Government Staffing & Workforce Solutions Firm, 30-Year Mid-Atlantic MBE Contractor

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This is a 30-plus-year government staffing and workforce solutions provider operating in the Mid-Atlantic, serving federal, state, and commercial clients. The services span professional staffing, administrative support, human resources, and compliance solutions, all delivered through an established recruiting infrastructure and an experienced management team. The business runs lean and remote-friendly with a distributed workforce, which keeps fixed overhead low and gives the model scalability relative to a bricks-and-mortar staffing shop.

The headline numbers are roughly $6 million in revenue and an $800,000 SDE run rate, but the context matters. Government contracting disruptions in 2025 knocked earnings down from a historical run rate exceeding $1 million, and the current $800,000 figure represents a recovery supported by actual Q3 results, a Q4 forecast, and an awarded-contract backlog. In other words, you are buying a business mid-recovery, not at a stable peak, which cuts both ways on price and risk.

The critical structural feature is that this deal is gated to woman or minority-owned buyers who can qualify for Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certification. That certification is the moat and the constraint at the same time: it preserves significant existing customer relationships and set-aside eligibility, but it also narrows the buyer pool dramatically and makes buyer qualification a hard requirement rather than a nice-to-have.