Billions are on the line as DOGE, GSA increase scrutiny

Originally published in Washington Technology on March 28, 2025

A new analysis by TechnoMile looks at how exposed the General Services Administration's top 10 consulting firms could be, based on unexercised contract ceiling across three major spending categories.

As the General Services Administration and the Department of Government Efficiency scrutinize consulting contracts, a new analysis says GSA top 10 consulting firms have exposure of $94 billion in unexercised contract ceilings.

In its analysis, TechnoMile evaluated the ceilings and options on the contracts held by the 10 companies GSA has identified as the federal market's largest consulting firms:

• Accenture Federal Services

• Booz Allen Hamilton

• CGI Federal

• Deloitte

• General Dynamics IT

• Guidehouse

• HII Mission Technologies

• IBM

• Leidos

• Science Applications International Corp.

In aggregate, these are the three largest categories of unexercised ceilings:

• Management and advisory services: $25.3 billion

• Application work: $13.6 billion

• Technical and engineering services: $8.7 billion