The Canton Group, LLC, one of the region’s leading information technology (IT) consulting firms, was recently awarded the General Service Administration’s (GSA’s) 8(a) STARS II Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), a procurement vehicle designed to promote small business utilization when purchasing IT services for the federal government. The 8(a) STARS II program is reserved exclusively for qualifying certified 8(a) small business concerns as the prime contractors and includes a 5-year base with one five-year option and a $10 billion program ceiling.
“We are pleased to have been selected as a qualified vendor for this important federal GWAC program,” said Canton Group Co-Founder and CEO Ethan Kazi. “The 8(a) STARS II contract reaffirms the federal government’s commitment to minority owned small businesses and will help ensure that we continue to participate in the federal IT market in the years to come,” he said.
The Canton Group qualified to compete for contracts and provide IT services under the following 8(a) STARS II Functional Areas:
The Canton Group builds Web Systems and provides IT Consulting, Managed Services, and New Media to Government, Commercial and Not-for-Profit organizations. The company been recognized as a leading small business IT provider and ranked among the region’s top three IT consulting and website design/development firms by the Baltimore Business Journal.
Canton Group federal clients currently include:
