Long-Term Administrative Support Contract III (LTASC III)

The National Institutes of Health established this Master IDIQ on October 11, 2021, to procure long-term administrative support services across all NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices on a non-inherently-governmental basis. Ordering authority expires January 8, 2028, providing approximately 1 year and 5 months of remaining procurement window. The vehicle is fully set aside for small business.

Activity remains steady but unevenly paced. Task-order volume spiked in 2023 and 2024 with 52 and 61 orders respectively, then dropped sharply to 1 order in 2025 and 5 orders so far in 2026—a pattern likely reflecting staffing transitions and cost-control initiatives evident in the recent task-order record (several orders carry termination-for-convenience notations tied to Department of Government Efficiency directives). The vehicle has obligated $29.8 million of its $41.6 million combined task-order potential value, or 72 percent. Most recent award activity occurred June 15, 2026.

The vehicle funds individual staff positions—administrative assistants at levels 2, 3, and 4, executive assistants, program managers, and support coordinators—typically on firm fixed-price terms. Task-order ceilings cluster in the $160,000 to $350,000 range for single-year periods of performance, with some multi-year options reaching $600,000–$1.1 million potential value. A single outlier order to Brandan Enterprises, Inc. for clinical center support carries $3 million in potential value.

Contemporaries, Inc. dominates the awardee base, holding 41 orders and $15.9 million in combined potential value—roughly 38 percent of all task-order value. Advanced Automation Technologies Inc. ranks second with 26 orders totaling $5.7 million, and Brandan Enterprises holds $11.8 million across only 6 orders. The remaining 7 primes—Laredo Technical Services, Inc., Hedgelan Consulting LLC, and others—split the balance. The top five primes account for 89 percent of combined potential value and 81 percent of order count, indicating moderate concentration with a meaningful long tail.

Customer concentration within NIH is high. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases leads with 40 orders and $6.8 million; the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations placed 31 orders totaling $8.7 million; the Office of the Director, Clinical Center, and National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases collectively drive most activity. Approximately 77 percent of orders funnel through these five customer units.

Within the small-business set-aside structure, roughly 61 percent of orders carry no set-aside designation (72 orders), while 37 percent designate Total Small Business (44 orders). Woman-Owned Small Business and Partial Small Business together represent 3 percent. This mix reflects NIH's practice of awarding some individual staff positions as unrestricted orders while ring-fencing others for small-business competition.

Place of performance is exclusively at NIH locations nationwide and within the NIH Clinical Center, with no field or regional dispersion.

Long-term (not temporary) basis administrative support services across all of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Divisions, Centers and Offices.