AFT Human Resources and Professional Development Support Services

The Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives awarded this Master IDIQ for human resources and professional development support services on September 30, 2014, with ordering authority expiring September 29, 2019—the vehicle is no longer active and closed to new task orders as of July 2019.

The IDIQ funded four delivery orders totaling $4.4 million in combined potential value, all obligated. Two primes split the work: Knowledgebank, Inc. captured the substantial majority, holding $4.4 million across two orders (98% by value), while Franklin Maxwell Group LLC received two orders valued at $2 thousand combined. All orders were unrestricted, non-set-aside procurements. ATF was the sole customer agency.

The largest order, awarded September 30, 2014, to Knowledgebank, Inc., carried a ceiling of $3.5 million and covered a five-year performance period (base year plus four option years) for human resources and professional development support to the HR Division. A second Knowledgebank order, awarded August 1, 2019, obligated $846,507.91 against a firm fixed price for general HR support services with an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2020. Two additional orders to Franklin Maxwell Group LLC, both issued at the $1 thousand government minimum (September 30, 2014, and September 2, 2015), were placeholder vehicles; the contract documents explicitly state the contractor was not authorized to perform work or incur costs until specifically modified.

Ordering activity was sporadic: two orders in 2014, one in 2015, and one in 2019, with no additional awards in the final window before the September 2019 ordering deadline. By design, this was a single-customer, dual-prime IDIQ with narrow scope and modest annual throughput.

The purpose of this contract is to obtain contractor support and technical expertise in the areas of Human Resources and Professional Development for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).