Charleston Job Corps Center

The Department of Labor Office of Job Corps Charleston Job Corps Center is a civilian sub-agency that operates a vocational training facility and procures services to support its job training mission through federal contracts. The Charleston center is one of roughly a dozen regional Job Corps centers nationwide, each operating under the Department of Labor's broader mandate to provide tuition-free career training and education to eligible youth and young adults.

The center has awarded five federal contracts across its portfolio history since 2006, with combined potential value of $3.54 billion and combined dollars obligated of $222.9 million (6 percent of potential value). Award cadence is sparse: one contract in 2006, one in 2011, one in 2016, one in 2017, and one in 2022. The most recent award closed on November 29, 2022. This pattern suggests either very long-term contract durations or extended gaps between major procurements; the low obligation-to-potential ratio indicates that most potential value remains unexercised or is spread across multi-year option periods.

Competitive concentration is highly concentrated by award count over the last five years. Management & Training Corporation holds the single recorded award in the five-year lookback window (1 award, $61.4 million combined potential value), representing 100 percent of recent award volume by count and 2 percent of combined potential value across the broader portfolio. Only two distinct prime contractors have been awarded across the full portfolio history, indicating a tight competitive base.

All five awards carry no set-aside designation. The absence of 8(a), small-business, WOSB, SDVOSB, or HUBZone set-asides suggests that the center's procurements are either full-and-open competitive, restricted to specific vendor classes (such as nonprofit operators of Job Corps centers), or structured in ways that do not trigger standard SBA set-aside categories.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded against the Charleston Job Corps Center, and no grant opportunities are supported by the source. Activity at this sub-office is minimal by federal contracting standards, and the long intervals between awards suggest infrequent acquisition cycles.