Strategic Planning and External Liaison Team

The Government Accountability Office Strategic Planning and External Liaison, a civilian sub-agency within the GAO, conducts contract work in support of its external engagement and strategic planning functions. The office has executed minimal federal contracting activity across its portfolio history, with six total awards since 2016 generating combined potential value of $532 thousand and combined dollars obligated of $446 thousand.

Contract activity has been sparse and episodic. Over the last five years, the office recorded one award in 2024; prior activity included one award in 2020, one in 2018, one in 2017, and one in 2016. No awards have been recorded for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, or 2026 year-to-date. The most recent award closed on April 17, 2024.

Competitive concentration is highly fragmented across the small award base. Cvent, Inc. accounts for the sole recorded award in the last five years (one award with potential value of $9 thousand), covering 100 percent of recent award count and 2 percent of combined potential value over the window. Four distinct prime contractors have been awarded across the portfolio lifetime, indicating no vendor concentration pattern and suggesting that individual awards are small and transactional in nature.

All six awards across the portfolio carry no set-aside designation; 100 percent of activity is open to unrestricted competition. The agency does not conduct grant-making activity. No recent federal contract opportunities are recorded against the office or its descendant components. Given the minimal and episodic historical contracting footprint, this office is not a meaningful contracting venue for business development purposes.