to improve government’s service delivery and operational performance through the effective and innovative application of technology. More one ACT-IAC can be found at www.actiac.org.

Karsun Solutions was named a Finalist for the 2018 Moxie Award. The program recognizes innovative companies in the DC Metro area. Innovation is a core component of Karsun culture. The Karsun Innovation Center, launched early in the organization’s founding, prototypes solutions and forms partnerships with emerging technology vendors.

Shan Palanivelu and Badri Sriraman, both part of the Karsun Innovation Center, presented at DevFestDC in June. The event brings together innovative developers from across the DC region. They spoke on their experience building data pipelines in Kubernetes using scalable microservices with architectural patterns like Event Sourcing and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS).

That month, Karsun also announced the launch of their Data Modernization Center of Excellence. The new COE comes as the organization adds a Data Practice to the Karsun Innovation Center. Shaunak Ashtaputre was announced as the new Director of the practice and COE.

Karsun joins the Inc. 5000 for the fourth year in a row in August 2018. Only one in six companies make the list four times. Firms are ranked in the Inc. 5000 based on their growth over the past three years. Ranking four times in a row represents a remarkable seven years of growth.

In September, the Karsun Executive Team join host Jason Miller on Federal New Radio’s Views from the Corner Office. The trio shares their thoughts on the new capabilities oriented proposal climate. Listen in and learn about Karsun’s disruptive approach to government IT modernization.

In the Fall of 2018, Karsun is awarded its first full and open contract. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded Karsun Solutions, LLC the Federal Emergency Management Agency Grants Management Modernization (FEMA GMM) Program contract. This is a five-year single award BPA with a ceiling value of $80 million.

Karsun Solutions LLC also completed a novation for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions (EAGLE II) Functional Category 1 (FC1) Unrestricted Vehicle. The organization recently acquired the DHS Software Development Business Unit from EPS Corporation. With this acquisition and the completion of the novation, Karsun is now a prime contractor on the EAGLE II vehicle.

The Securities and Exchange Commission awards the SEC One OIT contract vehicle to several small businesses including KHS Solutions. An SBA approved mentor-protege 8(a) JV, KHS Solutions is a partnership with Karsun Solutions serving as the mentor and MindCubed serving as the protégé. An indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling value of $2.5 billion, the six information technology channels served under the vehicle are Platform and Application Development, Operations and Maintenance, Business Solutions Delivery, Information Security, Data Management and Analysis, IT Governance, and Technology Business Management. Visit our Contract Vehicles section for a complete list of all vehicles.

In October 2018, Karsun Solutions SDET Aditi Mulay speaks at SeConfChicago. Her talk explores balancing UI testing with API and unit tests. The event is the official Selenium conference for test automation professionals.

The Karsun Innovation Center establishes partnerships with key IT vendors. As part of that relationship, Karsun Academy brings in partners to educate Karsun teams on up and coming technology. The KIC finished the year with a series of workshops and brown bag sessions.

HERNDON, VA – The General Services Administration awarded Alliant Solutions Partner (ASP) the Database and Middleware Systems (DMS) Task Order under the Alliant Small Business contract vehicle. Karsun Solutions is the managing partner of this Joint Venture, and will be the only JV member executing on this contract. This is a single-award contract with a ceiling value of $35 million that spans more than five years. Under this contract, Karsun will be supporting the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (GSA IT) by providing IT services to manage, support, and modernize its database and application middleware server infrastructure.

“We are excited to expand our support of GSA by providing database and middleware modernization services. This will be key to GSA’s mission going forward,” stated Kartik Mecheri, Karsun’s co-founder and Chief Architect.

About ASP’s Managing Partner – Karsun Solutions LLC

Established in 2009, Karsun Solutions is a premier consulting firm delivering a portfolio of enterprise modernization services to its federal and commercial customers. Its core competencies include Modern Software Development, Cloud Solutions, and Advanced Analytics. Its GoLean.io® software development methodology combines Agile, Lean, Kanban, and DevOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle. The recently released GoLean.io Software-as-a-Service provides a lean management tool-kit combining the best of these practices. Karsun Solutions, supports multiple $100 million+ contracts as a prime. This includes the GSA CAMEO Small Business contract which includes initiatives supporting acquisition planning, solicitation writing, contract award and contract administration functions. It also includes the Federal Aviation Administration’s $145 million Software Solutions Delivery contract. In this capacity, Karsun supports the FAA’s Office of Information Technology (FAA AIT). Other Karsun Federal government customers include the Department of Homeland Security, Smithsonian, and Government Accountability Office.

Beginning in 2015, Karsun has ranked yearly among the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing US Companies. Karsun Solutions’ quality, development, and information security practices include CMMI Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000:2011 and ISO 27001:2013 certifications.

HERNDON, VA – Karsun Solutions LLC (Karsun) completed a novation for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions (EAGLE II) Functional Category 1 (FC1) Unrestricted Vehicle. The organization recently acquired the DHS Software Development Business Unit from EPS Corporation. With this acquisition and the completion of the novation, Karsun is now a prime contractor on the EAGLE II vehicle.

EAGLE II is a multiple-award indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. With a ceiling value of $22 billion, EAGLE II is the primary information technology (IT) services vehicle at DHS. The vehicle provides a flexible means of meeting DHS’s IT needs quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively.

The EAGLE II vehicle includes three functional categories. Karsun Solutions is a prime contractor under Functional Category 1 – Service Delivery. In this capacity, the Karsun Solutions team may deliver Integration, Software Design/Development, and Operations and Maintenance services.

“We are thrilled to expand our opportunities to serve the Department of Homeland Security,” said Karsun Solutions Chief Executive Officer Sundar Vaidyanathan. “This is an exciting opportunity to spread our enterprise modernization expertise within the Federal community.”

Karsun Solutions is the primary contractor on multiple $100 million plus contracts. The organization is the prime contractor on the General Service Administration’s (GSA) CAMEO Small Business contract, which includes initiatives supporting acquisition planning, solicitation writing, contract award and contract administration functions. It is also the prime contractor on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Software Solutions Delivery contract. In this capacity, the organization supports the FAA’s Office of Information Technology (FAA AIT). Additional IT modernization contract vehicles include GSA’s IT 70 and Alliant Small Business vehicles and FAA’s eFAST vehicle. Other Federal government customers include the Smithsonian and Government Accountability Office (GAO).

About Karsun Solutions

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ- The Federal Aviation Administration William J. Hughes Technical Center awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract to Herndon, Virginia based Karsun Solutions. With a $145 million ceiling value and a five-year period of performance, the contract provides technical support services in support of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Information Technology (FAA AIT). These Software Solution Delivery support services assist in the implementation and continuing support of enterprise-wide software application and database development. Karsun will also perform maintenance related activities related to solution development and the sustainment of existing systems.

“We are excited to support the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Information Technology (FAA AIT) with the development and maintenance of enterprise-wide software applications and databases,” said Karsun Solutions CEO Sundar Vaidyanathan. Karsun enables “the agency to seamlessly connect, interact, and respond to employees, customers, and other stakeholders more easily and reliably. The Karsun team looks forward to providing innovative, cost-effective and high quality IT services to FAA . ”

Karsun Solutions is a small business that can support a $100 million+ contract as a prime. It is currently supporting the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As the prime contractor on the $110 million GSA CAMEO Small Business contract, the organization is delivering on initiatives supporting acquisition planning, solicitation writing, contract award and contract administration functions. It is also engaged with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to modernize its Balanced Workforce Strategy decision support system.

About Karsun Solutions

Update: In 2022, Karsun Solutions announced it was awarded, as part of a team led by Softrams, work under the General Services Administration (GSA) Business Intelligence (BI) FUSION Support Services Task Order. The contract supports the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Office of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement (CASE) with enabling the internal GSA Business Development Community to eliminate redundancies, increase efficiency, and deliver better value.

Karsun Solutions was awarded a $4 Million prime contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) providing support to the Business Intelligence Professional Support Services (BIPSS) Program.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions was awarded a five-year prime contract with a ceiling value of $110 million by the General Services Agency (GSA), Federal Acquisition Systems (FAS), under the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations Small Business (CAMEO SB) contract. Karsun Solutions provides comprehensive transformation management support to General Services Administration (GSA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) to modernize and streamline the GSA Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) portfolio, reduce the dependencies where possible of systems and environments, and to improve efficiencies and align the application portfolio with the business needs of the organization. The transformation focus includes operationalizing adaptive and agile development to increase efficiency and reduce O&M costs over the period of performance, achieving cost savings through a more efficient portfolio of applications, and architecting solutions which maximize the reuse of GSA’s software assets & platforms and develop “Cloud-Ready” applications.

About Karsun Solutions

HERNDON, VA – Karsun Solutions was awarded a $75M five year subcontract by Lockheed Martin in support of the General Services Agency (GSA), Federal Acquisition Systems (FAS), under the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations Large Business (CAMEO LB) contract. Under this contract, Karsun provides services for application modernization, cloud migration, application development, enhancements, maintenance, DevOps services and database management services. The scope also includes strategic consulting services to realize GSA’s vision of Common Acquisition Platform (CAP) that seeks to provide Government-wide transactional data and reduce the costs of operating redundant acquisition systems.

About Karsun Solutions

Update: Karsun Solutions’ Navy SeaPort-e Contract (#N00178-14-D-735) was awarded November 19 2013. Its period for performance ran through April 4, 2019.

Navy SeaPort-e Contract Award News Story Graphic

In November 2013, the Karsun Solutions team was awarded a SeaPort-e IDIQ contract with the U.S. Navy to provide professional support services in multiple functional areas including Engineering and Program Management. SeaPort-e is the Navy’s electronic platform for acquiring support services in 22 functional areas including Engineering, Financial Management, and Program Management.

The Navy Systems Commands (NAVSEA, NAVAIR, SPAWAR, NAVFAC, and NAVSUP), the Office of Naval Research, the U. S Marine Corps, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) compete their service requirements amongst 1800+ SeaPort-e IDIQ multiple award contract holders. The SeaPort-e portal provides a standardized, efficient means of soliciting offers from amongst the diverse population of large and small businesses and their approved team members.

All task orders are competitively solicited, awarded and managed using the SeaPort-e platform. Since nearly 85% of its contract–holders are small businesses, the SeaPort-e approach to acquiring services supports the companies fueling the Nation’s job growth engine.

About Karsun Solutions

In 2013 Karsun received a Master Ordering Agreement (MOA) to be used under the Electronic Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Accelerated and Simplified Tasks (eFAST) vehicle. This award functions as a blanket purchase agreement (BPA). Via eFAST customers may purchase a broad range of comprehensive professional and support services.

Learn more about Karsun’s Aviation Knowledge Domain here.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes enterprise systems enabling agencies to make the next technological advancement their next opportunity to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet agencies’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise elevates agency capabilities and ensures every next opportunity is within reach.

Corporate Contact: marketing@karsun-llc.com