Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent civilian agency responsible for developing and enforcing safety standards for consumer products, issued 6,389 federal contract awards totaling $738.3 million combined potential value since 1987, with $660.8 million obligated. CPSC's contract activity has moderated in recent years: 150 awards in 2022, 215 in 2023, 199 in 2024, 118 in 2025, and 89 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award closed on September 30, 2026. CPSC also funds grants on a smaller scale, with 68 federal grant awards totaling $12.2 million obligated federal dollars since 2016.

Contract competition at CPSC remains highly fragmented. Over the last five years, the top five primes by award count hold only 11 percent of recent awards. Widmeyer Communications, Inc. leads by frequency with 26 awards worth $7.8 million combined potential value, followed by Are-5 Research Place LLC with 18 awards ($1.4 million) and Visual Information System, Inc. with 16 awards ($4.4 million). By potential value, the top five primes account for 9 percent of combined value, with Nira Inc. ($23.3 million across 8 awards) and Sapient Government Services, Inc. ($22.2 million across 15 awards) dominating the value side. Across the portfolio lifetime, 1,643 distinct prime contractors have won awards. No set-aside designations dominate CPSC's portfolio: 93 percent of awards carry no set-aside, 3 percent are small-business awards, 2 percent are 8(a) sole source, and fewer than 1 percent each are split among SDVOSB, competitive 8(a), 8(a) with HUBZone preference, HUBZone, WOSB, and other designations.

CPSC's grant activity centers on state and local health and government recipients. The top grant recipient by both award count and federal dollars is the Florida Department of Health with 5 awards ($1.6 million federal share). The top five recipients by award count hold 25 percent of recent grants; the top five by federal dollars also hold 25 percent. All 68 grant awards are structured as Project Grants. Recent grant awards have accelerated: 5 awards in 2019, 10 in 2021, 3 in 2022, 8 in 2023, and 32 in 2024. The most recent grant award closed on September 30, 2024.

Recent contract solicitations reflect CPSC's operational and product-safety-testing needs. A Special Notice posted September 9, 2026 announced intent to sole-source to SkillSoft Corporation for online learning content integration into the FedTalent learning management system (deadline September 21, 2026). CPSC posted intent on August 13, 2026 to sole-source the National Poison Data System data and clinical review services to America's Poison Centers (deadline August 27, 2026). A network-cabling installation solicitation posted August 18, 2026 at the GAO Building in Washington, DC, with quotes due August 31, 2026. A pre-solicitation notice for the same network-cabling work posted August 4, 2026 (deadline August 18, 2026) signaling imminent formal RFQ release. CPSC also announced intent on August 10, 2026 to sole-source full-face snorkel physiological and engineering testing to MedShock Analytics, LLC (deadline August 24, 2026), and intent on August 5, 2026 to sole-source renovation services to EMCOR Government Services for GAO Building office reconfiguration (deadline August 19, 2026).

The CPSC protects the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under its jurisdiction, including products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children.