Talking Leaves Job Corps Center

The Department of Labor Office of Job Corps, a sub-agency of the Department of Labor responsible for operating and contracting for workforce development and job training programs targeted at disadvantaged youth, has issued four federal contracts totaling $179.7 million in combined potential value since 2008. The Office of Job Corps transacts at a low absolute frequency — one award in 2008, one in 2013, one in 2019, and one in 2024 — reflecting the agency's structure as an operator of a national network of residential and nonresidential training centers rather than a high-volume procurement office. The most recent award closed on August 1, 2024.

The competitive landscape is highly concentrated by count and moderately concentrated by potential value. Cherokee Nation holds the single award recorded in the last five years (2024), representing $49.2 million in potential value and 27 percent of the agency's combined potential value across the entire portfolio history. All four historical awards carry no set-aside designation, meaning they were competed open to all eligible vendors.

The Office of Job Corps has obligated $127.2 million of the $179.7 million in combined potential value, representing 71 percent takedown to date. The low volume and long intervals between awards — gaps of five years between 2008 and 2013, six years between 2013 and 2019, and five years between 2019 and 2024 — suggest that procurement activity at this office is episodic and driven by discrete programmatic cycles or contract consolidations rather than ongoing competitive solicitations. Prospectors should treat this agency as an occasional opportunity source with unpredictable solicitation cadence and long planning horizons; no recent contract opportunities are recorded, and no grants activity is present in the agency's rollup.