UCF Business Incubation Program Lake County client creating nearly two dozen jobs to support winning companies
Orlando, Fla. (August 17, 2026) — Government contracting requires contract access. If you are a provider of information technology, communications, and/or audiovisual (ICT/AV) products and services, one of the most used contracting mechanisms is the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-wide Procurement (NASA SEWP VI) contract. Available for use by all Federal government entities, the NASA SEWP VI contract has a ceiling value of $60 billion across a 10-year lifecycle.
Unfortunately for many businesses, the time and effort needed to assess whether you qualify and then submit can be an overwhelming task.
“The federal government is the single largest contractor of IT services in the world and represents a real growth opportunity for many businesses,” says Paul Karch, founder and CEO, GARDANT GLOBAL. “The government contracting ecosystem can be difficult to navigate and the requirement to submit over 150 pages of RFP response content is overwhelming. GARDANT’s support for our client base successfully secured the NASA SEWP VI contract, accounting for over 32 contract awards.”
In June, NASA announced the winning firms for a contract that is estimated to oversee more than $60 billion in government contracting for a variety of IT products and services over the next decade. Classified as a Best-in-Class (BIC) contract, the NASA SEWP VI contract is one of the largest in the federal government and can be used by any agency – not just NASA.
GARDANT achieved a 100%-win rate for its clients, providing them the opportunity to bid on more than 150 opportunities daily with over 100,000 contract awards across the contract lifecycle.
It’s not an easy process. GARDANT GLOBAL started working with clients on this project in 2023 and submitted proposals for each company in February 2025. The contracts were not awarded until June 2026.
“The SEWP VI proposal process is a significant investment of time and resources. GARDANT GLOBAL brought the expertise, structure, and responsiveness needed to keep our team focused and on track throughout the process,” Bethany Daniel, CEO, Tailwind Resource Group. “Their guidance gave us confidence every step of the way, and we are grateful for their partnership in helping Tailwind achieve this important milestone.”
GARDANT GLOBAL works with small, medium, and large businesses to guide them through the strategic planning, capture, and proposal efforts and subsequent post-award contract management if necessary. Throughout the company’s history, its clients have a win rate of nearly 95 percent.
GARDANT doesn’t just help companies receive the award; it also helps companies after they win with a variety of support, like:
- Task orders
- Website and catalog compliance
- ISO 9001:2015 compliance
- O-TTPS compliance
- Cyber supply chain risk management
- Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) support
The company will be adding more than 20 jobs over the next 24 months in order to continue providing government contracting support to the government contractor community.
“Working with the federal government is often just as complicated as procurement, and with the amount of competition for these dollars, strategy and contract execution are imperative,” Karch added. “We’ve worked with companies throughout our history to ensure our clients are prepared to be successful as they maximize the opportunities under contracts like these.”
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For the UCF Business Incubation Program: Alan Byrd, 407-415-8470, Alan@ByrdConnections.com
About the UCF Business Incubation Program: The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program is a community resource that provides early-stage companies with the tools, training and infrastructure to become financially stable, high-growth/impact enterprises. Since 1999, this award-winning program has provided vital business development resources resulting in over 300 local startup companies reaching their potential faster and graduating into the community where they continue to grow and positively impact the local economy.
With eight facilities throughout the region, the UCF Business Incubation Program is an economic development partnership between the University of Central Florida, the Corridor, Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties, and the cities of Eustis, Kissimmee, Orlando and Winter Springs. In 2023, current incubator clients supported over 1,000 employees and generated over $120 million in revenue. Nineteen companies graduated from the program and remained in the local community. For more information, visit www.incubator.ucf.edu
About GARDANT GLOBAL: GARDANT GLOBAL headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. with offices in Eustis, Fla. and internationally, provides support for the direct positioning and growth of client-specific revenue generation, process improvement, and cost containment. GARDANT’s strategic approach has successfully enabled our clients to realize over $500 billion dollars in Life Cycle Value contracts with the US Government since our start in 2007.
Our Proposal Support Organization utilizes our Proven Business Development and Proposal
Processes to manage an entire compliant proposal lifecycle. Our experienced group of
Strategy Consultants work with our clients on Compliance and Post Award Contract / Grant
Management to maximize growth and revenue opportunities. Winning is imperative; managing is mandatory. Our Post Award contract services include direct Task Order Response, Contract Revenue Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Performance Management.
GARDANT, a leader in compliance consulting for the government contracting community, has
created a complete, turnkey solution delivering CMMC Compliance, Certification and
Implementation for small and midsized government prime contractors, subcontractors and
suppliers who need to achieve CMMC Level 2 / 3 certification, The Cybersecurity Maturity
Model Certification (CMMC) program created by government is designed to give the
government contracting community a framework and direct mapping to the mandatory security requirements of 32 CFR Part 2002, DFARS 252.204-7012, and DoDI 5200.48 in the
implementation of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-171.
