June 24, 2026
CTIS, Inc., a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, today announced its selection as a 2026 WTOP News Top Workplace. The designation is based entirely on confidential results from the independent Energage Workplace Survey, a research-backed assessment of employee engagement, leadership quality, and organizational culture. The recognition reflects the workforce stability and employee engagement that have sustained CTIS’s federal health IT delivery at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly four decades.
“This recognition carries weight because it comes from the people who do the work, our clinical informaticists, data engineers, and health IT specialists who support NIH programs every day,” said Bharti Shah, CEO of CTIS, Inc. “When employees stay, they build the kind of institutional knowledge and domain depth that you cannot replicate through hiring alone. That continuity is what allows us to deliver consistently across contract cycles, and it is why we are investing in AI-native training and professional development, so our teams are equipped for the next generation of federal health challenges, not just today’s.”
CTIS has maintained a 93.7% employee retention rate across its active federal health IT programs. On its longest-running engagement, NCI’s Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Enterprise System (CTEP-ESYS), a clinical research informatics platform CTIS originally developed in 1996, more than 30 team members have served continuously for over a decade.
The company delivers through GSA MAS, CIO-SP3 Small Business, and SPARC-SB contract vehicles, providing federal agencies with established procurement pathways for health IT modernization and AI-enabled clinical research solutions. CTIS recently earned the SAFe AI-Native Charter Partner designation, reflecting its investment in equipping delivery teams with the frameworks and skills required for responsible AI adoption in regulated federal health environments.
The Energage Workplace Survey, which administered the assessment underlying the WTOP Top Workplaces program, measures the key drivers of employee engagement and organizational health, including how employees experience leadership, support, growth opportunities, and their connection to the organization’s mission. For more information on the survey methodology, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com.