Immediate Office of the Secretary of Labor

The Department of Labor Immediate Office of the Secretary of Labor is a civilian sub-agency within the Labor Department that procures technical, advisory, and administrative services in support of departmental operations and policy. The Office transacts through the federal contract system to acquire support for labor policy, compliance oversight, and departmental administration. The Office has awarded 417 contracts cumulatively since 1990, with combined potential value of $87.9 million and $59.1 million obligated to date.

Contract award activity has declined substantially over the past five years. The Office issued 8 awards in 2021, 4 in 2022, 4 in 2023, 1 in 2024, and 1 in 2025, reflecting a sharp pullback from historical volume. The most recent recorded award is dated September 23, 2025. Among 238 distinct prime contractors in the portfolio lifetime, competitive concentration by award count over the last five years is highly fragmented, with the top five primes holding 64 percent of recent awards; however, concentration by potential value is also highly fragmented, with the top five holding only 20 percent of combined potential value. Westat, Inc. leads by value with one $13.5 million award, followed by Social Policy Research Associates, Inc. at $3.2 million. The remainder of the active contractor base comprises small research and advisory firms and miscellaneous foreign vendors transacting at sub-million scale.

The set-aside mix is heavily skewed toward open competition: 90 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides (all types combined) account for 5 percent of awards, 8(a) sole-source awards for 4 percent, and minority and veteran designations for negligible volume. This posture reflects the Office's reliance on full-and-open competition for policy research, compliance auditing, and administrative support rather than targeted small-business or socioeconomic set-asides.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded against the Office.