Memphis Job Corps Center

The Department of Labor Office of Job Corps Memphis Job Corps Center is a civilian sub-agency operating as the administrative and operational hub for a single Job Corps facility, which provides job training, education, and career services to low-income youth ages 16–24. The Office procures contracts to support center operations, facility maintenance, training program delivery, and support services for resident students and staff.

The Memphis center has awarded seven federal contracts totaling $188.4 million in combined potential value since 2008, with $168.1 million obligated to date. Recent contract activity is sparse and episodic: one award in 2015, one in 2019, one in 2020, two in 2024, and one most recently in August 2026. Five distinct prime contractors have been awarded over the portfolio lifetime, with no single vendor dominant across the award history. Over the last five years, three primes account for all recent awards: Education & Training Resources LLC ($15.7 million potential value, one award), Mckenzie Construction & Site Development LLC ($9.5 million, one award), and Global Quality Solutions, Inc. ($1.9 million, one award). The competitive structure is highly fragmented; the top three by award count cover 100 percent of recent awards, but by potential value the top three account for only 14 percent of the center's combined potential value, indicating that larger awards in the portfolio history went to vendors no longer currently active.

Set-aside usage is light. Fifty-seven percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, 29 percent are small-business set-asides, and 14 percent are 8(a) sole-source awards. The center awards infrequently and in small dollar bands relative to its total portfolio; the largest single award potential in the recent window is $15.7 million, and most individual awards fall well below that threshold.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded against the Memphis center or its operations. The sparse and irregular award cadence, combined with the absence of open solicitations in the opportunities pipeline, suggests the center either conducts informal procurement below solicitation thresholds, sources through standing blanket purchase agreements or schedule vehicles not surfaced in this digest, or relies on infrequent formal competitions for major facility or program renewals.