I spent a few years as a DoD contractor, and both companies I worked for were the bigger company on the contract, but the lead contractor what some small company that fit a specific category. I'll admit that I considered starting my own company,being a compensated disabled veteran, to get in the same action, but it didn't seem right and I wanted to get away from government contracting anyway.
Can confirm the same. There was always some one-person “company” who was the prime contractor simply because he was a disabled-Alaskan-native-owned-small-business, who did nothing but skim a little $$ and pass all communications back and forth between the government and the actual contractors who were doing all the work. Nice work if you can get it!
